Barely There
Barely There is a solo devised from the work I have been doing to reconcile and reconsider my relationship with dance. As I find myself in a position of questioning/doubtfulness/scepticism towards working in this field of dance and choreography, ideas of giving up, disorientation and unseeing have become important to me.
The set-up of the work relies heavily on the specificities of the room it finds itself in, specifically, the cast of objects that are already present in the room. This is only one version among many possible versions: various training/educational equipment like skipping ropes, elastics, tennis ball, skeleton as well as things found lying around like a plastic bottle, spray bottle, wash cloth, floor lamp...
Devising scores also forms an important part of the work by putting repetition and variation into play, starting from the instruction: imagine your hands are attracted to everything and want to touch everything. Through devising scores, I aim to (among other aims) produce a sense of ambiguity through the possible meanings that arise out of the relationships between body, objects, gestures, images, sounds, ...
Dates
2021 Graw Böckler Garage (Berlin, Germany)
2021 Det Frie Felts Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark) (Cancelled due to Covid-19)
2020 DANSEatelier (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2020 Biennial Performative Arts Meeting by Moving (Re)union at Espaço Alkantara (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020 Artist talk as part of SCOPE #9 by Dance Nucleus (Singapore, online event on Zoom)
2020 Teater Tapas at Teaterøen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2020 Self-Made Capital no.2, at The Bank – a temporary art and meeting space facilitated by Andreas Liebmann in collaboration with DDSKS (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2020 Final year Bachelor Project at DDSKS (Copenhagen, Denmark). Mentored by Malin Astner.