CPPM Manifestal'24: Ball is Life. Jennifer Bagg

CPPM MANIFESTAL’24: BALL IS LIFE by Jennifer Bagg (Australia)

Author-Director JENNIFER BAGG (AUS)

Sound Design & Technician JÜRGEN REISMAA (EST)

Lighting Designer & Technician ROMMI RUTTAS (EST) 

Scenographers ERE KAMA (EST) and KADRI JOALA (EST)

Performers ELO JÄRV (EST), KATIA SKYLAR (RUS/FIN), ERKO SILD (EST), EDWARD SKAINES (AUS)

A bead of sweat drips down his forehead. Down. Down. Into the pit. The thick of it. The arena. The chessboard. The game. The players weave in and out of each other as entire universes are swung, thrust, and thrown. It takes one bad ball. Just one. To ruin it all. 

Taking loose inspiration from the Vedantic concept of existence, for which the border between the real and the illusionary playfully bounces, eluding our perception, BALL IS LIFE delves into the apparent impossibility of establishing a certain identity in a rapidly changing environment without taking existence by the balls. 

Red cards, yellow cards, orange cards, blue. Who holds the rulebook and how does it concern you? 

Jennifer Bagg, is a dynamic performance maker from Australia, bringing her embodied reflection on the divisive “art vs. sport” culture to Tallinn for her final project for her Contemporary Physical Performance Making master’s degree, PALL ON ELU.  

PALL ON ELU is a performance in English and is open to guests who are +16. 

Producer ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND THEATRE

Co-producer VON KRAHL THEATRE

Supported by ESTONIAN CULTURAL ENDOWMENT and JAIK

Thank you to Piia Marie Leesme, Amanda Tender, Enar Tarmo, Rebecca Green, Ana Falcon, Jono Battista, Kaisa Marran, Indrek Reinbok, Eesti Korvpalliliit, Lasnamäe Spordikeskus, Uuskasutuskeskus, CPPM, EAMT, JAIK and the team at Von Krahl Teater.