Den anden
The body opens and “the Other” begins to seep in
Indre By Kulturhus
Residence at Indre By Kulturhus: 19.04-23.04.2021
The Artistic Research
“The Other” (Den anden) is a scenic study of the specious state of love. With the study, Freya Sif Hestnes and Katrine Elise Leth Nielsen will expose the physical, complex and ambiguous nature of love through a chaotic and maximalist language in which tenderness and violence coexist.
In the artistic study, a love nightmare in which the artists, heavily inspired by the horror genre and Niki de Saint Phalle's “Shooting Paintings”, are interested in how the being of love and the being of anxiety are closely related.
Freya and Katrine will in their investigations at HAUT Pop Up Residency take a choreographic starting point in how they physically react to the intimate encounter. They will focus on how the body opens and how “The Other” slowly begins to seep in, digging small holes, laying eggs and leaving behind traces.
the artists
The collaboration between stage designer and visual artist Freya Sif Hestnes and actress and stage designer Katrine Elise Leth Nielsen takes an interest in the cross-aesthetic section performing arts. Together they explore how humour, sadness and aesthetics can fuse into a biographical and real-life expression.
HAUT Pop Up Residency is a residency format that allows artists to immerse themselves in their artistic process by providing salary and material budget as well as facilitating internal worksharings and feedback conversations with a self-selected sparring partner.
The artistic study “The Other” by Freya Sif Hestnes and Katrine Elise Leth Nielsen is invited to be part of HAUT Pop Up Residency by HAUT's artistic director Naja Lee Jensen.
HAUT Pop Up Residency has been created in cooperation with the Performing Arts Development Platform and DIT:KBH and is supported by the Bikubenfonden.