Öömaaeg / Nights Due

Night’s Due invites the audience into a nocturnal shelter: a time when bodies seek refuge and gather before the night disperses. It is the night’s own time, a dance in the dark that lasts until the rhythm falls apart. These are movements that cannot be archived, because they cannot be seen. Coming together is the oldest human need. Patterns and rhythms repeat from year to year: eating and drinking, birth and death, sex and bodily circulation. Dance here is not merely something people make, but a force, a current or a madness that does not end with the person.

The production peels back tradition to the origins of humankind, opening up the birth of peoples, the migration of cultures and their alienation, and the ways in which we constantly recode movement in today’s world. The traditions of the night are embodied memory. Their patterns and rhythms exist independently of us, before and after us.

Director/choreographer: Johhan Rosenberg

Architect: Sille Pihlak

Costume design: Karl Joonas Alamaa

Composer: Hendrik Kaljujärv

Light designer: Priidu Adlas (Estonian Drama Theatre)

Dramaturgs: Nele Tiidelepp and Rauno Zubko

Performers: Liisa Saaremäel, Markus Andreas Auling, Karl Birnbaum, Kristina Preimann, Herman Pihlak, Edgar Vunš and dancers of the Pääsuke folk dance company: Anita Värs, Ave Kongo, Greta Vaus, Hele Lukki-Lukin, Helena Tõnisma, Hindrek Haarde, Kadi Kriit, Kaimo Vahter, Katrina Külm, Kaur Lukki-Lukin, Kersti Kriisa, Kersti Vahter, Kulla Kangur, Katre Merilaid, Sandra Aleksius, Toomas Lepasaar, Triin Vallsalu

Light: Magnus Voogla

Sound: Jürgen Reismaa

Prop master: Kristiina Praks

Designer: Jaan Evart

Production: Kaie Olmre, Jaak Prints

Production assistance: Tuule Jõks, Carmen Mölder

Communication and marketing: Katrin Tomiste

Stage crew: Rinald Kodasma, Margus Terasmees, Hannes Närep, Magnus Voogla

Seamstresses: Agne Talu, Katrin Rätte, Jürgen Sinnep

Engineer: Adam Orlinski

Builders: Tektuur (Päär Keedus, Johann Ortin Õun, Ardo Hiiuväin)

Thanks: Linda Mai Kari, Thermory, Netti Nüganen, Anne Türnpu, Otto Antson, Rasmus Linde, Haine Paelavabrik, Omaking, Pjotr Degtjarjov / suusalaenutus.ee, Aarete Laegas

Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, City of Tallinn, Estonian Ministry of Culture

Duration 1’40. The production uses a small amount of strobe lighting and stage smoke. Not recommended for under-16s. Night’s Due is a co-production between Von Krahl Theatre and elektron.art.