Utopianists ^{(Che/Esp/Swe/Ita)} I´ll be back 10-12 March 2022

Programme

The Utopisistas collective consists of the four dancers and choreographers Matilda Bilberg (SWE) Jenna Hendry (SUI), Nerea Gurrutxaga (SPA) and Maria Teresa Tanzarella (ITA/SWE). "I´ll be back" is their first full length album.

The performance explores the contradiction of self-realisation versus working for the common good, and looks at the potential of interdependence. Using improvisation in both speech and movement to harness the power and magic of spontaneity, the four dance and speak their way into a multiple being with a collective body and shared consciousness.

"I'll be back" delves into our need for synchronicity and symbiosis, and the result is a sparkling, charged and often humorous performance that asks timeless questions such as: Do I begin where you end? Or do I exist only through you? And if so: Can we then design a new kind of 'I'? Or are we, forever, alone?

We are a wondering, wondrous being,
visiting an uncanny world and that other planet.
We will sweat for you.
We will be challenged.
As will you.
But don't worry: We will also laugh with you.

So let us gather all of our existing mutants.
Let us assemble our multiple self.