Tag-arkiv: performance

Scenographic object

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At soprano, vocal performer and researcher Felicita Brusoni 75% intermediate phd seminar (artistic research project A Voice beyond the Edge at Lund University) February 12, 2025 Felicita and dancer/choreographer Valentina Sechi performed RED CARPET. The combination of Felicita’s amazing voice and Valentina’s movements made a strong and powerful performance.

I had knitted the scenographic piece (the red vulva) for the performance.

RED CARPET (2025).

The textile material that the knitted scenographic piece are made in where originally from Kitt Johnson X-act performance STAFET (2017). For STAFET I had also knitted the textiles into a knitted scenographic object (placed on the floor). As Kitt Johnson no longer had room to store the “old” scenographic object she asked if i wanted the material.

STAFET (2017). Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen

I am so happy these wonderful red textiles now have gain a new life and once again appear on stage in a new scenographic shape in another performance.

I imagine that the textiles still hold traces of Kitt Johnson‘s performance and of the nine wonderful performers that interacted with it in 2017. And now the textile material once again collect traces of the two wonderful performers that interacts with it.

In 2017 where crafted the material into a scenographic object I had no idea of the I years later would re-craft and re-shape it. I makes me proud that these textiles now have a circular life.

At some point when RED CARPET performance no longer is touring the red textile material will return to me. And who knows which life or which shape it it will re-appear in in the future. For now the red textile as a scenographic vulva are with Felicita and Valentina and I wish them and the RED CARPET performance a wonderful life together.

Performance credits:

Red Carpet is a performance that, ranging between present and past, investigates forms of exorcisation of repression in the feminine, understood as a collective archetype, that has always had to devise ways and means to manifest itself and survive in its essence. On the Red Carpet parade images of women, two but numerous, who embody through the use of multiple vocal techniques and corporal utterances, the cries of a “collective trauma”, which suffocates the expression of the self.  Body and voice are the protagonists as they are symbols of both censorship and expression par excellence and are used as a means of individual exploration and collective voicing. On this red carpet, a metaphor for formal public exposure, the singer tries to give voice to those who are told to remain silent and the dancer to give substance to catharsis, in a succession of anarchic fragilities and ferocious desires for survival.

concept Valentina Sechi
created by Felicita Brusoni, Valentina Sechi
scenography Charlotte Østergaard
thanks to the kind permission of Kitt Johnson X-act
light design Carolina Agostini
production Versiliadanza
with the support of MiC, Region Tuscany, Municipality of Florence
thanks to Inter Arts Center, Lund University

Phd defence

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On January 15, 2025 at Bryggeriteatern, Malmö Theatre Academy, Lund University, Sweden I had my doctoral defence. At the defence I had made an exhibition in the theatre space with the connecting costume and the knotted textiles that I had made during the research periode.

Photo: Sergio Gianoli

I wanted my textile companions to surround me – to be present as they speak for themselves – as well as that I wanted the audience to enter my textile world.

As part of my defence I had invited the dancers Alex Berg, Camille Marchadour, Daniel Jeremiah Persson and Josefine Ibsen to perform an improvised version of AweAre – a movement quintet.

Opponent: Dr. Donatella Barbieri, University of the Arts London.   
Chair (Ordförande): professor Sven Bjernstedt, Teaterhögskolan i Malmö.   
Committee (Betygsnämnd): professor Henrik Frisk, dr Anne Louise Bang, dr Rachel Hann and dr Madeline Taylor.    

As written on Lund University’s webpage I am the first person to recieve a doctor degree within the subject of costume. Read more here

Main supervisor: Dr Sofia Pantouvaki – scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University, Finland.    
Second supervisor: Dr Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk – dramaturgue and Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

KVAS performance

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Legen og sam-skabelsen i og af kunsten, i og med naturen. Som i naturen, der altid er i organisk bevægelse, således er KVAS-projektet. KVAS er en processuel undersøgelse af de kvasmaterialer, som findes i naturen. KVAS er et aldrig færdiggjort og et evigt foranderligt værk. KVAS en legende sam-skabelsesproces med performance kunstner Linh Le.

Bunker flyttes og samles. Bunker skabes af kvaset i landskabet. Huler bygges af bunker. Bunker skabes af huler – i hulens kvasbunker kan vi gemme os for forbipasserende. I hulen leger vi underfundige kvasnings-lege, som får kvaset til at knitre højlydt. Under legen sanser vi, at vores kvasninger forandrer hulens bunkninger på organisk knase-sanse vis(ninger).

