Using voice, rhythm, and movement the dancers explore the relation
between listening and moving. In a performance that could be a concert in
the sense that it invokes listening, the space and the bodies are played as
instruments. The dance becomes a tool to describe the sound, and the
sound becomes a tool to describe the dance. Sounds and movements
create knots and entanglements that feedback off each other and that
produces a situation where the skill of paying attention is practiced on all
sides, on that of the performer-listener and on that of the audience-
listener. In that sense, the title does not only refer to the performers but
also to the audience. The role of the performer is to notice and let notice,
the skill is to listen and describe.
The Listeners was originally made for the Swedish company Cullberg in
year 2020.

Dance and vocals: Frida Billeskov Olensen, Anita Czako, Paavali Velinpoika
Kärkkäinen, Hanna A. Lokoy, Elli Maria Virtanen, Anne Sofie Stubbe
Lindeberg, Pauline Michel, Aikaterina Dimitrelli, Leana Licius, Lenka
Vorechovska, Vilma Ehnberg, Lisbet Ravn Riis, Miranda Rivier e, Thorunn
Gudmundsdottir.
Choreography: Alma Söderberg
Choreographers assistant: Magali Camps
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričič
Music: Dehendrik Lechat Willekens
Costume inspired by the original design by: Behnaz Aram
Light Design: Pol Matthé
Premiere: 24th of May at Den Danske Scenekunstskole
Performance period 24.5.-01.6.2024 (7)
Lenght: 1 hour
Pictures: Graham Adey