Monica Emilie Herstad, herStay Royal Performance

On Monica Emilie Herstad´s project PAST IS SIMULATION: The ladies of the sea vs Nora, and other stories of the society, a project belonging to her Guest Research stay at Centre for Ibsen Studies since 2005:

Monica Emilie Herstad contributes with her project to increase the understanding of layers of melancholy in the reading of Ibsen performance, relevant in today´s society. She emphasizes the energy of anticipation, as a comprehensive device for directing and choreography of a performance, in this case her PAST IS SIMULATION: The ladies of the sea vs Nora, and other stories of the society. An approach to her work, is to reflect on Elfriede Jelinek´s anarchistic way of relating to Ibsen´s female characters, in her text Was geschah nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften, in comparition to, and discussing the physical patterns of actions, that Susan Sontag were accomodating, originally rewriting The lady of the sea for visual performance, for Robert Wilson. Her performance is a project of going further in the field of perfomance, inbetween literature, dance and visual arts.

Choreography and mise en scene, casting and styling: Monica Emilie Herstad
Music: Hicham Bouddén

herStay performers: Monica Emilie Herstad

Andrea Csaszni Rygh, Anne Kathrine Fallmyhr/ Beata Kretovicova, Maria Ryther Hoem/ Tatsiana Krauchanka Riber-Sparre, herStay

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Film & Animation

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