DON’T FEAR CHANGE
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Human beings entertain themselves with nonsense and dead things. There is no planet B, but what if planet A stands for Adaption - and when did nature actually ask to be saved by us and not from us?
Circling around the notion that the apocalypse is a boring dystopia - no grandiose battlefield but just a little less of everything fun in a slow collapse of biodiversity and capitalism - BRAVO TOGA has created the performance Don’t Fear Change. A choreographic and dramatic research about escaping one's domesticated lifestyle and re-connecting with one's inner wildlife.
Exploring the paradox of being a human body with a post-animal mind, BRAVO TOGA wonders how humanity is coping with our current cliff hanger-moment in time. By cross-fertilizing interimistic scoutpractices with actual cognitive group therapy, Don’t Fear Change questions the prospects of our dead-end future like a rockband in i a midlife crisis who finally understands their past toxicity and ask ourselves: is this the best version of us?
︎︎︎TRAILER ︎
︎︎︎FULL DOCUMENTATION ︎ pw: Fear
Human beings entertain themselves with nonsense and dead things. There is no planet B, but what if planet A stands for Adaption - and when did nature actually ask to be saved by us and not from us?
Circling around the notion that the apocalypse is a boring dystopia - no grandiose battlefield but just a little less of everything fun in a slow collapse of biodiversity and capitalism - BRAVO TOGA has created the performance Don’t Fear Change. A choreographic and dramatic research about escaping one's domesticated lifestyle and re-connecting with one's inner wildlife.
Exploring the paradox of being a human body with a post-animal mind, BRAVO TOGA wonders how humanity is coping with our current cliff hanger-moment in time. By cross-fertilizing interimistic scoutpractices with actual cognitive group therapy, Don’t Fear Change questions the prospects of our dead-end future like a rockband in i a midlife crisis who finally understands their past toxicity and ask ourselves: is this the best version of us?
︎︎︎TRAILER ︎
︎︎︎FULL DOCUMENTATION ︎ pw: Fear
“...en kunstnerisk fuckfinger”
“:...underspillet skævt og klogt
”en forestilling (. . .) man ikke lige glemmer”
CALENDER
2023
Inkonst, Malmö
Wednesday 12th of April at 19:00
Thursday 13th of April at 19:00
www.inkonst.com
Dansekapellet, Copenhagen
Wednesday 19th of April at 20:00
Thursday 20th of April at 20:00
www.dansekapellet.kk.dk
Saturday 29th of April at 19:00
Sunday 30th of April at 15:00
www.universum.fi
2022
Turteatern, Stockholm
Friday the 25th of March at 19:00 (Premiere)
Saturday the 26th of March at 19:00
Sunday the 27th of March at 16:00
www.turteatern.se
Press
“De tre nytænkende kunstnere i Bravo Toga viser stort scenisk nærvær i deres dokumentarstil og kølige selvironi.
De står ikke tilbage for ærlige, grimme og skæve udtryk.
På den måde er Don’t Fear Change et oprør med både det sceniske format og med materialismen.
Det er woke teater med indsigtsfulde perspektiver, og det er en forestilling med noget på hjerte, man ikke lige glemmer”
“...underspillet skævt og klogt fortalt med humor“
“...en kunstnerisk fuckfinger og den vedholdende insisteren på ikke at please nogen“
REVIEW ISCENE
Dont fear change - woke teater pleaser ikke nogen ★★★★
Credits
Concept, instruction, choreography, scenography, costumes, producing, PR: BRAVO TOGA
On stage (Turteatern 2020): Anna Kuusamo, Sara Ribbenstedt & Lena Bruun Bondeson
On stage (Nordic Tour 2023): Adrian Kautsky, Elina Norén Sandberg, Anna Kuusamo & Lena Bruun Bondeson
Sound- & light design: Bernt Karsten Sannerud
Technician (Turteatern 2020): Simon Ahlgren
Technician (Nordic Tour 2023): Adrian Kautsky
Make-up design: Moa Hedberg
Artistic grouptherapy consultant: Jeppe Aalsgaard Pachai
Grouptherapist: Marie Gamborg Laursen
Dramaturgical consultation: Jonas Schnor, Linda Forsell & Malou Zilliacus
Photo & video: BRAVO TOGA
Videographer (trailer): Jonna Dreiman
Video editing: Anna Kuusamo
Graphic design (poster & program): Aske Loewe
Funding
Kulturrådet - Swedish Arts CouncilNordisk Kulturkontakt - Nordic Culture Point
Nordisk Kulturfond - Nordisk Cultur Fund
Region Stockholm
The Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation
Produced through Interim Kultur through residencies at Estrad Norr (Östersund), Åbne Scene (Aarhus) and Turteatern (Stockholm) and partly at the Danish National School of Performing Arts (Copenhagen).
