Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world and Denmark has one of the highest coffee consumptions per capita in the world.

The project A CUP OF COFFEE tell stories of and by the people who live by cultivating coffee in the Dak Lak area in Vietnam.

E.K.K.O members Emma Nordanfors og Karina Dichov Lund spent one month in Vietnam, working on the the project A CUP OF COFFEE. The performance involved 50 Vietnamese dancers and was a part of the Coffee Flower festival on the 12-16th of March 2011, in the City of Buon Ma Thuot.

A CUP OF COFFEE was supported by:
Statens Kunstråds Scenekunstudvalg.

The body is and has always been an instrument in the mirroring of society, power structures and values. In the performance BODY SUPER SUPREME, E.K.K.O investigate these structures in the modern western world. The performance show and expose the body in a society-based context, and acknowledge and challenge the power of the body aesthetics.

The performance first premiered at Copenhagen Music Theatre in September 2010.

Concept and choreography: The choreography collective E.K.K.O 

Dancers: Anna Pehrsson, Pontus Pettersson and Ellesiv Selseng

Composer: Jørgen Teller
Costume/set design: Lea Højmark Burrows and Ingvild Rømo Grande
Light design: Carina Persson and Micha Karlewski

BODY SUPER SUPREME was supported by:
Statens Kunstråds Scenekunstudvalg, Dansk Skuespillerforbund, Danmarks Nationalbank, Statens Kunstfond and Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg.

WATERWAYS was an international collaboration fusing creative methods of science, architecture, media, music and movement. This collaborative research culminated in a series of public actions surrounding the theme of water.

A city’s circulatory system is both human and ecological – one enacted with water systems and cycles and plotted daily by the city’s inhabitants.  While seemingly self-propelled, water does not move by itself. Guided but not directed by its source, WATERWAYS is pushed along by the city itself.

WATERWAYS, has been named one of "the 40 best public art projects of 2009," by Americans for the Arts' 2010 Year in Review. Read more...

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An overview of WATERWAYS actions August - October 2009

WATERWAYS on the Waterpod

WATERWAYS and CONFLUXCITY

HARBOR MOVEMENT

HUMAN GLACIER

A GREENWAY BIKE RIDE

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For more detailed information of the WATERWAYS workprocess please visit the WATERWAYS blog.

WATERWAYS participants:
Media artist: Lucy H.G. from The league of  imaginary scientists
Architect: Annie Kwon
Composer: Matt Mc Baine
Chemist: David Garin
Choreography collective: E.K.K.O

WATERWAYS was under the umbrella of an iLAB residency, and further supported and funded by iLAND (= Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance), The Danish Arts Council and The Danish Actors Association.

Links:
www.mattmcbane.com
www.myspace.com/buildbuildbuild
www.imaginaryscience.org

A GREENWAY BIKE RIDE was part of the WATERWAYS project. WATERWAYS was an international collaboration fusing creative methods of science, architecture, media, music and movement. This collaborative research culminated in a series of public actions surrounding the theme of water.

A Sunday in October 2009 the WATERWAYS project presented a bike ride along the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway. A biking tour of the past, present and future, with actions along the way.

Apart from the key WATERWAYS group this event was joined and performed by the dancers Carmela Torchia, Irene Hsi, Kristina Skovby and percussionist Kevin Sims.

For more detailed information about the work of WATERWAYS you can check out the WATERWAYS blog.

The organization Brooklyn Greenway Initiative helped make this action possible. More information about the initiative is to be found her.

WATERWAYS was under the umbrella of an iLAB residency, and further supported and funded by iLAND (= Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance), The Danish Arts Council and The Danish Actors Association.

HUMAN GLACIER was part of the WATERWAYS project. WATERWAYS was an international collaboration fusing creative methods of science, architecture, media, music and movement. This collaborative research culminated in a series of public actions surrounding the theme of water.

A Saturday in October, at The Drop in Chelsea, W25th St at 10th & 11th Ave, WATERWAYS collaborated with artist Paul D. Miller as part of the exhibition 2012:  Art, The City, and the Environment.

HUMAN GLAICER was melting, to the sounds of Paul D. Miller.

HUMAN GLACIER was preformed by:
Rebecca Bone, Frida Danell, Klara Elenius, Irene Hsi, Ea V. Jacobsen, Karina Dichov Lund, Johanne Moritz, Emma Nordanfors, Madeleine Söderberg, Carmela Torchia and Maria Vestermark.

