In "Delighthouse and the Dark room", the audience is invited into a new dimension in a collage of practises, metaphors, dances, games, stories and pop cultural references in a wave of melancholic states. On stage five dancers examine audible dances and choreography with sound and listening as method in "Delighthouse and the Dark room".

The project plays with attention as orientation. A text written by ear becomes a story about a dancing body that we listen to. Through synesthetic starting points it challenges what can express a personal experience and be a dancing language. How can we put movement into words and sing a dance?

This piece is created out of different listening scores and somatic practises, that unfold a sonosphere that guides and holds the moving body. As a continuation of the ”queer healing aerobics programme” / dance piece ”The Fishingdance & other cosmic confessions”, Sindri collaborates with composer Markus B. Almqvist and experiment further with audible dances, and how music and sound can be a primary source for choreography and the perception of dance. In “Delighthouse…”, their collaboration extends into a wider process and a dialog with Sindris text and songwriting, blended with Markus compositions and music production. The sonic methods and songs express both a performance narrative, as well as somatic dance practises.

Starting from a lighthouse as a metaphor for the body, and the state between its capacity to both guide and warn, Sindri has created four dances that examine the space between what can be both a blessing and a curse. The performance meets darkness with humor, and suggests new ways to approach your melancholy.

The project works with a fictitious vocabulary and creation of new words and expressions in relation to the metaphoric body and the actual anatomy. By naming new movement qualities, existing as well as non-existing body parts or physicalities, new questions can take place along with a sense of agency around one’s own sensory experience and the dancing body.