Circles in Time
7 pm
Time accumulates – and with it our sense of self. Where do we place this time? How do its layers interweave within infinity as they accumulate? When does time become visible, palpable, by which plane of reality is it being held, contained?
And what if we placed it in a circle?
Circles in Time is an interdisciplinary monologue and a performance piece about the metaphysical structure of time. The piece intertwines text, choreography, silence, and medieval chant into a whole in which time, perception, and one’s subjective experience of life come together to gently unveil the fundamental core of the nature of time.
Alongside the monologue, the choreographic foundation of the piece becomes the shape of a circle; through it one gains access to the concept of memory, the layers of time, its accumulation, its subjective experiencing, multidirectionality, its metaphysical essence.
What happens when the circle perceived by one’s sense of sight becomes stored in one’s memory; does it still exist? What is it to continue, what is it to halt? Can time cease to exist? How does time accumulate? How can we truly perceive the perpetual presence of the infinite layers of time? What is infinity? What is the layer between sound, silence, and time? How might a thousand-year-old composition store time?
Circles in Time is an independent interlude following E. L. Lyra’s Reflections in Time (2025). Lyra’s works invite the audience to sense their own experience and to shift from the role of a passive audience member into living through the piece. Lyra intends not to offer “a meal already chewed” with set meanings but to pose both precise questions and impressions, the subjective experience of which forms the artistic core of the work. The audience is not required to “understand”, but to simply notice and feel.
The language of the piece is English.
Duration: 35 minutes
Tickets: Free / Pay what you can (MobilePay)
Directing, text, choreography, performing: E. L. Lyra
Composition: Hermann of Reichenau
