Horror, suffering and sexual perversion - in complete ecstasy.

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Venue

Black box

Duration

80 minutes

7 May

19:00

8 May

19:00

Note! Age limit 15. The performance contains stroboscopic effects and portrayals of self-harming behaviour.

Behind a locked door in the depths of darkness, HUNTER dissects and plays with the redemptive process of classical tragedy - where insight is born out of suffering and the line between submission and desire is blurred.  

Here the tragedy is reversed and the artist and choreographer Courtney May Robertson stages a life-affirming monstrosity, directed both at herself and her lifeless double in puppet form. The duo - one of flesh and blood, the other of foam and silicone - portrays the inner anguish and raptures of an individual in conflict with a society that holds purity as a moral law. 

In HUNTER, the audience enters a space where the boundary between disgust and pleasure dissolves. Inspired by horror, BDSM and melodrama, a visual world is woven where sexual perversions, the grotesque and the exaggerated become triumphant symbols of bodily autonomy and empowerment. Courtney May Robertson is convinced that when the rigid dichotomy between repulsion and attraction is dissolved, the instinctive feeling of disgust - usually associated with revulsion - can be transformed into paradoxical fascination. Driven by an industrial soundscape composed by Acidic Male, HUNTER embraces self-destruction as an act of self-preservation. 

 "Basically, I'd say HUNTER is about dangerously obsessive desire. The kind of intoxicating desire that grabs you by the throat, pushes you down and takes your life - and you let it destroy you and love every second of it."

Courtney May Robertsson 

HUNTER is part of STHLM DANS - an international contemporary dance festival in the Stockholm region.

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About Courtney May Robertson

Courtney May Robertson (Scotland, 1992), is an artist and multidisciplinary performer based in Rotterdam. After graduating from the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance in 2013, she joined the Club Guy & Ronis Poetic Disasters Club and has since worked with a number of choreographers across Europe, including Jan Martens and Florentina Holzinger. Courtney has created two solo works: 'the pleasure of stepping off a horse when it's moving at full speed' (2020) and 'THE WOMAN DESTROYED' (2022). Both works have toured throughout the Netherlands and 'the pleasure of... continues to tour internationally, and was shown as part of a triple bill in 2023 at Dansens Hus Elverket within the framework of Aerowaves.

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HUNTER also evokes a form of care and touchability. The performance is a gentle resistance against the invisibility of practices surrounding desired pain, far beyond the classical object of dance, but also beyond the usual toughness and sarcasm.

-Theatre newspaper