DANISH DANCE THEATRE / ØSTRE GASVÆRK / CPH 1989

WRITER: ADOLFO BIOY CASARES
CHOREOGRAPH: ANNETTE ABILDGAARD
MUSIC: ANDERS KOPPEL

* ’Morel’s Invention’ highlights the mysteriously dreamlike and sensuous. B.v.H.H.S’s scenography not only confirms the qualities of the space, it creates striking, independently successful images based on those qualities, in a manner of speaking making the abstract staging tangible.

- Jyllands Posten / Newspaper / Viggo Sørensen -

* A work of unusual dramatic pregnancy. Wisely abandoning superficial effect, B.v.H.H.S’s scenography restricts itself to a half-circle of gas burners accentuating the former gasworks’ stone structure: this really is an island where anything can happen, a magical place, as in Shakespear’s ‘The Tempest’.

- Politiken / Newspaper / Henrik Lundgren -

* The production concept is underpinned by B.v.H.H.S’s gas-burner portal, steely doomsday machine and ash-gray walls – the frame around the anemic inhabitants’ decadent society, where gaudy cummerbunds, corsages and peacock bodices starkly contrast the young freedom fighter’s ragged guerilla gear.

- Det Fri Aktuelt / Newspaper / Alexander Meinertz –

* An effective dance theater performance. Simple, distinct scenography and suggestive lighting exploits Gasværket’s spatial effects – the giant rounded back wall in all its height and breadth.

- Information / Newspaper / Henning Jørgensen -