Performance Projects – Dance & Participation 2023
Welcome to the Performance Projects of Aline Combe, Paulina Rewucka, and Maxime Kroot.
For this project, each student of the MFA in Dance and Participation worked with non-professional performers. In a five-week-long process, they explored different participatory practices in the studio together with their participants. Ingunn Fjellang Sæther, Lighting student, has been accompanying the projects as co-creator of the three visual spaces. The result of their journeys will be presented in this joint evening, with three sharings of 15-20 minutes.
Thanks to our supervisor Micaela Kühn and to the production department:
Ghita Ohmann (costume), Dorte Kimer (costume), Todd Sarfaraz (sound), Matti Bekkevold (production), Turpin Djurhus (advise), Pernille Plantener (supervisor).
By Maxime Kroot
Imagine us moving very close to each other
far away from each other
moving in the same direction
moving in a different direction
exploring the spaces in our own bodies
This project is an encounter between improvisation and composition, between the age of 12 and the age of 73, between sticks and air, between music and light. This project investigates the connection between us, by seeing and feeling each other. We work together with all our differences, our different expressions, but with the same goal to challenge and take care of each other and ourselves.
Participants
Birgit Andersen, Rikke Sandahl, Elsebeth Neutzsky-Wulff, Peter Gottlieb, Inge Brink, Justine Buch Zavala Pickett, Sofie Højer Højer Paaske, Carla Caceres Stefansdatter, Naja Krell Knudsen, Maya Bugge Kramer, Malika Elisa Dalsgaard Haavik, Charlie Møller Nielsen, Camilla Collins, Annacelia Zulueta-Larsen.
Music
Sús
Lighting design
Ingunn Fjellang Sæther
Facilitation
Maxime Kroot
Mentor
Boaz Barkan
Support
Signe Bach Errboe
By Aline Combe
Imagine three persons: Ida, Ingunn and Jùlia. They are walking in the street when a dog comes. Ida, who was bitten by a dog when she was a child, feels a small surge of adrenaline; Ingunn, who is focused on the sunset, doesn’t notice the dog; Jùlia, who knows this dog, will experience a feeling of tenderness and familiarity. One situation, three different perceptions of it.
This play was developed with the help of neuroscientists around the concept of «qualia».
What does «qualia» mean?
We have an experience of the world. For example, when I hear that music, when I taste that coffee, when I suffer from that headache, when I witness that situation, I have a feeling of it.
«Qualia» are these subjectives and unsharable feelings we have when we experience the world.
This piece is an attempt to witness our «qualia» and see if we can make them flexible.
light design and co-creator
Ingunn Fjellang Sæther
performer & co-creator (neuroscientist)
Jùlia Díaz i Calvete
dialogue partner (neuroscientist)
Ida Marie Brandt
performer & choreographer
Aline Combe
mentor
Thomas Eisenhardt
graphic designer
Lilas Carpentier
Photo source
chuckmanchicagonostalgia.wordpress.com
Thank you to all the people who gave us access to a part of their subjectivity, by answering our set of 21 self-meaningful-questions.
By Paulina Rewucka
dancing with the absent. picking up what is left. feeling connected. what cannot be expressed will be shared.
pieces of plucked memory, enchanted by what has not been listened to. tremors and snares give sound to the bones floating in the body. the trials undertaken, the games played, the militaries and the carnival mentioned.
under the cover of a net that no one uses, plastic that no one wants, the presence of those who are not here. we will create a space to deconstruct it together.
the project is a participatory, performative response to current research being shared and deepened with a friend and participant
performance
Rodrigo Varela, Paulina Rewucka
facilitation
Paulina Rewucka
light design
Ingunn Fjellang Sæther
music design
Rémy Gouffault
consultation
Micaela Kühn Jara, Dorte Bjerre Jensen, Anna Nowak
thanks to
Vera Rosner, Janne Weidinger Kristensen, Laura Navndrup Black
