Memoriam

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Before the performance, between 18:00 and 18:45, Anna Berit Asp Christensen, artistic director of Scenatet, Niels Rønsholdt composer and composer Samu Gryllus, founding curator of the festival, will present the artistic concept in an introductory discussion, which can be attended with a ticket to the concert.

 
The performance is in English.
 
Memoriam, a Danish contemporary new-music interdisciplinary performance with dance, two vocalists, and three instrumental musicians. The audience enters a separate world where, seated on either side of the stage, they become one with the artwork — with memory itself, and with the spiritual questions posed by our contemporary harbingers of the future.

Memoriam is a work that approaches memory from different angles – cultural memory, bodily memory, personal memory. Through movement and voice, through memorizations, descriptions and variations, a group of people seeks a path to something, which might be of importance. By merging contemporary dance and house dance, classical music and speech, baroque and futuristic clothes, Memoriam unfolds a language of remembrance and reminiscence.

Together with choreographer Tim Matiakis and composer Niels Rønsholdt, Scenatet has created a universe that in a symbiosis of movement and music gives us an insight into a secret community, its rituals, and memories. The world-renowned house dancer Marie Kaae Schmidt takes the stage together with five performers and musicians from the ensemble of Scenatet. Memoriam reminds us of the value of the communities, we are part of and makes us reflect on the rituals and traditions that enable communities to pass on experiences over time. In a universe of reminiscences of stories told and stories waiting to be told in an uncertain present, we are confronted with a disturbing past that resonates and forces us to look into a bleak future.

Memoriam addresses an inquisitive audience with an interest in music and dance and a deep preoccupation with the spiritual questions posed by our contemporary harbingers of the future.

Scenatet, founded in 2008 by artistic director Anna Berit Asp Christensen, is recognized as one of the most innovative and experimental new music / interdisciplinary ensembles in Europe. With roots in score music and with a strong relationship to the performing arts and dramaturgy, they often operate within the field, where staging and reality meet and merge into innovative formats and spaces. Crossing fields of drama, installation and the yet undefined, Scenatet fuses music and art into dramaturgical narratives and extraordinary experiences that make the audience part of something truly new.

 
Concept and staging: Niels Rønsholdt, Tim Matiakis and Anna Berit Asp Christensen
Music and text:  Niels Rønsholdt
Choreography: Tim Matiakis
Dancer: Marie Kaae Schmidt
Lightdesign: Jonatan Winbo
Costumes and styling: Ylva Falk
Artistic director: Anna Berit Asp Christensen
Production manager: Anna Borzák

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