In DANTE, three lost souls encounter one another on a misty odyssey of songs, fragments of text, and restrained dance. Following 37 hours and 3 minutes and Merkurius, Gunilla Heilborn continues her exploration of time, doubt, and the uncertain - with her unmistakable style of dry humour and delicate poetry.
The starting point is Heilborn’s unsuccessful trip to Florence. In search of Dante - and of a long-vanished era - she loses her way among groups of tourists in the city’s narrow streets. “Some people simply don’t want the Middle Ages to end.” Past and present overlap in a deeply personal reading of Dante’s eternal questions. Gunilla Heilborn creates her very own Divina Commedia: There are no answers, but all the more questions. She does promise one thing, though. Like all comedies, DANTE begins badly - and ends well…
After the performance on Jun 04: Talk with the artists
On Jun 04 | 21:30: Concert MADANII (Free entrance)
On Jun 06 | 22:00: Concert TEll A ViSiON (Free entrance)
Gunilla Heilborn is a Swedish choreographer and filmmaker known for her humor, irony, and cinematic timing. Her work blends text, performance, video, and imagery, exploring wonder, collectivity, and the humor in imperfection. She often uses fragmentary, associative structures to present the extraordinary through the ordinary. She has a huge interest in history and how it speaks to us and spends most of her time reading about memory techniques, medieval cities or ancient oracles. She is one of Sweden’s most renowned performance and film artists.
