WE LOVE YOU TOO
Late Night DADA performancecabaret with Livingstones Kabinet, the mens choir HUHAHU and dancers Adelaide Bentzon and Pernille Koch.
TEXT IN DANISH: We Love You Too er en sprudlende alvorlig musikforestilling opbygget omkring en sangcyklus, skabt af Livingstones Kabinet og iscenesat i samarbejde med koreografen Adelaide Bentzon.Et late night show, hvor poesi blandes med politik, volapyk med propaganda, musik med larm.
Sort og sarkastisk... lige dele Kurt Weill, Tom Waits og musicalen "Cabaret" (Jyllands Posten DK)
Sprællevende teater, som maser sig ned ved siden af dig på cabaretstolen. Meget insisterende og meget morsomt. (Urban DK)
Det er anderledes, det er brand-musikalsk og det er skævt underholdende. (Arbejderen DK)
WE LOVE YOU TOO moves freely between the entertaining and accessible and the critical and grotesque. The piece is inspired by the original cabaret theatre of the last century, the invention and anarchy of that genre and its ability to mirror the society in which it exists.
Livingstones Kabinet attempt to capture their own time in a present-day mirror.
… in the beautiful, awful blues about the New Orleans flood
… in the song of the psychopathic diva and her therapist
… in the tired porno-polka where all tastes are indulged
… in the entrance of a giant rat.
The Dance element in the show ranges from vaudeville-style numbers to expressionistic and bizarre movement sequences.
The Music and songs are harmonically complex yet often catchy. With accordion, piano, percussion, a ukulele-strumming crooner and a harmonium-playing counter tenor alongside strange electronic loops, synthesized spoken texts and solos for childrens' instruments.
The Performance is played directly to the public, and takes the form of songs, short texts, phonetic poetry and movement. All of which are combined and overlaid in surprising, foolish and sometimes disorientating ways.
In WE LOVE YOU TOO we examine the following questions :
1.Can we assume, for the duration of a cabaret performance, that there is no God, and that the world is without purpose, chaotic and pointless?
2.Can we accept, and maybe even celebrate, our own own (pointless) humanity?
3.If God is out of the picture, then maybe all we have is each other.
4.How do we get from the milk of human kindness to the cheese of human compassion?
Livingstones Kabinet have examined these issues carefully and in the light of recent world events, terrorist acts and natural disasters. Our conclusion is best summed up in the words of the notable Dadaist Kurt Schwitters:
”bum, bim bim, bam bim bim – bum bim bim, bam bim bim”.
Livingstones Kabinet: Nina Kareis & Pete Livingstone
The HuHaHu Male Voice Choir : Martin Ammitsbøl, Jacob Nienstædt og Robert Snorrason
Dancers: Pernille Koch og Adelaide Bentzon
Text and music: Pete Livingstone
Instruction: Nina Kareis & Adelaide Bentzon
Audio filer:
Rintatinta (3.48)
Cheese (3.45)
Dance of the inflamed men (2.26)
The show is supported by Statens Kunstfond and Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond.