A body becomes a place of search for the act of softening. A performer tries to reach the state of sauna* through undergoing a set of actions under the influence of other bodies, heat and physical strain. Through a personal journey of transforming under the gaze of others, “eighty°” addresses togetherness within a group of strangers. Looking back to Finnish sauna tradition, the piece attempts to reimagine ways of gathering, to meet one another in an alternative state and to encourage the present bodies to dissolve into a breathing/sweating network/organism.

*State of sauna: the blissful state of surrendering into being, sweating and breathing