We Will Have Had Darker Futures (2017)
“Understanding is an unending activity by which, in constant change and variation, we come to terms with and reconcile ourselves to reality, that is, try to be at home in the world.” - Hannah Arendt
We Will Have Had Darker Futures is a trio dance performance that deals with understanding the past in order to move forward into the future. The performers practice and facilitate detachment through movement, text, and collective actions as means to escape our constant fear of change.
We begin by looking for ways of existing and being at home in a world of constant noise, fear, and alerts. As fear is the economy of media it filters through political structures and into all aspects
of every day life. The mass production line of fear is one of anxiety and terror; information on a regular basis is used simply as way to mobilize terror.
By looking at time-transgressing notions such as fear and hope, we investigate and invent new methods pivoting around detachment. Notions which transgress the order of past, present, future and give us an experience in time but outside of how one usually experiences its succession.
An inviting journey of undoing, a dance of movement and words, where language and physical language provokes and undoes what stands before us through revisitations and alterations to past events. We Will Have Had Darker Futures thinks of possible futures through daydreaming, lan- guage, and dance while emphasizing the passage of time in the act of collective finger knitting.
Concept, choreography & performance: Katie Vickers, Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Rebecka Stillman
Sound: Ruben Nachtergaele, Katie Vickers, Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Rebecka Stillman
Co-Production: DeSingel, MDT Stockholm with the support of the Province of Antwerp, Reykjavik City, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, wpZimmer, ccBerchem, de School van Gaasbeek and The Swedish Arts Council
Tour:
2018
January 27/28th Malmo, SE
September 15/16th Gothenberg, SE
2017
December 11/12th Stockholm, SE
September 2nd Lennik, BE
March 17/18th Antwerp, BE
Image credits: @SofieJaspers
