‘To Die For’, which is co-directed and choreographed by Norwegian Heidi Rustgaard, will return to the Laban Theatre after being on a tour of the UK and Norway.
‘To Die For’ is produced in collaboration with Hedmark Teater and is poetically described as ‘(part) performance, part social experiment, the darkly humorous, it features four dancers stripped down to their psychological essentials in a gladiatorial battle to define winners and losers.’ The tour has been a great success and ‘To Die For’ has also received favourable reviews. The Guardian praised it as a ‘determinedly defiant and forceful piece of 21st century dance theatre’. The Daily Express echoed this view, stating that ‘To Die For’ is ‘a persuasive and dangerous work whose sprawling energy never lets up’.
Heidi Rustgaard is originally from Røyken in Norway and moved to London to study dance in 1992. She enrolled at the London Studio Centre and has co-directed h2dance since 1999. She has also worked as a performer for dance companies like Duckie, Seven Sisters Group, Colin Pool, Silence Crossing and Rorschach Collective. Rustgaard has also been the resident artist at Taipei Artistic Village in Taiwan. In 2004 she won the Shrinking Cities competition, sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Archplus, with her project ‘Cow’. Rustgaard frequently teaches dance students in both the UK and Scandinavia.
h2dance sees the artistic and creative talents of Norwegian Heidi Rustgaard and Swede Hanna Gillgren converge, creating dance which addresses political and gender issues with humour. The result is a thought-provoking and innovative performance which combines movement, video, text and song.
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‘To Die For’
Thursday 12 March at 7.30pm
Laban Theatre
Creekside
SE8 3DZ, London
Tickets: £12/£8