IPAF presents: Afterlife by Louis Schou-Hansen. Afterlife is an alternative history, a site for speculation and ambiguous interpretations of a renaissance that never really happened.
The work flirts with the idea of the death of classical ballet, while leaning into subtle irrationalities and dark humor. Afterlife revisits the origins of the ballet at the Renaissance. A time when the genre was mostly made out of folk dances for white aristocracies, and where a history of violence began to take course. By playing with counterfactual fantasies and "what if" questions, Afterlife breaks into, and re-imagines the foundations of the classical ballet and its possible other futures. Three performers explore reconstructions and the absurd symbolic gestures of original dances from the late renaissance. They seek to alter oppressive narratives, they look for common grounds and aim to infiltrate a history that never belonged to them.
Through a queer examination of events that went down in the pre-balletic dances in the late renaissance, Afterlife attempts to produce a fictional history from the perspective of bodies that were originally excluded from this history. At its fundament, the project questions the political position of the classical ballet in contemporary western culture, given its continuous reproduction of a dark history including anti-queer, anti-feminist and colonial practices.
Read more: https://warehouse9.dk/event/af..
Notes for audienceThe performance includes loud sounds. Earplugs are provided at the entrance door for those who wish to use them.
Language: Non-verbal
Access: Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. Kuppelsalen is accessible via stairlift.
Working group & creditsCHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Louis Schou-Hansen / COSTUMES AND SCULPTURAL WORK Karoline Bakken Lund / CO-MAKING PERFORMERS Amie Mbye, Elise Nohr Nystad, Georgiana Dobre / MUSIC 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 SUPPORTED BY: Arts Council Norway, FFUK, Oslo Municipality, Fond For Lyd og Bilde
Afterlife is presented in close collaboration with Dansehallerne.
The work flirts with the idea of the death of classical ballet, while leaning into subtle irrationalities and dark humor. Afterlife revisits the origins of the ballet at the Renaissance. A time when the genre was mostly made out of folk dances for white aristocracies, and where a history of violence began to take course. By playing with counterfactual fantasies and "what if" questions, Afterlife breaks into, and re-imagines the foundations of the classical ballet and its possible other futures. Three performers explore reconstructions and the absurd symbolic gestures of original dances from the late renaissance. They seek to alter oppressive narratives, they look for common grounds and aim to infiltrate a history that never belonged to them.
Through a queer examination of events that went down in the pre-balletic dances in the late renaissance, Afterlife attempts to produce a fictional history from the perspective of bodies that were originally excluded from this history. At its fundament, the project questions the political position of the classical ballet in contemporary western culture, given its continuous reproduction of a dark history including anti-queer, anti-feminist and colonial practices.
Read more: https://warehouse9.dk/event/af..
Notes for audienceThe performance includes loud sounds. Earplugs are provided at the entrance door for those who wish to use them.
Language: Non-verbal
Access: Dansekapellet is wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are located on site. Kuppelsalen is accessible via stairlift.
Working group & creditsCHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION Louis Schou-Hansen / COSTUMES AND SCULPTURAL WORK Karoline Bakken Lund / CO-MAKING PERFORMERS Amie Mbye, Elise Nohr Nystad, Georgiana Dobre / MUSIC 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 SUPPORTED BY: Arts Council Norway, FFUK, Oslo Municipality, Fond For Lyd og Bilde
Afterlife is presented in close collaboration with Dansehallerne.
Entré: 70 kr
