Winner of Dance Performance of the Year 2012 at the Danish Performing Arts Award, Reumert Awards

LIVING ROOM is a performance about hierarchies. Open source, 2.0 and other non-hierarchical structures are buzzwords in the 21st century – and yet, we all subject ourselves to a long line of ancient hierarchies. The world’s oldest is that between man and shadow – a hierarchy of nature that it is impossible to disobey… Or is it?

Confronting the human body and a motion sensitive scenography, LIVING ROOM put a physical expression on what it means to take control or subject, and questions who is the puppet and who is the puppeteer – who controls whom?

Recoil has worked dedicated with how dance integrated with motion sensitive technology can generate a very special performative language – a work that requires not only the dancers to be choreographed but also the surrounding video graphics. This close relationship between body and space and how they mutually control or influence each other is a fascination recoil has pursued from many different perspectives. In LIVING ROOM it is about the powerful and the powerless. A visual story about breaking free from pre-destined roles and respectively give and take space.