Anastasija Olescuka (DK)
ANTS 1+1=3
Discover the world of ants in a captivating choreography that blends street dance, club dance, martial arts and contemporary dance. The ant worships nature, maintains the biological order and will die for the community. The organised anthill makes the welfare state look like anarchy. Imagine if we could all work together.
The dance performance “ANTS 1+1=3” is a teeming embodiment of a society in miniature. On stage are five dancers with great physical strength, endurance and backgrounds in street dance, voguing, club dance, martial arts and contemporary dance, who put body and movements on the world of the ants. The music is composed by Turkman Souljah.
The struggle for survival, community, strength and unity in a society on the brink of disaster. The ant is a worker, engineer, warrior and lover. The story of the ants’ lives is the story of the very big themes in small sizes. A super organism and an organized society that makes the Scandinavian welfare state look like pure anarchy. How the most elusive insects, which most people may see as a pestilence, can in fact stand together in a world characterized by boundless individualism and challenges that call for collective responses. If we could stand together like the ants, there was nothing we could not lift together.
“ANTS 1+1=3” was created in close dialogue with ant expert and senior researcher Hans Joachim Offenberg from the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University, who, among other things, is the author of the book “Ants”.
