This new dance performance opens at The Kitchen in New York and a week later will be on at the Studios. The title of this performance is a pictogram. It tells us that we are departing, that we have quit a place, a situation. The way one reads this sign in daily life is in transit, on the road. One perceives it for but a few moments.

The Swedish artist and composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff, who participated in Documenta in 1997, has written and staged a play about six ‘classic’ methods of torture that use water, light, sound, heat, etc. In Death is Certain, the Berlin performance artist Eva Meyer-Keller is a perfidious kitchen queen who puts vegetables to death. They are throttled, shot, drowned, poisoned and so on.

The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny – a pop opera by Maison Dahl Bonnema is rough and bold. Dark clouds of words by Anna Sophia Bonnema paint the odd cult world of Ricky and Ronny, set to music by Hans Petter Dahl. Existential pop is adapted to form a curious story of two people detached from the world.