Transparent cotton threads stretch through the space, like invisible lines on a forgotten map. The threads are slowly ignited, one by one, and the light they emit moves like fireflies through the darkness. Perhaps they are loose threads of history, making it possible to look back in time - where they are unraveled, threaded together, and hung in horizontal lines.

The audience is invited into a quiet, poetic landscape. Burning threads illuminate the room and open doors to memories, images, and unexpected thoughts. The performance, created by Portuguese André Uerba, is as much an installation as it is a choreography: a sensory experience where the momentary is at the center.

Around the burning threads, fifteen young performers—dance students from Høyskolen for daneskunst and Kristiania University—move. Their movements are gentle, almost ritualistic. With a calmness that is contagious and breathing audible in the room, they do not present a finished choreography but an impulse. A ritual of ignition that sets in motion another dance: that of the flames. The body becomes a catalyst for movement within the material, and the burning thread becomes the choreographer’s partner. Object, body, and space are woven together into a living installation.

Thus, Burn Time creates a unique community anchoring in each new version: the work travels, but the people are local. Each iteration becomes a new translation, in collaboration with young performers from the place where it is shown—and carries traces of their presence, breath, and rhythm.

Burn Time is also a poetic response to our times’ need for sustainable artistic practices. With minimal climate impact, two artists travel with the work from place to place, creating new versions together with local forces. The performance is a quiet but powerful example of how art can grow through collaboration, slowness, and presence.

This is an experience you step into. And a demonstration that beauty can be an unadulterated and clear concept.