
Verk och Dagar — Gunilla Heilborn
Verk och Dagar — Gunilla Heilborn
In Verk och dagar, Gunilla Heilborn takes on, for the first time, a two-part work that blends a journey to ancient Greece with a meticulous (and sometimes somewhat chaotic) examination of her most toured piece, This is not a love story. With humor and a touch of melancholy, Heilborn guides us through a lecture performance, where, like a dedicated investigator, she scrutinizes the 14-year-old work. Through film, image projections, interviews, and memories, she maps out the fragmented texts and scenes of the piece, while revealing hidden backgrounds and references that perhaps were never meant to be discovered. The second part is a staged experience in which dancers Ludvig Daae and Kristiina Viiala perform texts and choreographic material. Here, grand images are created that illuminate what we carry with us, what we remember, and what we prefer to forget. Heilborn’s ongoing fascination with ancient Greece reappears, not to give us a history lesson, but rather as a skewed mirror of our own time, helping us, through a humorous lens, to reconsider This is not a love story and our own somewhat tangled journey through time and space.