Mapping is a solo performance bridging performance, visual arts, architecture, and strong physicality. The solo plays with simple tools; a play of perception occurs when intimate relations are created between performer and objects.
In Mapping, the body of the performer plays simple games of repetition in relation to the structure of the room. Actions are repeated over longer duration until strange new relationships manifest themselves as ‘normal’. Mapping is the relation between the body as a whole entity and the fragmented body. The performer works on what is visible and invisible. Limbs travel between being object and subjects. A play of perception starts.
The solo asks certain questions: What are the limits of architecture within my body? Can the body be removed from its own sensual corporeality and seen as structure? Or in contrary can body parts, separated from their totality, become subjects?
Mapping is also in collaboration with the Norwegian composer Kim Myhr. Music will be composed and performed live on stage, and there will be a parallel research during the different residencies. Both musician and performer might perform sound and music. So to speak, roles might crossover.
Mapping will be performed as a part of Open Stage at Teaterhuset Avant Garden the 21st of March.
Orfée Schuijt graduated from the Theaterschool of Amsterdam in 2009. Since then, she has worked with numerous choreographers such as Arno Schuitemaker, Sanna Myllylathi, Itamar Serruci, Keren Levi, Guilio D´Anna and Francesco Scavetta.
From 2010, Schuijt has been part of the Wee Company/Francesco Scavetta, and has toured the world with the performance Surprised Body Project. She is also touring the latest work of Keren Levi, The dry piece, which received the Diaphorane price at the Netherlands Day of Dance. Orfee Schuijt has also been making her own work inside the Poro Collective (FIN). She has been living in Oslo since 2012.