About the performance
Inspired by sociologist Avery Gordon’s idea that we are always living side by side with the ghosts of the past, The Court explores Western dance history as a form of dystopian speculative fiction.
Resonating on the Baroque era’s court parties, where dance was political propaganda and an aristocratic demonstration of power, The Court wrenches history out of its familiar forms. It blends Louis XIV’s spectacular court ballets with contemporary dance aesthetics, rhythms and physical expression in a work that challenges, seduces and disrupts. The result is a timeless, absurd and deeply physical experience, taking Baroque dances, social rituals, desires and fictions from the past and present, and weaving them together in new forms.
The Court is not a production that you "see" – it’s a world that you enter, at your own pace. For more than three hours, the audience can freely come in and out of the room, choosing how they want to follow the nine performers’ constantly changing choreographic landscape.
About the artists
The Court is the culmination of the multi-year project Rehearsing the Not Yet, a collaboration between choreographer Ingri Fiksdal, Marie Nerland’s curatorial project Volt, and dancer and choreographer Louis Schou-Hansen.
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Tickets
University of Oslo employees can buy tickets for NOK 150 (regular price is NOK 395). The offer is valid until 20 May when using this link.