"Things That Can Survive in Space" is a choreographic experiment for two audiences: a present audience and a hypothetical one.

In this, their first work, Anika Edström Kawaji and Robin Haghi choreograph with the intention of exposing themselves before our astronomical cosmos. Together they explore what the physical expression and communicative qualities of bodies become when reflected into the alienating emptiness of space. 

In collaboration with composer Markus B. Almqvist and lighting designer/scenographer Elias Ortiz, Anika Edström Kawaji and Robin Haghi invite you into a temporarily roofless performance space. Things That Can Survive in Space is an experiment where dance and performance is sent to a yet undetermined address out in space.

The project originated from NASA's ambitious and absurd Voyager mission (1977) and its attempt to create an intergalactic ’message in a bottle’. On board two space probes sent to study space beyond our solar system, NASA also placed two golden LPs. The discs contained a collection of greetings in different languages, music, nature sounds and photographs and served as an attempt to encapsulate various expressions of our earthly existence, in case someone should come into contact with the probes on their journey into and across space.