Celine Daemen: Songs for a Passerby

You can experience and see this award-winning virtual reality opera from 23 to 27 October & from 30 October to 3 November. Songs for a Passerby (2023) is a meditative quest, which you undergo individually. For half an hour, you distance yourself from reality and look at yourself. You become a puppeteer of your own body in a poetic space, where the melancholic question arises: am I moving through the moments, or are the moments moving through me?

Immersion

In Songs for a Passerby, you walk through a musical dreamscape with VR glasses. You see different scenes: a dying horse, a whispering chorus of people, and two dogs playing. You also encounter a 3D reflection of yourself. In the process, you hear a sung, whispered and spoken opera. Image, sound and your own movement merge into an all-encompassing experience.