Mette Ingvartsen
7 Pleasures
- Performance Dance / Performance
Following ›69 positions‹ in 2014, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen returns with the second work in her cycle ›The Red Pieces‹ looking at the political dimensions of sexuality. In ›7 Pleasures‹ a collective of 12 dancers explore seven notions of pleasure in relation to different aspects of hedonism and sensuality. Feeling their way towards other bodies, testing and dissolving boundaries or engaging in unexpected constellations, they question how the joyful potential of pleasure can be used to counteract clichés attached to nudity and sexuality.
Concept, Choreography: Mette Ingvartsen
Performer: Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Johanna Chemnitz, Katja Dreyer, Elias Girod (in Essen replaced by Calixot Neto), Bruno Freire, Dolores Hulan, Ligia Lewis, Danny Neyman, Norbert Pape, Pontus Pettersson, Hagar Tenenbaum, Marie Ursin (permanently replaced by Gemma Higginbotham)
Replacements: Ghyslaine Gau
Light: Minna Tiikkainen
Music, soundtrack: Peter Lenaerts with music by Will Guthrie (Breaking Bones & Snake Eyes)
Set: Mette Ingvartsen, Minna Tikkainen
Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejic
Choreography assistant: Manon Santkin
Light assistant: Nadja Räikkä
Technical direction: Joachim Hupfer, Nadja Räikkä
Sound technician: Adrien Gentizon
Company management: Kerstin Schroth
Production assistant: Manon Haase
Production: Mette Ingvartsen / Great Investment
Co-production: steirischer herbst festival (Graz), Kaaitheater (Brussels), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Théatre National de Bretagne (Rennes), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Dansens Hus (Oslo), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen).
Support: Flemish Authorities, Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin), Danish Arts Council
Thanks to: Musée de la Danse/Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne.
A House on Fire co-production with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
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