Convoi Exceptionnel with Ensemble Edge (DK)
CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL
Playing times
Saturday June 4th 2022 22:00
Sunday June 5th 2022 22:00
Monday June 6th 2022 22:00
Tuesday June 7th 2022 23:00 (Please note later performance time)
About the performance
Please note: The playing time is 22.00 on the first three days and 23.00 on the fourth day – and the performance takes place at Idrætshøjskolen Aarhus.
CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL is a sensitivity analysis in the nature of inequality. A choreographic portrayal of the welfare state and its many flaws. The singers become a group searching for a common voice, insurgently longing for meaning. In their polyphonic strive, they uncover the imbalance that a class-based society creates.
The work is created by Convoi Exceptionnel and Jon R. Skulberg in close collaboration with composer Lil Lacy, dramaturge Astrid Hansen Holm, conductor Mathias Skaarup Sørensen, designer Kit Wan, and the vocal ensemble ENSEMBLE EDGE.
CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL is a performing arts company led by scenographer and stage director JON R. SKULBERG. With his bold vision, Skulberg orchestrates immersive sceneries, using saturated images, bodies, sounds and lights, which he imprints onto the audience to mark them with impressions and memories.
ENSEMBLE EDGE is an Aarhus-based vocal ensemble that challenges conventions. In this work, they explore the singing body immersed in water and the architectural acoustics of the swimming pool hall. The choir conductor is MATHIAS SKAARUP SØRENSEN.
Composer LIL LACY is a recipient of the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize. LIL LACY composes the choral work for the twelve singers from ENSEMBLE EDGE. Lil Lacy, recipient of the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize, challenges the vertically standing classical singer we know from churches, stages and concert halls.
KIT WAN is a fashion and costume designer from Hong Kong. With textiles, he creates distinct silhouettes in a fictional and holistic expression, bringing contrast to the functional architecture of the swimming pool hall.
TRILOGY FOR EDUCATIONAL SPACES
CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL is the second part of the Trilogy for Educational Spaces. This site-specific trilogy meets the audience at eye level, with rich atmospheric experiences in the setting of everyday life, away from the usual terrains of art. Convoi Exceptionnel investigates three different spaces – a gymnasium, a swimming pool, and a classroom. The performances created challenge the cultural codes of these educational spaces.
Site specific performance at:
Idrætshøjskolen Aarhus, Svømmehallen
Vejlby Centervej 53
8240 Risskov
Entrance(Indgang) at the back of the building but toilets can be found at the main entrance(Hovedindgangen) to the swimming pool on the other side of the building.
Toilets can be found at the main entrance to the swimming pool on the other side of the building.
Find your way to Crawl Crawl Crawl
Site specific performance at:
Idrætshøjskolen Aarhus, Svømmehallen
Vejlby Centervej 53
8240 Risskov
Entrance(Indgang) at the back of the building but toilets can be found at the main entrance(Hovedindgangen) to the swimming pool on the other side of the building.
Toilets can be found at the main entrance to the swimming pool on the other side of the building.
Find your way from the main entrance of the swimming pool
Find your way from Vejlby Centervej
About Convoi Exceptionnel
CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL is a Nordic production platform, focused on interdisciplinarity and spatial-somatic relationship within theatre, opera, choreography, and installation.
The performances are developed with a strong visual gaze by balancing visual means, sound, and music into a holistic unity, which are in a relationship with one or more physical bodies. In a formalized aesthetic, frequently asked questions are: What is the tempo of this space? How to delay time? What is stillness?
The potential of the 1:1 scale relationship between the performers and the audience is Convoi Exceptionnel`s center of attention.
CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL is part of the “Learning Space Trilogy”. Convoi Exceptionnel creates three works for a gym “Moving a Memory”(2021), a swimming pool “Crawl Crawl Crawl”(2022) and a classroom ”You are a day tomorrow”(2023) with strong conceptual, aesthetic and scenic tools. In the very different performances, we invite the audience inside learning spaces and thus institutions, which intervene deeply in our bodies and thoughts. The trilogy is about memories, responsibility, formation, class differences and the understanding of what a “we” is.
Everything has a time. Everything has a space. All life has a body. With that in mind, Jon R. Skulberg begins his work, regardless of whether it is an opera, a performance work or a dance piece. As a director, scenographer and choreographer he works with spatial-somatic relationships. Body and space – meeting with an audience. Convoi Exceptionnel is like special transport and wide cargo. Like the sign found on large highway trucks, the company is a reminder to pay attention to particular weight and content. Convoi Exceptionnel is a transport system for the enigmatic, pain, the anxious and the possibility of hope.
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CREDITS
Concept, stage direction: Jon R. Skulberg
Composer: Lil Lacy
Conductor: Mathias Skaarup Sørensen
Singers: ENSEMBLE EDGE
Costume design: Kit Wan
Dramaturge: Astrid Hansen Holm
Libretto: Lil Lacy, Jon R. Skulberg, Astrid Hansen Holm
Production producer: Sigrid Aakvik, Signe Sandvej, Art and About
Producer ENSEMBLE EDGE: Andrea Krüger Holm
Administration: Jens Christian Jensen
International relations: Nordberg Movement
Communication: Anne Basse
Production: Convoi Exceptionnel
Co-production: Bora Bora, PASSAGE Festival, Dansehallerne
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Augustinusfonden, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Det Obelske Familefond og Aarhus Kommune.