What is in front of us, and what is behind us ?
How did we come to consider the past behind us and the future in front of us, as if we were constantly moving through time, our eyes fixed on what is to come ? What other conceptions of time might exist ?

In their new collaboration, Eva Reiter, Marie Goudot, Michael Pomero and Nikolaus Gansterer embark on a shared reflection on time, questioning the linear, progress-oriented logic that shapes much of Western thought. Initially inspired·es by the vision of the Aymara people of the Andes, whose conception of time reverses this perspective by proposing an alternative : the past lies in front of us, visible, remembered, while the future remains behind, hidden from our gaze, iels wish to find their own resolution by creating « one » experience of temporality. In Aymara, nayra (past) also means « eye » or « front », while qhipa (future) means « behind »; a linguistic and cultural orientation that frames time as embodied, spatial and radically non-linear.

Aware of their Western position, the artists engage with this worldview not to imitate or appropriate, but to listen, resonate and imagine otherwise. Iels ask themselves : how can time be felt, held, heard ? How does memory leave its trace ? How can presence waver at the threshold of visibility ?
Rather than tracing a path from past to future, the performance unfolds like a fabric of intertwined temporal threads: past, present and future coexisting in a living surface of action, sound and movement.

Eva Reiter - performance, musical composition, electronics, instrument making
Marie Goudot - performance, choreography
Michael Pomero : project leader- choreography
Nikolaus Gansterer - drawings, scenography
Julien Monty- scenography / lights/ dramaturgy
Ofer Smilansky - sound engineer

Production - Youngsters Asbl
Executive production - Entropie Production
Coproduction - Charleroi Danse, Tanzquartier, WienModern, Darmstadt festival