(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ 𝒟𝑅𝐼𝒱𝐸𝑅 : Before Lunch (𝒶𝒸𝓉 2), Performance/Dance, 2024, Lara Vejrup Ostan

at Dansehallerne (24.,26. & 27.10.2024)

Enter a world of truck driving; long work hours with irregular schedules, solitude, as well as loneliness, heavy regulations, precarious working conditions and lots of time spent away from home, friends and family. Meals are often eaten on-the-go or at a truck stop. Before lunch wonders about the distribution of time - having lots or none to spare - and what do we want to have done before lunch? Before lunch is created through conversations with truck drivers about work, their identity, structures of their industry and workplace; the road. It deals with truck driving as a practice of timekeeping, orientation and traveling, made into dancing. DRIVER is a choreographic work consisting of two acts (Act 1, White line fever and Act 2, Before lunch). Both investigate the act of driving, a paradoxical situation of movement; being in motion, whilst sitting still. It is a play on preconceived notions of perception and agency, a play on who is moving who, at what pace, through which spaces.

Concept: Lara Vejrup Ostan
Choreography: Lara Vejrup Ostan in close collaboration with the performers
Performing on stage: Yeong-Ran Suh, Eva Johanna Forsehag, Ella Östlund 
Sound design: Moritz Nahold 
Light design: Thora Eriksen 
Scenography: Max Schwidlinski 
Artistic mentor and truck driver: Bush Hartshorn 
Producer: PRFRM 
Graphic design by Kaiu Meiner 
Photography by Benedicte Ramfjord 

Produced by KOMMA Performance Productions / Co-produced by Dansehallerne