3 protagonists, 1 space, a few common objects of reference and a multitude of perspectives over-layered one, on top of the other, on top of another, on top of a completely different other one. In a manner that resembles the experience of psychoanalysis in which the deeper unconscious meanings are contained in the flow and disruptions of free associations, Telling Stories, a version for three unfolds through a cubist-kind of choreography, in which things could mean many different things to many different people. It is a sort of a puzzle where the detail and the whole do not keep a steady relationship of proportion, where it is the inter-relations which actually govern the evolution of things, and where the internal situation keeps referring indirectly to an external one. The configuration keeps on shifting in front of one’s eyes, revealing protagonists, objects, relationships, sounds and images, all together forming a whole that escapes and exceeds us, a hybrid made of both reality and fiction, space and flesh, presence and absence, invisibility and concrete matter… Telling Stories wants to place the role of the receiver/perceiver in the centre and to celebrate the richness of possible inputs to be embodied on stage. It wants to allow opposing, colliding experiences to emerge so that the spectator would have to negotiate the interpretation of things and not be able to see them as binary - to allow a moment of suspension between the instant of perception and the one of concluding what it could actually mean in order unfold a fantastic, multifaceted theatrical experience.
Telling Stories, a version for three is an adaptation of the work Telling Stories, originally conceived for seven performers, created in 2015 with the Köln based MichaelDouglas Kollektiv which premiered at the Mousonturm Theatre in Frankfurt, Germany. I was part of the original cast and creation process. A first adaptation for three students of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts was made in 2019. I assisted Fabrice Mazliah in the rehearsals and was staging the work in Oslo coaching the students.

The version for three has been performed as an online format beginning of 2021, and then in the theater in radialsystem, Berlin, as part of the "Tanzplattform" 2022. In January and February 2024 "Telling Stories, a version for three" is presented in Theater Basel, Switzerland.