AFTERLIFEAfterlife, is a paranoid playground, a site for speculative futurities, and derailed interpretations of a renaissance that never really happened. While the performance dives into some of the ghostly materials from western high culture dance history, it moves through, a series of twisted dances from the late Italian Renaissance and early French Baroque. Only, to explode into weird pop-cultural landscapes, where subtle traces from Britney’s banger, hit me baby one more time, Andrzej Zulawski’s subway scene from Possession, and distorted yoga-mom inspired materials come to life.
Carried out by three performers, Afterlife tries to unfold, a muted dance history, formed by subaltern bodies. Bodies that, through colonial, and anti-queer epistemologies, were considered unfit to take part in a monumental shift in European dance culture.
TOUR
2024
ICA, London (UK) April 26 + 27
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen (DK) March 16
2023
The Munch Museum, Oslo (NO) November 11
Untitled, Tbilisi (GA) September 28
Ravnedans, Kristiansand (NO) ) July 8
Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest (RO) June 30+July 1
Femidomen, Nesodden (NO) June 24
2022
My Wild Flag, Stockholm (SE) Sep 3+4
Palmera, Bergen (NO) April 9+10
Black Box Teater, Oslo (NO) March 12-19
CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Louis Schou-Hansen | COSTUMES AND SCULPTURAL WOR Karoline Bakken Lund | CO-MAKING PERFORMERS Amie Mbye, Elise Nohr Nystad, Georgiana Dobre | MUSI Peachlyfe / Petra Skibsted | ARTISTIC ADVISOR Sebastian De Line | RECONSTRUCTION OF RENAISSANCE DANCE
Elizabeth Svarstad | HAIR Anna Lübeck | PHOTOS Chai Saeidi | CO. PRODUCTION Black Box Teater Oslo
Mimosa Studio, & Palmera Bergen
FUNDED BY
Arts Council Norway
Fond For Lyd og Bilde
FFUK
Fritt Ord
Oslo Kommune
Performing Arts Hub Norway
