2017. Sweden
A dance performance for children commissioned by Norrdans in Sweden, artistic director Martin Forsberg. It premiered in Härnösand on October 25, 2017 and further toured Sweden for several months.
Human after all is a dance performance for two dancers, addressing the idea/concept of impersonality. By hiding the faces of the dancers, turning their bodies into anonymous entities, the choreographer seeks new ways of communicating and being together. The work raises the following questions: can viewers feel empathy for bodies that have no eye contact with them? Can the physical characteristics of faceless beings provoke a different, new type of empathy? How do faceless bodies manifest human emotions?
If you have no face, you cannot recognize or be recognized, you become invisible. Permission to be nothing, nowhere. Where everything has to be reinvented. Performance studies how faceless beings can free themselves from acquired and forced meanings and identities, in order to be able to change, to invent another version of themselves.
Artistic team:
Choreographer: Olga Tsvetkova
Composer: Joseph Williamson
Dancers: Jonathan Starr, Jesse Swarts
Dramaturge: Isaac Spencer
A dance performance for children commissioned by Norrdans in Sweden, artistic director Martin Forsberg. It premiered in Härnösand on October 25, 2017 and further toured Sweden for several months.
Human after all is a dance performance for two dancers, addressing the idea/concept of impersonality. By hiding the faces of the dancers, turning their bodies into anonymous entities, the choreographer seeks new ways of communicating and being together. The work raises the following questions: can viewers feel empathy for bodies that have no eye contact with them? Can the physical characteristics of faceless beings provoke a different, new type of empathy? How do faceless bodies manifest human emotions?
If you have no face, you cannot recognize or be recognized, you become invisible. Permission to be nothing, nowhere. Where everything has to be reinvented. Performance studies how faceless beings can free themselves from acquired and forced meanings and identities, in order to be able to change, to invent another version of themselves.
Artistic team:
Choreographer: Olga Tsvetkova
Composer: Joseph Williamson
Dancers: Jonathan Starr, Jesse Swarts
Dramaturge: Isaac Spencer
