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... don't kill your darlings
- a performance dance
In this performance choreographer Palle Granhoj takes the sequences he would normally cut out during the creative proces as his starting point.
In ... don't kill your darlings we are in for something that Granhoj Dans seldom use on stage, such as pop music, pop art, paradoxes, paraphrases or karaoke. On stage is six potties, 250 rolls of toilet paper, loose lamps and a bus stop plus six experienced performers.
... don't kill your darlings is performance dance - a mix of genres which in Palle Granhoj´s choreography has turned into an astonishing, humourous and personal performance about what words can´t describe - but which exists anyway - 'in your and my mind'.
The concept 'don't kill your darlings' is the stylistic idea of the performance which builds on the scenes - darlings - normally cut out. To choose to do without your favourite scenes is called to 'kill your darlings' in the language of theater - an idea based on the old saying: Less is more. Limitation is also the core in the obstruction technique, which Palle Granhoj has developed and introduced in Denmark and abroad.
In Palle Granhoj´s performances one often can´t isolate a specific theme. The humour, the personal and the natural is always important ingredients. ... don't kill your darlings is - as all previous performances - a very personal performance, Palle Granhoj´s trade mark. The focus is on the person who dances not the dancer who dances.
Original cast: Karin Nedergaard · Sofie Christiansen · Lars Bjørn · Anne Dalsgaard · Morten Innstrand · Søren Sundby · Palle Granhoj.
Visual design: Per Victor
Premiere: 1999
Reviews:
First we see, then we laugh, then we recognize and then we think. And then it really becomes very, very beautiful.- Aktuelt, Denmark
The dancers are not only consumate dancers, but are magnificent vocalists and extraordinary actors who are highly inventive, share a wicked sense of humour and most certainly understand the philosophy of what is truly sublime dance theatre. - Saturday Independent, South Africa
... Don’t kill your darling was such a fantastic experience that you were left with an indomitable desire to see more of Palle Granhoj’s productions and his splendid dancers. Hopefully someone in some circle can think of inviting him to Finland again. - Helsingin Sanomat, Finland