skör
-variations on cruelty and care

Skör is a dance installation at Sequences Arts festival, where audience members are free to enter and exit at any time. The work unfolds in a shared space between performers and visitors, without a fixed beginning or end. The performers oscillate between holding and pushing, protecting and exposing, inviting and rejecting. The performers form a kind of ecosystem, a shifting network of bodies in relation, where tension builds and dissolves through proximity, repetition, and subtle negotiations of power. The piece explores the physical and relational boundaries between care and cruelty, not as opposites, but as forces that often blur or overlap. A gentle gesture may conceal resistance; a firm grip may contain care.

Skör considers how violence and care can coexist in a single action, and how the line between them rarely stays still. Rather than illustrating these ideas, the work creates a space where they can be felt, observed, and embodied – in the flicker between contact and withdrawal, between attention and discomfort.

Performers:
Bertine Bertelsen Fadnes
Elsa Kamøy Furuseth
Jaakko Fagerberg
Leevi Mettinen
Saga Sigurðardóttir
Sóley Ólafsdóttir
Anna Schou

Light design:
Katarina Blahutova