NOD, or the Land of Nod, is the place where, according to the Book of Genesis, God exiled Cain after he murdered his brother Abel. It is imagined as a realm of dark wandering, as well as a place of dream and oblivion, existing beyond even the gaze of God.

NOD is a contemporary dance performance that explores love and violence through the theological and existential prism of Cain’s exile, the first homicide and fratricide in human history. Two men meet by chance. They wear the same clothes, inhabit the same body, and perhaps even share the same past. Anonymous and forgetful, they encounter one another in the desolate space of Nod and reveal the eternal struggle of human existence: from love to violence, from closeness to conflict, from union to murder, from Cain and Abel to us.

Through their shifting relationship, a choreographic narrative unfolds, moving between intimacy and rupture until it culminates in the fatal act of taking a life. The work confronts the terrifying finality of this act, staging it both as an echo of biblical myth and as a reflection on the enduring dilemma of human coexistence