DRIFT or drive
a solo performance by and with Kitt Johnson

“We civilize in the morning”, as the poet Kirsten Hammann wrote. Sure, but before noon the instincts have thwarted the shiny surface. Taken over from the inside, some would rightly call it. The driving forces of the instinct operate subtly, satisfying its own needs. Either slowly and out of control they make changes in our inner life as continental plates in operation. Or fast as snipers who seek out and hold an object on the grain, only to kill it with a snap. Civilization under attack.

DRIFT or drive opened at Københavns Musikteater April 15th 2011 and played at Performers House, Silkeborg, May 9th 2011.

DRIFT or drive represents part one of a two-part study of human instincts caught between culture and biology. The second part is a huge ensemble work with 50 performers - FORUM HUMANUM - planned to premiere in Copenhagen June 2013.

Choreography and dance: Kitt Johnson
Music: Sture Ericson
Light design: Mogens Kjempff
Costumes: Charlotte Østergaard

DRIFT or drive was produced by Kitt Johnson X-act with support from: The National Committee for Performing Arts, The Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, The Augustinus Foundation, The Toyota Foundation, and The Copenhagen Comittee for the Performing Arts.


DRIFT or drive
Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen

Technical rider/Lighting plans
- technical rider
- lighting plan 01
- lighting plan 02

The press wrote about DRIFT:
"No other dancer in the world moves like Kitt Johnson. And no other solo performer in Denmark has a take on existence quite as raw and beautiful as her... How does one, as a spectator, react to all this female power? You are flabbergasted. And then moved and happy, because you are privileged enough to experience this generous artist share her mythical insight into the body in such a strange and disturbingly divine way, right in front of your eyes."
Anne Middelboe Christensen, Information
"It is not just well done, no, it is wildly impressive, to experience an artist like Kitt Johnson who masters to such an extent her form of expression and knows how to tell the story of an entire female life's libido contained in one body."
Majbrit Hjelmsbo, Weekendavisen
"With her deep authenticity and unique ability to create bodily transformations, Kitt Johnson once again gives us a strongly moving and universal tale of the body in her new solo performance DRIFT."
Vibeke Wern, Berlingske Tidende
"A performance that consolidates Kitt Johnson’s reputation as an extraordinarily gifted artist of the body whose company anyone should allow themselves for one hour. Be there and be guaranteed to experience a human body creating shapes that you have never seen before and that you will never forget."
Uffe Munch Hansen, teaterblog.dk
"A beautiful performance, as mysterious as poetic, and not least, wonderfully free from all dance conventions."
Ann Jonsson, Danstidningen
"Kitt Johnson is a master of transformation… there is no ‘not-something’. Everything has a meaning, everything describes something, and the clear, strong images that are created on stage are almost revelations."
Marie Ivar, Terpsichore

Press photos
Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen

 
 

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