JUST OK

Photo credit: Petter Cohen
Front page: Sanna Lehto

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Just ok is the second performance in a trilogy addressing how dance can hold a space for loss. The trilogy attends to notions of emptiness referring to grief, and how something can be so achingly present and at the same time so utterly gone.

The performance engages in a kind of horror that is neither spectacular nor immediate, but suggests a mood of subtle and gradual unease; something ominous, formless and obscure. The work address the unknown, the unknowable, the looming, and the never fully graspable, teetering between the seen and the unseen.

The work has been developed in dialog with our companion Nina Lykke.

Bio: Nina Lykke, Dr. Phil. Professor Emerita of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. Has participated in the building of Feminist Studies in Scandinavia and Europe more broadly since the 1970s. Has recently co-founded international networks for Queer Death Studies, and for Ecocritical and Decolonial Research. As well as being an author of numerous books. https://ninalykke.net/

Dance and Choreography by Amalia Kasakove and Anna Lea Ourø
Costume design by Agnete Beierholm
Music by Minais B
Light design by Anton Andersson
Tailoring by Erik Annerborn

The piece has received a research grant and was a part of the Choreographic Research Project hosted by Aaben Dans in 2019-2020. The piece has also been in research and performed at:

Warehouse9 / The Non Existent Center, Ställbergs Gruva / Art Space Jennifer, Gothenburg / Y Choreography festival by HAUT / Mrs. Phink’s House, CPH Stage

Photos by Søren Meisner at IPAF by Warehouse9