Zeitraum

The dancer wears headphones. He listens to music. The body reacts to the rhythm. The world is forgotten. A choreography is created that follows its own laws. A wonderland, a trip to hell, a dance of death? The hearing person flees into a dreamlike, unreal world. He shields himself, creates his own world. He isolates himself in digital technology, creates the right atmosphere, forgets the time. - But what happens when he returns to reality? The choreographer Eno Peçi explores the question of the digital isolation of modern people and reflects real versus surreal worlds.

• Zeitraum was created and staged by Peçi for Origen Festival Cultural in Switzerland 2019 and performed for the

  International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Tirana - Albania at 2022

• concept & choreography Eno Peçi

• performed Vienna State Ballet - Dancers

• pictures Benjamin Hofer, Gent Onuzi

‘‘In Zeitraum, Eno Peçi constructs a powerful choreographic reflection on the fragmentation of human existence in the digital age. The work is driven by a central question: In what world do we live?

The stage unfolds as a dark, almost metaphysical space in which figures—dressed like mechanized beings—move through an atmosphere of alienation, isolation, and existential uncertainty. These performers resemble pilgrims without a destination, navigating a reality where human connection fades and emotional depth risks dissolving into abstraction.

Peçi’s choreographic language bridges classical precision with contemporary dramaturgical thinking. Movement emerges not from external form, but from inner psychological impulses, creating a deeply embodied and introspective experience. The work evokes the ancient concept of katabasis—a descent into the underworld—reimagined within the conditions of modern digital existence.

Through a refined interplay of light, shadow, and silence, the piece avoids simplistic resolutions. Instead, it sustains a delicate balance between darkness and fragile traces of humanity. Love, connection, and emotional resonance appear not as fixed certainties, but as fleeting possibilities within an increasingly instrumentalized world.

The choreography reveals a strong architectural structure, where individual and collective states continuously transform.

Zeitraum ultimately leaves the audience with a profound and unresolved tension: whether modernity leads toward a new form of existence—or toward the erosion of what defines us as human.

Peçi emerges here as a choreographer of international significance, capable of translating complex philosophical questions into compelling stage language’’

— Assoc. Prof. Dr. Përparim Kabo