Mette Ingvartsen

Following ›69 positions‹ in 2014, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen returns with the second work in her cycle ›The Red Pieces‹ looking at the political dimensions of sexuality. In ›7 Pleasures‹ a collective of 12 dancers explore seven notions of pleasure in relation to different aspects of hedonism and sensuality. Feeling their way towards other bodies, testing and dissolving boundaries or engaging in unexpected constellations, they question how the joyful potential of pleasure can be used to counteract clichés attached to nudity and sexuality.

Concept, Choreography: Mette IngvartsenPerformer: Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Johanna Chemnitz, Katja Dreyer, Elias Girod (in Essen replaced by Calixot Neto), Bruno Freire, Dolores Hulan, Ligia Lewis, Danny Neyman, Norbert Pape, Pontus Pettersson, Hagar Tenenbaum, Marie Ursin (permanently replaced by Gemma Higginbotham)Replacements: Ghyslaine GauLight: Minna TiikkainenMusic, soundtrack: Peter Lenaerts with music by Will Guthrie (Breaking Bones & Snake Eyes)Set: Mette Ingvartsen, Minna TikkainenDramaturgy: Bojana CvejicChoreography assistant: Manon SantkinLight assistant: Nadja RäikkäTechnical direction: Joachim Hupfer, Nadja RäikkäSound technician: Adrien GentizonCompany management: Kerstin SchrothProduction assistant: Manon Haase

Production: Mette Ingvartsen / Great InvestmentCo-production: steirischer herbst festival (Graz), Kaaitheater (Brussels), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Théatre National de Bretagne (Rennes), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Dansens Hus (Oslo), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen).

Support: Flemish Authorities, Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin), Danish Arts CouncilThanks to: Musée de la Danse/Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne.A House on Fire co-production with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union

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