Aeldre is a multidisciplinary site-creative work where circus, music and dance meet to pay tribute to one of nature’s great wonders – Trees.
From the roots through the trunk up to the treetops, Aeldre takes the audience on a journey that affirms life and its many colorful seasons. The elm, the beech and the great oak, are just some of the stages that make up the performance. Embodying the stories that have been waiting to be told by the trees and all those who have shared these places – past, present and future.
Aeldre is played for all ages and highlights elements that touch all those who have ever felt bark under their fingers, danced among leaves under bare branches or watched their tree grow over time.
Words from our outside eye:
Aeldre invites you to spend an hour with a tree. Circus artists, musicians and dancers weave themselves around the tree, inviting us to encounter it from different perspectives. Over the hour, new memories are spun in and around old ones. In addition to the visual and aural delights that unravel before us, one could also imagine invisible elements, such as the imaginations or thoughts of the spectators to catch on the wind and travel around the space to be danced and played with. The performance, or perhaps we could say, the gathering, leaves one with a sense of enchantment, wonder, and a renewed relationship with a perhaps familiar space.
-Francesca Hyde
Voices from audience:
”This event made us remove clichés and break many stereotypes, allowed us to look at the usual in unusual circumstances… and vice versa – encouraged us to understand that something unprecedented, unexpected and wonderfully unusual can happen in your usual environment.”
-Audience in Ludza, Latvia.
”Nerve-wrenching aerial acrobatics, soaring dance and local melodies left the audience speechless during the performance Aeldre last Saturday. […] Lifting art to new heights. An audience of around 100 people sat with their heads turned straight up as the acobats threw themselves from branch to branch, hoisted themselves up by just their hair, while they sang, played music and danced. The action took place in two birch trees of just over 15 metres. Despite the airy heights and thin branches, there was little to indicate that the acrobats were afraid of heights.”
-Newspaper article in ”Møre”, Norway.
Artists
Mira Leonard – circus artist
Karoline Aamås – circus artist
Daniel Jeremiah Persson – dancer
Ester Thunander – musician
Love Aamås Kjellsson – musician
Associated researcher: Sara Erlingsdotter
Outside eye: Francesca Hyde
Special thanks to: Tank, Sianna Bruce, Simon Wiborn, Operose Workwear
Supported by: The Swedish Arts Council, The Norwegian Arts Council, The Arts Council of Skåne, Export Music Sweden, Music Norway, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Contact: lovekjellsson@gmail.com
