Nadja Hjorton
Medea — it’s a classic
Photo: Chrisander Brun.
Visual description and sign language interpretation on 18.03.2016.
We 16.3.2016, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Fr 18.3.2016, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Sa 19.3.2016, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Medea is a fucking annoying person. To revenge her boyfriend Jason she kills her children, and takes the opportunity to kill King Creon and his daughter while she’s at it. Medea is an oppressed, humiliated woman who rises and does the impossible – she slaughters patriarchy, reproduction and heteronormativity during one thrilling day in Corinth. There are different stories.
”Medea – it’s a classic” is Nadja Hjorton and co-creators Halla Olafsdottir, Shirley Harthey Ubilla, Daniel Andersson, Chrisander Brun and Britta Perssons re-interpretation of the classical drama. Accompanied by a soundtrack of suggestive loops signed Britta Persson and with theatre masks and zorba dance, they replace the ancient dialouge with emotional vomiting and absurd camp fire stories.
”Medea – it’s a classic" is Nadja Hjortons third piece to be shown at MDT. With ”Radio dance” and ”On air” she used the radioformat as a starting point for choreography. With ”Medea – it’s a classic” she digs into the idea of the classic – and how we choose to make classics up to date by filtering them through our contemporary society.
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Nadja Hjorton
Nadja Hjorton is a Swedish choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm. She did the MA program in Choreography at DOCH from 2010-2012. Nadja is interested in thinking choreography through different contexts and formats and she is working with dance and choreography, seeking to challenge norms and notions of what choreography and dance is and can be. Her works deal with issues like power, body politics, sexuality, humor and desire and she is always busy with finding different ways and spaces for people to spend time together – the theatre room being one space full of potential for this activity.
Nadja has made numerous independent and collaborative works over the years. Her works MILF, Cuteness overload (with Lisen Rosell and Anna Efraimsson) and Grottbjörnens folk (with Lisen Rosell and Amanda Apetrea), are moving around thematics like motherhood, cute aggression, object/subject, gaze and sexual desire. Her latest work,TAKEOVER, takes off in sisterhood, and is a dance performance where a group of sport engaged teenage girls between 16-18 years old, physically and emotionally take over a sports hall and where the passion and physicality of the sports informs the choreography. Nadja’s works have been presented at several venues and festivals around Europe.
Nadja is part of Samlingen and ÖFA-kollektivet.
Initiator
Composer
Lights, set design and costume
Producer
Co-production
MDT, Uppsala Stadsteater, Norrlands operan and ÖFA-kollektivet
Residencies
Turteatern, Reykjavik Dance Festival
Support
the Swedish Arts Council, the city of Stockholm and the Stockholm County Council. This presentation is part of the project [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, which is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.
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