Danish Dance Theaters Summer Dance: Survive

SURVIVE is a choreographic ode to the ongoing faces of resistance

Roza Moshtaghi is a Tehran-born artist and choreographer based in Oslo. She draws inspiration from everyday situations transforming them into surreal humor-infused encounters. In her work fiction is not just a creative choice – it is a tool for discovering what comes after we survive.

A conflict arises at a dinner party when one refuses to taste the persimmon dessert as the guest want to keep the stringent taste of the fruit unknown. The episode escalates into an existential conflict about the pros and cons of therapy.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,0!  Everyone is revisiting their surviving self where they live on the sharp edge of urgency.

In this performance Roza blends the ordinary, the vulgar, and the exaggerated, where cartoonish battle scenes and pulsating rhythms transform into moments of gentle poetry. For Roza, it is urgent to listen deeply and speak up. And yes, we are allowed to scream.

For those of us who were imprinted with fear, for all of us!
Audre Lorde

We can’t wait to invite you in for this wild ride through the different aspects of survival scattered with glimpses of light, blooming flowers and moments of theatrical magic set to the original score by the band Taco Bitch.

Danish Dance Theatre is Denmark's national contemporary dance company, and this year, for the first time, you will have the opportunity to experience their popular Summer Dance event in Odense during the H.C. Andersen Festival.

Partners: H.C. Andersen Festivals, Musikhuset Aarhus, Kulturmødet, Teater Nordkraft, Dansekraft, Bora Bora

Recommended age: From 13 years

Cast
Company: Dansk Danseteater
Concept and choreography: Roza Moshtaghi
Dancers – Danish Dance Theatre's 10 dancers: Jessica Lyall, Lukas Hartvig-Møller, Bradley Waller, Leticia Silva, Yi-Shao Li, Amancio Gonzalez, Wolf Govaerts, Lola Potiron
Set design – Ronak Moshtaghi
Costumes – Marie Ipsen, Ronak Moshtaghi
Dramaturgy – Roza Moshtaghi, Ronak Moshtaghi
Music – Tacobitch
Thanks to – Trine Lise Moe
Video – Jubal Battisti
Icon image – Bradley Waller

Organiser: Danish Dance Theatre
Co-organiser: H.C. Andersen Festivals

Supported by: Spar Nord Fonden, Augustinus Fonden

Photo: Bradley Waller

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