Charles A. Washington / Pinkmetalpetal Productions

“The Children of Today” invites audiences into a kitchen of the future, where the past is revisited to unlock doors to worlds beyond capitalism. Here, tenderness collides with absurdity, and speculative encounters spark questions about what futures we are still able to imagine.

The stage is powered by a single solar-charged battery. Light, sound, costume, and props are all created from renewable or second-hand sources. This commitment to sustainability is not only ecological but also poetic: the limitations of energy and resources shape the very fabric of the performance.

Three figures appear by name — Vaslav Nijinsky, Cleopatra VI, and Jérôme Bel. They transcend their historical times, arriving as companions and provocateurs who bend the rules of logic and ignite new possibilities of movement. Their presence destabilises the familiar, opening a space where memory, fantasy, and invention intermingle.

Through repetition, minimal gesture, and sudden bursts of imagination, the duet shifts between the ordinary and the fantastical. What seems simple becomes layered; what seems impossible becomes touchable.

“The Children of Today” is less a story than a passage: an invitation to step into a shared space of not-knowing, to sense what lies on the far side of nostalgia, and to feel how the smallest gestures might already contain the seeds of another world.