SPECTRE
performance, 2026
Choreography, Performance: Julien Klopfenstein
Music: Hildur Guðnadóttir, BJ Nilsen, Stilluppsteypa – Second Childhood
Production support: SÍN Arts Centre (“folyt.köv.” program)
Photography: Máté Kalicz
Spectre is a contemporary dance solo premiered at SÍN Arts Centre, Budapest, in May 2026 as part of the folyt.köv. program, and later presented in Košice, Slovakia.
The work explores abandonment, loneliness, and disorientation through the figure of a spectre suspended between collapse and compulsion. Combining slow, distorted movement with moments of physical intensity, the performance reflects on what remains when the structures we rely on begin to fail.
“A disembodied being, in disorientation, emptied of direction, detached from its center. Depleted by an ever-accelerating world, blind obedience, and external dependence, the spectre drifts—fragmented, unanchored—somewhere between compulsion and collapse.”