Meanwhile Elsewhere is a theatrical odyssey—one that drifts between dream and decay, memory and invention, past and future. It is a performance woven from light, movement, and poetry, where cities do not merely stand still but breathe, evolve, and dissolve before our eyes.
At its core, the piece is an exploration of what we build and what we destroy—monuments that vanish in the name of progress, histories rewritten in steel and glass, waste buried beneath the weight of our forgetting. Through ethereal choreography, layered visuals, and shifting landscapes of sound and shadow, Meanwhile Elsewhere creates worlds that flicker between the real and the unreal, inviting audiences to lose themselves in a spectacle that is as haunting as it is beautiful.
And at the heart of it all are two figures—one who rules and remembers, the other who wanders and dreams. Their dialogue unfolds across imagined cities but resonates with the forces that shape our own—power, ambition, loss, and the fragile hope that something of us will remain.
Nowhere is this tension more visible than in the chess sequence, where the empire is reduced to its simplest form—a battlefield of pieces, each move a decision that reshapes the board, each sacrifice an echo of cities lost and forgotten. In this moment, Marco and Kublai are no longer just traveler and ruler; they become architects of fate, watching the balance shift between control and surrender, strategy and inevitability.
This is not just a story for one place or one time—it is a performance for the world stage. Whether in Ahmedabad or Athens, Venice or New York, Meanwhile Elsewhere speaks to the universal longing to make sense of the spaces we inhabit. It is an invitation to step into a shimmering, shifting world—one that, perhaps, has been waiting for you all along.
