© Raphael Mittendorfer

These.Three.Words

2021 / Productions

These.Three.Words is a site-flexible, multidisciplinary improvisation project connecting music, Hip Hop and contemporary dance, acting and clowning to three words based on the specific location. 
A dancer, a clown, an actress, and two musicians go out to invent stories. The impulse for this comes from the digital app What3Words, which determines every possible location on earth via three digitally generated words. The performers borrow this site-specific digital data of three words and bring them into the analogue, physical world, creating a world of playful fantasy. The stories thus created are embodied by the performers each in their own performance medium, seamlessly interspersed into each other through an entire hour of improvisation.

These.Three.Words emerges out of the basic understanding that interaction between human beings is cultural space, which is created with words, bodies, sounds, expressions, emotions, sensations, going beyond the digital space. The piece relates to the city of Salzburg from various points of view of imagination, transforming the site it takes place in.

The idea of These.Three.Words is based on moving through and exploring this cultural space, built on the passion of creating stories, entering the unpredictable, risking the unknown.

This project was created and premiered at Sommerszene 2021. For 2022, the project received the Frischluft: Kunst im Freien Förderung from BMKÖS to be developed further, and subsequently toured in non-cultural hotspots of Austria, urban as well as rural, where people are not regularly exposed to cultural events.

Credits

Chris Dahlgren: Viola da Gamba, Guitar, Vocals & Text
Dorit Ehlers: Text, Theatre
Jordina Millá Benseny: Piano, Keyboards
Nayana Keshava Bhat: Clown-Theatre, Contemporary Dance, Text
Olivia Mitterhuemer: Hip Hop und House Dance


Languages: English, German


Duration: ca. 60 Minutes


Production: INFLUX - Netzwerk für Tanz, Theater und Performance


Co-production: Potpourri - Verein für urbanen Tanz und Nachwuchsförderung


Supported by: ohnetitel - netzwerk für theater & kunstprojekte

 

Funded by Land Salzburg, Stadt Salzburg, BMKÖS Frischluft: Kunst im Freien Förderung