FivE

The collaborative search for the solo piece FivE began with a conversation about the future, about farewells, losses, life decisions, and events that are greater than ourselves.

Upcoming Performances:
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Memories of people with whom we have cried stay much longer than those of laughter. Grief is an extreme mental state, perhaps even the most extreme, physical, and enduring one. Grief goes through several stages. These stages: Denial – Anger – Bargaining – Depression- Acceptance, form the basis of this solo. The 5 stages of grief, coined by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, also give the piece its title. During the process of developing the piece, Kaltuk and the dancer extensively dealt with their own biographies and emotional experiences, which they in turn transferred to the 5 phases of grief.

The dancer roams around enormous emotional energies, oscillating between expression and suppression of feelings, between authenticity and affectation, between grand gestures and subsequent immobility. At the end of FivE, the audience is left with the question of whether all wounds can heal or how much fear and struggle are the result of fate.

Picture: Christian Glaus

Choreography 
Muhammed Kaltuk
Dancer
Witthawat Tonja