Benno Voorham
"The Other Selves"

The Other Selves

A reflection on ageing. The memory and anticipation of ordinary traumas and tragedies. The histories that are embedded in the way you feel your movement. The sufferings of others that have stuck to the skin, the bones the ligaments and which you carry with you. The inevitability of a continuing, perhaps pathetic, conversation with yourself... between yourselves... about who you are, who you have been... who you still might become... 

The skeleton of this solo is made out of a series of letters between Anton and Anton, the protagonist of this solo. Letters about different topics related to different fears, ageing and desire. The material of the solo varies from movement scenes, to videos and text. What all materials have in common is a poetic sense to reveal some of the more hidden and deeper layers of the protagonist.

Choreography/dance: Benno Voorham
Dramaturgy: Steve Batts
Animation: Abdalla al Omari
Lights: Barry Davis
Music: Vivaldi, John Zorn and The Lounge Lizards
Thanks to Nadia Tsulukidze
The Other Selves is made with support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
The Other Selves is produced by LAVA-Dansproduktion (Sweden) in collaboration

Benno Voorham is an international performer, choreographer and teacher from the Netherlands, living in Sweden since 1995. Since his graduation in 1986 from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam he has worked  nternationally as an independent dance-artist, directing his own work as well as collaborating with others in both set and improvised pieces. He is an acclaimed international teacher of Contact Improvisation and Compositional Improvisation. In both his teaching and performance work, he is interested in exploring the creative and narrative potentials of the human body. During the last years he has worked with integrating the use of video in performance. Together with Sybrig Dokter he started LAVA-Dansproduktion in 1997, an international operating association for dance, based in Stockholm. 

Benno/Lava Dansproduktion has received support from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Swedish Institute, Nordisk Kulturfond, Nordic Culture Point, Finnish-Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm Stad, Statens Kulturrådet, Postkodlotteriet, European Cultural Foundation and European Union. He has received personal art grants from Sweden, Estonia and Latvia.