CPPM is excited to announce the premiere of CPPM TRIPTYCH: POLITICAL MOVEMENT, a vibrant performance programme featuring three newly devised works by the international cohort of the MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. The CPPM TRIPTYCH premieres on 23 January 2026 and continues with performances on 24, 26, 27, 28 and 29 January 2026.

CPPM TRIPTYCH: POLITICAL MOVEMENT brings three distinct performances into one shared curatorial frame: political movement. Across the evening, audiences are invited into three different artistic worlds, three different devising strategies, and three different ways of transforming individual perspectives into collective action. Expect cultural polyphony, sharp theatrical contrasts, and a compelling sense of how movement can be political, physical, and poetic all at once.

The programme

WalkYourChair

Performance dates: 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 January 2026
Time: 18:00
Venue: Balti Jaama Tunnel

A site specific performance that begins with an audio guide and a simple proposal: take your chair for a walk, sit wherever you want, and see what happens if you let it lead you. In a space built for passing through, four performers give body and breath to four chairs, opening a surprising shift in how we perceive presence, place, and permission.

Creative team
Co authors and performers: Dita Lurina (Latvia), Daniel Ortiz (Colombia), Anette Pärn (Estonia), Edward Skaines (Australia)
Set designer: The Third
Sound designer: Kymbali Williams

EMIT

Performance dates: 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 January 2026
Time: 20:00
Venue: EMTA black box

You have received an invitation from EMIT, and it is polite to accept it. Framed as a celebration of new beginnings, EMIT plays with the rituals of togetherness and the seductive language of hope. It welcomes you in, draws you close, and asks what it really means to gather, connect, and imagine a better world.

Creative team
Co authors and performers: Clarisse Degeneffe (Belgium), Juuli Hyttinen (Finland), Jeson Joy (India), Oskar Moore (Latvia), Maria Papachristodoulou (Greece), Ana Trif (Romania)
Set designer: Kairi Mändla
Lighting designer: Siim Reispass
Sound designer: Kenn Eerik Kannike

Night Watch

Performance dates: 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 January 2026
Time: 23:00
Venue: EMTA black box

Night Watch invites the audience to drift on the border between wakefulness and sleep, where movement becomes a way of sensing austerity, abundance, and resilience. The performance conjures embodied worlds and future visions that appear when reality slips into fairytale like abstraction.

Creative team
Co authors and performers: Zhenyan Ding (China), Leah Gayer (Germany), Avery Gerhardt (USA), Charis Taplin (UK), Maarja Tosin (Estonia), Elar Vahter (Estonia)
Set designer: Kairi Mändla
Lighting designer: Siim Reispass
Sound designer: Kenn Eerik Kannike
Video artist: Ave Palm