Marie Sønderskov is late for work but she doesn’t seem to mind at all – she does things at her own pace. After a small talk about their new favorite sports over coffee, Mikkel Egelund and Jonas Weitling join Anja Nedremo and James Black for a complex business meeting about pyramid building.
Will they figure out which way up it is supposed to go?
Will they decide on a shape for the base?
And just how big is Jonas’ hound?
When Marie interrupts the meeting at a highly inconvenient juncture, things take a turn for the grotesque. Meanwhile, in the concert hall, we are treated to three absurd, surreal, and deeply intense vocal situations, as James Black the composer (possibly the same James Black that’s in a meeting) leads NJYD and the audience through an exploration of song and voice. Along the way the audience will encounter robots, sock puppets, plainchant, line dancing, fat beats, lullabies, chicken bones, flesh, love poems, terrible piano playing, and, ultimately, absolution.
We will learn about friendship, anger, singing, running, love, and forgiveness. Equal parts office comedy, new music, horror B-movie, performance art, and cabaret, Nya Låtar (Swedish – ‘new songs’) is an attempt to present the mundane as fantastic. It is about the heterosexual experience through a deeply queer lens. We experience familiar situations combined in truly strange, but truly sincere, ways.
Nya Låtar is performed Thursday 16 November 20:00, at KU.BE in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen.
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