THE SWIMMER (2022)
Duet for rooms on carpet (2½ x 4m)
40 min
- Alan Fang ("how to swim" article @wikihow, updated January 2023)
Caught in a bleak void, where previously known logics of sensing elude us, two pals find themselves hanging out. The desolate universe holds space for a non-mission; drifting around imaginary seas. THE SWIMMER is a duet investigating companionship, loss of space and a paradoxical passing of time within the virtual. It is an eerie, yet intimate, sorrowful, soft and insisting derailment of linearity.
With
Johanna Forsehag - dancing
Ruth Rebekka Hansen - dancing
Ella Östlund - dancing (stand-in)
Moritz Nahold - sound design, composition
Max Schwidlinski - scenography
Previously shown at
2024 Ravnedans Festival, Kristiansand (NO)
2022 Sydhavn Teater / CPH STAGE Festival, Copenhagen (DK)
Thank you to Quim Bigas, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Sofia Bellucci and Anders Toft Pedersen
Photos from Ravnedans 2024 by André Wulf
Poster photo by Stroud Rohde Pearce, design by Hugh Diamond
Poster photo by Stroud Rohde Pearce, design by Hugh Diamond
Audience responses
“Magic Copenhagen. Had one of my greatest performing arts experiences ever today. Witnessed - and took in - a sadness I have NEVER experienced before with Lara Vejrup Ostan and the performance THE SWIMMER at CPH STAGE. It still plays on Friday and Saturday: experience it!”
- Jens Christian Jensen, JC Copenhagen
“It is a strong, wistful and yes, sad generational portrait that Lara has created. Coviddance and much more.”
- Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, artist, curator and tenure track adjunct at University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural studies
Press
“It is absurd, funny, incredibly sad and unsettling to watch the performers move around with clear purpose yet without going anywhere and not least being completely out of sync with the world around them.”
- Karin Hald, Bastard.blog
“Magic Copenhagen. Had one of my greatest performing arts experiences ever today. Witnessed - and took in - a sadness I have NEVER experienced before with Lara Vejrup Ostan and the performance THE SWIMMER at CPH STAGE. It still plays on Friday and Saturday: experience it!”
- Jens Christian Jensen, JC Copenhagen
“It is a strong, wistful and yes, sad generational portrait that Lara has created. Coviddance and much more.”
- Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, artist, curator and tenure track adjunct at University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural studies
Press
“It is absurd, funny, incredibly sad and unsettling to watch the performers move around with clear purpose yet without going anywhere and not least being completely out of sync with the world around them.”
- Karin Hald, Bastard.blog
Supported by
The Danish Arts Council
Augustinus Foundation
Skuespillerforbundet
William Demant Foundation
Tårnby Park Studio
Copenhagen Municipality
Christianshavns Beboerhus
Sydhavn Teater
The Danish Arts Council
Augustinus Foundation
Skuespillerforbundet
William Demant Foundation
Tårnby Park Studio
Copenhagen Municipality
Christianshavns Beboerhus
Sydhavn Teater