shivr is a being of the twilight. Neither nor. Both and. Living between the realms of the ill and the well. shivr is undying ongoingly. A crack in your porcelain politics.
shivr [gyse, gåsehud] is a body horror dance solo by choreographer Ar Utke Ács. The performance centers experiences of chronic illness and queer embodiment through the fictional character, shivr. shivr claims the monstrous body as a form of non-binary resistance and invites the audience into a portrait of a non-conforming being.
The performance is created in collaboration with artist Sofie Winther / Puer Parasitus and photographer and visual artist Fryd Frydendahl with textual conspiracies developed with poet Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez.
shivr is the first performance of the unapparent trilogy which portrays non-binary positions from the queer and chronically ill body. Each performance represents a character, an archetype, and each proposes another body-mind and thus another worlding.
Choreographer and performer Ar Utke Ács
Ar Utke Ács is working as an artist within contemporary dance and an expanded understanding of choreography. They work with the poetics and politics of the body in the seams of performance, dramaturgy, text, installation, social choreographies and the imaginary. In particular, they are busy with counter-hegemonic strategies and organising from queer and crip writing and lived experience.
They are based in Copenhagen and Stockholm, hold a BA in Dance Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts and are a part of the studio cooperatives Dance Cooperative and höjden studios (SE).
Ar has co-produced works in collaboration with Dansehallerne, MDT (SE) and BIT Teatergarasjen (NO) and presented their work at contexts such as BalticCircle (FI), Open Out/Tromsø Kunstforening (NO), Overgaden and Charlottenborg. More info here.
