Performance
Avgang 2025: Antonia Harke / Avenue
The performance is Antonia Harke’s graduation project in master dance at KHiO.
It's very hot here…as I am walking down an avenue… as I am walking down an avenue… as I am walking down an avenue…a weightless sensation…
An avenue where you arrive and where you look beyond. An avenue where you run away, overwhelmed by the sounds and the endless flow and a seemingly never-ending line, before turning sideways, where you meet someone, where you rest for a moment in a suddenly appearing corner, while the whispers and fragments of conversation pass you by.
The solo dance performance Avenue explores the intersections of movement, language, and sound. Emerging from the imagination of a dreamy GTA cityscape of Vienna, it unfolds through voice, gesture, sound, and dance, presenting a body that utters and crumbles. The moving body holds layers: memories, sensations, emotions, and forgotten traces of past movements. What happens when we begin to unpack a body like the contents of a bag? Avenue questions what is carried, left behind, and how movement can mask and reveal.
Antonia Harke works with dance, choreography, sound, and text. Her practice explores the vocal, sensory, and fleshy aspects of the human body. Avenue was developed in close collaboration with dramaturg Nora Frizzi Auerbach through a shared writing process and an online artistic diary. Antonia is also part of the sound duo Der Mohn, collaborating with sound artist and composer Jean-Louis Huhta, with whom she created the soundscape for Avenue.
Credits
Dance, Text and Concept: Antonia Harke
Dramaturgy, Text and Artistic Collaboration: Nora Auerbach
Sound: Jean-Louis Huhta and Antonia Harke
Vocal support: Tora Tormod Skår Midtbø
Scenography: Alba Maria Rosario Lasanta Ebbesen
Costume advisor: Signe Vasshus, Frederik Tschenka Tang
Make-up: Iris Aastad Frederiksen
Light: Martin Maisch Brandvoll
External Supervisor: Rosalind Goldberg
Internal Supervisors: Bojana Cvejić and Torunn Helene Robstad
Technical department: Kjetil Skåret, Olaf Stangeland, Are Skaanes Engebretsen, Tormod Fuglestad, Ronnie Tungland
Stage manager: Hanna Dybfest
A big thank you to my dear classmates Yelena Arakelow, Emma Leah Culén Khei, Marte Kristine Brustad Melhus and Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas and teachers/mentors Rosalind Goldberg, Bojana Cvejić, Nikolina Pristaš and Torunn Helene Robstad.
Another big thank you for general support, inspiration, friendship and care Nora FrizziAuerbach, Jean-Louis Huhta, Tora Tormod Skår Midtbø, Frederik Tschenka Tang, Magdalene Solli, Emilie Marie Karlsen, Max Wallmeier, Lisa Colette Bysheim, Nadda Noor, Karim Palmelune, Clarinde Wessellink, Emil Ertl, Birte Opitz, Ulrike and Ingo Harke and Mathias Eugen Engen.
Trigger warnings: Medium sound level, partial darkness.