DRIVER
Before Lunch (ACT II) (2024)
Blackbox trio / 45 min
Enter a world of truck driving; long work hours with irregular schedules, solitude, as well as loneliness, heavy regulations, precarious working conditions and lots of time spent away from home, friends and family. Meals are often eaten on-the-go or at a truck stop. Before lunch wonders about the distribution of time – having lots or none to spare – and what do we want to have done before lunch? Before lunch is created through conversations with truck drivers about work, their identity, structures of their industry and workplace; the road. It deals with truck driving as a practice of timekeeping, orientation and traveling, made into dancing.
Before Lunch is act two of the choreographic works in DRIVER, a series investigating the act of driving; a paradoxical situation of movement - being in motion, whilst sitting still. It is a play on preconceived notions of perception and agency, a play on who is moving who, at what pace, and through which spaces.
With
Yeong - Ran Suh - dancer, choreographer
Eva Johanna Forsehag - dancer, choreographer
Ella Östlund - dancer, choreographer
Max Schwidlinski - scenographer
Thora Eriksen - light designer
Moritz Nahold (Subletvis) - sound designer and composer
Bush Hartshorn - mentor / truck driver
Christian Zander - animator
as well as
PRFRM - producers
Kaiu Meiner - graphic designer
Benedicte Ramfjord - photographer
Andrés Perea - videographer / editor
Sarah Olivia Klitgaard - intern
Produced by
KOMMA Performance Productions
Co-produced by
Dansehallerne
Previously shown at
2024 Dansehallerne
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DRIVER - behind the scenes:
Press
“ Even when the driver pulls over to have lunch, we are beneath the cortex, and with the traffic radio churning away as an auditory anchor, Lara Vejrup Ostan’s choreography has merged with the driver’s trance-like state on the long stretches of country road.”
- Casper Koeller, Sceneblog.dk
Supported by
Statens Kunstfond Projektstøtteudvalget for Scenekunst
Holstebro Dansekompagni
Moving Identities Europe
Beckett Fonden
William Demant Fonden
Louis-Hansen Fonden
Skuespillerforbundets Produktionsstøtte
Københavns Kommune Scenekunstudvalget
Vesterbro Lokaludvalg
Goethe Institut, Culture Moves Europe - Mobility Funding