Two performers embark on a mission to make a baby. Moving through each other's minds and talking through their bodies, they tell a love story reaching towards the baby - empathic, care-taking, rough and soft. They embody and deconstruct images of family in search for one that feels their own. Eevi, Olivia and Baby fall in and out of love and back again as they navigate utopias, biological barriers, political uncertainties and societal expectations of family.

A Long Story About Our Baby is a touching auto-fictional performance piece and embodied storytelling, where a space opens up for dreaming and re-romanticising a queer experience of family.

Team and Collaborators

Artistic Direction / Choreography / Performance / Production: Eevi Kinnunen, Olivia Ronzani Costume, Stage Design: Katri Saloniemi, Helene Scheithe
Sound Design / Music: Gil Schneider
Light Design, technical management: Pina Schläpfer
Technical Management on tour: Lola Rosarot
Audio Collage: Nora Wyss
Video Animation: Louis Caspar Schmitt
Projection Mapping: Robin Nidecker
Outside Eye: Sophia Rodríguez
Production: Camille Jamet 
Tourmanagement: Kathrin Walde 
Babysitter: Franziska von Blarer

A Long Story About Our Baby is a Landholz Productions production.

Supporters:

Co-production: Treibstoff Theatertage Basel
Funders: Fachausschuss Darstellende Künste BL/BS, Tanzbüro Basel, SWISSLOS/Kultur Kanton Bern, Kultur Stadt Bern, Taike Art Promotion Centre Finland, Burgergemeinde Bern, Corymbo Stiftung

Olivia Ronzani, Eevi Kinnunen and Nora Wyss were residents of the residency program “Labor à trois” by POLE-SUD, Roxy Birsfelden and Tanznetz Freiburg, funded by the cross-border cultural fund of the German-French-Swiss Upper Rhine Conference

Supported by the co-production of Tojo Theater Reitschule Bern and Dare & Share Residency Basel.