Graduation projects - MFA in Choreography

Homemade Remedy For Patching Time is my personal and artistic way to deal with a certain time, namely the ‘90s. In my memory of that period, historical events are mixing up with personal trauma. With no intention to compare the events, I’m rather interested in the emotional consequences of extreme changes.

In this project, Drum & Bass music has acted as a portal to approach a frozen time that needs to get unstuck from a vicious circle of numbness and acute sensitivity. By employing intuitive, half-obscure, performative strategies inspired by the music genre’s composition techniques and thematic elements, I try to soften and explore the leftovers of a time that, even if it passed, is still present. 

Choreography and performance

Alice Martucci

Music

Rafael Canete Fernandez

Dance consultant

Andrea Deres

Sound consultants

Joëlle McGovern
Rafael Canete Fernandez

Artistic consultant, dramaturgical input & hand holding during the process

Sanna Blennow

Costume and pillows

Dorte Kimer

thanks to

Alen Aligrudic, Anna Gallo, Joana Ellen Öhlschläger, Malin Astner, Mark Bleakley, Quim Bigas, Rasmus Ölme, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen.

The performance uses strobe lights.

here we meet
in strange ways
maybe on a bus ride
maybe in a different life
you’ve come a long way
knock knock
to constantly become
what cannot stay

ALL GOOD IN explores the poetics of planned and coincidental encounters in a scenario flickering between the concreteness of the theatre room and its imaginary layers. It is activated by strategies for entering and exiting, appearing and disappearing. Becoming a timeline in a timeline in a time span that stretches beyond what is happening and our projection of what is to come.

ALL GOOD IN is built on Joana’s interest in crafting performance universes deriving from improvisation and intuitive making. It is made in the resonance of her prior works made during this MFA program.

CHOREOGRAPHY

Joana Ellen Öhlschläger

CREATED IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH

Alvilda Faber Striim
Ella Östlund
Karin Bergman
Madeleine Cole

PERFORMERS

The specific cast of the evening will be announced on the day

MENTORING

Quim Bigas

LIGHT

Magnus Hjortlund

SCENOGRAPHY

Maya Kareis Livingstone

SOUND

Simon Richardt

CURTAIN MASTER

Molly Henningsen

MOLLY’S assistant

Freja Wrang Gammelgaard

COSTUME SHOP

Dorte Kimer
Pia Petersen

Special thanks to

Alice Martucci, Antonia Harke, Brian Kousgaard Kristensen, Ghita Ohman, Jari Matsi, Jon Gelting, Jonas Schnor, Kollektivet Lyngfryd, Laura Navndrup Black, Mark Bleakley, Matti Bekkevold, Max Wallmeier, Rasmus Ölme, Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Thorkil Pedersen, Timian Magdahl, Todd Sarfaraz, Turpin Djurhuus, and my family. Special thanks to Malin Astner.

Please note that the performance contains:
use of theatre smoke
darkness
falling objects

In a particular way - three dancers empty the stage for new landscapes to unfold - a folk emerges through a dance - animals perform humans performing animals - In that particular way that dust particles float through pathways never fully settling anywhere, caught in the pleasure of letting go. 

This performance was developed in two parts where ideas of landscape, community, rhythm and play come together in an imagined folk dance for a not-so-distant future. This performance is a reflection on these ideas, what images and poetry comes from weaving these particular thoughts, movements and experiences together. 

Choreographer

Mark Bleakley

Performers

Marco Payer
Teresa Fogh Schou
Mark Bleakley

Sound

Rémy Gouffault

Dramaturgy

Jonas Schnor

Mentoring

Quim Bigas Bassart 

costumes

Dorte Kimer

thanks to

A special thanks to peers, collaborators and loved ones supporting me through this MFA programme in their various ways: Josh Wilson, Victoria Smart, Paul Hughes, Lucy Suggate, Hattie Simms, Iain Bru and David, Winnie, Frida, and Brian Bleakley

Meet the wolf, the sheep, the shepherd, the mommy, the body, the baby, the dummy, the dancer, the viewer, the wave, the rock, the faint, the feelings, the fainted heart, the faint hearted, the faint at heart.

A pack of 5 investigates how to flip the image and change the narrative of the stories we tell and are told. Switching between ambience and temperament they interrogate constellations through waving, group dynamics, structures of power between each other, performer and audience, the heart and the mind. 

Faint at heart builds on a physical practice known as addictive dancing and an intuitive choreographic method called OMG Dramaturgy, which Sigrid has been meticulously developing over the past years and recently here at the MA. 

“For this final MA piece I wanted to give myself the chance to work with artists that excite me and to make a group work knowing there would never be enough time or space for it. This is where we are at. Thank you for coming. 

KH, 

Sigrid” 

Choreographer

Sigrid Stigsdatter

Performers and co-creators

Emilie Gregersen
Inaja Skands
Nanna Stigsdatter
Sophia Mage

Costume and light design

Sofia Stål

Music

Martin Hasfeldt

Mentor

Quim Bigas

Production

Malin Astner

Costumes

Pia Petersen
Dorte Kimer

thanks to

Alice Martucci, Anders Toft Pedersen, Beck Heiberg, Randi Lindholm, Mathilde Søes, Joana öhlschläger, Mark Bleakly, Pauline Michel.