Invisible Lands

Geography and politics stretch and transform into organic performance landscapes. We learn what touch, presence, and endurance are truly about.

 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.

Premiere April 27, 2015, Tehdas teatteri