The piece is originally a dance/text/music
performance where the writer
Brit Bildoen has written the text called
"Slopping around in your body the whole
day", especially for the purpose of this
piece
The piece thematizes the body and movement as
such. It mainly works on
showing body an movement in a new light, it
opens up a room where the
audience can see the "taken for
granted" body with new fresh eyes. The
method it uses is improvisation as performance.
The coreographers are doing research on
movement, and they are interested
movement to speak for itself as independent and
paralell to the text.
’DU VASSAR RUNDT I KROPPEN DIN HEILE DAGEN’
( ’You’re slopping around in your body the whole day’ )
The text ‘Du vassar
rundt i kroppen din heile dagen’ by the Norwegian writer Brit Bildøen,
is
developed in dialogue
with the chorographers/dancers Hilde Rustad and Steffi Lund, for their
performance bearing the same title.
The piece has been
shown in different settings in Oslo in 2003/04.
The text is composed
like a journey which is happening to/with the body and experienced from the
outside and the inside simultaneously.
It has a dreamlike,
surrealistic character, and is circling around the themes of identity,
transformation and body/life/death as processes.
It can be read as one
story - as well as enjoyed as several separate poems.
Brit Bildøen
has published 3 collections of poems, 5 novels, and 2 stories for children.
She has worked with dancers at several
occasions, and has herself a long experience of working with dance
improvisation.
Bildøen is writing in “new” norwegian, which is the lesser
used of Norway`s two official written languages