Constructed Love
Constructed Love by Banality Dreams was an absurd physical theatre performance which in a subtle way plays on the different appearances of Love and Sexuality, in a setting of irony and humour. The great true LOVE... Who hasn't heard of it? At least from Hollywood films, novels and publicity posters. But what remains if you discover that this LOVE only is an empty shell of clichés and kitsch?
Information
(Objekt ID 1215)| Object type | Production |
| Produced by | Banality Dreams |
| Audience | Youth, Adults (from 16) |
| Keywords | Dance, Theatre, Comedy, Theatre of the absurd, Physical theatre |
| Duration | ca. 60 min. No break. |
| Website | Banality Dreams |
Requirements to venue
| Minimum stage width | 6m |
| Maximum stage width | 15m |
| Minimum stage depth | 6m |
| Maximum stage depth | 15m |
| Minimum stage height | 3m |
| Maximum stage height | 10m |
| Lights requirements | Light-system required |
| Audio requirements | Sound-system + 1 cd player required |
| Blackout | Yes |
| Rigging time | 180 minutes |
| Downrigging time | 45 minutes |
| Audience | 300 |
In Constructed Love by Banality Dreams the two performers, with their reckless humour, banal dialogues and absurd choreographies, in an attempt to unmask the everyday-life manifestations of this great-true LOVE. - Yes, maybe is it not even LOVE but only a social convention between people who prefer to suffocate together rather than to be alone. But - by and by - does a feeling of something come real and true, and in the end the audience isn’t quite sure anymore whether the contradictory and confusing emotions displayed, might not after all be the great true LOVE that everybody is craving and searching for.
Constructed Love by Banality Dreams was supported by Goethe Institut - Oslo, The Fund for Performing Artists, The Audio Visual Fund, Mimecenter - Berlin and Entré Scenen - Aarhus
Source: NAPA, danseogteatersentrum.no, 26.10.2010, http://www.danseogteatersentrum.no/sck/members.shtml?lang=nor&sam=&cat=&gen=&cou=&cri=banality%20dreams&aid=1229&prid=1&act=prod
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Johannes Dullin | – Direction |
| Mathias Krömann | – Sound design |
| Markus Lepper | – Sound design |
| Anselm Belser | – Lighting design |
| Johannes Dullin | – Actor |
| Signe Holtsmark | – Actor |
| Johannes Dullin | – Dancer |
| Signe Holtsmark | – Dancer |
| Anselm Belser | – Technician |
| Signe Holtsmark | – Producer |
| February 8, 2008 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| February 7, 2008 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
| February 6, 2008 – Hallen, The Open Theatre (Det Åpne Teater) | Show |
"The superbly frustrated shared life choreography of Dullin and Holtsmark has the comic nerve of Woody Allen's 'Annie Hall' " Verena Drosner, Jurymember, 100° Festival, Berlin