Nele Tiidelepp’s Nights Around Counting Steps (and Fade to Black) slips in and out of rhythm, finding its groove only to lose it again. Three performers remember, misremember, imitate one another, pick up speed, hang around and start again. Accompanied by an original EDM/trance soundtrack by Finnish musician Keliel, they descend into the night. As visibility thins, shapes and shadows take over, while repetition, synchronicities and momentum carry us through the dark. With a playful, gentle and stubborn devotion to the ordinary, the work keeps repeating until something gives. A small opening appears, a rhythm slips, and for a moment the impossible seems not only possible, but already happening.

Director: Nele Tiidelepp
Performers: Nele Tiidelepp, Liisbeth Horn, Antje Cordes
Sound design: Eliel Tammiharju
Costume: Eva Tarn
Production: Kerly Ritval
Co-production: Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Nele Tiidelepp
Supported by The Ministry of Culture of Estonia, Estonian Cultural Endowment

Nele Tiidelepp is an Estonian artist working with performance, installation and sculpture. A graduate of the Estonian Academy of Arts, she is currently pursuing an MA at Justus Liebig University, Gießen. Her practice explores people, social dynamics and spontaneous encounters with environments and materials, bringing conceptual logic into contact with poetics. She has collaborated with Mousonturm and Baltic Dance Platform, and presented work at Margot Samel Gallery, Studio Truhlarna, Bodø European Capital of Culture 2024, Kanuti Gildi SAAL and Tartu Art Museum.