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Double bill: Yet Another Day in Paradise & re:shape or headless into the sea

Lukas Karvelis / Laura Boser
Tue 3 Dec ’24 and Wed 4 Dec ’24
After Amsterdam Fringe these two performances can be seen again.
Tue 3 Dec ’24
and
Wed 4 Dec ’24

In this double bill we get to know the young makers Lukas Karvelis and Laura Boser in a full evening program. Their new work, which focuses on queer themes, was previously shown during the Amsterdam Fringe Festival.

Yet Another Day in Paradise - Lukas Karvelis

Yet Another Day in Paradise is a contemporary dance performance that analyses how the past influences our way of forming current relationships. The two protagonists are trying to find their own individual axis while being dependent on each other. They embrace each other very closely—closer and tighter than kissing distance—as they try to stay balanced atop a single skateboard. They are circling in endless motion, experiencing both acceptance and rejection. Their movements become a manifestation of resilience of the human spirit, a poignant reflection of the intricacies of intimacy, and the eternal quest for connection.

In his artistic work, Lukas seeks to find this crucial point at which change occurs within the body as it diverges away from trauma within society and oneself. He is currently linking this movement exploration to the social phenomenon of addiction, correlating to the body and mind. 

re:shape or headless into the sea - Laura Boser

"We need another figure, a thousand names of something else, to erupt out of the Anthropocene into another, big-enough story.“ Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble.

In re:shape or headless into the sea, the audience is invited to experience the wobbles, a speculative species inspired by invertebrate marine life, as they come to life. As hybrids between humans and soft, boneless creatures, these huge, shiny wobbles inhabit spaces once created by humans.

Together, we will witness these futuristic beings temporarily take over Frascati—a space soon to be filled with ever-changing bodies, soft whispers, and deep, vibrating sounds from far, far away, live improvised by Ghenwa Noiré. By zooming in on the delicate movements of these watery creatures, this work invites the audience to linger and immerse themselves in a world of fluid bodies, queer imaginaries, tentacular movement, hypersensitivity, and other-than-human temporalities.

Yet Another Day in Paradise

  • Duur: 40 min.

re:shape or headless into the sea

  • Duur: 40 min. 

Credits

Yet Another Day in Paradise 

concept, choreography Lukas Karvelis dancers Lukas Karvelis, Benoit Couchot music Gabrielė Dikčiūtė dramaturgy Sigita Ivaškaitė light design Povilas Laurinaitis scenography Aura Skulskytė, Luka Žiobakaitė producer BE COMPANY / Agnietė Lisičkinaitė financed by Lithuanian council for culture

re:shape or headless into the sea 

concept, performance, objects and costume Laura Boser live sound Ghenwa Noiré collaboration and acknowledgement Thommy Kraft, Ghenwa Noiré, Ascan Delarber, Agat Sharma, Tamara Rettenmund, Eva Hasler, Torsten Knoll, Kirsty Baker, Ulf Herold, Neslihan Kaymak, Oliver Artur artistic advice Sigal Zouk, Ulrike Quade, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Gerben Vaillant, Julika Mayer light design Thommy Kraft and Ghenwa Noiré sound design previous version Ascan Delarber trailer and photos Gergely Ofner poster design Ghenwa Noiré with support of Puppet Playground (Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond and Feikes Huis Amsterdam), In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP) Amsterdam, Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam, University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart thanks to my ipop collega’s, queered futures lab, Laura Cull ó Maoilearca, Esther Snelder, Loes van der Pligt, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sara Ahmed, Donna Haraway, Robin Wall Kimmerer, all the different species that inspired me on the way and my students at Artez Arnhem that helped me shape my practice

About the artists

Lukas Karvelis (1997) is a Lithuanian dance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Upon graduating from Codarts in 2019 on a Jiri Kylian Foundation scholarship, he began collaborating with Royal Danish theatre, Münich Kammerspiele, Dansatelier’s crew and Korzo Theater. Alongside his work as a performer and choreographer, Lukas developed a movement exploration practice that examines the motion of free fall, which challenges the mover to feel the freedom from gravity in order to find weightlessness. His own choreographic work has received multiple residencies at Atelier de Paris/ CDCN, the Arts Printing House, Cetro Coreografico Gomera and Teatri Di Vita. Karvelis was nominated for the Piket Kunst Award in 2020 and received young artist award from Lithuanian ministry of culture in 2023.

Laura Boser is a performer and interdisciplinary performance maker based in Amsterdam. In their work they combine approaches of visual theater, choreography and performance. Laura focuses on themes such as care, radical softness, queer ecology, and sexuality, exploring the ungraspable and in-between spaces. Their work particularly examines amorphous shapes, fluid bodies, and species living in the sea. In 2023, Laura was part of “In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities” (IPOP) a group of artists and researchers conducting research on queering artistic feedback. re:shape or headless into the sea is part of the body of work dealing with the wobbles, a speculative species Laura has been working with for more than 3 years. In 2023 Laura asked Ascan Delarber to join this project.