A choreography for two dancers and a gang of clothing sculptures
Pleasure Doing Business by choreographers Karen Eide Bøen and Hugo Hedberg is a dance performance revolving around human connection, like friendship and other forces, and a sense of presence and absence
“Pleasure doing business” is something Bøen and Hedberg often say to each other. Their way of honouring their friendship and the constant negotiation that creating art together demands. They began the work in just the two of them, but things in the periphery began to reveal themselves. They sensed something in the air, something present and yet absent. Can something be both at once? They found clothes that strangers had forgotten and made them their co-dancers.
“I think I see you standing outside, but it’s just your shirt, hanging on the washing line, waving its arm as the wind blows by, and it looks so alive” – Kate Bush, Mrs Bartolozzi.
