Cupid’s first kiss (2018) is an immersive performance installation, dealing with themes of the erotic as force. Borrowing the term from American author Audre Lorde writings. Cupid’s 1st kiss is a performance-installation staging the erotic as force and the obscene as culture. With the use of choreography, voice & sound it is exploring the erotic in the sense that writer Audre Lorde poses it. The spectator is invited to walk through Freuds psychosexual development stages, that the performer inhabits. While questions around the Male gaze from film theorist Laura Mulvey.
cupid’s 1st kiss was the first performance-installation I directed and devised in 2018 at Bådteatret, Nyhavn in Copenhagen with 6 performers both Danish and Swedish speaking, it was performed in English. Lenght: approx. 1 hour.
The text for the performance was this: “Humans have escaped in2 isolation 2 find their erotic beings, and exploring their erotic desires. But brain damage has caused amnesia that leaves them ignorant for all previous ideas about the erotic. What objects are erotic when you have no culture? What are the objects of taboo then? An exploration into the obscene.”
Co-direction and devising helpers: Freja Freutzfeldt, Laura Kley
Performers: Laura Kley, My Djørup, Selma Kjeldsen, Ingrid Einarsson, Freja Kreutzfeldt, Rasmus Orht. Light Design: Jonathan Hjort. Costume design: Freja Kreutzfeldt & Michiel Tange van Leeuwen.
Wood artwork: Rune Bosse