Fragments out of time 

by Rose Breuss and Christoph Bochdansky

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In Fragments out of Time, choreographer Rose Breuss and puppeteer Christoph Bochdansky bring together dance and puppetry to explore the fragile and poetic interplay between memory, time, and identity. The performance unfolds as a dreamlike journey in which five dancers revisit and reimagine fragments of their own biographies and traces of dance from other eras. Through these encounters, the past becomes material for transformation — movement and gesture evolve into vessels for recollection, imagination, and renewal.

The stage becomes a space of shifting realities: figures emerge and dissolve, the body becomes both archive and invention, and the boundaries between the human and the puppet blur. Inspired by the line from Peter Hammill’s My Room — “Dreams, hopes and promises, fragments out of time” — the work invites the audience into a poetic dialogue with what remains and what is reborn.

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Richly layered with physical precision, visual storytelling, and evocative sound, Fragments out of Time reflects on how fragments of movement and memory continue to shape our presence in the world.

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Dance & Choreography: Damián Cortés Alberti, Kai Chun Chuang, Žiga Jereb, Marcela López Morales, Maria Shurkhal
Music: Matthew Shlomowitz – Popular Contexts
Piano & Keyboards: Hanne Pilgrim
A production in collaboration with: Dance Company Of(f) Verticality