In march 2017 the creative team of «A Farewell to Flesh» comes together after an initial research period in 2015 in Berlin, to create the full evening version in residency at DansiT.

«A Farewell to Flesh» is a piece about the medieval carnival and transformation. The medieval carnival was a celebration of extravagance and lack of restraint. Everyday life itself was turned up side down and all relationships such as power, desire and even death put into question. «A Farewell to Flesh» dedicates itself to this utopian moment and dissolves its dancing bodies in a colourful, contagious revelry of masquerades and grotesque characters. After all, isn’t the theatre itself a place in which the carnival lives on? A place behind the mask where one can be free of oneself for a moment to dream, scheme and move beyond ones quotidian self?

Realisation of the project supported by Norwgian Arts Council, FFUK, Vest- Agder County, The Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund.

About the artists

Benjamin Pohlig came into dance through a community dance project initiated by the Berlin philharmonic orchestra, and went on to study in England and Belgium. He is currently based in Berlin where he works as a freelance performer and choreographer. With «A Farewell to Flesh» he continues his research into theatre as a social and political space.

Sunniva Vikør Egenes is a Norwegian dance artist. Her interest lies in improvisation as a practice of performance. Sunniva believes that «A Farewell to Flesh» has the potential to create a space in which the roles of performer and audience intertwine and different ways of being together emerge and conventions of celebrations, spectacle and dinner parties can mix fluidly.

Lea Kieffer is a performer, choreographer and fashion designer. Her works is a mixture or craft and performance with an interest in wilderness, wildness and the question of what can be found behind the form of things. Lea’s work as fashion and costume designer is idiosyncratic and virtuosic.

Ben McEwen (Tanz) is a dancer, movement researcher. Next to his international work as performer and teacher he also has an interest in Aikido and barefoot running. In «A Farwell to Flesh» Ben enjoys the experiences of the collaborative working methods as well as the complex task of being in different relations with the audience.