PROGRAMME
When Olivia Rivière and Lisen Pousette met at the age of eleven at choir school in Stockholm, they couldn’t have known the paths their shared interest in the voice and all things choir would eventually lead them: in their group piece DUNKEL, a “choreographic choir” of six performers explores “growling” – a throat-singing technique rooted in the metal scene – grounding the voice deep in the body and propelling it outward with ecstatic force. Yet DUNKEL does not dwell solely in raw intensity; instead, it traces the fragility and subtlety of the voice and the sounding body, creating a resonant, entangled space where voices move beyond the individual. A performance the duo calls “both doomsday-doom and as light as a down duvet” – oscillating between heaviness and airiness, between the intimate and the eruptive.
The production was realised by the support of Slots og Kulturstyrelsen (DK).
Choreography: Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière
Performance: Jennie Bergsli, Karis Zidore, Lisen Pousette, Olivia Rivière, Misty Scherrebeck Hansen and Be Heintzman Hope
Music: Susanne Cleworth (Xuri)
Sound design: Kristian Alexander
Lighting design: Alba Rask und Cristoffer Lloyd
Costume design: Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière (in collaboration with Liselotte Bramstång)
Residencies: höjden studios (SE), Danseatelier (DK) and MARC – Milvus Artistic Research Center (SE)
Administration: Smart Coop (SE)
Co-produced by MDT Stockholm (SE), Dansehallerne Copenhagen (DK) and Aaben Dans Roskilde (DK).
Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation (DK), the Swedish Arts Council (SE), the Augustinus Foundation (DK), William Demant Fonden (DK) and Knud Højgaards Fond (DK).