Dansehallerne proudly presents immortal summit by and with Lydia Östberg Diakité & BamBam Frost.

A performance that stretches between ideas of greatness and delusions of grandeur. Two characters are bound to an immortal fate and trapped in an ambivalent reality where remembrance of humanity’s excessive behaviors is put on display. Searching for something different, immortal summit lives in the borderland of provocation and play, tenderness, and failure, asking questions of how to navigate one’s existence in a non-voluntary reality.

In immortal summit Lydia Östberg Diakité and BamBam Frost work with materials inspired by sports, gods, and popular cultural icons, studying the phenomena of iconization and the canonization of performance abilities, where impossible levels and high expectations are the new standard.

BamBam Frost is a choreographer and dancer whose work takes off from her interest in social dances, and pop culture phenomena. In her work she insists on pleasure and fiction as a compass to imagine and shape choreographic proposals. BamBam Frost graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts in 2013 with a bachelor in Contemporary Dance.

Lydia Östberg Diakité is a choreographer, dancer and union organizer whose work revolves around re-thinking subjectivity, popular cultural phenomena, and hyper-performativity from a black intersectional feminist practice. Lydia Östberg Diakité graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2017 with a bachelor in Dance and Choreography.

Idea, choreography, performance, production

Costume design

Credits

Lydia Östberg Diakité,

BamBam Frost

Lydia Östberg Diakité,

BamBam Frost

Composer and music producer

Session musicians

Holger Hartvig

Sound design

Set design

Light design

Production

Holger Hartvig, Aase Nielsen

Neda Sanai

Lisa Berkert Wallard

Anton Andersson

Johnson & Bergsmark, Nordberg

Movement, Jessie McLaughlin (MDT)

Administration

Konstnärskollektivet Interim Kultur

Co-producers: Turnéslingan Tre scener (MDT, Atalante & Dansstationen), Norrlandsoperan, Dansehallerne and Life Long Burning – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe (2018-2022).

Made possible with support by Bikubenfonden, the Swedish Arts Council, City of Stockholm, Region Stockholm and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.