Since 2017 choreographer Lisen Ellard and director Mattias Lech have created performances exploring death, loss, grief, and how contemporary society relates to these experiences. Drawing on backgrounds in dance, theatre, music, and radio, they work across disciplines and forms of expression. Their work includes several major productions that have toured in Sweden and internationally, alongside site-specific performances and visual art installations presented at theatres, museums, and galleries.
Ellard/LechSE
Theatre DÖDEN (DEATH)
Genre
Participatory performance and Immersive dance/theatre
Entourage
2
Duration
50 minutes
Concept and Creation
Mattias Lech and Lisen Ellard
Sound Design and Music
Elize Arvefjord
Voice
Benjamin Quigley
Produced by
Ellard/Lech
Funded by
Swedish arts council, Swedish arts grants committee
Co-producers
Ung Scen Norr, Uppsala city theatre, Riksteatern
DÖDEN (DEATH)
DÖDEN is a participatory experience where the audience, through movement, is invited to examine and meditate upon existential, physical and meta-physical questions regarding life, living, death, dying, their own bodies, its functions and the social context it dwells in. In DÖDEN there is no stage or seats. Only a safe room. The audience is handed a pair of headphones. Then, guided by instructions through the headphones, they experience, perform and witness the show at the same time. Together the audience will make a choreography consisting of simple movements and formations that collaborates to create personal encounters, associative images and ritualistic group-activities.
Language: Swedish and/or English and the show could pretty easily be translated into more languages.
Photo: Ellard/Lech
Photo: Ellard/Lech