Companion
2022
What is a relation? Are they symmetrical or necessarily unbalanced? Can relations be fruitful even though communication seems impossible? Or can we learn from others - animals, things, spirits - through other means - intimacy, touch, entanglement, time or letting go. Mimicking and embodying the more-than-human; the animal, alien, ancestral, ghost, terrestrial, and oceanic, Companion is like an abstracted documentary––one without narrator or intention to teach. It is a journey into worlds that are hiding in plain sight, that cannot be seen but sensed, experienced but not named. A look at how dancing bodies can both ingrain into and alter an ecosystem, Companion is an emerging landscape of personalities, moods, sensitivities, and indifferences, becoming ever more enmeshed in questions concerning what it is to be human.
Choreography Hana Lee Erdman
Assistant Choreography Louise Dahl
Performance Ulrika Berg, Louise Dahl, Sunniva Vikør Egenes, Siriol Joyner,
Salka Ardal Rosengren, Jane Sievänen
Light Design Jonatan Winbo
Costume Styling Elliott Marmouset
Dramaturgy Andrew Hardwidge
Musical Composition Sophie Vitelli
Mentorship Chrysa Parkinson
Co-production Hallen in Farsta, MDT
Supported by The Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm Stad