Today we lost our human constitution, if we have the courage we will let our selves stay lost.
We tried to find something, it felt desperate at first and then better and better, it was like an ecstasy that almost ends in madness, mayhem and then subsides again. Throwing our bodies into places.
And then: Disorientation. Lack of identity. White. No. No. No. White. Where. Who. Hurt. Floating. Body. Where. Away. Somewhere I am melting
Dissolving
Milk
Somewhere my self is melting and my narrative is me.
Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. Suddenly things no longer need to make sense. I’m satisfied with being. Are
you? Certainly you are. The meaninglessness of things makes me smile complacently. Everything surely must go on being what it is.
Today is a day of nothing. Today is down to the wire. Could there be a number that is nothing? that is less than zero? that begins where there is no beginning because it always was? and was before always? Clarice Lispector
"Milk" is a dance performance made for and with the third year of the Athanor Academy under the direction of choreographer Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen. The work builds on the collaboration between Edith and the performing students through the exchange of personal thoughts, texts and video material in the exploration of physical tasks given over the course of several months. The result: it takes shape in “Milk”
Heute haben wir unsere menschliche Gestalt verloren. Wenn wir den Mut dazu haben, werden wir uns selbst verloren sein lassen.
Wir haben versucht, etwas zu finden, es fühlte sich zuerst verzweifelt an und dann besser und dann besser, es war wie eine Ekstase, die fast in Wahnsinn, in Chaos endet und dann wieder vergeht. Wir schmeissen unsere Körper in Orte hinein.
Und dann: Orientierungslosigkeit. Identitätslosigkeit. Weiß. Nein. Nein. Nein. Weiß. Wo. Wer. Verletzt. Treibend. Körper. Wo. Weg.
Irgendwo bin ich schmelzend
Auflösend
Milch
Irgendwo schmilzt mein Selbst, und meine Darstellung bin ich.
Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. Suddenly things no longer need to make sense. I’m satisfied with being. Are
you? Certainly you are. The meaninglessness of things makes me smile
complacently. Everything surely must go on being what it is.
Today is a day of nothing. Today is down to the wire. Could there be a
number that is nothing? that is less than zero? that begins where there is no
beginning because it always was? and was before always? Clarice Lispector
"Milk" ist eine Tanzperformance, die für und mit dem dritten Jahrgang der Athanor Akademie unter der Leitung der Choreografin Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen entstanden ist. Die Arbeit basiert auf dem Austausch von persönlichen Gedanken, Texten und Videomaterial zwischen Edith und den darstellenden Studierenden während der Erforschung von körperlichen Aufgaben über den Zeitraum von mehreren Monaten. Es nimmt Form an in „Milk“
Milk // Teaser from CompanyHAA on Vimeo.
Concept and Artistic Direction Kozept und künstlerische Leitung
Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen
Performance and Co-creation Performance und Co-Kreation
Tekla Farkas
Malaika Lermer
Lara Pauli
Julia Reisser
Olga Tomkowiak
Nele Wirth
Dramaturgy and stage support Dramaturgie und Bühnenbetreuung
Florian von Hoermann
Directors Assistant Regieassistenz
Anna Waibel
Tour Technick
Alexander Urban
Voice Support Stimmliche Unterstützung
Helmut Schwaiger
Texts by Clarice Lispector, Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen and The Performers
Texte von Clarice Lispector, Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen und den Darstellern
PREMIERED Oktober 2023 in Athanor Akademie
Performed at FITS Sibiu International Theater Festival 2023
&
Uferstudios Berlin Oktober 2025
Performed at FITS Sibiu International Theater Festival 2023
&
Uferstudios Berlin Oktober 2025
