The Laughing Crowd
The Laughing Crowd is a celebration of laughter in all its forms. This force of nature that has the power to occupy our bodies, our minds and our relationships with others. Maybe you’ll get infected…?
Laughter can bring people together. It can be liberating, light and playful, but it can also be uncontrollable, uncomfortable and a tool to expose power and hierarchies. What happens when we let go of control and make room for the wild, the ugly, the filterless?
The Laughing Crowd celebrates the joy and community that comes from laughter, and the breathtaking, unifying energy of laughter. Laughter is used as a prism to explore the physical and aural expression of laughter, as well as its social and emotional implications: laughter can be an infectious bond between people, but can also be uncontrollable, uncomfortable, and can be a tool to display power and positioning within a group. The social mirroring of laughter therefore spans a wide range of emotions that the performance explores, distorts and magnifies. The Laughing Crowd is therefore a social dance in the basic humanity of laughter, where the audience is taken on a journey through the body’s affective expression.
In this performance installation, you can move freely around the stage area.
INFO
Age: from 6
DURATION: 60 min.
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals. READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
The Laughing Crowd is a celebration of laughter in all its forms. This force of nature that has the power to occupy our bodies, our minds and our relationships with others. Maybe you’ll get infected…?
Laughter can bring people together. It can be liberating, light and playful, but it can also be uncontrollable, uncomfortable and a tool to expose power and hierarchies. What happens when we let go of control and make room for the wild, the ugly, the filterless?
The Laughing Crowd celebrates the joy and community that comes from laughter, and the breathtaking, unifying energy of laughter. Laughter is used as a prism to explore the physical and aural expression of laughter, as well as its social and emotional implications: laughter can be an infectious bond between people, but can also be uncontrollable, uncomfortable, and can be a tool to display power and positioning within a group. The social mirroring of laughter therefore spans a wide range of emotions that the performance explores, distorts and magnifies. The Laughing Crowd is therefore a social dance in the basic humanity of laughter, where the audience is taken on a journey through the body’s affective expression.
In this performance installation, you can move freely around the stage area.
INFO
Age: from 6
DURATION: 60 min.
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals. READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
About the company
Antoinette Helbing is a German dance artist based in Copenhagen. Her choreographic works are driven by her deep fascination with how the body is engaged in social interaction. This fascination leads her to explore social phenomena such as laughter, crying and the process of how humans create their self image in social interaction with others. Audience engagement is an integral part of her works. She constructs a social space that opens up for possible social interaction. By placing the audience in close proximity to the performer(s) she often exposes the audiences’ behaviour and reactions as an essential element in her performances. The proximity also supports her wish to give the audience a rich sensual experience. www.antoinettehelbing.com
Credits
Choreographer: Antoinette Helbing
Performers: Birgitte Skands, Jakob Schnack Krog, Max Wallmeier, Andreas Haglund, Beck Heiberg, Nanna Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Thjerza Balaj, Antoinette Helbing
Dramaturg: Naya Moll
Composer: Randi Pontoppidan
Sound Designer and Technician: Emil Vodder Kristensen
Costume Designer: Inbal Lieblich
Administration: Dorte Burmester Wium/B&W Art and Support
Dramaturg Intern: Eglė Nešukaitytė
Photo: Jan Vesala