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The elders are one of the population groups most rapidly increasing in the Nordic countries. Meanwhile we desperately tribute eternal youth and cover up all signs of aging. Our fear of decay, wringles and death are marginalizing our elders in society and making us strangers to the old body.
NextDoor Project has since 2015 travelled around the nordic countries with 'Happy End'. a.o. places the work has taken place in Reykjavik (IS), Kiruna (SE), Qeqertarsuaq (GL), Jomala (AX), Tromsø (NO), Helsinki (FI), Torshavn (FO), Harstad (NO) and Copenhagen (DK).
Happy End is an artintervention created and embodied in collaboration between professional dancers and nursing home residents. Together they investigate old age through dance, choreograph, dialogue and experiences of connectivity and mutual aesthetic creation.
The work unfolds as a residency where the artists move in and engage in their artistic practice with the residents on a daily basis. Towards the end of the residency doors open to the public, sharing a performantive moment where life at the nursing home and the choreographic artistic investigation emerges with poetic realism into one sensorous experience.
The nordic journey of the work in 2015-2018 was documented by danish photographer Per Morten Abrahamsen and by film-documentarist Engeli Broberg (SE) in the socio-poetic film ”Happy End”.
Artistic team:
Artistic leader:
Ingrid Tranum Velásquez
Composer:
Trondur Bogason
Scenography:
Local nordic artists, a.o. Icelandic Love Corporation, Minna Öberg, Hanna Kanto.
Choreography:
Ingrid Tranum velásquez in collaboration between the dancers and nursing homes residents.
On stage (2015-2021):
Nursing home residents from the Nordic Countries and dancers Anette Asp Christensen, Christian From, Frej stenholt Mortensen, Kristina Sørensen Ougaard, Anna Stamp and Ingrid Tranum Velásquez
The production is supported by:
Mentanargrunnur Landsins
Tórshavn Kommune
Slots - og Kulturstyrelsen - 1000 nye fællesskaber
Ingrid Tranum Velásquez
Anette Asp Christensen
Frej Stenholt Mortensen
Christian From
Engeli Broberg
Per Morten Abrahamsen)
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