STREAM LIFE!
STREAM LIFE! / Å VIL LIV is a site-specific sensory, audience-engaging performance walk in the forest and along a stream, about the ecological state of Danish streams, about their straightening, re-meandering, and the lack thereof. About streams as an allegory for choosing one’s life path—winding or straight—about making one’s choices, about walking the straight or the crooked road.
A stream that flows through the landscape will, over time, naturally begin to meander. Sense the stream in a small group, choose the straightened or the winding stream as your life path, and become part of the landscape. Meet performers and singers along the way at four scene stations—by the stream, in the stream, along the stream, or where the stream is gone or has completely disappeared… a tribute to all the streams that are still forced to run straight, held tightly on a leash…
“The birds are gone, the fish are gone,” said Minister of the Environment Christian Christensen (KrF) in 1982, after Danish streams in the 1960s had been straightened into rigid lines. Excess water from agriculture quickly found its way into nature, carrying with it large amounts of slurry, fertilizer, phosphorus, and nitrogen from the fields. Substances that then, as now, destroy, suffocate, and kill life in lakes, streams, the sea, and the groundwater. The 2003 Water Environment Plan was meant to ensure that the next generation could drink the water, swim in the sea, and catch fish in the lakes. Large parts of the Skjern River were re-meandered and restored to their original winding form, but far from all streams received this improvement.
LENGTH
DISTANCE
PLACE
AGE
A CEROMONIEL REDISCOVERY OF THE ECOSYSTEM
review by MORTEN HEDE in TEATERAVISEN
50 MIN
1 KM
Å
10+
“The performance leaves its mark on us. It turns us into slightly more conscious beings of nature, who not only plough and sow, but also nourish and honour. To such a degree, in fact, that people turn around in the street to stare at us after the performance. This is probably due above all to the face paint we had applied in the final scene…”
Trailer on the way
Photo: Marika Seidler
FREJA SCHAUMBURG M¨ULLER
Stream woman singer
Photo: Marika Seidler
BETINA BIRKJÆR
Sundew woman
Photo: Marika Seidler
SIRI NITSCHKE SEIDLER
The Hair Pawn Dancer
Photo: Miriam Goldkuhl
MARIKA SEIDLER
The Metamorphic Narrator
Photo: Miriam Goldkuhl
ANNA KRUSE
Metamorphic Singer
Photo: Miriam Goldkuhl
GRY BUHRKAL
Metamorphic Singer
Contributors
Idea and direction
Conceptual process
Playwright
Dramaturgical Consultant
Cocreating
Instructor
Set and Costume Design
Production Manager
Head Costume Designer
Second Costume Designer
Desing Interns
Tralier photographer, Editing Stills
All Photography
Freja Schaumburg Müller, Betina Birkjær, Alaya Rifensthal /Siri Nitshke Seidler / Emilie Øder, Marika Seidler, Anna Kruse, Gry Burkhal
Marika Seidler
Betina Birkjær, Marika Seidler
Marika Seidler
Betina Birkjær
Freja Schaumburg Müller, Betina Birkjær, Alaya Riefensthal
Marika Seidler
Marika Seidler
Marika Seidler
Laia de Lemos, Yovka Petrova
Fie Von Veer
Alexander Mapait Gomez Parbst, Anika Dahlen, Ida Heegaard Williams
Marika Seidler
Marika Seidler
2023 Mølleåen Gentofte Municipality
2022 Mølleåen Gentofte Municipality
2022 Damvad Å Egedal Municipality
2022 APRILfestival Esbjerg
2021 Deep Forest Art Land
2019 Deep Forest Art Land
Premiere august 2019
STATENS KUNSTFOND BILLEDKUNST PRODUKTIONS UDVALGET
TEATERREFUSION untill season 2027/2028
TOUR GUARANTEE 2024/2025
DEEP FOREST ARTLAND
THE GREEN GIRLSCOUTS
The performance was originally created in collaboration with Deep Forest Art Land and the Green Girl Scouts for their 100th anniversary, celebrating 100 Green Girl Scouts at a festival hosted by DFAL in 2019.
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