As I collapse is a speculative dance performance taking its point of origin in a collapse of our general perception of the world as divided into two: nature and culture.
In what seems to be an impenetrable darkness, the performance comes to life as millions of microscopic algae illuminate the stage in a glowing response to the dancers’ touch. A concrete, bright image of the human footprint on the planet and a poetic encounter with life of microscopic size.
As I collapse presents a speculative fictional universe that presents the bodies on very different scales, from a microscopic format to the human sized. In an attentive and energetic performance focus is turned to our culturally inherited understanding as being superior to other organisms. Here, boundaries are blurred between visible and invisible, between man and microbe, while the individual disappears into darkness and is replaced by a single luminous, united organism.
Credits
Choreographer Tina Tarpgaard Dancers Hilde I. Sandvold, Sam Denton, Nelly Zagora, Edward Lloyd, Joy Kammin Composer / Researcher Till Bovermann Light design Minna Tiikkainen Researching artist/ Consultant Pei-Ying Lin Scenographer Sille Dons Heltoft Costume designers Sandra Møller Svendsen, Leanne Nielsen Dramaturgy Inge Agnete Tarpgaard Production manager Viktor K. Magnusson Light technician Yaw Darko Producer Carlos Calvo PR Betina Rex Graphics, photos and video Søren Meisner Algae sitter Thorbjørn Findsen Technician Rasmus Cundell
Performance History
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark | 22, 23, 24 March 2017
Bora Bora, Aarhus, Denmark | 28, 29, 30 March 2017
Teater OM, Ringkøbing, Denmark | 3 April 2017
Teater Momentum, Odense, Denmark | 6, 7 April 2017
