Having created a series of unique solo performances since 1992, Kitt Johnson now unfolds her distinctive artistic universe in a full evening solo piece, The Mirror, which takes us further into the mysterious layers of human nature. The performance was awarded the prestigious Danish "Reumert" in 2003.

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"Rare is the choreographer who can say a great deal with very little … an intense dance, intensely performed"
New York Times

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The Mirror is a performance about the human need to perceive oneself through journeys of mirrored reflections. Alone, with (one’s) recognisable and non-recognisable self-image projections, and with the risk of getting lost in this self-created hall of mirrors, it closes the eyes for a breath’s duration - in the hope of a sign.

Choreography/dance: Kitt Johnson
Composition/live music: Sture Ericson
Light design: Mogens Kjempff
Costume design: Charlotte Østergaard

Length of performance 55 minutes.

Produced by X-act with support from the Danish Theatre Council and the Municipality of Copenhagen.

The performance premiered at The Chapel of Assistens Cemetary in Copenhagen April 17th 2002.

A renewed touring version premiered at the Festival Bellone Brigittines in Bruxelles in August 2002.

Festival Bellone Brigittines, Brussels, Belgium, 31st August '02.
Baggårdsteatret, Svendborg, Denmark, 24th October ´02.
Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm, 30th & 31st March ´03.
Festival de la nouvelle danse d’Uzés, France, 23rd June ´03.
Viborg Teater, Viborg, Denmark, 24th September ’03.
Teaterhuset, Odense, Denmark, 29th September & 1st October ’03.
Entré Scenen, Århus, Denmark, 8th October '03.
Markedet for Scenekunst, Sandefjord, Norway, 28th May '04
2nd Contemporary Dance Festival of the Municipality of Athens, Greece, 12th July '04.
Festival Bellone Brigittines, Brussels, Belgium, 18th August '04.
11me Biennale de la danse, Lyon, France, 22nd-25th September '04.
Global Exchange, Danspace Project, New York, USA, 14th - 17th October ’04.
London International Mime Festival, England, 25th-27th January '05.
European Theatre Festival, Torino, Italy, 2nd June '05.
Lyngby-Taarbæk Teaterforening, Lyngby Kulturhus, Denmark, 27th October '05.
Crossroads 2005, Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa, Poland, 14th-15th November '05.
Porsgrunn Internasjonale Teaterfestival, Porsgrunn, Norway, 21st-22nd June '06.
Dancehouse Spring Programme, Melbourne, Australia, 28th September - 1st October '06.

The Mirror is an exquisite sculpture of metamorphoses … challengning perceptions and expectations and even empoying anthropomorphim ... surreal and yet familiar, reminiscent of Ernst, Arp, Miro.
Brian McCormic, 28th October '04, Gay City News, New York, USA.

Rare is the choreographer who can say a great deal with very little … Johnson knows how to fashion something original out of Expressionisms distortions of the body … Evoking an enlightened ideal before compressing her body into shriveled mortality: an intense dance, intensely performed.
Anna Kisselgoff, 19th October '04, New York Times, USA.

Magic, disturbing and passionate. Exceeding the state of absolute body control she pierces the question of the identification between the self and the other.
Agnes Benoist, 25th September '04, Lyon Figaro, France.

The Northern dance has cast a spell on Uzés. Kitt Johnson has her own unique style ... grace blended with strength. Her solo is impressive, both as fashion and performance art.
Marie-Christine Vernay, 26th June ’03, Liberation, France.

... World class dance theatre.
The Reumert Committee, on conferment of the year’s Reumert Award 2003 for best dance performance, 27th April ’03, Denmark.

The Mirror is a performance about human beings. Or ways of being. Or perhaps ways of seeing one’s own being… A true performer, Kitt is above all an entertainer. She knows how to surprise her audience…By the most delicate trembling of the chin or lifting the head or pressing the fingers together, she ascends to higher forms of existence, right in front of our eyes…When she disappears…it was like waking up from a dream you dearly wished would never end.
Anne Middelboe Christensen, Aug-Sep '02, Ballet-tanz.

It is dance absolutely in a class of its own. Kitt Johnson’s ease of expression and body control are nothing less than sublime. She can undulate her fingers as though they were sea anemones, raise a leg into the air like an ancient deep-sea organism or twirl herself in cloth like a dying mermaid. She can hover resembling a ghost-like old fossil with white matchstick legs folded out like a nearly invisible undercarriage. Or she can look like a little girl playing, an alluring rococo maiden, a depraved diva, or death itself. In The Mirror the micro-cosmos is, so to say, mirrored in the macro-cosmos…a very beautiful visual poem.
Majbritt Hjelmsbo, 25th April '02, Weekendavisen, Denmark.

Kitt Johnson is, in every way, unique in Danish dance theatre….due to her solo performances. These demand a lot from her audience but they also give an extraordinary beauty in return.
Henrik Lyding, 24th April '02, Jyllandsposten, Denmark.

The Mirror is a rousing performance with an intense co-operation between the visual and the audio in the most sublime surroundings one has ever seen her move.
Charlotte Christensen, 20th - 21st April '02, Information, Denmark.

Kitt Johnson bewitches eye and mind with her physical picture transformations.
Vibeke Wern, 20th April '02, Berlingske Tidende, Denmark.

Kitt Johnson is a loner, a black hole of concentration absorbing attention.
Janus Kodal, 19th April '02, Politiken, Denmark.