Under åben himmel, båret af lyd og tekst, møder publikum en kvinde, der bevæger sig gennem omgivelserne på den tidligere losseplads i Valbyparken – et sted, hvor det ydre landskab fletter sig sammen med indre erindringer. Hun træder frem som en slags skyggefigur, der bærer spor af noget genkendeligt i os alle. Gradvist opløser hun fornemmelsen af både tid og sted.
FROM THE FINITE TO THE INFINITE TO THE FINITE TO THE… er en koreograferet vandring, hvor kunstnerne Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir og Marie Topp inviterer publikum ind i deres fælles fascination og mangeårige kunstneriske arbejde med en alternativ oplevelse af tid – en tidslighed, der mærkes snarere end forstås. Musikken er komponeret af den britiske cellist og komponist Lucy Railton.
Under the open sky, carried by sound and text, the audience meets a woman moving through the former landfill in Valby Park — a place where the outer terrain intertwines with inner memories. The woman appears as some kind of shadow figure, bearing traces of something familiar to us all. Gradually, she dissolves the sense of time and place.
FROM THE FINITE TO THE INFINITE TO THE FINITE TO THE… is a choreographed walk, in which the two artists Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Marie Topp invite the audience into their shared fascination and long-standing artistic exploration of an alternative experience of time — a temporality that is felt rather than understood. The music is composed by British cellist and composer Lucy Railton.
Varighed / Duration
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Spilletid / When
Tirs — lør kl. 20.00 / Tue — Sat at 20.00
Spillested / Where
Valbyparken / Valbyparken
Sprog / Language
Nonverbal / Non verbal
Koreograf og instruktør / Choreographer and director
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir / Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Koreograf og performer / Choreographer and performer
Marie Topp / Marie Topp
Kunstnerisk sparringspartner / artistic collaborator
Anja Röttgerkamp / Anja Röttgerkamp
Komponist / composer
Lucy Railton / Lucy Railton
scenograf / scenograf
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Lysdesigner / Lighting designer
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Lydteknik og Afvikler / sound Technician
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Producent / Producer
Carlos Calvo / Carlos Calvo
Fotograf / Photographer
Christian Bang / Christian Bang
Produktion / Production
Visible Effects / Visible Effects
kunstner bio / artist bio
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Den islandske, nu Bruxelles-baserede, koreograf Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir har boet i Berlin i en stor del af hendes 25-årige karriere, mens hun skabte og turnerede internationalt med sine værker. Siden 2010 har hun, i sine koreografiske værker, beskæftiget sig med det patologiske aftryk af den socialpolitiske krop i vores egne kroppe og dennes afprogrammering, ligesom hun har udført kunstnerisk forskning i sin somatiske praksis FULL DROP. Hun betragter sit arbejde med afprogrammering som en direkte politisk gestus og aktivisme. I en større forstand engagerer hendes kunstneriske praksis sig i den løbende diskussion om healing, feminisme, forbundethed og forestillinger om energisk medborgerskab.
Gennem årene er Margrét Saras arbejde blevet støttet af forskellige festivaler, kulturinstitutioner og spillesteder i Europa. For at nævne nogle få; Sadlers Wells London, Sommerbar/Tanz im August Berlin, Festival Rencontres choréographiques Paris, Frascati Amsterdam, Kampnagel Hamburg, HAU Berlin, WUK Vienna, Black Box Oslo, Julidans Amsterdam, Spring dance Utrecht, SAVY contemporary Berlin, December Dance Brugge, STUK Vienna, Side Step Festival Zodiak Helsinki, Imagetanz BRUT Vienna, Tramway Glasgow, Sophiensaile Berlin, Göteborg festival Gothenburg, MDT Stockholm, Dansenshus Stockholm, Dansenshus Copenhagen, Dansenshus Oslo, Dansehallerne Copenhagen, Den Frie Museum Copenhagen, Atalante Gothenburg, Dansstationen Malmö, Bora Bora Aarhus Jutland.
Hun har skabt bestillingsværker for bl.a. Cullberg Ballet, Folk Operan, The Iceland Dance Company og Les Grandes Traversees-festivalen. Hun har samarbejdet med forskellige performance- og billedkunstnere. Langvarige samarbejder omfatter arbejde med fænomenologi- professor Susan Kozel om tværfaglige kunstværker og publikationer. Hun arbejdede sammen med musikeren Peter Rehberg (Editions Mego) i 10 år, indtil hans død. Hun samarbejder nu med musikeren Lucy Raylton.
