What Dreams May Come in the Sleepless Night

a solo performance that navigates the disquiet of insomnia as a threshold between personal and collective memory.

A body—restless, searching—moves through a landscape of suppressed memories, unprocessed emotions, and unspoken feelings. In the stillness of night, it meets a self suspended in-between, vacillating from wakefulness to sleep, presence to absence, belonging to exile.

Rooted in the tension of a world fractured by political erasure and emotional dislocation, this work meditates on what remains when silence replaces speech, when distance becomes identity, and

when yearning persists despite collapse. The space of the performance becomes a battleground where ghosts of the past and hopes for the future collide in motion, text, and material.

Through embodied language and poetic inquiry, the performance becomes a ritual of remembering and imagining—a gesture toward reclaiming selfhood amid loss.

This is an offering to the sleepless, to those wandering the corridors of memory and possibility. A call to remain awake to the quiet revolutions unfolding within.

11 October 2025
Expeditionen ins junge Figurentheater, Lepzig, Germany
22-23 August 2025
Le Point de Bascule, Yverdon les Bains, Switzerland
11 April 2025 - Cambusa, Locarno, Switzerland
05 April 2025 - Accademia Dimitri, Switzerland

Concept / Director / Performer: Chester Wong
Creative Partner/Outside Eye :
Sodja Lokter, Genna Leung, Núria Giménez Villarroya, Ari Teperberg#, Tomáš Janypka#
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This performance was initially developed as a master's project.