Oblivion

”Fragments of memory, woven together with music – so impeccably performed by GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. The result is a dream-like tale about the passing of time which has dissolved into forgetfulness but has left permanent neurotic traces.” (SvD)
”Oblivion is an ode to the human body and its gestures as narrator.” (Borås Tidning)
”An hour of increasing intensity and tension.” (Kulturbloggen Alba)

Alan Lucien Øyen is an award-winning director, choreographer and playwright who is in high demand. He has his own company, Winter Guests, is resident choreographer at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, and creates commissioned works for the likes of the Paris Opera Ballet and the Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.

Alan Lucien Øyen has an ability to transport the audience through time and space. In his dreamlike stories, where illusion always prevails over reality, we catch a glimpse, through a child’s eyes, of ourselves and of death’s connectedness with life.

Team

CHOREOGRAPHY, TEXT, DIRECTION Alan Lucien Øyen
SET DESIGN Åsmund Færavaag
COSTUME DESIGN Stine Sjøgren
LIGHTING DESIGN Martin Flack
SOUND DESIGN Mathias Grønsdal
CO-CREATING CHOREOGRAPHER Daniel Proietto

The text and choreography has been created in close collaboration with the dancers.

Information

Dancers 14
Running time approx. 60 min

Spoken dialogue in English.

World premiere

18 March 2022

Recorded music

• Ólafur Arnalds & Royal Liverpool Philarmonic Orchestra ...og lengra
• Nicholas Britell Atmosphere in B Minor
• Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Clearing the Club, Prioritize, Confession
• Ben Lucas Boyson An infinite day
• Nils Frahm Hammers, Late, Our Own Roof, The Idea Machine
• Henry Jackman Your Fate is Darkly Determined, Another Day, Another Mission, Iraq, The Comedown, Overdose
• Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet The Beginning of the End, Ghosts of a Future Lost
• Dustin O’Halloran Opus 36
• Fred Rogers It’s the Style to Wear a Smile