zero visibility corp

WHEN MONDAY CAME

March 20, 2021 19:00

Kungsbacka Teater | SE


While driving through Australia Zero Visibility’s artistic director and choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen asked herself: What happens to people when their environment burns down? What can possibly come out of a burning site? What kind of fundamental change is the destruction caused by fire representing in terms of human conditions? These are some of the questions that she and her dancers and artistic collaborators are investigating in this performance. It is not just a question of the philosophy of the matter but the real conditions – the factual impact of the burning itself — the vision, the sound, the smell. And, of course there is the body. But the body plays both an active and passive part. It can of course die but also escape, survive, make a difference, and even change the order of things within the course of events.

So, what are the possible human consequences of an encompassing fire? Merely destruction? A new possibility? Change? When there is a fire, there are ashes. In some cultures, ashes is a source of cleansing – a connection to another life. It represents nature in a changing situation. The challenge is to bring this fundamental condition of both destruction and new life into an aesthetic frame. And who or what is Monday? Just another day? The name of a child hence the future? But how can the devastating results of a fire be so tragic and beautiful at the same time? Part of the story is that tragedy is not the accident that occurs but the recognition that it is man’s destiny. An act of hubris will be punished tragically. That is also the beauty of it all – we are talking about the art of performance since before the Greek mythologies.

 

choreography: Ina Christel Johannessen
composer: Tommy Jansen
scenography: Åsmund Færavaag
dancers: Ole Willy Falkhaugen, Hugo Marmelada, Dorotea Saykaly, Camilla Spidsøe, Ole Kristian Tangen, Line Tørmoen
musician: Tommy Jansen
costumes: Ina Christel Johannessen
light design: Daniel Kolstad Gimle
sound: Morten Pettersen
executive producer: Kirsti Ulvestad
produced by Zero Visibility Corp
co-produced by Dansens Hus, Oslo; La Briqueterie, Paris; Fabbrica Europa
Zero Visibility Corp. is supported by Arts Council Norway

 

[photo: Yaniv Cohen]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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