Dansehallerne and Corpus copresent the groundbreaking choreographer Mette Ingvartsen's piece, 69 positions

Excess, nudity, orgy eroticism, ritualistic pleasure, audience participation and political engagement, all expressions of the sexual utopia particular to the counterculture and experimental performances of the 60s. This guided tour through an archive of sexual performances, serves as a filter for Mette Ingvartsen to explore unresolved issues about sexuality in contemporary practices today. In doing so, her body turns into a field of physical experimentation and uncanny sexual practices emerge in relation to the environment that surrounds her.
69 positions leads visitors through a space with performances, books, film, texts and images brought alive through movement and speech in order to experience the connection between the intimate sphere and public space.

Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. From 1999 she studied in Amsterdam and Brussels where she in 2004 graduated from the performing arts school P.A.R.T.S. Her first performance "Manual Focus"(2003) was made while she was still studying. Since then she has initiated several research projects and made numerous performances, among others "50/50" (2004), "to come" (2005), "Why We Love Action" (2006), "It's in The Air" (2008) "GIANT CITY" (2009) and "All the way out there..."(2011).
In 2014 she started a new cycle of work entitled The Red Pieces. 69 positions opened this series and questioned the borders between private and public space, by literally placing the naked body in the middle of the theater public. In the second piece, 7 pleasures, a group of 12 performers confronted notions of nudity, body politics and sexual practice.
Mette Ingvartsen holds a PhD in choreography from UNIARTS / Lunds University in Sweden. She has worked as a performer in projects of Jan Ritsema / Bojana Cvejic, Xavier Le Roy and Boris Charmatz.

http://metteingvartsen.net

Concept, choreography & performance: Mette Ingvartsen
Light: Nadja Räikkä
Set: Virginie Mira
Sound: Peter Lenaerts, with music by Will Guthrie (Breaking Bones)
Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejic
Technical director: Nadja Räikkä / Joachim Hupfer
Sound technician: Adrien Gentizon
Company Management: Kerstin Schroth
A production of Mette Ingvartsen / Great Investment
Co-production: apap / szene (Salzburg), Musée de la Danse/Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne, Kaaitheater (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen)
With the support of Théatre National de Bretagne (Rennes), Festival d'Automne à Paris, DOCH - University of dance and circus (Stockholm)
Funded by: The Flemish Authorities & The Danish Arts Council.

This work programme has been funded with support from the European Commission

Info
28. feb. – 3. march 2018.
Beware! There are no seats but the audience can move around freely in the space. The language is in English. Nudity will occur.
Age: From 15 years

69 positions is presented in a collaboration between Dansehallerne and Corpus