JULIE SCHMIDT ANDREASEN / Earthlings – Echoes in the Light
A performance installation in two acts, emerging from wishes and gratitude
We gather by the water. With everything that is here. How does the outer landscape shape our inner landscape? How does the landscape influence what we wish for – and what we value?
The first act begins quietly by the water. Two people find, send, receive, and animate messages in bottles. It sends ripples through the body, and the dance begins. Through movement, intentions are sent out into the world – without knowing all the answers. On white pieces of fabric are texts about wishes and gratitude, written by people who have previously encountered the work. Choreographically, different ways of physically manifesting these intentions are explored.
The second act opens with the choreographer inviting us to reflect and write our own texts in silence. The dancers then activate the texts through improvisational movement and playful interaction with each other and with us. A flow of words and movement is created, in the hope of lifting individual thoughts into a collective experience and embodied awareness. At the same time, the work becomes an archive that grows with each performance.
ABOUT JULIE SCHMIDT ANDREASEN
Julie Schmidt Andreasen is a choreographer, dancer, and artistic director of Earthlings. She works with movement-based, choreographic, and participatory approaches in landscapes, theatres, museums, and public spaces. Through minimalist experiments and works, she creates a strong sense of presence within dynamic interactions between performers, participants, and audiences. She is deeply interested in the effects of dance and actively involves the audience in reflection and contributions that are then translated choreographically. In dance, a connection is established both inwardly and outwardly – and in that moment, new potentials, insights, and questions arise about ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
Her artistic practice is concerned both with what the artists carry in their hearts and what resides in the hearts of those who witness the work. She participates in improvisational and dance performances as well as artistic research. She is trained as a choreographer and dancer from London Contemporary Dance School and as a cultural mediator from the University of Copenhagen, and is engaged in professional communities both nationally and internationally.
PRACTICAL INFO
Duration: 90 min.
Participants: 35
Age: 10+
Language: Danish & English & non-verbal
CREDITS
Dancers: Mar Espona & Rasmus Bjørkvad
Choreographer: Julie Schmidt Andreasen
Assistent: Ulrik Ørsnes Jansen
Visual advicer: Maëva Longvert
Produced by Earthlings
Music:
when she had no mirror…she watched her shadow
by Gwyneth Wentink and Richard Chartier, Pinkcourtesyphone
Grief Fields
by Sam Wenc, Post Moves, The Sound Memory Ensemble
Jetsun Mila Pt. 1
by Éliane Radique
Supported by Bispebjerg Bydelspulje, Nørrebro Lokaludvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Dansekapellet, Kulturlab Kapellet, Refshale Anneks
Photo: Mahtab Motlagh