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So far so good

Hestnes/Popović

Have you noticed how good we are at knowing things? We always know where to go, or where to find information about where to go. We are bad at not knowing. If you want to not know, then you have to make an effort. Actively ignore all the information that lies in front of you at all times.

If you don’t want to know, you have to close your eyes

Or turn off the light

Or unplug the power

And just sit there

In the darkness.

Title

So far so good

Concept and text by

Hestnes/Popović

Performer

Marina Popović

Director

Freya Sif Hestnes

Scenography

Hestnes/ Popović , Daniel Fogh

Sound design

Daniel Fogh

Costume design and props

Astrid Sønderskov Andersen

Light design, Toaster

Christian Vest Berntsen

Original Light Design

Ingrid Skanke Høsøien

Excutive producer

Rosendal Teater & Toaster

Premiere

Nov 2022 Rosendal Teater, june 2023 Toaster/Husets Teater

Duration

1 hour

Language

English (or Norwegian)

Homeoage

https://hestnespopovic.com

Price

Trailor

Toaster portrait of Hestnes/Popovi

About the performance

Our lives are composed by a series of events, phenomenas and experiences that point to each other in a causal network. We try as best we can to navigate the signs that surrounds us. Both the signs we do not manage to decipher, and the ones we create, in an attempt to surrender power and responsibility to something outside of ourselves.

In So Far So Good we meet in a place both a theater and dungeon, an old greek arena and a dance club. Sound and vibrations encompass the space, filling in the blanks where words come to short and the audience is invited to take part in the odd and long lost ritual of confessing and cleansing your sins to the scapegoat. Our contemporary society offers us many ways to mute feelings of discomfort related to the status of the world, but nearly always as individuals. In So Far So Good we wish to enter the feeling of unease together, sit with it, possibly punch it out in the end.

 

About Hestnes / Popović

Freya Sif Hestnes and Marina Popović create work through a common interest in memory, storytelling and how we as individuals take space in a community.Going at it with a devotion for details and diversions, they insist that the personal and emotional is political and research how this can be experienced in immersive, sensorial and poetical performances.

They work with an enthusiasm for the overlooked in history, often inviting the audience to take part and together question what stories and powerdynamics shape our understanding of ourselves.

The international touring and creating of Hestnes / Popović`s work has been supported by the Danish and Norwegian Arts Councils,  Performing Arts Hub Norway, Fond For Utøvende Kunstnere and The Norwegian Center for new playwriting.

About Freya Sif Hestnes

Freya Sif Hestnes holds a BA in scenography from Norwegian Theatre Academy and a BFA in photography from Valand Academy in Gothenburg. She is based in Copenhagen and presents work in Scandinavia and internationally, within the range of theatre performance, relational esthetics, photography and video installation. She has been the recipient of several artistic grants from the Danish Arts council for both her work as a scenographer and visual artist.

About Marina Popovi

Marina Popović is a Norwegian-Bosnian actress. She studied acting at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and holds an MA from NTNU in Trondheim, specialized in Cultural Memory Studies. She works as an actress in both institutional theatre, tv and independent theatre groups, both norwegian and international. She has received the Norwegian Arts Councils working grant for young artistst in 2018, 2021 ans 2022. Marina is based in Oslo.

CONTACT

Freya Sif Hestness, Hestnes/Popovi
freyash@gmail.com
+45 26 23 92 57

Miriam Frandsen, Toaster
miriam@toastercph.dk
+45 21 86 51 84

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