The future is dark
which is the best thing a future can be

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The future is dark
which is the best thing a future can be

Rodia Vomvolou & Petros Konnaris
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Saturday, November 14, 2026

With The Future Is Dark Which Is the Best Thing a Future Can Be,
Rodia Vomvolou and Petros Konnaris meet undercurrent to explore how we imagine
the future amid the uncertainties and contradictions of the present.

The future is dark which is the best thing a future can be is a performance–board game that seeks critical ways of engaging with urgencies of contemporary reality while activating alternative speculations about the future. Every game/performance is unique and takes a different theme as its starting point, around which three players move like pawns across a floored landscape of stations of knowledge/ notions such as The Palace of Feminist Governance, The Rock of Responsibility, and The Cavern of Care, perform different scores and instructions, produce poetic manifestos, imagined narratives, critical questions, and embodied landscapes.

The future is dark which is the best thing a future can be explores the relationship between the logic of a board game, choreographic thinking, and dramaturgy, blurring the line between performing arts and everyday life and proposing a horizontal redistribution of agency and power

hierarchies. Drawing on the performativity and aesthetics of 1990s TV game shows, and the practice of live dramaturgying, the performance activates an open, vulnerable, and playful space for dialogue and reflection. The title of the work comes from a phrase in Virginia WoolfΆs 1915 diary, written at the beginning of the First World War, which was later revisited in the work of writer and activist Rebecca Solnit. Here, darkness becomes a space of uncertainty and, therefore, possibility. Rather than offering ready-made answers, the work engages with practices of futuring that invite us to imagine, experiment with, and negotiate possible futures precisely because we do not know what they will look like.

Prior to the performance, as a response, undercurrent with The Present Is Dark turns the gaze towards the darker aspects of the present and the traces of a future that has already begun to unfold. Visual and sound imprints coexist in the space, echoing the now, and with brief instructions invite the audience on a walk through them.

Concept/Artistic Direction: Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou
Scenography/ GameΆs Visual identity: Chrysa Georgiou
Performers: Christina Karagianni, Eleni Mylona, Miriam Gatt, Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou
Original Cast: Eleana Alexandrou, Konstantina Skalionta, Costantina Peter, Miriam Gatt, Areti Chourdaki, Petros Konnaris, Rodia Vomvolou
Graphics: Mary Pilakouri
Parallel Act | The present is dark: undercurrent
Production: undercurrent & A moment to Perform

In the frame of Politismos 2026 of the Department of Contemporary Culture - Deputy Ministry of Culture.

Petros Konnaris is a performance artist working between the fields of dance, live art and participatory art. Rodia Vomvolou is a dramaturg and researcher working in the fields of choreography and performance. Taking place in Cyprus, their collaboration as choreographer and dramaturg includes The only thing that matters is how much you love (2020), Performing Silence (2021) and Feel free to take a nap (2023). Shaped by their choreographic and dramaturgical practice, The Future is dark which is the best thing a future can be (2025) is the first piece they co-created.

undercurrent is an independent curatorial platform for discursive, performative, and educational practices in and beyond the field of dance.

Within the framework of the project, two participatory workshop-games will take place at press.a on Friday 13 and Sunday 15 November. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.