All That Remains
"Slowing down is thus about lingering in the places we are not used to. Seeking out new questions. Becoming accountable to more than what rests on the surface (…) we do not simply act upon the world (as if the world were external to our actions, or as if we were external to it), we are the world in its ongoing action-ing."
> Bayo Akomolafe
All That Remains is a choreographic work at the crossroads of dance performance, installation and sound performance. It investigates the concept of 'wound' as an experience that traverses the landscape and bodies — as a phenomenon that invites us to slow down, re-sense and re-consider our entanglements with the world around us.
The performance takes place on a bare stage where sculptures of industrial waste and natural elements are spread throughout the space. The dancers inhabit this environment of wounds and cracks, navigating new pathways of connection between themselves and others. The work invites the audience to immerse in a state of suspension, and witness a collective body-landscape of shape shifting, spillage and hybridisation. In a movement that alternates between playfulness, resignation, ecstasy and abandonment, the performance unfolds as a rite of passage into unexpected and unknown universes of gathering.
In All That Remains, visual artist Søren Engsted combines waste materials of industrial origin, belonging to recycling production cycles, to create sculptural assemblages that hybridise and morph found objects with craft interventions. These sculptures create a temporal suspension and a disorientation of meaning, opening up new potentialities of relation and becoming. Dancers Elisa D'Amico, Zen Jefferson, Mirko Guido, and Roosa Törma explore the phenomenon of the in-between as it spans from landscape to body. In this liminal space, they uncover roots by recalling past spirits, embracing their inner monsters, and forging sanctuaries. As in a healing ritual, their voices vibrate through each other's bodies. Sound artist Fredrik Arsæus Nauckhoff captures and processes these vibrations, then echoes them throughout the space, extending the ritual across the landscape. The electronic composition generates an immersive and mesmerising environment that sustains and transforms the sense of space through time.
Credits
Concept, choreography and direction: Mirko Guido
Created with and danced by: Elisa D’Amico, Zen Jefferson, Roosa Törma, Eliott Marmouset
Light and video design: Christoffer Brekne
Composer: Fredrik Arsæus Nauckhoff
Sculptures: Søren Engsted
Choreographic consultants: Alberto Franceschini, Shumpei Nemoto
Vocal coaches: Johanne Baadsgaard Lange, Mariane Siem
Costume consultant: Mie Gillings Jørgensen
Production: Mirko Guido, Sigrid Aakvik - Art&About, Stina Stange Thue
Co-production: Bora Bora – Dance and Visual Theater (Aarhus)
Residencies support: Dansens Hus (Stockholm), MARC (Knislinge), ccap (Stockholm), Q&A Studios (Aarhus), Åbne Scene (Aarhus)
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Aarhus Municipality, Augustinus Foundation, William Demant Foundation, Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, Konstnärsnämden International Exchange, The Foundation for Danish-Swedish Cooperation.
Performances
25-26-27 April 2023 at Bora Bora, Aarhus, Denmark
30-31 May 2024 at CPH Stage - Dansekapellet, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 to 14 September 2024, KSelekt / The Royal Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark
23-24 January 2025, PuSh Festival, Vancouver, Canada