to come (extended)

Replacement Role

to come (extended) is a large-scale ensemble performance for fifteen performers created by Mette Ingvartsen. The work investigates the blurry territory between private intimacy and public space, exploring how the relentless saturation of erotic imagery across contemporary media impacts physical movement, bodily desires, and the social sphere. . Based on Ingvartsen’s original 2005 quintet to come, this extended iteration expands the cast to intentionally challenge commercial representations of sexual liberation. The choreography merges individual bodies into an indistinguishable, collective groovesscape. By directly manipulating how performers connect physically and experimenting with orgasmic, sensual, and social expressions, the piece disrupts conventional theatrical structures of climax and resolution. Instead, it introduces prolonged states of pleasure where somatic arousal is simultaneously decelerated and energetically accelerated. . The work stands as a key anchor of The Red Pieces, Ingvartsen's multi-year performance cycle interrogating sexuality, the experience economy, and corporate politics of the body. . .

Selected Tour Archive

2023 Tour: Theater Rotterdam, Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), CC Leietheater & VIERNULVIER (Deinze).
2022 Tour: Ruhrtriennale (Gebläsehalle, Duisburg), SIDance (Seoul), Teater Republique / Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Cultuurcentrum Hasselt.
Historical Archive (2017–2019): Kaaitheater (Brussels), Volksbühne (Berlin), La Biennale di Venezia (Venice), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Skirball (New York), National Theater & Concert Hall (Taipei), Center Pompidou / Festival d'Automne (Paris).

Concept and Choreography: Mette Ingvartsen
Performance Ensembles: Johanna Chemnitz, Katja Dreyer, Bruno Freire, Bambam Frost, Ghyslaine Gau, Elias Girod, Gemma Higginbotham, Dolores Hulan, Jacob Ingram-Dodd, Anni Koskinen, Maia Means, Olivier Muller, Calixto Neto, Danny Neyman, and Norbert Pape
Understudies: Thomas Bîrzan, Alberto Franceschini, Hanna Hedman, Júlia Rúbies, Manon Santkin, and Clinton Stringer
Dramaturgy: Tom Engels
Lighting Design: Jens Sethzman
Production: Mette Ingvartsen / Great Investment
Co-production: Volksbühne (Berlin), steirischer herbst festival (Graz), NEXT festival / Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, Dansens Hus (Oslo), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht)
With the support of: The Flemish Authorities and The Danish Arts Council

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