Songs of Chaos – Roza Moshtaghi & Lykourgos Profyris (IR/GR)

Full program Performances

Price

Pay What you can 75kr – 250kr

Location

Rosendal Teater - Sal 1

Duration

1 hour

Friday 15. November 2024 - kl.19:00 Billetter

Saturday 16. November 2024 - kl.19:00 Billetter

Content description

Stage smoke, strobe lights, theatrical blood, total blackout and some sudden/loud noises

Songs of Chaos is a new collaborative project between choreographer Roza Moshtaghi and visual and sound artist Lykourgos Porfyris, resulting in a dance work that questions the landscape and ownership of land. It’s a reminder that the struggle for love and safety is a fight we are in together.

Songs of Chaos draws on one of Bertolt Brecht’s most famous plays, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which tells the story of a peasant girl who rescues an infant and raises him as her own. After the war, the boy’s biological mother wants her son back. The question is: who has the legal rights to the child?

Moshtaghi continues to explore the human desire to adapt to systems and structures in society. The ordinary, or rather what we have forced into the ordinary, is the choreographer’s playing field.

Songs of Chaos consists of five songs, a performance in the theater space, and an installation animated through performative action in public space. Songs of Chaos goes far in its exploration of breaking with the audience’s expectations. Porfyris overperforms the stereotype of the blind wise man and serves as the piece’s narrator and guide. The choreographic material is created in close collaboration with Porfyris’ vision, which is less than 10% sight.

“Sitting in front of a TV displaying a fireplace, trying to understand what does a landscape looks like. Why is it so fascinating for people to look at nature or the city from the top of a mountain or building? Is it because of the horizon, or is it because they feel superior to nature and/or other fellow humans? Who has access to all kinds of landscapes? Who has the time and resources to observe things from a higher position?”

These are among the questions Songs of Chaos seeks to answer. The result is a highly topical dance piece that creates new mythologies and interpretations of common stories.

After the performance on Friday, November 15, there will be a conversation with the artists behind the performance, Roza Moshtaghi and Lykourgos Porfyris, who has 10% vision. The discussion will be moderated by DansiT’s curating producer, Ingeborg Dugstad Sanders, and Liv-Karin Alm, a dancer in Danselaboratoriet, who is blind. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. The conversation will be in English.