2023/2024

Kirsten Kjærs Museum

Frøstrup Danmark 

September 023

New Dates/2nd Version:

26. / 27. April 2024

do we pray enough

dance theatre performance

“Do we pray enough” is a dance-theatre performance, developed and performed by Tatiana Zuccolotto (Arg) and Victoria Hauke (Tyskld), during two residencies (2023, 2024) at the KirstenKjaers Museum in Northern Danmark in Thy. With minimal and pure means, the two performance artists create a poetic work, that offers surprising shifts of perspective to questions of coexistence in our contemporary society.

Could it be that in these instable and at the same time over-technologized state of our world the essence is, to connect to more timeless qualities and concerns of our existence on earth? To offer an alternativ, maybe healing proposition of reality and keep an incorruptible magic alive? 

"Prayer" stands at the centre of the work and research in do we pray enough: what can `prayer` mean if it is not synonymous with a religious matter?

Reed, used as a building and protective material for centuries, serves as a living, sounding and sculptural partner. A constantly moving landscape is created, referring to the interweaving of humans, animals and plants that has existed since archaic times.

Fragments of the performers’ personal family history, which stretch back generations, touch on life-changing situations. How do we arrive at crucial decisions? How do we gain confidence to say yes or say no?

A choreography comes to life, by intertwining wide moments of silence, vibrating resonances of voices and reed and the flowing energy of movement.

Offering to the viewer the space to delve into the depths and power of their own feelings.

Dancing, grunting and whispering create the two performers a song. Of the wild. Of their ancestors. Of politics. Of intuition and the erotic. Of the magic of contradictory forces within.

Or is it a prayer?

By / with: Victoria Hauke (choreographer, dancer) and Tatiana Zuccolotto (physical actress)   Andi Otto (music), Margrethe Højlund (dramaturgical advice), Carlo Kitzlinger (video, editing)

Thank you so much for the cooperation to Kirsten Kjærs Museum and for technical support (lights) to Limfjordsteatret