Turned Submarine
a Blue Out

// a Blue Submarine Turned Out

This research performance signed the beginning of Camilla’s interest in dreams, memory and identity, and the way they relate to each other - with the underlying element of water.

The start of all was the evidence that the main thing these elements share are a different perception of time and light. 

Influenced by dreams, summer memories, a house in Berlin (named “la maison bateau”), she started creating images, surreal, abstract, but trying to recreate the feelings she experienced with concrete objects and repetitive movements.

A song she used to fall asleep to when she was a child, The Counterclockwise Circle Dance, creates an out-of-time feeling, shaping the performance as non-linear.

The result is a shadow-theatre, puppetry and dance performance that tries to make visible the liminal space of our being.

What is real? 

What is time? 

And so, who am I?

How much agency do I have?

Where am I?

Creator & Performer: Camilla Barbera

General Support & Lightning Design/technician: Jean-Charles Vallet

In collaboration with Arthaus Berlin.