PERFORMANCE TRILOGY (50 Dangerous Things, KABOOM and EVERYDAY)

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• EXPLORING REALITY - There are more options for reality and in this podcast we'll share different aproaches to playing with our perceptions of reality. Which role democracy plays and how you give people tools to understand their reality and to change the world around them. Starring: Henrik Vestergaard (LiveartDK/Performance Trilogy), Mikael Fock (SH4DOW), Hilkka-Liisa Ilvanainen (Tampere Theatre Festival).

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THE CONTEXT

For us, the essence of classical performance art is about asking questions and testing them in live experiments. As Joseph Beuys famously said: Anybody can be an artist. Any citizen of any age can ask questions and try to change the state of things. In a more and more fragmented society, we strongly believe in investigating and building our shared reality. Together with our audience.

THE COMPANY

Live art is an umbrella term for various practices, where artists ask questions to the real world, which they seek to answer personally; through real actions and experiments in real time and space. We are especially fond of investigations that include an audience as collaborators.

Live Art Denmark is fully funded by the Danish Art Council. Since 2004, we have developed several new strategies for engaging with intergenerational audiences, from live works and festivals to educational concepts and documentation for the VR format with a 360 degree camera.

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY

With 50 Dangerous Things, KABOOM and The Everyday we have developed three works in stage formats which have already visited festivals and theatres in Denmark and abroad. All of our works are flexible and can be performed at regular and unconventional venues. We appreciate creative organizers who rethink festival and presentation formats and enjoy working context-specific, developing works for a certain society, time, and audience. Our formats travel easily, are low-tech and have quick get-in and - out. We speak and perform in Danish, English, Swedish and German.

FORMAT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Our strategy is to produce responsibly regarding energy use, materials, waste and waste disposal and logistics. And to minimize cargo and freight, and to travel with train whenever possible when touring. The three works 50 Dangerous Things, KABOOM and EVERYDAY – have been designed for touring from the very beginning. Each can fit inside a normal van, or even a few suitcases, and do not require a lot of technical equipment or assistants. Many materials are sourced locally, and all PR is digital. We often collaborate with local performers and the audience as co-performers, so our basic team is only 2-4 persons. In all these ways, we save transportation, flights and other resources.

TRIGGER WARNINGS

Kaboom and 50 Dangerous things have a few loud sounds.

TARGET AUDIENCE GROUP

Families, schools, preschools. 50 Dangerous Things: Anybody from 4 years. KABOOM: Anybody from 6 years. The Everyday: Anybody from 5 years.

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

The trilogy constitutes an imperative to the audience to dare imagine the world differently, to participate, to act, and to be a part of a democratic change, no matter their age.