immortal summit (2021)

immortal summit is a performance that stretches between ideas of greatness and delusions of grandeur. Two characters are bound to an immortal fate and trapped in an ambivalent reality where remembrance of humanity's excessive behaviors is put on display. Searching for something different, immortal summit lives in the borderland of provocation and play, tenderness and failure, asking questions of how to navigate one's existence in a non-voluntary reality.

In immortal summit Lydia Östberg Diakité and BamBam Frost work with materials inspired by sports, gods and popular cultural icons. Studying the phenomena of iconization and the canonization of performance abilities, where impossible levels and high expectations are the new standard.

Concept, choreography, performers, production, costume: Lydia Östberg Diakité and BamBam Frost

Composer and producer: Holger Hartvig

Session Musicians: Holger Hartvig and Aase Nielsen

Sound designer: Neda Sanai

Set design: Lisa Berkert Wallard

Light design: Anton Andersson

Photography: Märta Thisner

Graphics: Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, EUROSTANDARD

Production: Johnson & Bergsmark, Nordberg Movement, Jessie McLaughlin (MDT).

Administration: Konstnärskollektivet Interim Kultur

Co-producers: Turnéslingan Tre scener (MDT, Atalante & Dansstationen), Norrlandsoperan, Dansehallerne och Life Long Burning – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe project (2018-2022).Made possible with support by the Swedish Arts Council, City of Stockholm, Region Stockholm and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Extra thank you to Ellen Nyman and Aida Ramana Rønvik and our chosen family and friends.