Det Frie Felts Festival

Slit Show
Karis Zidore (DK)

Slit Show cuts through the masquerade of the exterior and slides along the slits to the interior. It’s a dance for a theater and an open mouth. A tease for the space between curtains and coming. An inner song longing to be shown.

Through removal of clothing, erratic moaning and deep opera, choreographer and composer Karis Zidore strips down and exposes inner states in the theater spotlight. Somewhere between erotics and entries, maskings and unmasking, sensing and exhibiting, a sincere show reveals itself from the curtains. 

Who’s that slit? It’s the girl with no door on her mouth!

In the solo Slit Show the main character might be revealingly alone on stage. But she is accompanied by multitudes of loud representations and inner voices in an unexpected mash-up of moaning, stripping and opera singing. Dispersed deep red velvet curtains load the room with connotations and promises of drama, peaks and pathos. From this seemingly self-aware and hyper staged setting, the main character brings the audience on an introverted journey from outside in.

ABOUT KARIS ZIDORE
Karis Zidore is a choreographer and composer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Through body, voice and sound her choreographic practice moves between loaded images to heartfelt sensations. She often departs from gendered voice and body materials only to tease, disrupt and reshape. Karis has collaborated with a.o. choreographers Emilie Gregersen and Olivia Riviére. She has presented works at Dansehallerne, Copenhagen Contemporary, Den Frie Udstilling and Momentum a.o. She is a co-founding member of Danseatelier, and the artistic director and curator ofthecarrierbag festival together with Emilia Gasiorek. With the moniker Gel she has released abrupt and inconsistent dance music since 2018 through labels such as Kulør, Petrola80 and Escho.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CURATORIAL BACKGROUND FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM OF SELECTED WORKS FESTIVAL 2025:
"The work's exploration of the boundaries between the visible and the invisible in theater, and its playful interaction with perception and staging."

ARTIST TALK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE
Karis Zidore in conversation with Daniel Iinatti, Emelie Johansson - January 24, '25 at 8:15 PM at Godsbanen, Åben Scene
Daniel Iinatti works as a producer at SITE and is one of the project managers for bastard nordic. As a freelance curator he runs the curatorial platform Country Music. He has a background in Art History from Stockholm University.

Emelie Johansson works as manager at SITE Sweden. She is educated as dancer/actor at Balettakademien and Stockholm University of the Arts as well as studies in Philosophy and Human Rights & Democracy. Emelie has worked with a wide range of artistic expressions from musicals in theatre institutions to contemporary dance and performance art.