High Tide is a performance exploring what it feels like to be caught in the paradox of desire — of being in that place of holding on while wanting to let go, standing on the verge of grasping something not yet graspable. The performer lets emotional and physical forces guide the journey through this terrain of mixed feelings where desire holds both pleasure and pain. The work plays with the imagination that emerges in the space between the known, the unknown, and the desire to understand.
Drawing on the mythical trickster — a being of mischief and transformation — the performer uses disruptions and distortions as portals into unfamiliar terrain through movement and voice.
Somewhere between the real and the imagined, the intimate and the theatrical, High Tide unfolds in a dreamlike and surreal universe where dances reveal masking and unmasking.
High Tide is a choreographic work created and performed by Emilie Gregersen, developed in collaboration with composer Karis Zidore, light designer Veslemøy Rustad Holseter, and dramaturg Lydia Östberg Diakité.
Bio:
Emilie Gregersen’s choreographic work is departing from speculative fiction as a way to depict new worlds, through a curiosity of questioning and transforming meaning. Working with themes of intimacy, erotic ambivalence, the uncanny and the understandings of power dynamics Gregersen works with physical practices to create staged performances that evoke the senses.
