Beyond Love
Beyond Love (2025) was a production by Dragana Bulut.
Information
(Objekt ID 154117)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | February 7, 2025 |
| Produced by | |
| Coproducers | Hebbel am Ufer, PACT Zollverein |
| In collaboration with | |
| Audience | Adults (from 18) |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Performance |
| Running period | February 7, 2025 — February 8, 2025 |
| Duration | 120 minutes |
| Last changed | 21.10.2025 |
| Create date | 17.02.2025 |
Requirements to venue
| Last changed | 21.10.2025 |
| Create date | 17.02.2025 |
From Black Box teater’s season programme 2025:
(The audience will be part of the performance and interact with one another.)
"What is the future of love? In Beyond Love, Dragana Bulut explores the commodification of love. Together with the companion robot Harmony, the two performers host the audience in a choreographic speed dating performance for a world in a crisis of intimacy.
Alternating between dating and performative scenarios, they explore the dilemmas of connection: How do dating platforms, relationships mediated by algorithms, and love robots change the way we fall in love? If love needs reciprocity, can technology provide it? Could communal forms of love be the antidote to its commodification?
Beyond Love is the third part of Dragana Bulut’s trilogy probing the way the emotional spheres are choreographed by the forces of market commodification and technology. After Happyology (2018) and Behind Fear (2022), this part deals with love. Beyond Love is part of her doctoral project, “Social Choreographies of Emotion”, at Oslo National Academy of the Arts."
Supported by: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Realbotix, Hauptstadkulturfonds, Berlin’s Senate department for Culture and Europe.
SOURCES:
Imported from scenekunst.no, 17.02.2025
Black Box teater’s archive, 2025
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Dragana Bulut | – Concept/Idea |
| Dragana Bulut | – Artistic director |
| Dragana Bulut | – Choreography |
| Evelyn Saylor | – Music |
| Andrew Hardwidge | – Dramaturge |
| Dragana Bulut | – Stage design |
| Jonas Maria Droste | – Stage design |
| Melisa Minca | – Costume design |
| Evelyn Saylor | – Sound design |
| Fabian Bleisch | – Lighting design |
| Caroline Neill Alexander | – Co-creator |
| Caroline Neill Alexander | – Performer |
| Dragana Bulut | – Performer |
| Evelyn Saylor | – Other (Lydopptreden) |
Sound assistant: Tian Rotteveel
Robot assistant: Chris Scherer
Research specialists: Dr. Yuefang Shou, Kate Devlin, Heinrich Mellmann
| February 8, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Show |
| February 7, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Worldwide premiere |