Stories in Blue

The first social relationship people have in their lives is most often that with parents. Whether the classic father and mother, single parenting, two mothers or two fathers or any form of patchwork, adopted, or foster parents – this is where we learn to live together, this is where we first experience fundamental feelings like love, fear, anger, security, jealousy, empathy.

Stories in Blue charts images of the emotional ‘family’ map from a child’s perspective, through music, dance, and scenery. Throughout, the choreographer and her team undertake research journeys into their individual childhoods.
The production draws from conversations with the true experts: the children. Over the course of two weeks, Ceren Oran and the performers collaborated with primary school pupils in topical workshops on family.
Playful, humorous, and touching, the protagonists in Ceren Oran’s Stories in Blue embark on a research expedition into vastly different emotional worlds in the context of parent-child-relations. The fundamental dramaturgical knack is that the child (and its perspective) is clearly front-and-centre, yet absent as a stage character itself. It is rather symbolised through a fragile object around which the four performers move. The two musicians and two dancers are equal stage partners in this. The choice of two identical instruments – keyboards – has been consciously employed to express two very different musical temperaments, within one voice, of one (parent) team.

Duration: 45 min.