LOWLANDS
2021
2021
SCOPE
Concept adaption and production of set design for solo performance Lowlands by choreographer Emilie Gasiorek. Costume design.
CONCEPT A blue backdrop is created for the black box reminiscent of an ocean wave. The backdrop consists of two pieces overlapping to create a continuous plane of blue on which the performance takes place. Each piece is constructed from 52 sheets of pleated paper adding pattern to the surface and a crisp soundscape when the backdrop moves. Lifted by the performer, the backdrop rises above eye level of the low seated audience, enveloping them before slowly floating back to its starting position. A current of air is sent underneath the backdrop, making it ripple and sway around the performer placed on it.
PRODUCTION Two pieces of 13 x 4 sheets of blue tissue paper / 900 x 200 cm, machine sewn, suspended from rig with a slight overlap.
CREDITS Photo Vilde Livsdatter, Lea Paulsen and Ida Gedbjerg Sørensen. Video Ida Gedbjerg Sørensen.
PERFORMANCES
December 12th, 2019, work-in-progess showing, HAUT/Åbne Scene, Aarhus (DK)
September 2nd-4th, 2021, Salen, Copenhagen (DK)
Dansehallerne:
“Tumbling into the space after sadness, Lowlands is a soft lament to the subliminal. Journeying into the sunken valleys of slowed down motions, it breathes into the space between fragility and strength. The audience is invited into a meditative landscape of blue that lulls and endures. Images emerge evoking a body falling apart and gathering itself together again, a body at sea and a body on a patchwork of waves.
Lowlands is a large-scale solo performance by choreographer Emilia Gasiorek that spans the deep blue depths of personal emotional landscapes and collective geographical environments. It is a part of a new body of work exploring how emotional and psychological states shape the matter of bodies and worlds. The piece is made in collaboration with choreographic consultant Emma-Cecilia Ajanki, sound artist Karis Zidore, and architect Lea Paulsen, and is co-produced by Dansehallerne.”
Concept, choreography and performance: Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographic consultant: Emma-Cecilia Ajanki
Scenography and costume: Lea Paulsen
Sound artist: Karis Zidore
Cellist: Åsa Gjerstad
Light design: Sonja Lea
Textual piece: Jonathan Bonnici
Painting: Coline Marotta
Graphic designer: Hanna Bergman
Initial photography and film documentation: Vilde Livsdatter
Final photography, film documentation and editing: Ida Gedbjerg Sørensen
Co-production: Dansehallerne
SUPPORT
In residency: Danseatelier, Åbne Scene, HAUT, Inter Arts Center, Milvus Artistic Research Center.
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Koda Dramatik, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and Københavns Kommune Scenekunstudvalg.
SUPPORT In residency: Danseatelier, Åbne Scene, HAUT, Inter Arts Center, Milvus Artistic Research Center.
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Koda Dramatik, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and Københavns Kommune Scenekunstudvalg.
LINKS/PRESS
Dansehallerne
Danseatelier
CONCEPT A blue backdrop is created for the black box reminiscent of an ocean wave. The backdrop consists of two pieces overlapping to create a continuous plane of blue on which the performance takes place. Each piece is constructed from 52 sheets of pleated paper adding pattern to the surface and a crisp soundscape when the backdrop moves. Lifted by the performer, the backdrop rises above eye level of the low seated audience, enveloping them before slowly floating back to its starting position. A current of air is sent underneath the backdrop, making it ripple and sway around the performer placed on it.
PRODUCTION Two pieces of 13 x 4 sheets of blue tissue paper / 900 x 200 cm, machine sewn, suspended from rig with a slight overlap.
CREDITS Photo Vilde Livsdatter, Lea Paulsen and Ida Gedbjerg Sørensen. Video Ida Gedbjerg Sørensen.
PERFORMANCES
December 12th, 2019, work-in-progess showing, HAUT/Åbne Scene, Aarhus (DK)
September 2nd-4th, 2021, Salen, Copenhagen (DK)
Dansehallerne:
“Tumbling into the space after sadness, Lowlands is a soft lament to the subliminal. Journeying into the sunken valleys of slowed down motions, it breathes into the space between fragility and strength. The audience is invited into a meditative landscape of blue that lulls and endures. Images emerge evoking a body falling apart and gathering itself together again, a body at sea and a body on a patchwork of waves.
Lowlands is a large-scale solo performance by choreographer Emilia Gasiorek that spans the deep blue depths of personal emotional landscapes and collective geographical environments. It is a part of a new body of work exploring how emotional and psychological states shape the matter of bodies and worlds. The piece is made in collaboration with choreographic consultant Emma-Cecilia Ajanki, sound artist Karis Zidore, and architect Lea Paulsen, and is co-produced by Dansehallerne.”
Concept, choreography and performance: Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographic consultant: Emma-Cecilia Ajanki
Scenography and costume: Lea Paulsen
Sound artist: Karis Zidore
Cellist: Åsa Gjerstad
Light design: Sonja Lea
Textual piece: Jonathan Bonnici
Painting: Coline Marotta
Graphic designer: Hanna Bergman
Initial photography and film documentation: Vilde Livsdatter
Final photography, film documentation and editing: Ida Gedbjerg Sørensen
Co-production: Dansehallerne
SUPPORT
In residency: Danseatelier, Åbne Scene, HAUT, Inter Arts Center, Milvus Artistic Research Center.
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Koda Dramatik, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and Københavns Kommune Scenekunstudvalg.
SUPPORT In residency: Danseatelier, Åbne Scene, HAUT, Inter Arts Center, Milvus Artistic Research Center.
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Koda Dramatik, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and Københavns Kommune Scenekunstudvalg.
LINKS/PRESS
Dansehallerne
Danseatelier