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How will the world end? Will we feel it when it happens? Will there be a warning? Or will it just be BANG!, out of the blue?
BEFORE THE END is a dance performance about the moment just before everything collapses. A dystopian carnival, an absurd comedy, an SOS from a nightmare you can’t wake up from.
The performance is directed by Chilean director Marco Layera, who with this work can be experienced in Denmark for the first time. With a radical and intense physical language that goes straight to the body, Layera has established himself as one of the most compelling voices on the international performing arts scene.
In BEFORE THE END, he portrays — with both poetry and grotesque humor — the bodily sensation of living on the edge of collapse: the panic, the anxiety, the sense of release, and the quiet hope that someone will do something.
BEFORE THE END invites the audience into the most frightening moment we can imagine, allowing us to feel what it’s like to stand on the edge — and dare to stay there, together.
The performance is a co-production between Betty Nansen Theatre and Danish Dance Theatre.
NB: The performance contains strobe lighting.
DATES AND VENUES
Klampenborg, Bellevue Theatre
September 19 at 2:00 PM, and September 20–22 at 8:00 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Odense, Magasinet (Dynamo & Teater Momentum)
September 26 at 7:30 PM, and September 27 at 4:00 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Vordingborg, Vordingborg Theatre
October 1 at 8:00 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Holbæk, Holbæk Theatre
October 5 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Roskilde, Roskilde Theatre
October 6 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Vejle, Vejle Music Theatre
October 26 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Sønderborg, Sønderborg Theatre
October 28 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Frederikshavn, The Music House
November 2 at 7:00 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Aarhus, Musikhuset Aarhus
November 4 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Allerød, Mungo Park
November 9–11 at 8:00 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Helsingør, Helsingør Theatre
November 12 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Ballerup, Baltoppen LIVE
November 13 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
Tønder, Tønder Theatre
November 17 at 7:30 PM. Find your tickets HERE
SUPPORTED BY Augustinus Fonden, Bikubenfonden, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Beckett-Fonden, Hoffmann og Husmands fond
CREDITS
Director Marco Layera
Choreography Marco Layera, Kristin Bjerkestrand, Amancio Gonzales, Wolf Govaerts, Lukas Hartvig-Møller, Jessica Lyall, Lola Potiron, Yi-Shao Li, Leticia Silva, Carlos Luis Blanco Ramos, Bradley Waller, Reiko Ohta, Matilde Stefanini
Dancers Lukas Hartvig-Møller, Jessica Lyall, Lola Potiron, Yi-Shao Li, Carlos Luis Blanco Ramos, Bradley Waller, Reiko Ohta, Matilde Stefanini, Luigi Nardoni, Tos Schoonjans
Set and Costume Design Fredrik Floen
Lighting Designer Ulrik Gad
Composer Damien Bazin
Artistic Consultant Carolina de la Maza
Dramaturg Tom Silkeberg
Researcher Quim Bigas
Photography Camilla Winther
The performance was developed through a collaborative creation process involving all participants.
