Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir:
Conspiracy Ceremony – Hypersonic States

A symphony of pathologies, sentiments, and physical states originating in the personal emotional body are on display in this latest work by Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir. Emotions rush through these bodies without filters. The viewer experiences extreme and at times painfully private states. Portraying the anonymous multitude, the five dancers are ceremonially surrendered to, and moved by, invisible forces, both political and energetic in nature, that are far greater than all of us. The Hyperstates form a corporeal language that serves as a doorway into the subconscious. This language is marked by an infinite presence that reveals and provokes in the same moment. It transfers itself into the bodies of the audience as they meet the performers with full intensity. Together, they explore and confront the inner landscape of the de-bordered body, offering up an alternative reality of physical pleasure and pain that comes with surrendering to the Hyperstates.

In Conspiracy Ceremony– Hypersonic States, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and her long-term artistic associates continue their in-depth research into a methodology that accesses physiological and emotional sub-worlds. Over a series of works (including the Blind Spotting Performance Series), she has developed a new genre of performative body language, and an original working method that directly informs her creative outcomes.

CONCEPT, DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHY, COSTUMES Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Johanna Chemnitz, Catherine Jodoin, Laura Siegmund, Marie Topp, Suet-Wan Tsang MUSIc Peter Rehberg LIghTING Martin Beeretz DRAMATURGY Anja Röttgerkamp DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTANTS Richard Aslan, Zeina Hanna PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Elena Krüskemper

Produced by Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir in co-production with LÓKAL – Performing Arts Reykjavík and SOPHIENSÆLE. Founded by Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Friendly supported by Arts Council of Norway and the city of Reykjavik. Somatic Archiving with the Living Archives Research Project lead by Prof. Susan Kozel and Jeannette Ginslov. Media-partner: taz.die tageszeitung.