The minute of silence: there are no sets in this pièce, no costumes or stage wings. Only six performers, metronomes, and music stands—minimal means for probing time and rendering it perceptible as living matter.

An ancestral imaginary of earth and air, water and fire, inhabited by gods and humans: Lemi Ponifasio draws on the Indigenous cultures of the Pacific—from the Māori of New Zealand to the Kiribati in Micronesia—and South America, to create new symbols that speak to our present time.