Mirko Guido (ITA/DK)
All That Remains
PREMIERE: Just as we think we have understood the present moment, it has already transformed into something else. Four dancers move between sculptures of abandoned industrial waste in a sort of ritual. Their voices dissolve into tiny grains of sound. "All That Remains" evokes the beauty of accepting constant change, never arriving at one's destination, in a reality too big to comprehend. A dance performance, sound work and art installation all in one.
Choreographer Mirko Guido invites the audience into a poetic-philosophical reflection on the meaning of being in, with and of today’s world. How do we maintain our natural empathy towards this uncertain and rapidly changing world? Just as we think we have understood the present moment, it has already transformed into something else. “All That Remains” evokes the beauty of accepting constant change, never arriving at one’s destination, in a reality too big to comprehend.
“All That Remains” is dance performance, sound work and art installation all in one. Four dancers move between sculptures of abandoned industrial waste in a sort of ritual. Objects that are no longer what they once were and are not yet something new. The dancers’ wordless voices are mixed with recordings of sound, which together dissolves into tiny grains of sound.
“All That Remains” focuses on a state of in-betweenness – the crack or the wound – between the world that was and the world that will be. Starting from a space of remains the perfomance addresses the wound. How do we stay with with the discomfort?
Mirko Guido has created the performance in close collaboration with sculptor Søren Engsted, composer Fredrik Arsæus Nauckhoff and light- and video designer Christoffer Brekne.
Italian choreographer Mirko Guido is based in Aarhus and is a house artist on Bora Bora. “All That Remains” is his first co-production with the theatre.
PLEASE NOTE: There are strong, rapid lighting changes, especially in the last part of the performance.
Mirko Guido - thoughts behind the performance
“I am a migrant. From a young age, my artistic career has taken me to live and work in different European countries and in contact with artists from all over the world. ork in different European countries and in contact with artists from all over the world. This path has often led me to be confronted with changes, having to adapt and recalibrate my relationship with the world around me. With this piece we explored how to stay with with the discomfort of not knowing. Not to know and not have control. Our ambition is to share this sense of allowance for vulnerability with the audience. I hope the audience will reflect on how we can maintain our natural empathy towards this uncertain and rapidly changing world.”
ABOUT MIRKO GUIDO
Mirko Guido is an Italian choreographer and dancer currently based in Aarhus, Denmark. Through his practice Mirko explores questions of intersubjectivity and the body/self as a multilayered, multidirectional and relational subject. Often intrigued by themes of transition and change he moves between theatre, art galleries and public spaces, and by employing dance, voice, text, video and participatory methods, his work crystallise in very different performances.
He holds a Master’s degree in New Performative Practices from Stockholm University of the Arts. His choreographic works have been presented in several venues across Europe.
As a dancer, he has been a member of various dance companies in Germany and later on of the Cullberg Ballet in Sweden.
Concept and choreography:
Mirko Guido
Dance and co-creation:
Elisa D’Amico
Mirko Guido
Zen Jefferson
Roosa Törmä
Light design:
Christoffer Brekne
Sculptures:
Søren Engsted
Stage design:
Christoffer Brekne
Søren Engsted
Mirko Guido
Composer:
Fredrik Arsæus Nauckhoff
Project assistance and Dramaturgical support:
Alberto Franceschini
Choreographic assistance:
Shumpei Nemoto
Production:
Art & About – Sigrid Aakvik & Signe Sandvej
Co-production:
Bora Bora – Dance and Visual Theater (Aarhus)
Dansens Hus (Stockholm)
Residencies support:
MARC (Knislinge)
ccap (Stockholm)
Q&A Studios (Aarhus)
Åbne Scene (Aarhus)
Supported by:
Statens Kunstfond
Aarhus Municipality
Augustinus Foundation
William Demant Foundation
Wilhelm Hansen Foundation
The Foundation for Danish-Swedish Cooperation