Premiere: September 12, 2023
Duration: 60 min
Creators:
Choreography, set design, lighting direction, sound direction, text: Jo Strømgren
Costumes: Bregje van Balen
Choreographer's assistant: Rebecca Hoback
Music: Mr. Enirbod, Abe Schwarz, Bergmund Waal Skaslien, Kevin Keller, Shimon Dzigan, Carlos Gardel, Maria Tanase, Vaska Ilieva, Jørgen Knudsen
Dancers: Evelyn Blue, Kacper Bożek, Momoko Den, Julia Halka, Patryk Jarczok, Jerzy Kazmierczak, Zbigniew Kocmierięba, Mateusz Krzysiak, Katarzyna Kulminska, Dominik Kupka, Aleksandra Kuś, Daniel Michna, Jinwoo NamKung, Sandra Szatan, Zofia Tomczyk, Emily Wong-Adryanczyk
Service and performance preparation: Michal Beszczynski, Adrianna Cygankiewicz, Dominik Dudek, Przemyslaw Gapczynski, Krzysztof Ludwiczak, Zuzanna Majewska, Dariusz Szych
Production:Polish Dance Theater
Coproduction: Jo Strømgren Kompani
Like sepia-toned, "old-fashioned" photographs, bathed in warm shades of brown, afterimages of past experiences jumbled by memory, which has its own subjective chronology, the choreographic images conjured by Jo Strømgren from a magic hat remind us that memories, though fleeting and existing immaterially, do not lose their reality.
Echoes and mirages of events, shuffled by the passing of time, snippets of what has passed, a nostalgic look back and from afar - the performance "Out of the Hat" draws the viewer into a séance of memory, which allows one to penetrate the hidden meaning of what is old, past, not fully realized.
Muddled images, with slightly blurred contours, show phantasms of performances, interpersonal situations, closeness and remoteness, departures and returns, speak several languages of the world and a dozen languages, which are "spoken" by the bodies of dancers of the Polish Dance Theater.
What else can be taken out of the hat? What action will this (un)ordinary object set in motion?"
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Smoke and artificial fogs are used during the performance. People with asthma or breathing problems are asked to use caution.
A performance with no age restrictions, suggested audience 14+
