Pinocchio-paradokset is as much a rock concert as a dance production – with high energy, expansive movements and a strong expressive joy. Five musicians and five dancers share a stage clad from floor to ceiling in Persian rugs. They play and dance, yell and sweat – in a high-energy production that many would call suggestive. But since suggestion is something that happens involuntarily, the production explores a circular puzzle:

If Pinocchio says “my nose is growing now!”, this creates a paradox. Because if his nose is growing, he is telling the truth, and his nose can no longer grow, but if it is not growing, then he is lying, and it must grow. Pinocchio-paradokset thus examines the paradox of performance art: If the audience willingly and voluntarily sits down in the auditorium, can they really be subject to suggestion and influence from the outside, without being aware of it?

With large and explosive movements, the dancers give the stage an energy that is almost electric. This energy is intensified by the rock band Undergrünnen, which with raw performance energy, delivers its own mix of 60s psychedelia, afro-beat, jazz, rock and minimalist new wave. Pinocchio-paradokset thus becomes an explosion of sound and movement: Will you allow yourself to be carried away?