The young dancers of the ESC youth company take over BIT’s new stage at Sentralbadet Scenekunsthus with a dance performance created by choreographer Johannes Gudbrandsen-Stavland and dramaturg and writer Maria Johanne Liabø. Drawing inspiration from the astrophysical concept of the same name, they have, in close collaboration with the young dancers, created Event Horizon.
The ‘event horizon’ describes the boundary surrounding a black hole – the point beyond return. With this as its starting point, the performance explores free will and predetermined destinies.
The audience enters a roaring space, where the sound is dense, enveloping, and almost sacred. As the noise subsides, other elements emerge: voices, breath, shoes against the floor, costumes brushing, skin against dance mats. The bodies are both restless and expectant. The dancers throw themselves around, extend falls, perform seemingly impossible tasks, build and carry – and break down. They are each other’s obstacles and support.
Event Horizon explores what space for agency exists when something is already moving in a given direction, toward an ending. Can we imagine new realities and turn our fantasies into reality? Can we rewrite our own destiny – and can we rewrite our shared one?
