Mette Ingvartsen
Giant City
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Giant City
Concept and choreography, Mette Ingvartsen
Light, Minna Tiikkainen
Sound and dramaturgy, Gerald Kurdian
With Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Dolores Hulan, Sidney Leoni, Guillem Mont De Palol, Chrysa Parkinson, Manon Santkin, Andros Zins-Browne Production Assistant, Kerstin Schroth
Production Mette Ingvartsen/Great Investment
Coproduction steirischer herbst festival (Graz) ; Festival Baltoscandal (Rakvere) ; PACT Zollverein (Essen) ; Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) ; Kaaitheater (Bruxelles)
Corealisation Théâtre de la Cité internationale ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Funded by Haupstadtkulturfonds (Berlin) and Kunstrådet, Danish Arts Council (Danemark)
Researches helped by Le CENTQUATRE (Paris) and le Musée de la Danse (Rennes)
Technology, privacy and global structures are crucial themes to choreographer Mette Ingvartsen. In Where is my Privacy, she explored the way representations of the body change with new communication means. Her latest opus attempts to find a physical equivalent to the virtual flows animating the city – flows of information, money and desire.
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