COLD HAWAII
So she retreats. She explores the vast emptiness, the territory of pleasure and the realm of silence after something breaking. Like a heartbreak that builds up, only to break down again, she creates a character that breathes, rises and disappears. Through movement and sound, words and songs she negotiates between harsh realities and the soft worlds of her imagination.
Cold Hawaii is a solo that can be thought of as an esoteric novel where fiction becomes the map to reimagine reality. It is a paradox and a myth seeking to confront the desire to be exposed and be private, to be shy and be too much, to be someone, be no one, to be wild and be serene. It is a piece full of heartbreak, disappointment and rejection.
World premiere 28th of April 2021 Moving Futures online Festival.
Selected for ICEHOT Nordic Dance Platform 2022 https://www.icehotnordicdance.com/event/sigrid-stigsdatter-mathiassen/
Selected for Aerowaves 2022 https://aerowaves.org/artist/sigrid-stigsdatter-mathiassen/
The piece is currently touring and available for booking. It is a 30 minute solo work with a simple set up and also works in double and triple bills. It can be shown in a classical theater setting, gallery spaces and other.
Credits:
Concept, Choreography and Performance: Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen
Music: Lora Deniz
Costume: Ginta Tinte
Dramaturg: Antonia Steffens
Artistic advice: Merel Heering and Kristin De Groot
Technique and Light design: Edwin van Steenbergen
Video and trailer: Paul Sixta
Photography: Anna van Kooij
Special Thanks: Andreas Hannes, Tiana Hemlock-Yensen, Charlie Laban Trier, Carolien Verduijn, Annejon Okhuijsen
Production: Dansateliers Rotterdam, Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao, ES)
Financial support: Gemeente Rotterdam.
In 2016 Dansateliers (Rotterdam, NL) and the Spanish art centre Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao, ES) started a new exchange-project for young, talented choreographers. During the project, two different dancemakers get the opportunity to develop a new solo for themselves. The artist that were selected for 2019-2020 are Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen (Dansateliers) and Jaiotz Osa (Akzua Zentroa).
“Cold Hawaii is like that avant-garde dessert: highly bizarre yet astoundingly rich in flavour.” “Hilarious and terrifying, this is the kind of retreat that lures me in – a ride on a tide towards tripping ecstasy.” “Although the show has barely begun, you get the sense something significant has already taken place. That Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen is busy processing, perhaps with the hope of repairing, damage previously done.” “Coming into yourself, learning how to be and not apologising for all that you are – light or dark – is as hard as hell, and that is what Cold Hawaii attempts to show us.”
https://springbackmagazine.com/springback-academy/reviews/cold-hawaii/ May 2022 by Springback magazine
“What follows is exciting, incomprehensible, funny and beautiful.” “Interpretations arise as quickly as they disappear. As spectators we end up in a filterless universe, in which the very expressive Mathiassen is sometimes inimitable and shoots in many directions.”
https://www.theaterkrant.nl/recensie/cold-hawaii/sigrid-stigsdatter-mathiassen/ Oktober 2, 2021 by Bas Blasse
“It was refreshing to see movement treated as a true vessel from which a narrative could emerge freely, rather than for decorative purposes or for the pressure of showing conventional physical dexterity.”
https://movementexposed.com/2021/04/30/last-resistance-cold-hawaii/ April 30, 2021 by Licia Fernandez Santoro
