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Ever Losing is a duet that moves within broken time, re-entering past experiences in order to live with current losses.
With a background in choir singing and a shared interest in working with voice practices, Olivia Riviere and Lisen Pousette’s work departs from growling: a dark and aggressive male-coded vocal technique used in extremer metal music.
While breaking away from the stereotypes of metal music and its aesthetic clichés, the sound is twisted into gestures of complicity and affection, binding the growls to a dance between bodies. The idea of the broken permeates the piece, whether it is broken language, broken time or broken as in being indebted.
When death takes something from you give it back. – Naja Maria Aidt
Ever losing resists moving on or getting through. It stays at the site of loss and keeps returning to the loser’s, the broken one’s, position while listening to the sound of broken bodies. Or, it is just two losers dancing in the break.
Premiere: Fylkingen 2019
Performances:
Weld, Stockholm
Dansehallerne, Copenhagen
Norberg Festival, Norberg
Inkonst, Malmö
Copenhagen Art Week, Copenhagen
Østre, Bergen
Danseatelier, Copenhagen
Cinema Queer, Stockholm
Les Urbaines, Lausanne
By and with: Lisen Pousette & Olivia Rivière
Music: Gel (Karis Zidore)
Sound design: Kristian Alexander
Costume: Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière
Costume advice: Trove Dreiman
With support from: DOCH, University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm.
Thanks to: Anna Efraimsson, Malin Arnell, Josefin Wikström, Sophie Bäärnhielm Pousette
PW Mag / Les Urbaines 2021