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4 Men in a Boat

Boot&Boat (LV)

Four dancers in a perfomance of a Latvian choreographer Ruta Nordmane brings out a simple men language, little harsh and straight-out, but still sensitive, beautiful and seductive.

“Fantastic how easy the dancers can perform all those incredible moves. It’s only their breath that tells me about how tired they might be at the end of the work. Though there are only men on the stage, one should remember that the author is a woman. I can only admire how Rūta could guess all the small details of a man’s inner world and to bring it all up to the stage with her choreography. It is definitely a superb woman’s story translated into the man’s language”

/Ingrīda Īvāne,
Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze [Independent Morning Post]
24.04.2007./

Choreography: Ruta Nordmane
Performing: Andrejs Filipovs, Karlis Bozs, Kristaps Celmalnieks, Girts Bisenieks
Music: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Manau, Janis Joplin, Pressure drop, Rufus Wainwright,
Dave Matthews, Billy’s band
Premiere: 2007

Forestillinger

Kasper Daugaard Poulsen

Club Fisk (DK)

What happens to us and our reception of a work of art, when everything is obvious, having been explained to us beforehand? A short performance consisting of two dancers, two costume changes, two masks, an easel. Openness, simplicity, directness and and a lot of liberating humor contrasting with Scandinavian minimalism. The Danish title Forestillinger is apt, as it can mean “performance”, or “impression!, as well as “imagination”.

“I am primarily interested in movement as a projection of the audience’s own signification and not as a bearer of significance in itself. Therefore, I am trying to create material onto which the audience can project themselves. I am not interested in what movement means but rather in what it can mean. A precise statement needs no work of art. If you know exactly what you want to say, there is no reason to make art.”
Kasper Daugaard

Concept: Kasper Daugaard Poulsen, Mari Matre Larsen, Anette Asp Christensen, Christine Fentz 
Directed by: Kasper Daugaard Poulsen
Performing: Mari Matre Larsen, Anette Asp Christensen
Dramaturgy: Christine Fentz
Light design: Thomas Bendiksen and Kasper Daugaard Poulsen
Supported by: The Danish Arts Council, The Municipality of Århus and Dansepuljen v/ Danseværket.
Production: Club Fisk
Co-production: Dansescenen in Copenhagen in 2006

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