a farewell to flesh
by benjamin pohlig, sunniva vikør egenes
The medieval carnival has many cultures and faces – many are masked. This masquerade is the promise to be someone else - if only for a moment. The act of masking oneself and dressing up serves as a key to freedom from one’s everyday identity. A Farewell to Flesh dedicates itself to this utopian moment and gives way to its dancing bodies in a colourful, contagious revelry of masquerades and grotesque characters. After all, isn't the theatre itself a place in which the carnival lives on? A place behind the mask where the human can be free for a moment to dream, scheme and transcend their quotidian self?
Credits:
Concept: Benjamin Pohlig und Sunniva Vikør Egenes
Choreography and Performance: Lea Kieffer, Ben McEwen, Benjamin Pohlig, Sunniva Vikør Egenes Costumes: Lea Kieffer
Music: Till Kolter
Light Design: Joseph Wegmann
Production: Joseph Wegmann
The initial project development was realised with the grant for young choreographers 2015 from the city of Berlin. The full project is funded by the Norwegian Arts Council, FFUK and the commune Vest-Agder with support from DansiT Senter for Dansekunst i Sør-Trøndelag, Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund, Tanzfabrik Berlin and Dock 11.