About the performance
Get behind the wheel in the performance DRIVER – Before lunch.
The work investigates the act of driving, a pardoxical situation of movement; being in motion, whilst sitting still. It is a play on preconceived notions of perception and agency, a play on who is moving who, at what pace, and through which spaces.
In DRIVER – Before lunch you enter a world of truck driving; long work hours with irregular schedules, solitude, loneliness, heavy regulations, precarious working conditions and lots of time spent away from home, friends and family. Meals are often eaten on-the-go or at a truck stop.
Before lunch wonder about the distribution of time – having lots or none to spare – and what do we want to have done before lunch?
Before lunch is created through conversations with truck drivers about work, their identity, structures of their industry and workplace, the road.
It deals with truck driving as a practice of timekeeping, orientation and travelling, made into dancing.
About the Choreographer
Lara Vejrup Ostan is a Slovenian/Danish choreographer and dancer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In her works she challenges perceptual frameworks, exploring how these are used to navigate reality. Notions of dayliness inhabit her world building, embodiment and movement. Other mediums, such as film and text, are used in her choreographic practice to mold and carry, or further develop logics of dancing.
Most recent works are THE SWIMMER (2022), HIKE (2022), 9 to 5 (2023) and the ongoing Body Maintenance series with Agnes Grelinger. Lara holds a BA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts and is soon a BMC® Somatic Educator graduate.
She is co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, a collective association supporting the development and production of dance works, as well as chairwoman of De Frie Koreografer. laravejrupostan.com
Artistic team
Concept Lara Vejrup Ostan
Choreography Lara Vejrup Ostan in close collaboration with the performers
Performing on stage Yeong-Ran Suh, Eva Johanna Forsehag, Ella Ofelia Jarl Ortegas
Sound design Moritz Nahold (Subletvis)
Light design Thora Eriksen
Scenography Max Schwidlinski
Artistic mentor and truck driver Bush Hartshorn
Producer PRFRM
Graphic design Kaiu Meiner
Photography Benedicte Ramfjord
Produced by KOMMA Performance Productions
Co-production Dansehallerne
Supported by Statens Kunstfond
Projektstøtteudvalget for Scenekunst, Beckett Fonden, Københavns Kommune
Scenekunstudvalget, Skuespillerforbundets
Produktionsstøtte, Culture Moves Europe –Mobility Funding, William Demant Fonden, Louis-Hansen Fonden, Goethe-Institut
Residiencies UP (Moving Identities), Nau Ivanow (Moving Identities), Daavi (Moving Identities), Holstebro Dansekompagni
Practical info
Date, time, duration & stage
24.10.2024, 20:00
26.10.2024, 20:00
27.10.2024, 17:00 / 45 minutes, in Hallen
DRIVER – Two acts
DRIVER is a choreographic work consisting of two Acts: Act 1, White line fever, an intimate site generic performance premiered September 3rd, 2024, in a parking garage next to Dansehallerne and Act 2. DRIVER – Before Lunch.
Dansehallerne Address Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V
Introduction to the performance: 27.10 at 16:15 There will be an informal talk in the foyer, where the choreographer introduces the work by letting the audience in on the research for the performance. It’s free to join the talk, it will be approx. 20 min.
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the yearround base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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