OKTOBERDANS | Eckly/Spreafico (NO) At the End of your Fork
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Spilles 19. oktober KL 21:00 / 20. oktober KL 19:30 Lysverket
At the End of Your Fork is a performance playing with the relation between food and ethics, a piece that deals with the symbolic aspects of food rather than the nutritional one. What are we speaking about when we speak about food? Do we speak about health or wealth? Nourishing or perishing? sophistication or decadence?
Throughout time, food has had different meanings. In the Middle Ages gluttony was considered one of the seven deadly sins, considering all non-alimentary aspects of food as part of Evil. Later, particularly in France, food became a possibility to show the aristocratic grandeur (what has developed in the modern cuisine) moving the symbolic aspect of food from religious guilt to social pride or envy. More recently health care pushed eating back on the edge of evil and ethic discussions on the production chain made food a political issue.
In a restaurant (Lysverket), with the help and complicity of one of Norway’s most renowned chefs (Christopher Haatuft), two dancers (Caroline Eckly and Elisabeth Lambeck) and two troubadours (Jørgen Knudsen and Reidar Karlsen) will evoke associations and multiply images of our society’s relationship with food.
Choreography and performance: Caroline Eckly, Elisabeth Lambeck
Music composition and Performance: Jørgen Knudsen, Reidar Karlsen
Direction: Andrea Spreafico
Food: Christopher Haatuft
Co-produced by: BIT Teatergarasjen, O Espaço do Tempo, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Bergen Kommune, Lysverket
