houses (2003)

houses is conceived and constructed as multiple space for ‘dwelling’, thin enclosures and tangible fences, frames and separation, buildings, constructions for skin and silence, an in-(out)-sight over bodily and architectural dis-orientations.

Concert pianist/neuroscientist Fredrik Ullén plays music of Kurtág and Sorabji, two composers with different artistic intentions and methods (density and dispersion), both concerned with forcing musical time and structure towards two opposed, extreme edges of instability. The dance builds bridges, moves by deviations of tactile and tectonic space, bodies emerge from spatial and musical foldings’, in cohesion with and/or in dissonance with time.

Between sentiment and abstraction, houses ‘inhabits’ its own environment, its own ‘house’, moving by thinking, noetic gravitation* of blood circulatory cities.

*The expression noetic gravitation is taken from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem ’Propositi di leggerezza’ from ‘Trasumar e organizzar’ (1971).

choreography and scenography Cristina Caprioli
dancers Thomas Caley, Staffan Eek, Annika Hyvärinen, Petter Jacobsson, Johanna Klint, Jennie Lindström
sound SND
music György Kurtág, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
pianist Fredrik Ullén
light Emma Westerberg
digital imagery and programming Panagiotis Michalatos
choreography- and production assistant Cilla Roos
producer Carina Norée
photography Anna Diehl
thanks to Alexander Abercombi for editing Sarabjis Study 26

premiered November 20, 2003, at Dansens Hus Stockholm