Marie Topp
“At opleve en milliard år på én time”, skrev en anmelder i 2021 for at beskrive en forestilling af Marie Topp. Topp’s værker er kendetegnet ved en tydelig signatur. De er minimalistiske, men detaljerige. Hun skaber scenarier, der er tætte og billedmættede i både de visuelle, kinestetiske og auditive dimensioner. Hun arbejder med intensiv langsomhed som et gennemgående greb for at konfrontere vores vanlige tankemønstre og menneskets iboende trang til at blive distraheret fra ubehag. Gennem kunstneriske samarbejder laver hun forestillinger, der fungerer som resonansrum, som understøtter sanselige møder, kropsligt tænkning, kollektiv koncentration og refleksion.
Statens Kunstfond skrev i 2024 om forestillingen The Labyrinth: “The Labyrinth fra 2022 er et mesterværk, der rammer publikum i maven og giver form til livets essens."
Marie Topp har samarbejdet med kunstnere såsom; Julia Giertz, Mårten K Axelsson, Igor Dobricic, Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir og Eric Andersen. Hun er tilknyttet kunstner ved Milvus Artistic Research Center og har samarbejdet med organisationer som Dansehallerne, MDT Stockholm, MARC, Dansk Danseteater, Aaben Dans, Bora Bora, Inkonst, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, Kampnagel, Inkonst, Atalante, Dansstationen. Hun blev uddannet fra Den Danske Scenekunstskole i 2009.
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Icelandic now Brussels based choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir lived in Berlin during the longest part of her career of 25 years whilst creating and touring internationally her performance works. Since 2010 she has been addressing the pathological imprint of the social political body within our own bodies and its deconditioning in her choreographic works, as well as conducting artistic research into her somatic practice FULL DROP into the body. She considers her work involving de-conditioning as a direct political gesture and activism. In a larger sense her artistic practice engages in the ongoing discussion of healing, feminism, interconnectedness and notions of energetic citizenship.
Throughout the years Margrét Saras work has been supported by various festivals and cultural institutions and venues in Europe. To name a few; Sadlers Wells London, Sommerbar/Tanz im August Berlin, Festival Rencontres choréographiques Paris, Frascati Amsterdam, Kampnagel Hamburg, HAU Berlin, WUK Vienna, Black Box Oslo, Julidans Amsterdam, Spring dance Utrecht, SAVY contemporary Berlin, December Dance Brugge, STUK Vienna, Side Step Festival Zodiak Helsinki, Imagetanz BRUT Vienna, Tramway Glasgow, Sophiensaile Berlin, Göteborg festival Gothenburg, MDT Stockholm, Dansenshus Stockholm, Dansenshus Copenhagen, Dansenshus Oslo, Dansehallerne Copenhagen, Den Frie Museum Copenhagen, Atalante Gothenburg, Dansstationen Malmö, Bora Bora Aarhus Jutland.
She has created commissioned works for amongst others; Cullberg Ballet, Folk Operan, The Iceland Dance Company, Les Grandes Traversees festival. She has collaborated with various performance and visual artists. Long term collaborations include working with phenomenologist Prof. Susan Kozel on interdisciplinary artworks and publications. She worked with musician Peter Rehberg (Editions Mego) for 10 years until his passing. She now collaborates with musician Lucy Raylton.
Marie Topp
“To experience a billion years in one hour”, a reviewer wrote in 2021 describing a performance by Marie Topp. Her performances are characterized by their meditative and hypnotic effects on the viewer. By using slowness as a way to create hyper awareness and by building landscape-like scenarios on stage through the movements of dancers, sound and light, Topp is creating performances that hold potential for intense emotional journeys. Through artistic collaborations she makes performances that function as spaces of resonance that support sensorial encounters, embodied thinking, collective concentration and reflection.
Marie Topp has collaborated with artists such as Julia Giertz, Mårten K Axelsson, Igor Dobricic, Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir and Eric Andersen and others. She is associated artist at Milvus Artistic Research Center and has collaborated with organizations such as Dansehallerne, MDT Stockholm, MARC, Dansk Danseteater, Aaben Dans, Bora Bora, Inkonst, K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, Kampnagel, Inkonst, Atalante, Dansstationen. She was educated at The National School of Performing Arts in Danmark in 2009.
