Dec 5, 6, 7. Pleasure Doing Business / Karen Eide Bøen + Hugo Hedberg
Pleasure Doing Business is a choreography of presence and absence, loneliness and imagination. Two friends dance together with frozen, forgotten clothes in a world filled with melodies. They work with the invisible forces around and between us, and the subtle shifts where something suddenly feels both present and absent. The performance explores human connections and forces that draw us towards or away from each other.
Hugo and Karen often say ‘Pleasure Doing Business’ to each other as a way of honoring their friendship and the constant negotiation that comes with creating art together. During the course of their work, they found forgotten clothes that became co-dancers and carriers of the paradoxical feeling: a present absence.
As Kate Bush sings in Mrs Bartolozzi: ”I think I see you standing outside, but it’s just your shirt, hanging on the washing line… and it looks so alive.”
December 5 at 7pm
December 6 at 7pm
December 7 at 4pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
Choreography, dance and scenography: Karen Eide Bøen, Hugo Hedberg
Music: Hugo Hedberg
Production: Karen Eide Bøen
Light design: Casper Wijlhuizen
Outside eye: Bente Alice Westgård
Co-producers: DansiT, Bergen Dansesenter, Danscentrum Väst, Mala Voadora, Nora Dans, Weld, BIT.
Supported by: Norsk Kulturråd
Hugo Hedberg (Stockholm) and Karen Eide Bøen (Bergen) began collaborating as fellow students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Their common interests revolve around the body’s movement through everyday life, the performative and choreographic in everyday and unconscious patterns of motion, and the relationship between thought and body.
Their first project To See Yourself From The Outside premiered in the spring of 2017 in Oslo and has later been shown in Stockholm, Bergen and Copenhagen. Their second project Frank & Elena premiered at Weld in August 2019. It has later been shown in Rosendal Teater in Trondheim, Cornerteatret in Bergen and Scenehuset in Oslo.
Weld is supported by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm.