Universal Storage™
As performer in group piece choreographed by Eleanor Bauer. Performed at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, spring 2017.
Universal Storage™ is an afternoon power office party in the collective subconscious of the dancing mind. Thirteen performers give voice to the dance and dance to the voice of imaginary spaces unfolding. Like ratatatatakaboom, on conference call. The National School of Performing Arms is proud to present this investigation of the nature of thought in dance (as a process of movement following attention, and vice versus) in relationship to the capacities and challenges of language to express such thought. Or is it the other way around? Senses overlap and collide. Imagination and observation create hybrid poetics. Nascent thoughts are completed with the associated images in our memory spaces and the learned words in our smartphones. Predictive texts and unpredictable chorus lines disrupt the flow of power points and folding joints. Movement poetry aligns in spread sheets. If our dances could talk, what would they say? If the Universal Storage™ HQ office had eyes, what would it fantasize? Beyond all educated guesses, “I am a woman of space.”
choreography / Eleanor Bauer
composer / Gert Østergaard Pedersen
manuscript / all performers
scenography consultant / Signe Krog
sound design / Signe Hendel Møller
light design / Mads Eckert
production & stage management / Sigurd Damgaard
costume, scenography & stage management / Merethe Bahn Trolle
performance / Ágnes Grélinger, Amalie Bergstein Nielsen, Andreas Haglund, Evita Maria Tskalaki, Irma von Platen, Jon Andreas Hoff, Kalliopi Siganou, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Sara Grotenfelt, Tilda Le Grand, Tobias Sköld, Vivian Põldoja and Onur Agbaba
Universal Storage™ is an afternoon power office party in the collective subconscious of the dancing mind. Thirteen performers give voice to the dance and dance to the voice of imaginary spaces unfolding. Like ratatatatakaboom, on conference call. The National School of Performing Arms is proud to present this investigation of the nature of thought in dance (as a process of movement following attention, and vice versus) in relationship to the capacities and challenges of language to express such thought. Or is it the other way around? Senses overlap and collide. Imagination and observation create hybrid poetics. Nascent thoughts are completed with the associated images in our memory spaces and the learned words in our smartphones. Predictive texts and unpredictable chorus lines disrupt the flow of power points and folding joints. Movement poetry aligns in spread sheets. If our dances could talk, what would they say? If the Universal Storage™ HQ office had eyes, what would it fantasize? Beyond all educated guesses, “I am a woman of space.”
choreography / Eleanor Bauer
composer / Gert Østergaard Pedersen
manuscript / all performers
scenography consultant / Signe Krog
sound design / Signe Hendel Møller
light design / Mads Eckert
production & stage management / Sigurd Damgaard
costume, scenography & stage management / Merethe Bahn Trolle
performance / Ágnes Grélinger, Amalie Bergstein Nielsen, Andreas Haglund, Evita Maria Tskalaki, Irma von Platen, Jon Andreas Hoff, Kalliopi Siganou, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Sara Grotenfelt, Tilda Le Grand, Tobias Sköld, Vivian Põldoja and Onur Agbaba
Photo: Jihyung Yinukhi Yeo