IS PLEASURE SELFISH?
OR CAN IT TRANSCEND THE INDIVIDUAL?
CREDITS
Concept, Choreography
METTE INGVARTSEN
Performers
CHRISTINE DE SMED
JOHANNA CHEMNITZ
KATJA DREYER
ELIAS GIROD
BRUNO FREIRE
DOLORES HULAN
LIGIA LEWIS
DANNY NEYMAN
NORBERT PAPE
PONTUS PETTERSSON
HAGAR TENENBAUM
GEMMA HIGGINBOTHAM
Replacement
GHYSLAINE GAU
Light
MINNA TIIKKAINEN
Music and Soundtrack
PETER LENAERTS
With music by
WILL GUTHRIE
Breaking Bones and Snake Eyes
METTE INGVARTSEN
Concept, Choreography
Set
METTE INGVARTSEN
MINNA TIKKAINEN
Dramaturgy
BOJANA CVEJIC
Assistant Choreography
MANON SANTKIN
Assistant Light
NADJA RÄIKKÄ
Technical Director
JOACHIM HUPFER
NADJA RÄIKKÄ
Sound Technician
ADRIEN GENTIZON
Company Management
KERSTIN SCHROTH
Assistant Production
MANON HAASE
A production of Mette Ingvartsen / Great Investment. • Co-production:
steirischer herbst festival (Graz), Kaaitheater (Brussels), HAU Hebbel am
Ufer (Berlin), Théatre National de Bretagne (Rennes), Festival d’Automne
(Paris), Les Spectacles vivants—Centre Pompidou (Paris), PACT Zollverein
(Essen), Dansens Hus (Oslo), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), Kunstencentrum
BUDA (Kortrijk), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen).
Funded by The Flemish Authorities, Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin) and
The Danish Arts Council. • The company wish to thank Musée de la Danse/
Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne. • A House
on Fire co-production; with the support of the Culture Programme of the
European Union Research and residency supported by APAP; with the
support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish
choreographer and dancer.
Mette studied in Amsterdam
and Brussels, graduating in
2004 from the performing arts
school PARTS. Since graduating
Mette has initiated research
projects and made numerous
performances including 50/50, to
come, Why We Love Action, It’s in
The Air, GIANT CITY and All the way
out there....
Questions of kinesthesia,
perception, affect and sensation
have been crucial to most of
Mette’s work. Starting with
evaporated landscapes in 2009, a
performance for foam, fog, light
and sound, Mette’s work has
led to a series of propositions
that extend choreography into
non-human materials. Mette’s
group work The Artificial Nature
Project reintroduced the human
performer into a network of
connections between human and
non-human actors.
In 2014 Mette 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 theatre. 7 Pleasures is the
second in this cycle, confronting
notions of nudity, body politics
and sexual practice.