YOUR HEART OUT
premiere 2024
YOUR HEART OUT is
a dance performance for two dancers choreographed and performed by Ella Östlundand Ottavia Catenacci, in collaboration with the sound designer Eliza
Bozek. YOUR HEART OUT is a work about fandom - defined as ‘the
state of being a fan of someone or something, especially a very enthusiastic
one’.
Being-a-fan is a practice that appears in our society in different contexts: pop culture, sports, career, politics, religion, art, etc. At its extreme, it can be characterized by the irrationality of desires, beliefs, obsessions, hierarchy and admiration. Nevertheless, fandom brings people together and is a community builder.
The work is rooted in a devotion to dance and to the body as an amplifier of human relationships. Using choreography as a constructive and destructive tool, we create a dance performance that uses fandom to display human complexities with humor, play and bitter ambiguity.
Being-a-fan is a practice that appears in our society in different contexts: pop culture, sports, career, politics, religion, art, etc. At its extreme, it can be characterized by the irrationality of desires, beliefs, obsessions, hierarchy and admiration. Nevertheless, fandom brings people together and is a community builder.
The work is rooted in a devotion to dance and to the body as an amplifier of human relationships. Using choreography as a constructive and destructive tool, we create a dance performance that uses fandom to display human complexities with humor, play and bitter ambiguity.