Flesh Chariots / Chariots of Flesh by Faye Driscoll
The multi-award-winning choreographer Faye Driscoll has been described as a fierce, idiosyncratic postmodern talent. Now, for the first time, she comes to Sweden to create her first collaboration with Cullberg. A contemporary dance performance for all the senses, featuring fifteen dancers. World premiere on 4 September at Klarascenen, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
– I invited Faye Driscoll to work with us because I have long been fascinated by her way of working with the body, says Kristine Slettvold, Artistic Director of Cullberg. She has an extraordinary ability to engage all the senses and make us in the audience aware of our own presence and physicality. Faye Driscoll’s works often center on shared presence rather than display. Her pieces frequently dissolve the boundaries between stage and audience.
In the choreography Flesh Chariots/ Chariots of Flesh, fifteen bodies bleed into one another like wet paint on a canvas. Together, the dancers create a human mirage: bodies that collide, merge, and implode. Through subtle shifts, the dancers become a living organism, a mutable illusion moving from total stillness to complete collapse.
Faye Driscoll is an American dancer, choreographer, and director. Her works often include unexpected turns, elements of visual art or theatre, and shift from realism into fantasy, while inviting audiences to experience everything from joy and exhilaration to discomfort and anger.
Faye Driscoll has received the Doris Duke Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bessie Award, and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award, among many other honours. Her works have been presented at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, and the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, among others.
One of her recent works, Wethering, premiered at New York Live Arts in 2023 and has since toured the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Cullberg: Flesh Chariots/ Chariots of Flesh, world premiere 4 September at Klarascenen, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
Choreography: Faye Driscoll
Set Design: Jake Margolin, Nick Vaughan
Costume Design: Irene Ip
Sound Design: Julia Giertz
Lighting Design: Mira Svanberg
Dramaturgy: Dages Juviller Keates
Choreographic Assistant: Amy Gernux
Performers: Fifteen dancers from Cullberg
A Cullberg production.
Cullberg is part of Riksteatern.