In Variations on Closer the three performers investigate different variations of closeness between an individual and his observers. The observers and performers alike are offered a chance to renegotiate their feelings associated with living outside one's own body and living through the bodies of others and are confronted with the role of their own gaze and their ever shifting feelings of empathy, attraction, intimacy and alienation. The soundtrack is performed live by music maker Peter Rehberg (PITA).             

Photo: Tom Akinleminu, painting by Marion Bataillard

Concept/Direction/Choreography: Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir

Performers/Choreography: Laura Siegmund, Johanna Chemnitz, Angela Schubot

Composition: Peter Rehberg

Co-production: MDT theater Stockholm, RAS kulturhus Sandnes, Les Grandes Traversées Festival Bordeaux.

Residency support: WP Zimmer (Antwerpen), Sommer.bar – Tanz im August (Berlin), Barnes Crossing (Cologne).

Special thanks to: Sonia Franken, Eike Siegmund,  Anja Röttgerkamp, Andrea Lutz/Ashtanga Studio Berlin, Jared and Angela Productions, Jill Emerson (SMC), Gotischer Saal Berlin, Benjamin Schalike, Thomas Schaupp.

Supported by: Icelandic Ministry of Culture, Icelandic Embassy