A sense of an ending

A woman drops her heavy shopping bags in front of the supermarket – tinned goods roll along the street. At a service station, a man allows petrol to run over his shoes at the pump, then sinks to his knees on the wet concrete. In a shadowy school playground, a smoking teenage girl starts a heathen ritual, and lightning strikes. This is followed by a procession of everyone and everything – just get away from here. On to a new world, although no one yet knows what kind of world this will be.  

A sense of an ending is a visual, physical production that departs from a fascination for holy apparitions; for prophecies and for those moments when we are unable to place things that are great, or strange. Together with five performers and sound-designer Timon Persoon, Gerben Vaillant portrays a world that ends peacefully and ‘with a sigh’. The performers seem to follow a call, a mysterious order that gives them direction, into the unknown. What happens next is a seemingly endless parade. They dance, hang around, hesitate, or keep on walking. Is this an opportunity for redemption, or will there be a new start?