A new production by Bára Sigfúsdóttir & Tinna Ottesen

FLÖKT – a flickering flow offers an exploration of our bodily connection with the world surrounding us. It suggests that nature is not something that solely exists outside of us but also something we can sense and experience through our bodies. The audience is invited into a white silk dome, an environment which is in a constant state of transition and allows you to feel the close proximity of things, bodies, the space, the sound, the lights and the massive presence of this environment which literally surrounds you. Together we undertake a journey inside an interconnected poetic miniature of our world.
In FLÖKT, choreographer and dancer Bára Sigfúsdóttir joins forces with visual artist Tinna Ottesen, composer Eivind Lønning, light designer Jan Fedinger, and dancers Aëla Labbé Meri Pajuunpa who join Bára on stage.
In THE LOVER (2015), Bára looked at the connection between humans and nature. She developed a movement language that kept transforming throughout the performance, questioning what is human, what is animal, what is nature, what is man-made and what is organic. THE LOVER triggered the spectators to contemplate and reflect upon their own relationship with nature. FLÖKT is in many ways a continuation on this path, inspired by an ongoing dialogue with Icelandic environmental philosophers Gudbjorg R. Johannesdottir & Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir. Fascinated by the moment the body gives in to its surroundings, FLÖKT is a partly visible and partly invisible dance between bodies, materials, sound, space and the atmosphere. It explores the conditions of the imminent in a constantly changing world. Can we experience a dance performance in the same way we experience a waterfall?

CREDITS
PREMIERE February 19, 2020 at kunstencentrum nona, (Mechelen, BE)

CONCEPT Bára Sigfúsdóttir and Tinna Ottesen
CHOREOGRAPHY Bára Sigfúsdóttir
SCENOGRAPHY Tinna Ottesen
DANCE Bára Sigfúsdóttir, Meri Pajunpää and Aëla Labbé

MUSIC CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Eivind Lønning
LIGHTING DESIGN Jan Fedinger
OUTSIDE EYE Sara Vanderieck and Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir
TECHNICIAN Nele Verreycken
INTERNSHIP Judith Dhondt
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION A Propic / Line Rousseau and Marion Gauvent
PRODUCTION GRIP

CO-PRODUCTION kunstencentrum nona (Mechelen, BE), C-TAKT (Limburg, BE), Workspacebrussels (BE), Rosendal Teater (Trondheim, NO), Black Box Teater (Oslo, NO), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen, NO), Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, NL) and DansBrabant (Tilburg, NL)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF DansiT Trondheim (NO), Vooruit (Ghent, BE), Dansens Hus Stockholm (SE), Bora Bora (Arhus, DK)

WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF the Flemish Government, the Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education, The Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point, Arts Council Norway and the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
THANKS TO Eva Vrieling

 

Photo by: Maryam Ghiasi

2020

19 feb 2020 kunstencentrum nona MECHELEN BE
20 feb 2020 kunstencentrum nona MECHELEN BE
21 feb 2020 kunstencentrum nona MECHELEN BE
28 feb 2020 kaap BRUGES BE
5 mar 2020 black box teater OSLO NO NORWAY PREMIERE

6 mar 2020 black box teater OSLO NO
11 mar 2020 c-mine cultuurcentrum GENK BE
19 mar 2020 grand théâtre GRONINGEN NL
12 jun 2020 bourla / antwerpse kleppers ANTWERPEN BE
13 jun 2020 bourla / antwerpse kleppers ANTWERPEN BE
22 oct 2020 bit teatergarasjen BERGEN NO
23 oct 2020 bit teatergarasjen BERGEN NO