BREAKING FACADE

A knock on a door.

You step into a room. There are two people waiting.

The two people seem to want you something, but you are unsure if you know what.

Do you ever know what anyone wants from you?

You make a choice and try to participate in what they want. After a while it ends.

You leave the room and think. “I maybe should have done something else”.

A knock on a door.

You step into a room. There again are two people waiting for you.  

Residencies:

BORA BORA THEATRE - 2021
In april 2021 the project has made a first initial research period during an artists residency at Bora Bora in Aarhus, Denmark.
Artists collaborated with during the residency was Inga Gerner Nielsen and Victor Malmberg Vejle.

SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY & HUDDINGE MUNICIPALITY - 2022
During 2022 the project will be developed during a residency funded and collaborated with Södertörn University and Huddinge municipality in Stockholm. The project will be focused on during three phases spread out during the year and will end up with a public showcase in december at Södertörns University theatre - Svarta Lådan (The Black Box).
Artists collaborating during this residency is Lisen Ellard and Lucas Carlsson.

KONSTNÄRSNÄMNDEN (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee) - 2023
In July 2023 the project will continue its process during at two weeks residency at Danscentrum Syd in Malmö Sweden, funded by Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee).

Breaking Facade is a Project currently in development

The idea for this project derrives from the question:
Would it be possible to make a live interactive performance inspired by the computer game Façade by Procedural Arts, but based upon choreographic structures?

The project tries to explore how a looping decision-tree structure could be performed through body language, choreographic practices and movement as the main material for its scenes and decisions.

The project also explores how the intimacy of immersive interactive performances could be combined with the performativity of staged performance that happens in front of a live audience.

One audience member at a time will enter through a door on stage into a space where two performers are waiting for them. The participant’s actions will affect what futures will be unfolded and what scenes and pathways will be taken. Learning from their experience they will have the possibility to restart it all again from the beginning, but now with all their newly found knowledge. Will the participant try to relive a scene again? Or will they explore for something new? And what will a new audience member do when they enter the stage to continue the exploration, after seeing what has transpired earlier?

Breaking Facade is in creation with support from:
- Bora Bora Theatre
- The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
- Södertörn University & Huddinge Municipality