Det Frie Felts Festival

TENDER
Beyond Darkness (DK)

TENDER is a choreographic performance and installation by the performance duo Beyond Darkness created in close collaboration with the visual artist duo Baum & Leahy. It is a sensory experience centered around care, tactility and vibration that opens a space for social communities and encounters in multispecies kinship. TENDER invites you to take place with three performers in a multisensory scenography, where you will encounter smaller ecosystems of natural elements such as grass, water, soil and seeds. In a dance of tenderness, we explore the giving and receiving of care and practice together attending to what lacks care in ourselves and our surroundings, human and as well as non-human.

ABOUT BEYOND DARKNESS
Beyond Darkness is the artistic cosmos of choreographer Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen and director-dramaturg Nadja Mattioli. Together, they create highly sensorial and experiential realms through immersive performances and ecocentric installations. They view their works as ecosystems in which new human and beyond human perspectives, lives and relationships are explored.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CURATORIAL BACKGROUND FROM THE CURATORIAL TEAM OF SELECTED WORKS FESTIVAL 2025:
"The exploration of care as a theme, both in giving and receiving, and how the performance encourages the audience to approach these aspects in an engaging way."

ARTIST TALK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE
Beyond Darkness in conversation with Daniel Iinatti and Emelie Johansson - January 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM at Godsbanen, Kedlen
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.