Festival for independent
performing arts

  • Copenhagen January 14-18, 2025

  • Aarhus January 21-25, 2025

TENDER
Beyond Darkness (DK)

Duration: 60 minutes. Age: Minimum 14 years. The installation is open all day.

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 DARKNESSBeyond 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.

CREDITS

IDEA & KONCEPT: Beyond Darkness
DANCERS: Camilla Schnack, Cecilie Schyth Kjær, Anna Stamp
CHOREOGRAPHY: Beyond Darkness in collaboration with the dancers
INSTALLATION & COSTUMES: Baum & Leahy
SOUND DESIGNER: Eliza Bozek
LIGHT DESIGNER: Nadja Mattioli
CONSULTANTS: Solveig Gade, Cath Borch Jensen, Marie Haugsted Mors
PHOTOGRAPHY: Elena Perota

SUPPORTED BY Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Københavns Kommune. Research-support: Forsøgsstationen

More performances