DRIVER - White Line Fever (ACT I)  (2024)

Site-generic trio for parking garages

- three audiences per show, observing from within a car  

22 min



White line fever – also known as highway hypnosis – is an altered mental state in which a driver can travel lengthy distances, responding to external events in the expected,  safe, and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so. White line fever delves into an intimate affair; a relationship with a car. More than just a machine that moves you from A to B, it is the space where endless daydreams of leaving can be redeemed – or get stuck.

White line fever is act one of the choreographic work DRIVER, act two is titled Before lunch. The DRIVER series investigates 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 - 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 by Andrés Perea,  edited by Lara Vejrup Ostan 






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Photos by Benedicte Ramfjord  


DRIVER - thoughts and the process behind it:




Press
“ ...when I experienced the work during Dansehallernes OPENINGS program in September, I was quite overwhelmed by Ostan’s ability to affect her audience.”
  - Casper Koeller, Sceneblog.dk

“Here dance originated as strange, bodily expressions of nature in the concrete of the parking garage. Suddenly stood the most beautiful, human Bambi in the glow of the car lights - with an alert neck and swaying legs of the dancer Eva Johanna Forsehag. And with her dancers Yeong-Ran Suh and Ella Östlund drilled themselves deep under the dashboard in the car as if they were trying to slide back to a time long before the invention of the car -perhaps back to some nature that is not chased away by construction cranes and concrete dust.”
  - Anne Middelboe Christensen, Information.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