THE DANCE MARATHON OF DE$PERATION
TicketsDANCE OR DIE!
Artistic director of Sort/Hvid, Nathalie Mellbye, stages a grotesque dance marathon in collaboration with choreographer Kasper Ravnhøj, who also acts as a merciless emcee. The always mad Horse Orchestra delivers big-band jazz mixed with avant-garde impulses, noise and electronic beats, while dancers from Holstebro Dansekompagni bravely join in.
DESPERATIONENS DANSEMARATON (THE DANCE MARATHON OF DESPERATION) draws inspiration from the American dance marathons of the 1930s, where hopeful couples who had lost everything during the depression took to the stage with spit curls and big smiles, willing to do anything to win. At Sort/Hvid put into dialogue with today’s performance society and the social violence that occurs when the individual is reduced to a participant in a game, where the inner drive to win rages out while the pulse is racing and the sweat flowing.
“YOWZA YOWZA YOWZA” the emcee, sitting up high on his judge’s chair, shouts at the dancers and musicians and rushes them around the arena. We mix lindy hop, jive and tap dance freely with modern dance in a mix of 1930s aesthetics, night club after-hours and modern reality survival show. Here, the wear and tear of the body and the human struggle for survival are staged as collective entertainment.
The performance is a co-production with Holstebro Dansekompagni.
THE DANCE MARATHON OF DE$PERATION
TicketsDANCE OR DIE!
Artistic director of Sort/Hvid, Nathalie Mellbye, stages a grotesque dance marathon in collaboration with choreographer Kasper Ravnhøj, who also acts as a merciless emcee. The always mad Horse Orchestra delivers big-band jazz mixed with avant-garde impulses, noise and electronic beats, while dancers from Holstebro Dansekompagni bravely join in.
DESPERATIONENS DANSEMARATON (THE DANCE MARATHON OF DESPERATION) draws inspiration from the American dance marathons of the 1930s, where hopeful couples who had lost everything during the depression took to the stage with spit curls and big smiles, willing to do anything to win. At Sort/Hvid put into dialogue with today’s performance society and the social violence that occurs when the individual is reduced to a participant in a game, where the inner drive to win rages out while the pulse is racing and the sweat flowing.
“YOWZA YOWZA YOWZA” the emcee, sitting up high on his judge’s chair, shouts at the dancers and musicians and rushes them around the arena. We mix lindy hop, jive and tap dance freely with modern dance in a mix of 1930s aesthetics, night club after-hours and modern reality survival show. Here, the wear and tear of the body and the human struggle for survival are staged as collective entertainment.
The performance is a co-production with Holstebro Dansekompagni.