KVAS bunkinger og kvasninger: Linh Le og Charlotte Østergaard

KVAS var en del af udstillingen ”Hej Planter”, april 2023. Udstillingen var initieret og kurateret af Bess Kristoffersen.

KVAS is a performative process that are inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of “making-kin”. In the book “Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene” Haraway suggest that making-kin is creating relationship with non-human entities such as plants and animals in order to build new forms of communities and kinships that goes beyond the traditional human-to-human relationships. Making-kin involves recognizing our (humans) interconnectedness with all living things and aims at working toward more sustainable relationships with the environment. Dedicated to Bess Kristoffersen’s invitation Løvspring (the season that is renewal of planetary life) KVAS is a performative attempt to awaken our senses towards and to acknowledge our interdependency and connections with nature.

Billeder, tekster, videoer og video-redigering: Linh Le og Charlotte Østergaard

Community Walk

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July 30th I was invited to participate in Wa(l)king Copenhagen created and organized by Metropolis.

My contribution Community Walk became an wonderful experience of 12 hours of physical and verbal conversation about community (fællesskab), 12 hours of following and leading, 12 hours of being connected, 12 hours of being approached, ignored, commented on, yelled at and 12 hours of moving in and reacting on the city and the environment

Every hour we livestreamed on Wa(l)king Copenhagen’s facebook.

Camille Marchadour and myself

In the program (danish) I wrote the following:

I en tid hvor vi opfordres til at holde distance er Community Walk en undersøgelse af, hvordan vi skaber fysisk nærvær. Hvordan mødes vi, når vante ritualer som håndtryk og knus frarådes? Hvordan anerkender vi hinandens nærvær, når vi individuelt og kollektivt udføre social kontrol i angsten for en invaderende skjult fjende? 

Over 12 timer undersøger jeg sammen med 12 gæster nærheden og distancen i fælleskaber, hvor 5 handliger og en klædning er vores fælles omdrejningpunkt. Hver time møder jeg en ny gæst i det centrale København, hvorfra vi forbundne vil vandre mod næste gæst. Hver gæsten inviteres til at fortolke de 5 handlinger. 

En gul klædning forbinder mig og vandringsgæsten. Gennem klædning undersøger vi, hvordan vi kan mærke vi hinandens nærvær. Samtidig navigerer og forhandler vi i fællesskab, hvordan vi kan holde distance til hinanden og til andre. Foranlediget af steder og mennesker, vi passerer i byens rum, reflekterer vi fysisk og verbalt over begrebet fælleskab. Hvordan har fælleskabet det – har vores fælleskaber forandret sig?

Julienne Doko and myself

5 Community Walk handlinger:

Handling 1 – Velkomst-ritual; Hilsen i nærheden men på distance 

Handling 2 – Afklædnings- og Iklædnings-ritual; Overdrager klædningen til den nyankomne 

Handling 3 – Afskeds-ritual; Afsked med forrige gæst

Handling 4 – Vidnesbyrd-ritual; Som et vidensbyrd på samtalen og/eller af den fysiske oplevelse vandringen har afstedkomme, reflekterer den afskedstagende gæst over begrebet fællesskab.

Handling 5 – Vandrings-ritual; Forhandling og navigation gennem byen 

Daniel Jeremiah Persson
Elsa Krgh Madsen
Jeppe Worning

Community Walk foregår d. 30 juli kl 11-23 i det centrale København. Ruten repræsenterer steder jeg under lockdown mødte/gik tur med andre, hvor jeg savnede nærværet af andre og steder hvor byens rum pludselig var affolket. Publikum er velkomme til at møde og følge os på afstand.

Agnes Saaby Thomsen
Anna Stamp
Tanya Rydell Montan

kl 11 Sølvtorvet; danser/koreograf Daniel Jeremiah Persson

kl 12 Østerport Station; danser Camille Marchadour

kl 13 Amaliehaven; designer/fotograf Agnes Saaby Thomsen

kl 14 Israels Plads; Fru Elsa Kragh Madsen 

kl 15 Nørreport Station; danser/koreograf Tanya Rydell Montan

kl 16 Gråbrødre Torv; danser/koreograf Julienne Doko

kl 17 Nikolaj Plads; dansekunstner Anna Stamp

kl 18 Rådhus Pladsen; danser/koreograf Paul James Rooney

Aleksandra Lewon
Paul James Rooney

kl 19 Hovedbanegården; scenograf Aleksandra Lewon

kl 20 Christiansborg; danser Josefine Ibsen

kl 21 Vor Frelser Kirke; kostumedesigner Jeppe Worning

kl 22 Kongens Nytorv, visual artist/danser Benjamin Skop

kl 23 Sølvtorvet; endestation

Benjamin Skop