MARIE ANTOINETTE
TicketsSort/Hvid has invited the uncompromising New York based choreographer and performer Ann Liv Young to Copenhagen. Experience her live directing an excerpt of her up-coming performance MARIE ANTOINETTE.
Ann Liv Young’s performative practice focusses on iconic personalities, seeking to break down idealized appearances from history and pop culture such as the mermaid, Snow White, Antigone, and Anne Frank. The last few years she has been working on a new performance built on Marie Antoinette – the French queen who was beheaded by the guillotine during The French Revolution.
As the last queen of France, Ann Liv Young has casted the eccentric, Alex Sabina (US), who is battling mental illness and uses performing in her trauma treatment. In the role of her nurse, Ann Liv Young live directs both herself and Alex Sabina though tasks, performative parts, and conversations where Marie Antoinette fights for her right to keep her head.
As in many of Ann Liv Young other performances the distinction between fiction and reality is veiled and the actual goal is the interaction with the audience. Young is both alluring and intense, poetic, and political, wild, and transgressive, and not afraid to ruin the good atmosphere. After more than 10 years of creating provocative performance art she is still called out as both “mad” and “marvelous”.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
TicketsSort/Hvid has invited the uncompromising New York based choreographer and performer Ann Liv Young to Copenhagen. Experience her live directing an excerpt of her up-coming performance MARIE ANTOINETTE.
Ann Liv Young’s performative practice focusses on iconic personalities, seeking to break down idealized appearances from history and pop culture such as the mermaid, Snow White, Antigone, and Anne Frank. The last few years she has been working on a new performance built on Marie Antoinette – the French queen who was beheaded by the guillotine during The French Revolution.
As the last queen of France, Ann Liv Young has casted the eccentric, Alex Sabina (US), who is battling mental illness and uses performing in her trauma treatment. In the role of her nurse, Ann Liv Young live directs both herself and Alex Sabina though tasks, performative parts, and conversations where Marie Antoinette fights for her right to keep her head.
As in many of Ann Liv Young other performances the distinction between fiction and reality is veiled and the actual goal is the interaction with the audience. Young is both alluring and intense, poetic, and political, wild, and transgressive, and not afraid to ruin the good atmosphere. After more than 10 years of creating provocative performance art she is still called out as both “mad” and “marvelous”.