Rosalind Goldberg
Dim
Illustration: Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen
Th 6.2.2025, 20:00-21:30, MDT
Fr 7.2.2025, 20:00-21:30, MDT
Dim is a work for three dancers. A state of numbness steers their relationships and pathways, where care, violence, indifference, boundlessness, and desire tremble on an uneven path.
Dim explores anaesthesia – both as a consequence of the times we live in and as a tool to cope with these times. This numbed state often arises from our over-aestheticised, accelerated, and information-rich society. Paradoxically, it is also frequently chemically induced, as a self-generated shield against an overwhelming reality. Never before have so many people used antidepressants as today – a development deeply rooted in the pharmaceutical industry of late capitalism, which some argue functions to maintain productivity within the labor system.
This choreographic work examines the physical logics that these states evoke and how human perceptions of the world and others are altered. What do you simply ignore because it does not concern you, because you are numbed? And what can be done, since you feel less? Not all stimuli can be blocked out, and certain overwhelming impressions still seep through and are absorbed by the body. How are relational emotions like care and violence navigated through this haze?
A world premiere, this work is the first of three in the STUPOR series by choreographer Rosalind Goldberg, which all deal with the theme of anaesthesia.
AFTER PARTY
To celebrate the first Spring 25 season opening, MDT invites for a party after the performance on Thursday, 6/2.
DJ Rayo will head the pick ups, delicious finger food will be served and the bar will be open all evening.
Come join us!
Free entry.
POST-PERFORMANCE TALK
After the performance on Friday, 7/2, choreographer Rosalind Goldberg will be in conversation with dancer and professor Chrysa Parkinson about the work of creating Dim.
Free entry. Held in English.
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Rosalind Goldberg
Rosalind Goldberg (NO/SE) is a choreographer based in Oslo. She holds a PhD in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, with the title: Choreography as a meaning-generating aggregate.
Rosalind’s work explores processes of change and is characterized by a physical and conceptual approach to choreography, where the entanglement of the two directs the process. Central in her work is the question of what we can expect from the body - to what extent the body can change, and what sides of the body we hide away from. She is interested in the unknown, uncomfortable, leaking, fantastic sides of bodily life and explores the murky water where biology and notions of the body are rubbing against each other. Drawing on inspiration from neurobiology, philosophy on plasticity, new materialism, and notions around the unknown, she creates practices to challenge the habitual in the dancer as a method to stir around with the body’s representation on stage.
Rosalind's latest productions are DARK DYNAMITE (2022), TheField (2020), Rut (2018), Immunsystemet (2017), Jump with me! (2016), MIT (2013), Fake Somatic Practice (2011).
Rosalind’s work has recently been performed at Impulstanz Festival in Vienna, Tanz Im August in Berlin, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Sophiensaele in Berlin, Schauspielhaus Chemnitz, Uferstudios in Berlin, TanzFabrik Berlin, Dansens Hus in Stockholm, Inkonst in Malmö, Dansens Hus in Oslo, Weld in Stockholm, Skogen in Gothenburg, BIT-Teatergarasjen in Bergen, Henie Onstad Art Center, Rosendal Teater in Trondheim, RAS – Regional Arean for Samtidsdans, Black Box Teater in Oslo, et al.
Concept and choreography
Developed with and performed by
Music
Scenography and costume
Light and video design
Light intern
Nell Schwan
Dramaturgy
Production
Illustration
Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen
Supported by
Arts Council Norway. Co-produced by MDT Stockholm, Black Box Teater Oslo, Rosendal Teater, RAS – Regional Arena for Samtidsdans. Residency support by Bora Bora and NREP Residency.
Thanks to
Dina Moen, Edith Strand Askeland, Emilie Marie Karlsen, Emma Jansen, Hanna Våge Skjeggestad, Ingvild Marstein Olsen, June Lysjø, Natalia Drozd, Olivia Edginton, and Stine Haug Gjestvang.
*The music is based on the album 'you always wanted more in life, but now you don't have the appetite', composed by Camilla Vatne Barratt-Due, arranged, produced and mixed by Ådne Meisfjord, released by Street Pulse Records 2021.
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