up up up

Through rehearsal and performance, the dance students engage with an existing choreographic work, carrying it forward into the present.

up up up is the third step in an ongoing choreographic study that began with Sorry (2018) and So Sorry (2019). This new work continues to climb into the landscape of entertainment and pop-cultural imagery.

In up up up, the investigation continues into how popular culture shapes bodies, expressions, aesthetics - how it forms methods for entertaining, seducing, and repeating.

up up up turns its gaze toward the position of the entertainer. Using movement, music-video logic, and traces of earlier pop-cultural phenomena, the performers dive into what happens in the deconstruction, in the repetition, in the pauses, in the spaces in between, beneath, above, and behind the images that are so eagerly consumed.

up up up extends a choreographic lineage of looking and re-looking , questioning and playing with the culture that shapes our desires. It is both a joyful homage to performance itself and a study of the forces that continue to shape what we long for.

Post-performance talks 14 and 15 March

After up up up on Saturday 14 March and Sunday 15 March, the performers will take part in a conversation about the process of creating the performance. Free entry, no registration required.

Saturday 14 March: up up up's choreographer BamBam Frost and Professor of Choreography Martin Sonderkamp in conversation with the performers Andrew Smal, Biret-Ingá Pieski, Ela Villanueva, Elena Sophia Bürer, Ewemande Ehiwe, Lamiya Odenyo-Gafur, Mimi Henrich, Sigrid Rodian Poulsen, Sofiia Butiaga and Thea Faldborg Liversage.

Sunday 15 March: Performer-choreographer Eleanor Bauer in conversation with the performers Dieynaba Cissé, Hannes Henschel, Janina Swierzewska, Julie Elisabeth Villumsen, Lana Kariz Mesko and Livi Pösö.

Dancers

BA year 2

• Andrew Smal
• Biret-Ingá Pieski
• Dieynaba Cissé
• Ela Villanueva
• Elena Sophia Bürer
• Ewemande Ehiwe
• Hannes Henschel
• Inês Filipe
• Janina Swierzewska
• Julie Elisabeth Villumsen
• Lamiya Odenyo-Gafur
• Lana Kariz Mesko
• Livi Pösö
• Mimi Henrich
• Sigrid Rodian Poulsen
• Sofiia Butiaga
• Thea Faldborg Liversage 

Set design: BamBam Frost, inspired by Lisa Berket Wallard's original set design for Sorry

Participant in the process: Mea Holappa

Lighting design and technician: Olle Axén

Read more at MDT's webbsite.

Read more about the BA programme in Dance at SKH.

Read more about BamBamFrost.