HOPE AND HEAVY METAL
Image by Matilde Søes Rasmussen
In the form of an album Hope and Heavy Metal takes the audience into the subtle life of a complicated and scattered character. Through text, movement and sound the piece researches how this body deals with loneliness, rage and sensuality. Moving from the skin, understanding it as a feminist issue and the voice as a power tool the character works with, against and through the preconceived image of the female body on and off stage.
World premiere October 2018 at Dansmakers in Amsterdam
Selected for the Moving Futures Festival https://movingfutures.nl/en/
It is a 45 minute solo work with a simple set up and also works in double bill. It can be shown in a classical theater setting, gallery spaces and music venues.
Credits:
Choreography, Idea and Performance : Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen
Music: Juliet Aaltonen
Set design: Anders Toft Pedersen
Production & Publicity: Matilde Søes Rasmussen, Dansmakers Amsterdam
Artistic Advice: Andrea Zavala Folache, Renée Copraij, Camilla Lind
Artistic support: Suzy Blok, Heleen Volman, Kristin de Groot
In Collaboration with Dansateliers, DansBrabant, Moving Futures Network
Big Thanks to Tea Teearu, Matilde Søes Rasmussen, Antonia Steffens, Anders Toft Pedersen, Charlie Trier, Ana Vujanovic
Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Dansgroep Amsterdam
Shown at Dansmakers Ams, OT301, Korzo Den Haag, Theater Rotterdam, Theater Kikker Utrecht, de nieuwe vorst Groningen, LUX Nijmegen
This creation was developed as part of the Moving Forward Trajectory, an initiative of Dansmakers Amsterdam and Dansgroep Amsterdam in collaboration with Dansateliers, DansBrabant and De Nieuwe Oost. Sigrid won the Moving forward award in 2017 with her solo Remembrane.
”It is amazing how the work stacks meanings with elements that at first sight seem almost too small grains of loose sand. Gradually, everything seems to fit together, a color belongs to a word, the size of things to a feeling or the heaviness of a movement to a memory.”
”once again contains everything that makes the performance so human: hesitation, faltering, displacement of a word, a meaning, mistakes and honesty: 'Hope you don't kill me.’”
https://www.theaterkrant.nl/recensie/hope-and-heavy-metal/sigrid-stigsdatter-mathiassen-dansmakers-amsterdam/ Wendy Lubberding
19 oktober 2018
“Felt Like a fraud, made stuff up, pretend it has value, say body 100 times a day, feels like paying attention to it, saying the word. Hurts, body hurts, forgot to eat, forgot to sleep, forgot to drink water, feel guilty. I put on music, I dance, write rap songs that no will ever hear. Look at my videos find them cool, sometimes, but it was just right there, it was just right. Took an education, so I should know, should have already known. Treat my self to 10 minuets of social media time, got addicted, does provide some self esteem people liking posts, take it as a confirmation for art, but it’s not, another fraud. I click all my apps and I love it and then I hate my self. Teach a class, talking about being soft, sensitive and sensual, I believe in that, I do, talking about selfsitivity, selfsuality, selfsoftness, but I wanna be mean to my body, I wanna break my body down, wanna dissolve but not painlessly, put lotion on my hands and face otherwise I’m hard and dry and bitter. Wanna make my skin break, but not actually, have a show in a week, need to want to show. Talking about full exposure, but no one want to see that, unless it’s done with really good aesthetics. I wanna indulge in drama and emotions, feeling are in now, what happens when they are out? I’m overly sensitive, then I’m out, my art is no longer cool, was told not to use the word cool, so I mean relevant. Think I need some Joni Michel at this point or some PJ Harvey or maybe a gentle touch.”
- Text from the performance
