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Biennale College choreographers - This was meant to find you - Lethe - a search for the waters of oblivion

THIS WAS MEANT TO FIND YOU:World premiere
Year/Length:2024, 30'
Concept and choreography:Recuerdo Número 7
Dancers:Sofia Baglietto, Daniele Bracciale, Somer February, Piera Gentile, Kannen Glanz, Victoria Martino Troncoso, Francesco Polese, Alberto Serrano
Music:Alex Aller, Javier Ara Sauco
Lighting design:Barnaby Booth
Costume design:Marantico
Production:La Biennale di Venezia
LETHE – A SEARCH FOR THE WATERS OF OBLIVION:World premiere
Year/Length:2024, 30'
An immersive work by:Studio by Dorotea Saykaly & Emil Dam Seidel
Original concept:Emil Dam Seidel
Concept development:Dorotea Saykaly & Emil Dam Seidel
Choreography and direction:Dorotea Saykaly
Dancers:Ekaterina Cheporova, Simone Cristofori, Elena Grimaldi, Ming Chin Hsieh, Rosanna Lindsey, Zac Priestley, Iker Rodriguez Sainz Xavier Williams
Dramaturgy:Emil Dam Seidel
Composition:Riku Mätinen
Costume design:Carla Romagnoli
Costume realisation:Marantico
Lighting design:Tommaso Zappon
Production:La Biennale di Venezia

This was meant to find you 

Can we as humans find something in nothing? Find purpose beyond survival? Do our lives have a meaning? THIS WAS MEANT TO FIND YOU, new work of Recuerdo Número 7 in collaboration with the dancers of the Biennale College, raises these questions. A landscape of human bodies makes up this existential drift, a haze that they venture through without any guidance. Float and melt, fall and get back up, an unfulfilling and incomplete journey that reveals the beauty of being lost. A dance without edges made of questions without answers, a pure and unreserved offer to just exist.

Lethe - a search for the waters of oblivion

LETHE – A SEARCH FOR THE WATERS OF OBLIVION is an immersive artistic endeavour in the cross section between performance, dance and exhibition. The work confronts the overwhelming crisis of our time – the decay of our world – climate change. It explores how oblivion can help us reimagine our future, how to sustainably change our ingrained patterns, and how to discover and select new pathways to replace the old. In search of the waters of oblivion, the audience embarks on a hero’s journey to the underworld. Here, they encounter firsthand the fragmentation of myth and memories. This hybrid performance offers an immersive experience, forcing the audience to negotiate the space with each other and the performers, finding creative ways of navigating changing landscapes of moving bodies. The experience is a dive into the ancient underworld, an initiation of a deeper exploration of imagination and transformation.


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