Invisible Lands

Through the desert, behind the back. Up the mountain, down the spine. Above the sea, right under the nose. As war knocked on the door, we left our home behind.

Invisible Lands is a story about people driven from their homes by war. The work invites you to personally empathize with these people on their journey across borders. What is unique about the performance is the path they travel. Every mountain, snowy peak, vast desert, and nightly highway is created using the performers’ bodies.

Invisible Lands premiered in 2015 and has since been performed in over 20 countries.The piece won the Festival’s Director’s prizeat the Banialuka festival in Poland in 2018 and the Intimate artistic grasp of current theme award at the Spectaculo Interesse festival in the Czech Republic in 2019. Additionally, the work has received a rare 5-star review in The Guardian.

In the performance, the Livsmedlet duo, part of Grus Grus Teatteri, challenges themselves in a unique encounter between puppetry and choreography. Geography and politics stretch and become living platforms for performance. We learn what contact, presence, and resilience are really about.

Founded in 2007, Grus Grus Teatteri is a Finnish multidisciplinary nomadic theatre company and provider of experiential services. The group also describes itself as a “spiritual airline”. Rather than operating from a permanent theatre venue, the company creates surprising and experimental performances in unusual locations.