Shadows, Archives, and the Afterlife of Memory in the Industrial Chapel

Beneath the floors of a 19th-century church lies a forgotten gymnasium. Its tin ceiling is tarnished, its brick walls are breathing with age, and its concrete floor is uneven from decades of use. Now it becomes the stage for When They Have Their Historians, an experimental performance where memory, myth, and movement collide.

Through choreography, ritual, and childhood game gestures, nine performers reimagine forgotten histories, transforming play into resistance and nostalgia into embodied ritual.

As you step into this subterranean world, you enter a ceremony of remembering. Expect shifting light, fragments of song, the echo of footsteps against concrete, and an intimacy that moves between performance and invocation.

Performers may invite you to join a gesture, a rhythm, a moment of story. Every audience experiences a different journey through the space. Intimate, unpredictable, alive.

In this raw, historic sanctuary beneath the city, myth and memory return to motion, inviting us to witness how the past can still breathe through the body.