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She shook her head. She could not let go of her wonder. Would the world look differently, if this was realised? 

"I would want to know what a lemon might look be", she added unexpectedly.

"I once saw oranges", he said. 

"two thousand and x carousels" is a dance performance that wonders and searches. That restlessly guesses and searches for traces from topoi on our Earth of today and tomorrow, of before and after, of loneliness and togetherness, of the familiar and the alien. Two thousand and x dystopic and utopic carousels.

"But if every one of us planted a seed, the world would be full of flowers!". She shook her head. And continued her journey.

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In the creative period with the company dancers we have explored the dancer's own narratives of imagined dystopias and utopias. We have partly wandered through movements that characterize the human bodies of Western societies of crisis in their everyday life, as well as through pictures that refer to the human and the human body as a result of its actions, as we see it in Michael Kvium's paintings and  the ancient Greek mythological portraits of Narcissus, Sisyphus and the Minotaur. 

The soundscape of the performance was created by Polena and is a collage of fragments from the dancers' own texts on their dystopias and utopias, created in the rehearsals, woven with extracts from the books 1984 by George Orwell and the conversation between John Lennon - Yoko Ono on the 6th of December 1980.

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 Dancers: Camilla Collins, Charlie, Justine Buch, Liva, Malika Elisa Dalsgaard Haavik, Maya Bugge Kramer, Naja Krell Knudsen, Sofie Højer Paaske

 

Concept, choreography, teaching: Polena Kolia Petersen

 

Script, narration and creation of soundscape: Polena Kolia Petersen

 

Light design: Ingunn Fjellang Sæther

 

Video and photos: Emil Lund

 

Performance venue: Theatre of Danish National School of Performing Arts

 

Production: Stands & Dans and Signe Bach Errboe

 

Music: Married Life – Michael Giacchino, Laudate Dominum – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lucia Popp, Kurt Eichhorn, Orsas Wedding Waltz – Katerina Polemi.

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(DK)

Hun rystede på hovedet. Hun kunne ikke slippe forundringen. Ville verden se anderledes ud hvis det var realiseret?

“Jeg gad vide hvad en citron er for noget”, tilføjede hun uventet.
“Jeg har engang set appelsiner”, sagde han.

“to tusind og x karuseller” er et danseværk der undrer sig og søger. Der hvileløst spår om og søger spor fra topoi på Jorden i dag og i morgen, før og efter, alene og sammen, i det familiære og det fremmede. To tusind og x dystopiske og utopiske karuseller. “Men hvis alle plantede et frø, ville verden være fyldt med blomster!”. Hun rystede på hovedet. Og gik videre.
I den kreative periode med danserne har vi gennem tekst og bevægelse udforsket deres narrativer om dystopier og utopier. Vi har dels bevandret os gennem bevægelser der kendetegner mennesket i vores vestlige kriseprægede samfunds dagligdag, og dels gennem billeder der kredser om mennesket og menneskekroppen som resultat af dets handlinger i verden, som det ses i Michael Kviums malerier og den oldgræske mytologis afbildninger af Narcissus, Sisyphus og Minotauren.

Danseværkets tekst soundscape er en lydkollage lavet af Polena bestående af brudstykker fra dansernes egne tekster om deres dystopiske og utopiske verdener broderet med uddrag fra bøgerne 1984 af George Orwell og John Lennon - Yoko Ono Samtale 6.december 1980.

Dansere: Camilla Collins, Charlie, Justine Buch, Liva, Malika Elisa Dalsgaard Haavik, Maya Bugge Kramer, Naja Krell Knudsen, Sofie Højer Paaske

Koreograf: Polena Kolia Petersen

Script, skabelse af soundscape og fortælling: Polena Kolia Petersen

 

Lys: Ingunn Fjellang Sæther

 

Video og billeder: Emil Lund
 

Performance venue: Theatre of Danish National School of Performing Arts

 

Production: Stands & Dans and Signe Bach Errboe

Musik: Married Life – Michael Giacchino, Laudate Dominum – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lucia Popp, Kurt Eichhorn, Orsas Wedding Waltz – Katerina Polemi.