Welcome to a week of showings from the students of the MFA in Choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts.
The showings are the results of a 4-week collaboration with the students from the second year of the BA in Dance and Choreography.
Alice Martucci, Joana Ellen Öhlschläger, Mark Bleakley, and Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen entered the MFA program this year while Max Wallmeier and Snorre Elvin present their last works before graduating.
Learn more about each showing below
Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen
Call Me is a Mix Tape of feelings. It is a symphony of ideas, thoughts, dreams on and along the tragedy of not being responded to, being disappointed, feeling rejected and the pleasure in the pain. It is dance that is gross and tender, disturbing and healing.
Performers and Cocreators
Anne Sophie Stubbe Lindberg
Frida Billeskov Olesen
Hanna A. Lokøy
Léana Licius
Pauline Michel
Choreography and Creation
Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen
Costume and Styling
Klara Lopez
Music
Erykah Badu, Vilde Tuv, Burzum, Lykke Li (more tba)
Eyes and support
Back Heiberg, Nanna Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Klara Lopez, Charlie Laban Trier, Camilla Lind, Randi Lindholm Hansen, Anders Toft Pedersen, MA’s + BA’s
Alice Martucci
At the beginning there is a need to take care of what is not here (yet or anymore).
To take care of what is gone or not yet arrived, we approach memories and expectations through an act of imagination. We give space, time and attention to those by dancing and the dance is the encounter with what we evoke.
The act of imagination becomes an act of remembering.
It is more than revisiting the past. It is committing to a multi-layered present that contains both past and future, infinite possible pasts and futures. A memory is then not a static picture from the past but a living organism in the middle of an ever changing time. A memory changes and has future potential. A memory can be shared and is a collective journey. A memory becomes a place to visit, a frame to be held by, a score to dance.
In this perspective, repetition is also approached as working with memory. The repetition of a movement or a situation can give occasion for both the dancers and the audience to inquire into the possibility of revisiting a fluctuant time. Is an invitation to consider what time we are present to and how we can be present to what is (not) here.
Dance
Aikaterini Dimitrelli
Anita Czako
Neža Kokalj
Paavali Kärkkäinen
Vilma Ehnberg
Choreography
Alice Martucci
Sound design
Jaleh Negari
Photographer
Alen Aligrudić
Joana Ellen Öhlschläger
cut a slice of life is an exploration of how to spill over the edges of ones own body into the attention of being a part of something larger: a layer in a landscape, a set of tones in a composition, a limb of a shapeshifting creature.
concept and choreography
Joana Ellen Öhlschläger
created in collaboration with and performed by
Anita Czakó
Hanna A. Lokøy
Isabel Carvalho
Neža Kokalj
Music
Ivar Myrset Asheim, Fuffifufzich, Mazzy Star
Voice consultant
Ella Östlund
Sound consultant
Rafael Cañete Fernández
Support and thanks to
Anna Westh, Joëlle McGovern Serret, Martina Piazzi, Ottavia Catenacci
Mark Bleakley
Working individually and collectively four women on stage work with the theatre space to explore real, imagined and new grounds. Consisting of two scores, a line dance and the vinyl dance floor Rug Pull is a collection of attempts to contemplate the ways in which dance can become ungrounded or how and when can dance produce the many grounds we experience: social, spiritual, political, material.
Choreography
Mark Bleakley
Developed in collaboration with performers
Lenka Vorechovská
Lisbeth Rain Riis
Isobel Carvalho
Stéphanie Evrard
Choreographic support from
Marco Payer
Sound
Emil Boda
Max Wallmeier
In Epilogue, five dancers explore the way their dancing unfolds in time; the when and how rather than the what. Moving through pathways that follow no logic of linear progression, they stay with the intricate details already present in their movement. Dancing with casual precision, merging the sensual and the pragmatic, they invite the audience to pay closer attention to the way their experience transforms over time.
Epilogue draws from a series of duets made in spring 2022. Reversibility as a movement principle and choreographic structure has been the starting point for these duets.
Choreography
Max Wallmeier
Dance
Frida Billeskov Olesen
Lenka Vořechovská
Lisbeth Ravn Riis
Stéphanie Evrard
Vilma Ehnberg
Music
Simon Plancke
Snorre Elvin
A catwalk falls and crawls into a dance as time swirls and the night tiptoes into an ambiguous smize
Vortex Delight is a continuum, a dance in spirals and a practice of walking into something more than walking.
In kinship with the music video ‘Come Into My World’ by Kylie Minoque a group of performers follow shared spiraling pathways on and off stage in a practice of walking, being, dancing, relating, repeating and transforming. The performance explores collective and individual trajectories, ways of co-existing and modes seeing and being seen in a landscape in constant rotation.
Choreography and concept
Snorre Elvin
Performers
Aikaterini Dimitrelli
Paavali Kärkkäinen
Léana Licous
Pauline Michel
Nanna Stigsdatter
Peter Scherrebeck
Ronald Berger
Styling
Camilla Lind
On the side
Nefeli Gioti
Photo
Snorre Elvin