For more detailed information about the work of WATERWAYS you can check out the WATERWAYS blog.

More information about the event is at Yoko Ono’s website imaginepeace.

WATERWAYS was under the umbrella of an iLAB residency, and further supported and funded by iLAND (= Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance), The Danish Arts Council and The Danish Actors Association.

We called this third WATERWAYS action HARBOR MOVEMENT.

Apart from the key WATERWAYS group this event was joined and performed by the dancers Carmela Torchia, Irene Hsi and Kristina Skovby.

For more detailed information about the work and development of WATERWAYS you can check out the WATERWAYS blog.

Also check out D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival website.

A big thanks to the New York Water Taxi Company.

WATERWAYS was under the umbrella of an iLAB residency, and further supported and funded by iLAND (= Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance), The Danish Arts Council and The Danish Actors Association.

WATERWAYS AND THE CONFLUXCITY 2009 was part of the WATERWAYS project. WATERWAYS was an international collaboration fusing creative methods of science, architecture, media, music and movement. This collaborative research culminated in a series of public actions surrounding the theme of water.

A Sunday in September, WATERWAYS launched the second project event at the Williamsburgh Waterfront in the East River State Park in Brooklyn as a part of ConfluxCity 2009.

New York waterways formed 11,000 years ago and have since changed shape and course in response to glacial movement and human development.

This event was formed around a series of site-specific water stories flowing from personal interactions, kinetic experiences, and possible past and future scenarios. A fluid timeline connecting past to present and nature to a city.

Incorporated in the park and city, different actions occurred at different scales:

– at 3000 feet, dancers were performing across the river, only to be to be viewed through on site binoculars.

- at 300 feet, other dancers blended with people enjoying a sunny day in the park.

- at 3 feet miniature glaciers, which could be held in the palm of the hand - was melting.

- and yet another place dancers were “swimming” in what might be the future waterline in 50 years.

- viewers had the possibility of listening to a pre-recorded water score as they were watching the different actions. Or they could choose to engage with the on-site percussionist performing with the sounds of dry ice. (Dry ice is uniquely resonant when the evaporating carbon dioxide interacts with metal).

Apart from the key WATERWAYS group this event was joined and performed by the dancers Carmela Torchia, Irene Hsi and Kristina Skovby, Madeleine Söderberg, Frida Danell, Johanna Moritz, Marie Vestermark and percussionist Kevin Sims.

For more detailed information about the work and development of WATERWAYS you can check out the WATERWAYS blog.

Also check out The Conflux Festival website.

WATERWAYS was under the umbrella of an iLAB residency, and further supported and funded by iLAND (= Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance), The Danish Arts Council and The Danish Actors Association.

WATERWAYS was an international collaboration fusing creative methods of science, architecture, media, music and movement. This collaborative research culminated in a series of public actions surrounding the theme of water.

The WATERWAYS project’s initial incubation period, which covered the week of August 9 to August 16 2009, took place on board The Waterpod, with the generous support of The Waterpod team.

The Waterpod was a floating eco-habitat designed by photographer and sculptor Mary Mattingly. The Waterpod docked different places around the city of New York from May through to October 2009.

We met and worked on board and it was of great inspiration to actually be on the water while working on this project about water.

We had a group of kids from a Brooklyn summer dance camp on board. We had designed different stations for them to go through. Every station was dealing with water and different aspects of it.

We said goodbye to The Waterpod with a sound installation of recorded water sounds from The Waterpod. We exhibited water samples from The Waterpods water system that were tested in our science station. We also made an interactive map where you could pin out the water system of the city. This was the end our first project week. It was a good week of getting to know each other and each other’s working methods and fields.

For more detailed information about the work and development of WATERWAYS you can check out the WATERWAYS blog.

Also check out The Waterpod website.

WATERWAYS was under the umbrella of an iLAB residency, and further supported and funded by iLAND (= Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance), The Danish Arts Council and The Danish Actors Association.

Five dancers moved through streets, people, dreams and reality – together with the audience. COPENHAGEN - STRUCK BY THE CITY embraced the anatomy of city, the feel and the pulse. Copenhagen was transformed and mirrored in a danced installation.

