The performance

City Fragments is a collection of several choreographies where the underlying themes are the influence of time and the experience of love, loneliness and longing.

The project is inspired by the Nordic urban landscape. A landscape that shapes personalities, the streets that change character from day to night, from a moment in busy meeting street to the next surrounded by its silence. One key element is the people in this landscape, their perception and memory, the distance and the closeness to their own experience in life.

The dance takes place in a room with 9 individual peformers and collected images from the city. Simple parts as a car, window, a wall are fixed points for movement between reality and dream. The original soundtrack is a contribution to the movement between different moods and rooms and have a slightly cinematic approach. The light defines the urban space and refers to a more abstract notion of the nordic cities. We hope to explore split focus – parallell focus – pulse – light – life.

Crew

Concept and realisation by Choreographer Emilia Adelöw. In collaboration with dancers Sudesh Adhana, Elisabeth Breen, Ella Christina Fiskum, Jorunn Kjersem Hildre, Sigrid Hirsch Kopperdal, Mikkel Are Olsen, Gitte Lill Paulsen, Sindre Postholm, Kira Senkpiel.

Light designer Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson.
Scenographer and costume designer Christina Lindgren.
Composer Julian Skar.
Photographer Stian Andersen.

Videographer André Austvoll
Costume designer Assistant Thale Kvam Olsen.
Scenographer Assistant Charlie Whittuck.

Read more about the creative and performing artists here.

Supported by Art Council Norway, Fond for lyd og bilde and The Fund for Performing Artists.

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The project puts several questions about the urban room and the body as a carrier of communication. We research cities as space and develop choreographies for dancers and walkers-on in each city. The concept involves choregraphy, dance and movement with inspiration from individual spaces.

The project uses the public space as a thematic and narrative resource. The idea is to experiment with choreographic material and movement in the different nordic surroundings to give several expressions and angles of approach to the presentations. Four nordic capitals are going to be visited; Stockholm, København, Helsingfors and Oslo.

The project gives thoughts and reflexions about the private and public space. Time and the experience of it is researched in relation to the theme love. The choreographer researches how the experience of time can be altered through the presentation and choreographic material. In addition the project arouse the interest for dance and movement.

Site Specific Nordic Project are developed by choregrapher and dancer Emilia Adelöw in cooperation with professional dancers, costume designer, photographer and walkers-on.

Each choreography is shown two times in each city, morning and evening