Tempo — National Premiere

FIMFA Lx26 – Festival Internacional de Marionetas e Formas Animadas

Tempo is a fascinating exploration of time, its perception, acceleration, deceleration, and the moments when it seems to stop. At its core lies an apparently insignificant event that takes on enormous proportions, revealing the fragility of life through moments of falling, stumbling, and near-accidents.
The first collaboration between visual artist and magician Kalle Nio and choreographer Fernando Melo, Tempo is inspired by a text by Harry Salmenniemi about the strange elasticity of time. It blends movement and hypnotic stage illusions, where time slows down, reverses, and stops, seemingly flowing against the laws of logic. Gravity disappears and the laws of nature dissolve. Dreamlike and wordless scenes alternate with rhythmic compositions for prepared metronomes, intensifying the sensation of a journey between dream and reality.
Fernando Melo created a choreography that challenges gravity and time for three exceptional performers: the Slovenian dancer and puppeteer Barbara Kanc, the Italian dancer Luigi Sardone, and the Swedish dancer-acrobat Winston Reynolds.