Pas de Deux
Version for violin & performer
Performed here by Karin Hellqvist & Silje Aker Johnsen.
Filmed by Margarida Paiva.
Performance by Mirka Malmi & Elisa Rusi-Matero,
Nordic Music Days 2018, Helsinki
Pas de Quatre
version for 2 strings & 2 dancers.
Developed & performed by Rikka Läser, Ivo Bärtsch, Corey Worley & Mathilde Lauridon at Bridging Arts Festival, Nürnberg (DE)
About
Pas de Deux deals with issues of control, enacted through touch, and thus lends itself to a variety of cultural & political commentary, depending on what each of the two performers is seen to represent. However, it can also be read as a more personal story between two people, or even a sort of Pinocchio tale.
Written for and developed alongside Mira Benjamin & Silje Aker Johnsen for nu:nord 2014.
Expanded afterward and filmed with support from Arts Coucil Norway (FFLB) and The Norwegian Society of Composers.
Gallery
Recording
Nürnburg
Kópavogur