OR/ELLER NET 6-14 October 2023

Programme

In NET, a web moves in and sprawls across the room. Accompanied by three dancers, we will unravel the performance, as a choreographic kaleidoscope unfolds. Together, we get lost in an undulating landscape of 192 elastic squares, which, with dance as a motor, opens doors to new spaces where our imagination can proliferate. Through catchy beats and melodic loops, we build a shared aesthetic experience together. NET is made especially for a school gymnasium context and geared towards children between 5 - 9 years old. At Dansens Hus, we invite children from 5 years old and their guardians to experience this interactive performance where everyone in the room participates.

In contrast to contemporary ideas of identity, autonomy, and independence, NET invites you to dance by allowing you to be a link in the chain, a thread in the web, or an atom in the molecule. With speculative curiosity, we get to experience ourselves as parts of new configurations in constant transformation. Could this be a world where singing cats appear, and pixelated avatars dance in a pyramid?

Since 2018, OR/ELLER has cultivated an interest in interactive performance formats (WEB 2018 and V 2020), within a series called the WEB-series. The series is based on a choreographic and scenographic concept, which will result in four performances. In 2023, the third part, NET, was created, which dives deep into a mobile performance format. Unlike OR/ELLER`s previous visually powerful stage performances, with extensive set designs, this performance will move into the children's school environment as well as other types of rooms.