closer

In closer by Deep Blue the spectators are introduced (via headphones) into a synthetic environment resonant with audio organisms that come to life, mutate and extinguish. This world in which the performers move is a twilight zone between waking and sleeping, between life and death, between on and off. closer absorbs us in a space where subtle tension and minimal movement could have major consequences.

A point of departure for this production was to be found in the microcosm of ourselves: the genetic body. The deeper one dives into the organic flesh, the more artificial and uncomfortably strange it appears to be. As if it were a construction of language, built by others. In closer the dancers' bodies develop and unravel like experimental life forms in a laboratory. It takes place in a world that hovers between the organic and the mechanical, between human and non-human, between the perceptible and the not so perceptible.

Deep Blue consists of Norwegian Heine Røsdal Avdal, Japanese Yukiko Shinozaki and Belgian Christophe De Boecks. Choreographer and dancer Heine Røsdal Avdal has his background from The National Academy of Ballet and P.A.R.T.S in Belgium. He has worked, among other places, for Meg Stuart’s company Damaged Goods, where he met the dancer Yukiko Shinozaki, with whom he has worked since. Christophe De Boeck is a literature and theatre scholar in addition to being a composer.

Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, autumn program 2004. 02.12.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -arkiv