CPPM TRIPTYCH. POLITICAL MOVEMENT

WalkYourChair

Co-authors and performers:
DITA LURINA (Latvia)
DANIEL ORTIZ (Colombia)
ANETTE PÄRN (Estonia)
EDWARD SKAINES (Australia)
Set designer: THE THIRD
Sound designer: KYMBALI WILLIAMS

Production of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre

Premiere 23 January 2026
Performances 24 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 January 18:00 in Balti Jaama Tunnel

“CPPM TRIPTYCH. POLITICAL MOVEMENT” brings together three devised performances in one evening: “WalkYourChair”, “EMIT” and “Night Watch”.

All performances were conceived in response to the curatorial frame: political movement. From these impulses, three directions emerged, three creative teams and three completely different approaches that meet on stage to create a new shared experience. The productions explore how devising strategies can transform individual perspectives into a collective movement, aligning performers toward action and opening new ways of approaching themes of political sensitivity. The evening offers an opportunity to experience and reflect on co-creation, cultural polyphony, and the diverse expressions of contemporary political theatre.

WalkYourChair

“WalkYourChair” is a site-specific performance by The Third. It all begins with an audio guide that speaks to you and offers something simple: take your chair for a walk, sit wherever you want, and see what happens if you let it lead you. What if that’s all it is: a moment, you and your chair? From there, four performers give body and breath to four chairs placed in a space meant to pass through, not to stay. A space beneath the earth, beneath the human world, where people simply cross from one side to the other, a space of pure transit. The piece opens that small fold where a chair, any chair, can mean something else when it appears where it “shouldn’t,” inviting you to look at and inhabit the space in a different way, almost as if the chair were teaching you how to be.