Timelapse is structured as a dance-driven work, balancing narration, movement, and scenography. The narration is delivered by Claire Constant, and was later shared by Øyen himself for the 2018 remount. The spoken text lends the piece a dimension of poetics — shaping the audience’s perception of memory, time, and loss, in counterpoint to the visceral physicality of the choreography.

The stage is defined by Åsmund Færavaag’s revolving walls and wings, forming a constantly shifting architecture that reflects the instability of time itself. Costumes by Øyen and lighting by Martin Flack reinforce the atmosphere of suspended temporality, while a score of eclectic, filmic music provides the pulse of a world at once nostalgic and unsettled.

Both a commemoration of the Back to the Future date and a meditation on memory, Timelapse captures the tension between the promise of possibility and the anxieties of the present. It is a work of scale and atmosphere, where dance and design merge into a reflection on how we imagine our lives in time.