Marlene Bonnesen dance artist


About

own projects (selected)

research

to the sides of this body

et menneske i silhuet / a human in a silhouette 


the waltz of the big black smith

ACTS#

past, pastures

what we do but don’t know / Running Sculptures

chill out, we have already been reborn

work for others (selected)

fieldworks


ellen jerstad / UNGE VIKEN

sanghoon lee

UTVIK/BARFOD

max wallmeier


naya Moll


WEGO


recoil performance group

GAZART

angels margarit / cia. MUDANCES  

Danseatelier


Teaching / Open Training






Web design by Sanghoon Lee

chill out, we have already been reborn

chill out, we have already been reborn was the finale BA graduation work of mine and was a performance that dealt with questions on (body) utopias.

By studying old science fiction movies from U.S. and USSR dealing with the imagined leap of human society, living next to or being confronted by the apocalypse, space travel, and the human robot hybrid, the work led to the philosophical reading of Michel Foucault’s Utopian Body, the artistic understanding of the ancient civilization by Tito Lucretius, and beyond to the ideas of the Post-Human in an imagined future where humans are starting to co-exist with cyborgs.

These ideas and concepts were formed into a tight performative set-up, where the four performers were moving on a foil carpet, strictly choreographed in slow-motion, while the audience were listening to repeatable questions in wireless headphones. The attempt was to open the audience’s imagination, letting them read, sense, interpretate, and speculate on the massive changes and potentials we humans consist of.

Choreographers and performers:
David Kummer, Fuji Hoffmann, Jens Schyth Brøndum & Marlene Bonnesen.

Mentor:
Sara Gebran

Presented at:
Palladium in Malmø 2015, Ravnedans in Kristianssand 2016, HAUT in Copenhagen 2016, Baghaven, Kulturnatten 2015 in Copenhagen, and The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2015.

Link to full length video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwiOWyheuJI&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fdanseatelier.dk%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title