…bodies gather and seek shelter before the night disperses.“The night’s due” is an invitation to a nocturnal refuge. This is the time of the night, a dance in the darkness, until the rhythm decays. These movements can’t be archived, because they can’t be seen. Coming together as a practice older than language. Patterns and rhythms that repeat year after year, cycles of eating and drinking, birth and death, sex and bodily circulation.
The night becomes a sanctuary, holding knowledge that daylight has cast aside. This moment gives the night its due: honoring it as a cradle and refuge for all that daylight denies. These are practices that resist capture; subcultures, informal rituals, migrant bodies, folk forms, and collective behaviors that are lived but rarely archived. Movements that dislocate authorship, or institutionalised memory. Nights persist because they are repeated, absorbed, and transmitted between bodies. Folk here is a migratory one — shaped by displacement, survival, adaptation, and repetition.
Cast → Liisa Saaremäel, Markus Andreas Auling, Karl Birnbaum, Kristina Preimann, Herman Pihlak, Edgar Vunš and Folk dance company Pääsuke dancers: 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
Nights Due is a co-production between Von Krahl Theatre and elektron.art
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