The fold of a ^ landscape
Heine Avdal Yukiko Shinozaki fieldworks
This performance emerges from investigations by Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki into folding and unfolding – an approach that shapes how bodies move, position themselves, and relate to space.
The piece invites us to take a collective moment of reflection. Different ways of coming together suddenly become visible: as a group, as individuals, or through our shared existence. In the absence of familiar habits and fixed structures, the performance asks: what brings us together?
In this project, Avdal and Shinozaki approach the body, movement, and both inner and external spaces as a dynamic landscape. A landscape that can be bent, folded, and unfolded. Folding proves to be a transformative action: a body, an object, a space, a moment, a light, or a sound can fold itself into, around, or on top of something else. These actions create a continuous system of folding and unfolding: pleats that extend over a space or a landscape. Unfolding is not the opposite of folding, but a continuation. As in origami, one fold always leads to another.
The performance unfolds through shifting relationships between space and movement, offering ever-changing situations rather than a fixed narrative. Stability and uncertainty coexist. Instead of relying on order and repetition, the work enables difference and ambiguity to shape our connections.
• Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki are choreographers/performers. They have been working together since 1996 and founded the company fieldworks together. The desire to reimagine the relationship of the body with its environment lies central to their work – as is inviting the audience into that (unfolding) discovery. Their practice is driven by a curiosity about how performance art can reshape our understanding of the human body and our daily environment. They explore the invisible architectures – social, physical, and perception-oriented – that shape our movement through movement, across public and private environments. Their subtle interventions and delicate displacements reveal hidden choreographies and invite us to approach the familiar and the well-known anew, with fresh eyes. Fieldworks has created more than 35 productions, which have toured in over thirty countries worldwide. www.field-works.be
concept and direction Heine Avdal, Yukiko Shinozaki ⎸ created and performed by Ingrid Haakstad, Tim Winter, Emma Jansen, Johann Loiseau, Christelle Fillod, Heine Avdal, and Yukiko Shinozaki ⎸ also co-created in parts of the process by Kevin Fay ⎸ sound design Johann Loiseau ⎸ visual artist and text Christelle Fillod ⎸ text Tim Winter ⎸ lighting design Martin Myrvold ⎸ administrator Bob Van Langendonck ⎸ produced by fieldworks, Avdal productions ⎸ coproduced by Coda Oslo International Dance Festival, Dansenshus Oslo, BIT Bergen, and DansiT Trondheim ⎸ residency support Kaaitheater Brussels, BUDA Kunstencentrum Kortrijk, RIMI/IMIR SceneKunst (RISK) Stavanger, and Dansehallerne Copenhagen ⎸ supported by Vlaamse Overheid, Arts Council Norway
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