Today is yesterday’s tomorrow challenges our understanding of what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world, where the line between human and machine has been blurred beyond recognition.

Using movement and visual imagery, the performance explores whether consciousness can truly be programmed, and if the very essence of humanity might survive in the circuits of our mechanical successors.

The performance posits fear as perhaps the most fundamentally human emotion, an emotion that the mechanical androids are devoid of. This exact inability of machines to experience genuine fear raises questions about whether emotional capacity is essential to consciousness or merely an evolutionary artifact.

Perhaps the next step in human evolution will finally make us face our worst enemy, ourselves.

Artistic direction: Brandon Lagaert
Artistic assistance: Sara Angelucci
Light design: Uma Živković & Brandon Lagaert
Light operation: Uma Živković
Sound design: Brandon Lagaert
Sound operation: Inês Almeida
Visuals: Mohammad Khorshidi

Performance and creation: Mikołaj Bielnicki-Job, Chloé Chardevel, Alicja Cieryt, Julia Egorova, Margarida Ferreirinha, Íris Franco, Iva Matošević, Iolanda Nóbrega, Anastasiia Zhidkova

Premiere: on the 28th of March 2025 at PERA, Gyrne, Cyprus

Special thanks to PERA school of Performing Arts, Lloyd Miles, Barlas Sahinoglu, Aycan Garip and Mohammad Khorshidi.