to come

The pleasure of bodies moving and vibrating, encountering and connecting to one another. Sensual excess and ecstatic dancing. In to come, the Danish dancer and choreographer Mette Ingvartsen examines the way enjoyment was and is depicted. How the intimate and the distant, the private and the public become inseparable. to come is her third group piece. While studying at P.A.R.T.S. she did two productions (Out of Order and Manual Focus) and last year worked in Jan Ritsema’s Pipelines.

 ‘In a sense, our desire is never properly our own, but is created through fantasies that are caught up in cultural ideologies rather than material sexuality. That which we may believe to be most private and rebellious (our desire) is in fact regulated and constructed by structures of social production.’

to come experiments with the reversal of known relationships. Making the couple into a group, the group into a singularity and the individual into a multiplicity. A rethinking of how bodies can meet, touch and connect so that new forms of enjoyment can arise.

The performance proposes an excessive body of pleasure, an overexcitement of speed and vibration melting into sensual figures. Colours and surfaces mixing with a sensation of rhythmic pulsing. An undressing of coupled relations to the point where private and public, intimate and extimate, virtual and actual, become inseparable. 

Slow. Suggestive. And seductively never the real thing. Bodies meeting, breathing heavily from ecstatic dancing. A desire for nothing other than desire itself.