BLUE is a 20-minute dance - performance created during a pandemic lockdown and shaped by a deep sense of uncertainty. In 2025, the work resonates in a new way: we now live in a time where polarisation hardens and opposing worldviews seem to drift farther and farther apart. BLUE responds to that tension by exploring states of transition; moments that resist choosing sides and instead hold multiple realities at once.

The performance finds its inspiration in the blue hour, the moment when day drifts into night, when colours soften and borders lose definition. Two dancers move in synchronised, repetitive patterns that arise from an inner pulse, gradually transformed by live music. Their movements suggest an internal negotiation: a body navigating light and shadow, openness and retreat, clarity and blur.

BLUE invites the audience to pause inside that moment, where uncertainty becomes a space of connection rather than division.

§ Created and performed by Colab Collective.

    Concept and Performance: Jelle de Wit & Francisco Martinez

    Sound design and performance: Thomas Mayer.

§ Video: Magma Studio, Berlin.