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.


DRIVER is a series of four choreographic works, 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, through which spaces. 

With
 Yeong - Ran Suh - dancing
Eva Johanna Forsehag - dancing
 Ella Östlund - dancing
Max Schwidlinski - scenography
Thora Eriksen - light design
Moritz Nahold (Subletvis) - sound design and composition
Bush Hartshorn - mentor / truck driver
Christian Zander - animation

as well as
PRFRM  - producing
Kaiu Meiner - graphic design
Benedicte Ramfjord - photography
Andrés Perea - videography
Sarah Olivia Klitgaard - intern

Produced by
KOMMA Performance Productions

Co-produced by
 Dansehallerne

Previously shown at
Dansehallerne OPENINGS Festival 2024



Trailers filmed and edited by Andrés Perea 





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Photos by Benedicte Ramfjord  


DRIVER - thoughts and the process behind it:





Press
“ ...the three agile dancers now embodied the cars driving ahead as shadows coming toward us, when they—and we—wove in and out of the lanes. The sunset and the silhouettes of the cars are without a doubt one of the most beautiful scenes, and at that moment the audience is drawn into an almost meditative state. 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