Minu festival brings a new multimedia work to ALICE: Songs About Everything: Animal Stories, written for seven performers and video projection by American composer Natacha Diels. The piece was commissioned by the Copenhagen ensemble Wolfskin.
The work draws on a fictional mythology from Sheila Heti's book Pure Colour, in which people are divided by three origins: born from a fish egg, a bear egg or a bird egg. Each group experiences the world differently, and the three eggs depend on one another and remain incomplete, yet unshakeable. Keeping them in balance means that none of the three perspectives can shift without affecting the others.
Starting from this mythology, the piece explores human relationships and the difficulty of bringing about change. How can fundamentally different ways of moving, breathing and reacting temporarily swap places, and what fascinating misunderstandings can arise when they meet? By imagining such a balance, its instability becomes clearer, and stillness becomes a way of examining movement.
