THE LABYRINTH
Premiere 20.04 2022
Dates:
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, April 20th – 24th 2022
Inkonst, Malmö, May 5th – 6th 2022
Teater Momentum, Odense, May 31st – June 1st 2022
Aaben Dans, Roskilde, January 27th-27th 2024
Dansehallerne, March 27th-28th 2026
Teateret Gruppe 38, April 8th-9th 2026
The encounter takes place in a system with clearly marked entrances and exits. We all have directions to follow. The actual distances are impossible to grasp. We may watch the scenario from a distance but can only navigate in close proximity. We move through a landscape. We walk in an ever-accelerating nature. We hallucinate. Slowly, the surroundings wear on our imagination. We must dare to move, get lost and follow dead ends to see through the logic that is present.
The Labyrinth is a work that encapsulates the sense of time passing and accelerating.
It’s a work that draws on personal experiences of being equally close to the birth of children as to the death of loved ones. Where the reality of time is pushing you forward.
The audience meets three characters, all embodying different emotional states of time. They move in a blurred, yet alluring landscape of light, all immersed in a soundscape of fantastical voices calling the listener.
The Labyrinth is created by Marie Topp in close collaboration with a dedicated artistic team. The piece merges sound, light, costume, and movement into one immersive whole.
“The Labyrinth” from 2022 is a masterpiece that grips the audience in the gut and gives form to the essence of life” Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalget for Scenekunst 2024
“Sometimes you see a work that reminds you how incredible art can be — in that way where it feels like the world opens up, everything becomes alive again. Not because it’s entirely pleasant to experience, but because it strikes the deepest chords of what it means to exist as a human being. For me, The Labyrinth by Marie Topp is such a work.”
— Bastard Blog, February 2024
“The Labyrinth is a quintessential example of Marie Topp’s choreographic approach, which, with understated strength and searing presence, manages to express the existence of a single human being — or of the entire world — within an hour.”
— Iscene.dk, January 2024
Reviews:
→ Danstidningen
→ Bastard Blog
→ Iscene
Credits:
Choreography: Marie Topp
Music: Julia Giertz
Lighting design: Mårten K Axelsson
Developed and danced by: Johanna Chemnitz, Emilie Gregersen, Alen Nsambu
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić
Costume: Maria Ipsen
Song: Zosia Holubowska
Sound consultant: Emil Assing Høyer
Producer: Gry Raaby
Producer Dansehallerne: Anne Mette Berg
Bookkeeper: John Gottenborg Bruun v/ Cyrk
Photo: Søren Meisner
Documentation and trailer: Milja Rossi, Ville Vidø.
Production: Visible Effects
Residencies: Holstebro Dansekompagni, Udviklingsplatformen/Tid i rum, Dansehallerne.
Co-production: Dansehallerne, Inkonst
Supporter by: Statens Kunstfond, Beckett-Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, William Demant Fonden.
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Premiere 20.04 2022
Dates:
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, April 20th – 24th 2022
Inkonst, Malmö, May 5th – 6th 2022
Teater Momentum, Odense, May 31st – June 1st 2022
Aaben Dans, Roskilde, January 27th-27th 2024
Dansehallerne, March 27th-28th 2026
Teateret Gruppe 38, April 8th-9th 2026
The encounter takes place in a system with clearly marked entrances and exits. We all have directions to follow. The actual distances are impossible to grasp. We may watch the scenario from a distance but can only navigate in close proximity. We move through a landscape. We walk in an ever-accelerating nature. We hallucinate. Slowly, the surroundings wear on our imagination. We must dare to move, get lost and follow dead ends to see through the logic that is present.
The Labyrinth is a work that encapsulates the sense of time passing and accelerating.
It’s a work that draws on personal experiences of being equally close to the birth of children as to the death of loved ones. Where the reality of time is pushing you forward.
The audience meets three characters, all embodying different emotional states of time. They move in a blurred, yet alluring landscape of light, all immersed in a soundscape of fantastical voices calling the listener.
The Labyrinth is created by Marie Topp in close collaboration with a dedicated artistic team. The piece merges sound, light, costume, and movement into one immersive whole.
“The Labyrinth” from 2022 is a masterpiece that grips the audience in the gut and gives form to the essence of life” Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalget for Scenekunst 2024
“Sometimes you see a work that reminds you how incredible art can be — in that way where it feels like the world opens up, everything becomes alive again. Not because it’s entirely pleasant to experience, but because it strikes the deepest chords of what it means to exist as a human being. For me, The Labyrinth by Marie Topp is such a work.”
— Bastard Blog, February 2024
“The Labyrinth is a quintessential example of Marie Topp’s choreographic approach, which, with understated strength and searing presence, manages to express the existence of a single human being — or of the entire world — within an hour.”
— Iscene.dk, January 2024
Reviews:
→ Danstidningen
→ Bastard Blog
→ Iscene
Credits:
Choreography: Marie Topp
Music: Julia Giertz
Lighting design: Mårten K Axelsson
Developed and danced by: Johanna Chemnitz, Emilie Gregersen, Alen Nsambu
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić
Costume: Maria Ipsen
Song: Zosia Holubowska
Sound consultant: Emil Assing Høyer
Producer: Gry Raaby
Producer Dansehallerne: Anne Mette Berg
Bookkeeper: John Gottenborg Bruun v/ Cyrk
Photo: Søren Meisner
Documentation and trailer: Milja Rossi, Ville Vidø.
Production: Visible Effects
Residencies: Holstebro Dansekompagni, Udviklingsplatformen/Tid i rum, Dansehallerne.
Co-production: Dansehallerne, Inkonst
Supporter by: Statens Kunstfond, Beckett-Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, William Demant Fonden.
