A carefully constructed miniature of the world; a piece where the performer as maker as performer controls all elements of the performance itself. You Are Here: is reality as construction of the mind. More than theatrical acts, it is states of being, where nothing ‘happens’ but everything exists. It is alternatingly intimate and warm, intense and passionate, a piece in search of away to belong together, to share together a moment, the meaning of ‘being alive’ or at the very least, the search for such meaning.
You Are Here: uses the performer as creator, striking images and music and sound as its central elements. Singer and performer Stephanie Pan shares her vision of the world through music and sound written for voice, taiko, toy zither and live sampling, which meanders through delicate, petite songs, to a hypnotic, rhythmic landscape of sound; through a live video feed of a lovingly prepared chocolate cake and a painstakingly and passionately self-constructed taiko -a process which took 1,5 years to complete- and a 10 meter dress, complete with 117 sitting places, made by the performer, to be inhabited by both the performer and the audience.
Concept, music, text & performance Stephanie Pan taiko & stand construction Stephanie Pan & Arie Bults dress design & construction Stephanie Pan robotic radio-receiving animals construction Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan advice Harco Haagsma & Snejanka Mihaylova