Eva Burghardt is taking up the idea of beginnings as a continious process. Every beginning has already been through many other beginnings. Those “beginnings before the beginnings“ derive from a time before our experiences and memories, and are buried in the depths of our past. It is the perception of nativeness and her interest in the very first beginning that is the driving force in coming closer to understanding the real cause of all things.

Future, past and present are clashing together in the performance. Ironically, by the sudden interruption of the beginning, it becomes apparent that the future is influenced by occurrences of the past and is already irretrievably lost the moment it appears.

This seeming arbitrariness that flashes up in Burghardt´s beginnings highlights an unexpected perspective about artistic freedom. Every moment implies infinite possibilities and shows different directions. Countless decisions wait around every corner and demand to be made. How can one possibly escape these clutter of thoughts? And who is deciding what? And what’s deciding whom? 

Eva Burghardt puts the fiction of her performance under the microscope and is questions the authenticity of shared time spent together- today, here and now.

What is real, even though it is fiction? How mobile is the border between audience and the occurance on stage? 

Burghardt is quoting a glittery illusory world made by theatre until she impalpably finds a way to speak about real beginnings and the actual presence of the moment.