AMPLIFIED EDITION
(2019) Amplified Edition explores hierarchy and co-dependency, allowing the elements of the theatre to meet in illogical ways. In a continuous quest to find new relationships the performers use voice and movement to set the objects in motion, making theatrical topographies, revealing what is usually in the background or hidden.
If the theatre is a space operating to promote imaginary images, then what lies hidden and tacit within that operation? In this work H2DANCE throw light on the fictive materiality at the heart of theatre, allowing us to peek behind the curtain to see that the strings being pulled are always only in turn pulling other strings. Ultimately there is no singular control, just webs of connection, and illusion and reality are knotted in ways that it is never easy to untangle. Amplified Edition is an interruption in the logic of bringing a story into focus and it follows other threads of consequence to allow objects and performers to exchange their agency in back and forth plays. The choreography fluxes around who is manipulating what and what is manipulating who. Loops of song echo back on themselves, as sound becomes material, and material starts to sing. The objects, actions and mechanics of theatricality are reordered in order to question the ways in which we are seen by each other. In turn this asks how well we know each other, and what the filters of fantasy can do to unsettle this knowing.
Premier at Rosendal Teater Trondheim NO on the 5th and 6th of October 2019.
Tour dates
Choreography and performance: Hanna Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard
Dramaturg: Martin Hargreaves
Architects/set and costume design: what-if:projects
Lighting and sound design: Andy Hammond
Technician: Ming
Costume maker: Rosie Whiting
Photos: Hanne Frostad Håkonsen
Producer: Natalie Richardson/Konzept Arts & Ideas
Funded by Arts Council England & Nordic Culture Fund, Det Norske Utenriksdepartementet
Co-produced by Rosendal Teater, DansiT and Black Box Teater NO, Dance4, MetalCulture & Earl Street Creative Space, Dansens Hus SE, and Dance All Year Along DK.
Video of full-length work here
what the press says
"a spellbinding collage of morphing shapes"
