Sort/Hvid [Black/White] is an experimental performing arts venue based in a former slaughterhouse in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District. We create and present bold interdisciplinary works where theatre, music and visual art collide. With a strong focus on new music theatre, we challenge artistic conventions and invite audiences into immersive, unpredictable experiences that question contemporary society, morality and the body.
Sort/HvidDK
Theatre JEANNE D'ARC
Genre
Opera
Entourage
15
Duration
90 minutes
Director
Anja Behrens
Concept & Staging
Behrens/Mellbye/Ryberg
Composition & Adaptation
SØS Gunver Ryberg
Scenography
Nathalie Mellbye
Produced by
Sort/Hvid
Funded by
Danish Arts Foundation, Augustinus Fonden, A.P. Møller Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Beckett-Fonden, Knud Høygaards Fond, William Demant Fonden, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Dansk Komponistforening/KODA Kultur
JEANNE D'ARC
Sort/Hvid goes to electronic war with Joan of Arc in a radical new opera inspired by Giuseppe Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco.
Composer and sound artist SØS Gunver Ryberg deconstructs Verdi’s 1845 score into an intense fusion of opera, electronic music and live percussion. Opera singers, dancers and musicians perform alongside new texts by poets, activists and playwrights. Created by director Anja Behrens and scenographer Nathalie Mellbye, Jeanne d'Arc explores courage, sacrifice and moral responsibility in a world marked by war, confronting audiences with one urgent question: Would you go to war for justice?
Photo: Emilia Therese
Photo: Emilia Therese
Trailer: Tue Ahlgren