A thin layer of moss covers everything; green fur covers everything.
The landscape is moving. She is moving.
Here, where we are, everyone is alive.
Here, everything is alive. That mountain looks like a jellyfish. That plant is smoking. She makes it rain – Just for a moment. Nature, she sings. Nature adjacent. The humming chord between a person and a thing. An ear, an eye, an anything, a nothing, not above or outside, a fancy, a chimera.
Everything is breathing in this world.
Traces is an immersive installation performance in which a magical, dynamic and ever-changing landscape evolves all around you. A place where people become objects and objects come alive, grow and multiply.
Traces is a multi-sensory experience that blurs the boundaries between us and our environment and questions our place within a living world. A dreamscape remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants and water and sound.
“Maybe it is worth running the risks associated with anthropomorphism (superstition, devinization of nature, romanticism) because it, oddly enough, works against anthropocentrism: a chord is stuck between person and a thing, and I am no longer above or outside a nonhuman environment.” – Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter
Traces is a part of Vorblót 2019 – Tjarnarbíó and Reykjavík Dance Festival’s annual dance festival. Exploring the boundaries between dance, theatre and music the festival offers an opportunity to experience the diversity of the icelandic scene of performing arts. A festival pass offers vip access to all 8 scheduled acts as well as a 20 % discount at Tjarnarbíó’s café & bar.
Choreography: Rósa Ómarsdóttir Performed by: Inga Huld Hákonardóttir, Rósa Ómarsdóttir, Jeanne Colin and Siet Raeymaekers Created with: Inga Huld Hákonardóttir, Katie Vickers, Kinga Jaczewska and Tiran Willemse Scenography: Ragna Ragnarsdóttir Costumes: Ragna Ragnarsdóttir and Wim Muyllaert Music and sound: Sveinbjörn Thorarensen Light design: Elke Verachtert Artistic advise: Dries Doubi Production: Kunstwerkplaats Pianofabriek Co-production: Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Kunstencentrum Buda, Teaterhuset Avant Garden and MTD Stockholm Co-funded: Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Nordisk Kulturfond, Nordic Culture Point and Reykjavík Culture Fund Supported by: Beursschouwburg, Stuk and WpZimmer Thansk to: Sinta Wibowo, Jeanne Colin, Sandy Williams, Dianne Weller, Hákon Pálsson and Elke Lotens