Don Gnu (DK)
Turist
- a vacation you can’t wait to come home from!
Come along, citizen of the world, back-packer, charter-tourist, on the journey of your life to the wonderful world of holiday wishes, dreams and nightmarish scenarios! An action-packed, physical comedy on life as a tourist.
About the performance
Do you dream of paradise? Packing your sandals, bandana and sunscreen to set off for distant shores and new worlds? Coming home as a new and improved human being with the bag full of life-affirming and memorable moments…?
Take a trip with the world man, backpacker and charter tourist on the journey of a lifetime into a marvelous world of holiday wishes, dreams and nightmare scenarios! Because something is going wrong, and the three lovable individuals must realize that it is truly not about the destination, but the road to get there – for fate wills that their unique dream journeys end in a chaotic battle zone for the right to beautiful deserted landscapes, swimming pools and roast suckling pig or croissant and cortado at the sidewalk café in Nice.
Action-packed physical comedy about life as a tourist and about how meeting others can bring out both the best and the worst sides in us. Welcome to DON GNU’s fantastic dance island!
TURIST is the second performance in the trilogy about the unusual experiences of ordinary life.
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Six stars for topicality, elegance, dance, music,
good entertainment and choreography ”.
– Lita Domino, Kulturnyt
About Don Gnu
DON GNU – Physical Theater & Film makes action theater and dance combined in a playful and poetic male 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. 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.
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“There is hardly any other dance theater in it
Denmark, which goes so damn imaginatively and
energy bubbling to work like DON GNU ”.
– Kirsten Dahl, Aarhus Stiftstidende
DonGnu is supported by Bora Bora – dance and visual theater.
Read more about DonGnu here
Credits
Concept & choreography:
Jannik Elkær
Kristoffer L. A. Pedersen
Concept, light and video:
Christoffer Brekne
Performance and choreography
Petras Lisauskas
Mikolaj Karczewski
Kasper Buus
Music:
Alice Carreri
Technician
Jakob Thau
Tango coaches:
Camilla Maria Dahlgren
Linus Aabye Jensen
Movement coach:
Benjamin Buus
Dramaturgical consultant
Anja Høegh
Photo
Emilia Therese
Engedal Photographer
Producer team
Kathrine Kihm
Malene Cathrine Pedersen