Exile in collaboration with Open Scene at Godsbanen, Aarhus

Date
8.11.19
8.11.19
time
6:30 p.m.
Place
Open Scene at Godsbanen, Aarhus

TOUCH is a choreographic performance created in collaboration with sound artist, Karis Zidore and dramaturg and choreographic consultant, Naya Moll.

The work focuses sharply on perceptions of touch in a mutual influence and reflection between the digital and the physical world. In the work, touch becomes disputed and distorted in the field of tension between intimacy and distance, reality and fiction, human and humanizing. In this collision between the heartfelt and the extremely mechanical, an absurdity and an ironic drama emerges in which human emotion and touch become distorted in a metallic and tech-sensual universe.

The play will premiere in 2020.

Attribution
Concept, choreography and performance: Emilie Gregersen
Sound and composition: Karis Zidore
Dramaturgy and Choreographic consultation: Naya Moll
Video and photo: Palle Schultz

Emilie Gregersen

Emilie Gregersen (b. 1993, DK) (they/she) is an artist, choreographer, and dancer based in Copenhagen, and a co-founding member of Dance Cooperative. Their choreographic work bounces at the intersection of practice-based choreography and hyper-performance. Emilie often works with a high degree of performativity, where everything from gaze to gesture is executed with heightened attentiveness, aiming to evoke hypersensitivity in both performer and audience. Driven by sensory practices, their work explores intimacy, power dynamics, and the use of the senses. Through the uncanny, the erotic, and the cringe, Emilie playfully distorts images and movements to challenge binary perceptions and destabilize normative narratives.

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Karis Zidore

Karis Zidore is a choreographer and sound artist, which is why her artistic practice is based on sound, voice, and body - both separately, in parallel, and intertwined. She collaborates with choreographers Olivia Rivière, Emilie Gregersen, and Naya Moll, among others, and is also part of the artistic collective Danseatelier in Copenhagen.

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TOUCH is supported by the William Demant Foundation and the O Rumo Do Fumo Residency Programme.

Exile: Choreographic Study of Perceptions of Touch