WAITING IS OVER
Waiting is over, a full-length multidisciplinary juggling solo piece.
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The performance is a multidisciplinary contemporary juggling solo that explores the art of juggling. The realization and artistic direction of the piece are the responsibility of its creator and performer, Sofia Motturi.
TOURDATES:
OBJECT FESTIVAL 2026 – WHS Teatteri Union, Helsinki
OBJECT Festival 2026 – Ohjelma
TICKETS – Object Festival: Sofia Motturi: Waiting Is Over | Teatteri Union
Waiting Is Over is my first-ever solo juggling production. It is the most complete representation of who I am as an artist, bringing together my juggling, my technical practice, and my lifelong background in acting, dance, and physical expression.
It tells the story of my dreams and my artistic journey up to this point. I have spent my whole life dreaming – waiting to be seen and valued as an artist, and for who I am. Waiting to be accepted, not only by others but also by myself.
My dreams have been shattered and rebuilt time and time again. There is a constant fire burning in my chest that cannot be extinguished by simply drinking a glass of water.
Strong and expressive juggling technique carries the 45-minute performance from beginning to end. The work follows an emotional arc that explores the collapse of dreams and their eventual reconstruction, as well as the cruel space of waiting for something to happen which never does.
Waiting is the experience of time’s endless presence and its movement all around me – but what happens if nothing around me ever moves? I reach for the clouds, gathering dreams into my bag. Yet my dreams slip away, rolling under the crowded stands – do I belong there too? While much happens and time changes me, what I am waiting for never arrives; thus, change becomes an illusion.
Another day, the same place, the same time – the theme revolves around the uncertainty of hope.
The performance explores broad themes of identity, presenting recognizable human experiences that occasionally play on the edge of absurd humor. In the end the performer’s relationship with juggling creates something deeply moving on an artistic level.
The performance is inspired by the classic play of the Theatre of the Absurd:
French: En attendant Godot, English: Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett, 1949.
