Soft Collapse (Insomnia for Beginners)
Artist Michikazu Matsune is brilliant at sleeping badly. His new work, made with performers Camilla Schielin, Evandro Pedroni and Julia Zastava, invites the audience into a shared space of curiosity, knowledge and exploration around the world of sleeplessness and troubles associated with our nightly act of (un)resting.Soft Collapse (Insomnia for Beginners) gently dissolves the boundaries between wakefulness and slumber, opening up a poetic encounter with the restless moments that haunt our nights. Laden with quiet humour and thoughtful observation, the performance explores a reflective environment where insomnia becomes a lens to consider our human condition. Evoking subtle tensions between rest and unrest, the performance encourages audiences to reconsider sleep not just as a biological necessity, but as a richly layered terrain of imagination, vulnerability, and collective experience.
In English
70min
Concept, artistic direction Michikazu Matsune
Performance Camilla Schielin, Evandro Pedroni, Julia Zastava, Michikazu Matsune
Featured artworks Elisabeth Molin, Ida Kammerloch, Jannis Neumann, Julia Zastava, Michikazu Matsune, Rosa Wiesauer
Costume Julia Zastava
Light Yasemin Duru
Space Julia Zastava, Michikazu Matsune
Artistic and dramaturgical consultation Francesca Romana Audretsch
Production management Franziskas Zaida Schrammel
Photo Elsa Okazaki
A production by Studio Matsune
Coproduced by Tanzquartier Wien
Funded by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
Read the text by Francesca Gavin