Choreographer Palle Granhøj returns to Aarhus and Teatret Svalegangen with a piece built on the paintings of Michael Kvium. A dancer enters dressed as a member of the audience and gradually takes on the pose and stare of one of Kvium's figures. The image then refuses to stay still: the figures step out of the canvas and become living bodies, weight and breath, meeting, mirroring and colliding with one another.
Granhøj Dance's new production is a physical study of the grotesque, the vulnerable and the all-too-human. Figures we usually view from a distance suddenly stand before us in flesh, and we are forced to look again. Perhaps, the show suggests, the figures do not only move: they move us.
