Going Passionately Somewhere

Welcome to this interdisciplinary performance about dreams, the body, and presence, created and performed by Héloïse Baldelli.

A woman looks back on the journey that shaped her: from childhood’s first encounter with the magic of music, through big dreams and broken ambitions, to a painful but necessary reckoning with perfectionism, shame, and self‑criticism.

Going Passionately Somewhere is a personal and interdisciplinary performance that moves in the borderland between concert, theatre, and dance. Through song, text, and movement, it explores the tension between ambition and vulnerability, between perfectionism and presence.

The performance revolves around an existential question: How can we hold on to longing and drive without losing ourselves in the pursuit of who we want to become? Here, the stage becomes a space for memories, resistance, dissolution, and new orientation. The body appears both as limitation and possibility, the voice both as expression and battleground. Gradually, another perspective opens—where lightness, trust, and bodily grounding emerge as an alternative path.

The work has been developed as part of an artistic research PhD project, examining artistic practice as a form of knowledge. Going Passionately Somewhere is not a story about arriving, but about continuing to move.

The performers are Héloïse Baldelli (vocals), Friederike Wildschütz (piano), and dancers Vivianna Mäkinen, Oda Stensrud, and Tiril Rønningsgrid.