WHAT WAS MUST DIE - SAMBA
"A courageous dance performance
with international potential."
- Anne Middleboe Christensen
SAMBA is part one of Uppercut Dance Theater's trilogy WHAT WAS MUST DIE .
Welcome to the pig's blood-red fantasy! A samba arena, a circle, a hotbed, a pigsty. A circus of festivities, secrets, communities and temptations.
SAMBA is vibrant and sensuous. SAMBA is dirty tricks and togetherness. SAMBA is everything that happens in the space between us. SAMBA wants to get under the skin, behind the mask, around the ring, and give body and space to everything we are. Nothing is black and white here, neither the cutest smatso nor the biggest pig.
With our snouts in the trough and tails in the air, we dig deep into the pigsty and throw ourselves into the community, with all the misunderstandings, compromises and balancing acts that entails
SAMBA is the first part of the trilogy WHAT WAS MUST DIE, which premiered at Dansekapellet on September 10, 2020, and subsequently toured to Baden-Baden in Germany and Odense. The other performances in the trilogy include LIMBO (2021) and KALINKA (2022).
Now the Reumert-winning production returns in May 2025 at Blaagaard Theater in Copenhagen.
Credits
IDEA, CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY
Stephanie Thomasen
MUSIC/LIVE PERCUSSIONIST
Alexander Shield Henriksen
SCENOGRAPHY & MASK
Johan Kølkjær
DRAMATURGY
Betina Rex
LIGHT
Peter Bodholdt Løkke
ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER
Lukas Larsen
DANCERS
Adam Tocuyo, Linn Fletcher, Mark Philip and Stephanie Thomasen
The performance is supported by
