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Skid/Kites

Creations by Damien Jalet

Dance as struggle.

  • Duration

    Approx 2 h 30 min (incl. interval)

  • Dates

    21 — 27 Aug 2022

  • Stage

    Main Stage

  • Genre

    Dance

  • Price

    335–400 kr

  • Accessibility

A breathtaking evening by Damien Jalet, a choreographer who tames the forces of nature. Both of his works created for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani will be performed together for the first time, as was originally intended.

Damien Jalet is a multiple award-winning choreographer whose acclaimed works weave together different art forms. The sloping angles in Skid and the winds in Kites can be glimpsed in the Grammy-nominated music film Anima on Netflix – by Thom Yorke, Paul Thomas Anderson and Damien Jalet – in which GöteborgsOperans Danskompani features.

Please note: Due to a technically advanced set change, the interval between Skid and Kites will be 60 minutes long. Pre-book your interval refreshments, and pass the time conversing with your companions instead of queueing. Read the menu and make reservations here. You can also experience dance in VR! VR glasses are available in the foyer.

Skid

“An outstanding masterpiece” — Göteborgs-Posten
“Vertiginous, death defying dance” — GT

The stage floor in Damien Jalet’s Skid is on a 34-degree incline. The human relationship to gravity and the resistance and abandonment bound to it is what sets the dancers in motion. This new landscape of physical possibilities creates a chain reaction of physical and emotional events – dangerous, humorous, moving.

Videos about Skid

Benjamin Behrends, Tsung-Hsien Chen, Miguel Duarte, Zachary Enquist, Sabine Groenendijk, Mai Lisa Guinoo, Hiroki Ichinose, Valērija Kuzmiča, Rachel McNamee, Waldean Nelson, Einar Nikkerud, Riley O’Flynn, Anna Ozerskaia, Duncan C Schultz, Endre Schumicky, Frida Dam Seidel, Lee-Yuan Tu, Christoph von Riedemann, Arika Yamada, Joseba Yerro Izaguirre

Photos from Skid

In photo:  GöteborgsOperans Danskompani|Photographer:  Lennart Sjöberg

Kites

Curious about Skid/Kites?

Physical introduction

27 August at 4.30pm

Get to know the performance from another perspective!

These 1-hour physical explorations are a way of entering and experiencing various choreographic approaches, movement principles and aesthetic signatures. The physical engagement of audience members allows for a different perceptual contact with the performance, inviting the participants to connect and experiment within the physical (rather than just the visual) perspectives various works embody.

We invite everyone interested to join us. Comfortable clothes are advisable but not essential. Free admission with a ticket (Max 40 per session)

Book ticket

Curious about Skid/Kites?

Physical introduction 27/8
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GöteborgsOperans Danskompani

One of Europe’s leading contemporary dance companies – and the largest in Scandinavia.