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.

Dancers

BA year 2

• Andrew Smal
• Biret-Ingá Pieski
• Dieynaba Cissé
• Ela Villanueva
• Elena Sophia Bürer
• Ewes Ehiwe
• Hannes Henschel
• Inês Filipe
• Janina Swierzewska
• Julie Elisabeth Villumsen
• Lamiya Odenyo-Gafur
• Lana Kariz Meskor
• 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

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