we will have had darker futures

We Will Have Had Darker Futures

If one dreams of ecstasy and lameness
If one dreams of going and never really getting anywhere on a little path through other things…

We Will Have Had Darker Futures is a short term detachment, a visionary parallel reality that contemplates the bounds between past and present. It is a dance which attempts to weave together past, present and future, mixing it all up into time loops, blurring the sense of linear temporality.

The focus of the work is to think of possible futures by daydreaming through language and dance. The audience is invited to engage in collective finger knitting throughout the performance, an activity which emphasizes the passage of time.

“Crocheting against the apocalypse. […] Even the utter dystopian can at the end take a turn towards the utopian.” Sydsvenskan 28.02.2018 (in Swedish)

Concept, choreography & performance: Katie Vickers, Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Rebecka Stillman
Light design: Clive Mitchell
Costumes: Wim Muyllaert, Katie Vickers, Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Rebecka Stillman
Scenography: Wim Muylaert, Ken Van De Mierop, Mathilda Perrot (intern) and Sofie Durnez
Sound: Ruben Nachtergaele, Katie Vickers, Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and Rebecka Stillman
Artstic advice: Dries Douibi
Video and editing: Stanislav Dobák
Photography: Sofie Jaspers

Performances:

Premiere: De Singel (Antwerpen) 18 March 2017
MDT (Stockholm) 11 & 12 November 2017
Atalante (Göteburg) 13 September 2018
Dansstationen (Malmö) 27 & 28 February 2018