MERGING
NTA Black Box 2019, Fredrikstad (NO)
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019, St. Cuthbert’s Church (UK)
Young Urban Performances Festival 2019, Osnabrück (DE)
Performing Arts Festival Berlin 2020, Sophiensaele (DE) [cancelled:covid19]
Xenon Theatre 2020, Copenhagen (DK) [cancelled:covid19]
OVERLAB/P, TanzArt ostwest 2020, Giessen (DE) [cancelled:covid19]
Europäische Kulturtage 2020, Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe (DE) [cancelled:covid19]
Frankfurt LAB 2022, Frankfurt (DE)
licht.blicke Festival 2023, Gostner Hoftheater Nürnberg (DE)
The performance presents three young men with different archives exploring contemporary masculinity. Through following various choreographic scores they try to get their different bodies in sync, creating a constant tension between success and failure, harmony and disharmony. The performers work with simple movement patterns, which unfold through lengthy repeated sequences.
The form of the performance is set between acting and dance. It enters the current discourse, questioning the categories of „dancy“ and „non-dancy“ movements.
What begins as a witty dance piece with subtle theatrical affect expands into a complete work: a funny, vulnerable expression of youth, desire, difference. It becomes what might be described as a proposal for the future of boyishness as a mode of tenderness, listening, musicality and longing. It loves and is lovable, it sees us, and it reveals itself.
60 min dance/theatre performance from 2019
by Jakob Krog, Jay Fiskerstrand, Simon Zeller
Special thanks to Saila Hyttinen, Etienne Guilloteau & Jakob Oredsson
Credits: Jonas Siro (video) Jan Husták (photos) Bård Halvorsen (photo)