VANISHING ACTS

About the show

Maybe you’ll suddenly see me appear, so quickly that I become invisible. Maybe you’ll see me dancing among my invisible friends, and a song I sing will linger in your mind. But was I ever really there? Or did I exist only briefly in your imagination? Have you already forgotten me? With vanishing acts, Felix Schellekens explores humanity's obsession with leaving a legacy and the fear of fading away. Why are we so compelled to stand out and leave our mark? What remains of us if we don’t have children, when our bloodline ends? Everything on this earth eventually performs its own vanishing act, especially now as the climate crisis confronts us with the finiteness of the world around us. What if we focused less on what we leave behind and instead learned to disappear? This performance is a sensory and surreal tale of loss, decay, and disappearance. Felix plays, sings, and dances through a universe of shadow play in a desperate attempt to embrace the ephemeral.