You Are the Center of Your Little World

NOFENCE (Austria)

24.07 | 21:30 | “Mikis Theodorakis” theatre

NOFENCE is a dance collective based in Salzburg using satire as a political tool. They exaggerate, distort, and ridicule human life until it cracks open and reveals its distorted tender core. As graduates of NSCD and SEAD they have shown work across multiple venues in Austria and the UK including Szene Salzburg and the Riley theatre Leeds. Collectively harnessing skills in theatre, circus, improvisation, mask making and choreography, they have created Seagulls dont exist (2025) Purrfectly Pruned (2025) and You are the Centre of Your Little World (2025). There Next work will Premier at Tanzhouse Festival in October 2026.

You Are the Center of Your Little World is a surreal exploration of the ordinary, set in a world governed by bizarre rules. The piece exaggerates, distorts, and ridicules human life until it cracks open and reveals its distorted tender core. We see the lives of four individuals sharing a house, experiencing how rituals, habits, and language are transformed – no longer tools of connection, but vehicles for absurdity. Sleeping becomes “hitting hay,” embarrassment tastes like a “foot sandwich”, cigarettes turn into soup and tears become milk. With each of the four peoples’ days unfolding we are plunged deeper into strangeness. Roles blur, meaning bends, and reality distorts, as we question what it means to exist together. Humorous, joyful, and tender, the piece explores the emotional weight of the everyday, how we make sense of ourselves in a world that refuses coherence.

Choreography: Mairead Rutter OConnor
Choreography and Performance: Eva Moutet, Valentin Thalmayr, Louis Manuel Maxime Montes, Sara Sánchez Martín
Extra Collaborator: Timo Bouter
Mentorship: Jelka Milic

24 July | 21:30 | “Mikis Theodorakis” theatre

NOFENCE – You Are the Center of Your Little World

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