The performance premiered in 2007 in an old slaughter house called Building 55, in the meat packing district in Copenhagen.

Concept and choreography: The choreography collective E.K.K.O 

Dancers: Amia Miang, Jannik Elkær, Nielsen, Ellesiv Vestreim Selseng, Camilla Skovgaard, Esther Wrobel

Music: Mark Solborg
Bratsch: Henriette Groth
Set design: Ida Marie Ellekilde
Costume design: Lisbeth Burian
Costume assistant: Camilla Signe Lind
Sound design: Jes Theede
Light design: Antonio Rodrigues
Text: Ida Marie Hede Bertelsen
Voiceover: Signe Skov
Production manager: Anders Sylvest
Construction work: Frede Leo Hansen
Technicians: Stine Schmidt Madsen, Eva Ulvan Handberg, Kristoffer Lyngbye
Graphic design: Mads Jonassen
PR: Have PR og kommunikation
Press photographers: Natascha Rydvald, Palle Steen Christensen
Administration: Projektcentret i Dansens Hus

Extra:
There were extra arrangements every day connected to the theme - The city. We invited different guest artists every night, and there were spoken word, music, visual arts, film etc after the performance.

Guest artists:
Anders Banke (DK), Jonas Müller (DK), Peter Bruun (DK), Camilla Bachiry (DK), Lady Gaby (D), Anders Banke (DK) og Momo Subotic (World citizen) Susan Hawkins (AUS), Olivia Pisani (AUS), Lady Gaby (D), Stefan Klaverdal (SE), Daniel Hjorth (SE), Jørgen Teller (DK), Christian Rønn (DK), Anders Sylvest (DK), Kasper Rasmussen (DK), Signe Skov (DK), Carsten Bjørnlund (DK), Samuel Beauregard Forsythe (D), Daniel Cerny (CZ), Marie Schulz (SE), Martin Dahl (DK), Mikkel Gemzø (DK)

COPENHAGEN - STRUCK BY THE CITY was supported by the Danish Arts Council, Københavns Kommune, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond, Nordea Danmark-fonden and Koda.

CESTA
Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor - www.cesta.cz

It is said that fear is the strongest emotion. Perhaps this is its only universal characteristic....

E.K.K.O spent the month of august 2006 in the Czech Republic in the city of Tábor, to participate in the 11th Arts Festival of International Interdisciplinary Collaborations at CESTA. Together with 30 other artists from all over the world we spent the month working around the theme - Sense of Fear.

The organizers of the festival had pre-grouped us with multimedia artist Lucy HG (US) based in Los Angeles and installation artist Angela Chong from Singapore – together we created the piece:

"Shallow of breath – racing in the mind.
It has to do with fear, I don´t know.
If someone scares you then you jump.
It all depends ..."

An interactive and immersive dance installation with integrated video and text.

Idea, concept and performance: Angela Chong (Singapore), Lucy H. G. (United States), Klara Elenius (Sweden) and Karina Dichov Lund (Denmark) of E.K.K.O

With Creative input: Emma Nordanfors (Sweden) of E.K.K.O

Video performance: Cat Jones (Australia)
Original music from: "Lambs Gamble Memory Collapse":George Cremaschi/ Fritz Welch, "They Were Gentle and Pretty Pigs":
George Cremaschi/ Greg Goodman/ Mats Gustafsson

English voice over: George Cremaschi
Translation and Czech voice over: Petra Podlahová
Thoughts on fear contributed: Carolina Bäckman (Sweden), Gabriella Grundemar (Sweden), Beben (Indonesia), Tze Pin Khar (Singapore), Kelvin Tan (Singapore), Gul Cagin (1st generation US/Turkey), Michael Sakamoto (3rd generation US/Japan), Eric Smail (US), Alvin Gregorio (2nd generation US/Philippines). Interviews in Singapore conducted by Ezzam Rahman, Ghazi Alquidcy, and Sazeli Jalal

Special thanks to:
Curtis Bila-Günther and CESTA: Hilary Binder, Christopher Rankin, George Cremaschi, Naomi Potter, Petra Podlahová

The piece was shown in Tábor august 2006 as part of the CESTA festival.

E.K.K.O´s stay at CESTA was supported by The Danish Arts Council and The Danish Ambassy in Czech Republique.