Dato/tid
04.12.2021
20:00 – 21:00
Sted
KoncertKirken
Sure by A Ourø / A Kasakove
Sure is the first piece in the trilogy of works by A Ourø / A Kasakove that brings into question how dance can hold a space for loss. The trilogy attends to notions of emptiness referring to grief, and how something can be so achingly present and at the same time so utterly gone. It examines our relationship to loss in the context of the personal, cultural and political.
Sure is set up in a form of a melancholic rave, where the repetition of dances and music step by step empty out themselves and the room, letting the nothingness make itself known. The performance holds a vibrant sense of nothingness; emptiness that is not nothing, but not something either. The piece attends to these various degrees of presence and absence, and reveals how even nothingness is not empty of ghosts. The performance functions as a kind of elegy for something once lost.
The piece had its premiere in early 2019 in Bådteatret and has been presented at the thecarrierbag festival by Danseatelier in co-production with Dansehallerne, as well as in TNEC/Ställbergs Gruva. We are so happy to be bringing this piece back to Copenhagen!
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Bio
A Ourø / A Kasakove is a Copenhagen/Stockholm based artist duo that resides in the field of dance and choreography. We are co-founders of Dance Cooperative; a venue and dance studio for intersectional practices, work and performance organised by 16 professional artists in Copenhagen. We work in close relationship to performance art venue Warehouse9, as well as Aaben Dans Theatre and Ställbergs Gruva/TNEC. As a duo we have always found it crucial to address varying matters of health and insecurities in how our work comes into being, allowing vulnerabilities to be present both in the bodies at and of work.
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Credits
Dance and choreography by Anna Lea Ourø and Amalia Kasakove
Music by Andreas Brink Pedersen
Light design by Anton Andersson
Original light score by Fabian Nyman
Tailoring by Erik Annerborn
Produced by A Ourø / A Kasakove
Music by Andreas Brink Pedersen
Light design by Anton Andersson
Original light score by Fabian Nyman
Tailoring by Erik Annerborn
Produced by A Ourø / A Kasakove
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Performance times and dates
2nd of December 20
3rd of December at 20
4th of December at 20
3rd of December at 20
4th of December at 20
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Tickets
If you would like to see the performance, but the ticket price is a hurdle, send us a PM!
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This work is organized DIY so we would like to send a warm thank you to the hands that have helped us bring this together: Paolo de Venecia Gile, TNEC/Ställberg’s Gruva, Mads Ege, Petter Cohen, Emilie Gregersen and family!
Supported by: Danish Arts Foundation, Ställberg’s Gruva
Photo by Petter Cohen