Two (2)

New Numbered Old Shifted

The centre of TWO by karen foss quiet works was conceptually based on the number 2 and its many functions: As a size in mathematics, but also as a phenomena used in cultural contexts, reflected in understandings about harmony/disharmony, symmetry/asymmetry, repeats and reverses, and other imagery basing itself on duality.

Information

(Objekt ID 4752)
Object type Production
Premiere September 1, 2010
Produced by karen foss quiet works
Coproducers BIT Teatergarasjen, Carte Blanche
In collaboration with Logen Teater AS
Audience Adults
Keywords Contemporary dance
Running period September 1, 2010  
Website karen foss quiet works

Requirements to venue

Minimum stage width 10m
Minimum stage depth 10m
Minimum stage height 7m
Blackout Yes
Rigging time 1440 minutes
More

Copy, equality, couples, balance, stability, reversing, the opposite, but also the parts that make the two, alone, the shared, the same, the one, and a wealth of dualisms. In music the number two can be associated with the rhythm of a march and the anonymity it provides, as made for soldiers marching in step to kill. Two are more than one, but one and one are not always two.

TWO by karen foss quiet works opened towards a structured space in which an exposition took place. A dry room, if one wants, perhaps a desert landscape, but stable and with a hint of something invisible in the very visible. The desert was apparently harmless in its silence, a place for loneliness, but also a symbol of the outmost spiritual challenge. Perhaps TWO would find its scenic contrast in the desert. Perhaps the performance would find inspiration in one of the greatest poets of world literature, the Persian Hafez, who used the desert as resonance for his tribute to his love, to God and to wine:

the body a tree God a wind

when He moves me like this, like this,

angels bump head with each other gathering beneath my cheeks, holding their wine, barrels

catching the brilliant tear, Pearl

Rain

TWO by karen foss quiet works was supported by Art Council Norway, The Fund for Performing Artists, The Audio Visual Fund, the municipality of Bergen and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/MFA (travel grant/performing arts).

Source:

BIT Teatergarasjen, bit-teatergarasjen.no, 01.08.2010, http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/346

Contributors (16)
Name Role
Karen Foss – Concept/Idea
Karen Foss – Choreography
Jørgen Knudsen – Music
Sigve Sælensminde – Stage design
Sigve Sælensminde – Lighting design
Gry Bech-Hanssen – Dancer
Suzie Davies – Dancer
Mattias Ekholm – Dancer
Kenya Foss Parsons – Dancer
Marianne Kjærsund – Dancer
Magnus Myhr – Dancer
Daniel Racek – Dancer
Martin Flack – Technical Crew
Sigve Sælensminde – Technical Crew
Morten Pettersen – Sound technician
Pernille Nonås Mogensen – Producer
Performance dates
Navember 13, 2011 18:00 – Teatr Muzyczny w Lublinie (International Dance Theatres Festival) Show
September 18, 2010Hovedscenen, Dansens Hus Show
September 17, 2010Hovedscenen, Dansens Hus Show
September 16, 2010Hovedscenen, Dansens Hus Show
September 3, 2010Hovudscenen, Det Vestnorske Teateret / Logen Show
September 2, 2010Hovudscenen, Det Vestnorske Teateret / Logen Show
September 1, 2010Hovudscenen, Det Vestnorske Teateret / Logen Worldwide premiere
Festivals (1)