FOREST STAGES
Forest Stages is a performance, an exchange and a dance with a forest, where the theme of roots is explored from a botanical as well as a poetic perspective.
What do roots show us about the connection between our past, present and future?
What happens when we root together?
In Forest Stages, the audience is taken on a poetic journey that engages the senses and awakens our imagination. The performance is intended as a gathering, an encounter with a piece of land and the life that exists there. It all starts with a walk where the audience is led through the landscape before being introduced to the forest and a world of movement, enticing sounds and multi-voiced narratives. Like the roots of the forest, these elements seem to twist around each other in complex patterns and coincidences. The result is an almost incomprehensible whole, where art and nature merge into an intimate and sometimes surprising experience
In the forest, the imagination wanders freely, conjuring up scenes from past or future lives. Worlds emerge between the trees, sometimes real, sometimes fictional, sometimes close and audible, other times a distant whisper. What manifests is a reflection of our inner and outer universes, characters and stories from the field that makes up our collective subconscious. This little forest lends itself as host to these ghostly figures, to the old, the shadowed, the half-formed and the unknown.
After the performance, the audience is led back to the starting point, where they are offered a light meal (included in the ticket price), while the impressions from the forest are allowed to sink in.
PERFORMANCE DATES:
May 4th - May 5th 2024
June 29th - June 30th 2024
August 24th - August 25th 2024
Duration: 1h 45min. + gathering time with light meal
Concept and staging: Jonathan Bonnici, Ida Elisabeth Larsen, Marie-Louise Stentebjerg
Performers: Jonathan Bonnici, Kitt Johnson, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Paolo de Venecia Gile
Sound design: SANTI RZR
Costumes: Maria Folkmann Ipsen
Set elements and dramaturgical consultant: Balz Isler
Graphic design: Sam Moore
Title font: Mariel Nils/Velvetyne
Video & Photography: Thomas Hyttel
Producer: Carlos Calvo
Co-produced by: Pavillon K
Thanks to: Andelsforeningen Slotshavevej 22, Aaben Dans, Mariel Nils
Supported by: Kunstfonden, William Demant Fonden, Dansk Skuespillerforbund