WalkYouChair • CPPM TRIPTYCH

Co-authors and performers: Anette Pärn (Estonia), Dita Lurina (Latvia), Daniel Ortiz (Colombia), Edward Skaines (Australia)

CPPM TRIPTYCH. POLITICAL MOVEMENT brings together three distinct performances of CPPM in one evening: “WalkYourChair”, “EMIT” and “Night Watch” (Öötöö).

All performances were conceived in response to the curatorial frame: political movement. From these impulses, three directions emerged—three creative teams and three completely different approaches that meet on stage to create a new shared experience. The productions explore how devising strategies can transform individual perspectives into a collective movement, aligning performers toward action and opening new ways of approaching themes of political sensitivity. The evening offers an opportunity to experience and reflect on co-creation, cultural polyphony, and the diverse expressions of contemporary political theatre.

“WalkYourChair” is a site-specific performance by The Third in. It all begins with an audio guide that speaks to you and offers something simple: take your chair for a walk, sit wherever you want, and see what happens if you let it lead you. What if that’s all it is: a moment, you and your chair? From there, four performers give body and breath to four chairs placed in a space meant to pass through, not to stay. A space beneath the earth, beneath the human world, where people simply cross from one side to the other, a space of pure transit. The piece opens that small fold where a chair, any chair, can mean something else when it appears where it “shouldn’t,” inviting you to look at and inhabit the space in a different way, almost as if the chair were teaching you how to be.

Premiere on January 23 and next performances take place on January 24, 26, 27, 28 and 29 at 18:00 in Balti Jaam tunnel.

*Organized by the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in collaboration with master's students in contemporary performing arts and cultural management.