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About the performance
Dirgy Dancing by Lisen Ellard
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JUNE 23rd
19.00
By: Lisen Ellard. Lament dances by and with: Johanna Chemnitz, Julienne Doko, Khamlane Halsackda and Lisen Ellard. Sound design: Elize Arvefjord. Production: Johnson & Bergsmark. Photo: Milja Rossi.
Dirge
– /dɜːrdʒ
/ – a lament expressing mourning or grief.
Dirgy Dancing is a collection of lament dances by and with local dancers from different places. Dances that are dedicated to people, memories, times and places, like a way to perceive the unmentionable of what’s lost.
Collectively, we look back at what has been in order to be able to face what comes after, and that there will be an after. The lament dances create space to be in the presence and in care of what has passed and no longer is.
Lisen Ellard works with three local dancers for Dirgy Dancing and at thecarrierbag festival it is lament dances by and with: Johanna Chemnitz, Julienne Doko, Khamlane Halsackda.
Lisen Ellard and director Mattias Lechhave collaborated for several years around themes of death and its rituals, which resulted in the performances Funeral and DEATH. With the dance anthology Dirgy Dancing, Lisen Ellard continues this investigation of loss and the relationship between grief, memory and movement.
