Don’t despair
World politics is a game with ever-higher stakes. International relations are under pressure, and impulsive leaders chase power. Is there still room for hope? Panama Pictures offers the answer in a breathtaking performance in which acrobatics, dance, and live music merge into a poetic story about power, chaos, and interconnectedness.
In Don’t despair you are drawn into a spectacle high in the air: an ingeniously suspended set, a maze of planks, platforms and ropes in which performers must constantly be on their toes. One wrong step and everything collapses, one loose rope and they fall. In this treacherous environment, they are forced to choose: do they go for their own gain and the top? Or do they forge a peaceful alliance?
With its unique language of dance and acrobatics that embraces risk but never loses sight of humanity, Panama Pictures responds to a changing world. Singer and multi-instrumentalist iET (Lisa van Viegen-Mokoginta) offers a different perspective with a warm voice, trumpet and guitar – sometimes vulnerable and melancholic, then again decisive and rousing.
