OKO

16+ | smoke | flashing lights | loud sound

In uncertain times, the mist hides and reveals. What we choose to see and do matters most.

As the path reveals itself gently, the direction we choose releases all that we’ve outgrown and opens the potential to shed the skin that no longer serves us.

OKO is a performance that elevates the audience into a space of new beginnings where reality and fantasy blur. This space becomes an opportunity to create other perspectives on the habitual and the mundane, so we can re-connect to what always has been within us. How can we calm the noise of the mind and sense the clarity of our living bodies? What becomes possible when we release the grid of unease or pain and allow the sensation of liberation to permeate everyday life?
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OKO takes shape through the way movement feels and repeats, changing how we see internal and external space. The performance enters repeated paths, altered states, familiar figures and rituals of transcendence where ordinary movement turns into something other. In this terrain, visibility is negotiated: what is shown is never simply revealed, and what is hidden is never simply absent. To see becomes a bargain with forces that decide how much the eye is allowed to hold. Sight is blurred, bodies are half-present, gestures continue after the figure is gone.

Together, the creative team approaches the stage as a field of connection. As that connection intensifies, the edges of perception begin to soften - inner and outer space blur into a shared, vibrating atmosphere. This atmosphere takes the image of a mist that feels alive and reshapes what we see and how we see it. A soft embrace, but that softness can be deceptive. Immersing into a space in which human connection becomes an opportunity to reveal oneself and the other, collective fantasies derive from individual vibrations. By scratching the surface of what is underneath and within the mist of the mind, a new beginning awaits. A resonance that transforms personal pulse into a collective strength that makes us lighter not because gravity weakens, but because together we have the energy to transform the overburden of a constrained mind into a mutual rhythm of release. Often we can support ourselves and each other by attuning to alternative realities and imagination, so we can gather strength and empowerment to go forward.

The word “oko” (eye) can be interpreted as an intention to see the world not through a passive perception, but an active looking inwards oneself. The eye can allow space for what we can’t name and allows us to see more behind a mental barrier. This changes how we stand in the world, finding more transparency within a misty mindset. It can create a potential to temporarily enter liberating sensations and find ourselves in a state of transparency. A possible future of our rituals lies in a needed shift of the perspectives on the individual and social.

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“ОКО” is funded by European Union through the Next Generation EU instrument under investment BG-RRP-11.020-0118. Responsibility for the content lies entirely with the final recipient and does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Union or the Monitoring and Reporting Structure.