The Seventh Floor of the World - Excerpt

Are you sure that what you see is everything there is to see?

Is the world you live in the only one?

Is there perhaps another universe that you can only reach through a secret entrance?

With “The Seventh Floor of the World” choreographers Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki and multimedia artist Sachiyo Takahashi are taking you on an imaginary journey, shifting between reality and fiction. Through various levels of abstraction and a play with scales, they guide you to unknown layers where words, shapes and colors melt in the senses. This playful exploration for passages to other levels is testing your perceptions.

concept & direction: Heine Avdal, Yukiko Shinozaki, Sachiyo Takahashi

created with & performed by: Heine Avdal, Luke George, Dolores Hulan, Yukiko Shinozaki, Sachiyo Takahashi/Nekaa Lab

dance & co-creation during the rehearsal period: Kayoko Minami

sound design & video: Sachiyo Takahashi/Nekaa Lab

light design, artistic collaboration & technical direction: Arnaud Meuleman

assistance scenography: Margerite Monnoyen

production: Heine Avdal, fieldworks vzw / co-production: Dansefestival Barents, Hammerfest / in collaboration with: BRONKS Brussels / with the support of: Norsk Kulturråd, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie

"The seventh floor of the world" is a performance for all ages, starting from the age of 8.

world premiere: November 7, 2013, Dansefestival Barents, Hammerfest (NO)