cut-outs & trees (2010 – 2011)

cut-outs & trees is a make belief forest to dance oneself into. Uncertain figures moving about, amongst and behind. In between trees and shadows, they fall into a thrill. And off they go, stumble and crawl, tiptoe and roll, bundle up in a pile, spread apart, leap and run, lie quietly down, rest for a while. Carefully, one move after the next, by ragbags of shapes, dancing dwells into choreography, inside and about, close to and away from one another.

choreography Cristina Caprioli
performers Anja Arnquist, Annika Hyvärinen, Johanna Klint, Emelie Johansson, Madeleine Lindh, Julia Sundberg
space concept & design Cristina Caprioli, Panagiotis Michalatos
space construction Cristina Caprioli, Panagiotis Michalatos, Björn Eriksson, Tobias Hallgren
digital imagery & programming Panagiotis Michalatos
sound score Opiate and Carsten Nicolai aka alva noto
technique Lumination of Sweden

cut-outs & trees was commissioned by ENPARTS (European Network Performing Arts), premiered at the Venice Biennale June 2010, performed at Dance Umbrella in London, MADE Festival in Umeå and recurrently at Dansens Hus in Stockholm. In 2011, cut-outs & trees was turned into the interactive installation TREES, ever since performed over 600 times, in Stockholm, Farsta, Växjö, Motala, Alby, Fabbrica Europa in Florence Italy, and at MoMA PS1, NY USA.