Slinger i valsen
PREMIERE: A humorous and touching physical performance about friendship, anger and love. DON and GNU try to find the rhythm - but when emotions take over, even the most beautiful dance becomes a battle, the greatest conflict becomes a waltz, and the steps tumble in the revelation of anger.
A humorous, poetic and paradoxical performance about losing your footing and meeting yourself in the fall.
A fat man and a thin man try to dance the waltz of life. Don-Hardy and Don-Laurel The curvy one and the slender one. The splashy one and the squeaky one. They try to keep the beat, but the tempo drags. They build ladders, knock them down again, trying to understand – and be understood.
Enter a mysterious stranger. A new pulse in a familiar pattern. A shape with multiple edges, multiple sides, multiple possibilities. It is not a solution, but an opening. Together, the three balance between anger and play, control and chaos, laughter and deep existential resonance.
In “Slinger i Valsen”, the physical poetry of slapstick meets today’s black and white worldview. Inspired by the aesthetics and rhythm of silent film, we investigate whether we in our color-saturated time have started to think more narrowly. With laughter as a bridge and the body as a language, the performance seeks the connection in the imperfect – where we no longer try to fit in, but just … are.
“DON GNU has grown a huge fan club in Aarhus with their performances because they always deliver touching and funny performances in the borderland between dance and physical theater. We’re excited to present their brand new work “Slinger i valsen “- new fans can start here and if you’ve never seen dance, “Slinger i valsen” is the perfect place to start.”
– Creative and executive director Lotte Kofod Ludvigsen
DON GNU makes action theater and dance combined in a playful and poetic universe.
The company was established in 2010 by the choreographers Jannik Elkær and Kristoffer Louis Andrup Pedersen, who together are responsible for the artistic management. DON GNU are house artist at Bora Bora.
Today, DON GNU is one of the country’s most touring companies, which in addition to extensive touring activities in Denmark, has also toured in large parts of the world, including all the Nordic countries, South Korea, Canada, large parts of Europe and Cuba.
More about Don Gnu here
