DICK SO SO
Elverket / Dansens hus Stockholm 6,7,8 November 2024
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Humor and sarcasm in a dance theater piece about gender identity, power structures, prejudices and about finding back to oneself.
Review:
https://www.svd.se/a/3M5lA9/recension-charlotta-ofverholm-slar-mot-patriarkatet-i-dick-so-so
Choreographer and producer Charlotta Öfverholm
Director and writer Sam Brown.
Composers Lise Cherhal Prat and Morvan Prat and one song by Magnus Krepper.
Films and projections Anders & Mia.
Light and stage design Tobias Hallgren.
Performers Charlotta Öfverholm, Oscar Salomonsson with Lindy Larsson Forss, Magnus Krepper, Lise Prat Cheral, James Friedman, Sanna Violetta Fuenzalida Ribbing and Karin Andersson.
Song coach Helen Olofsson
Aerial rigging Jacob Westin
Original idea Charlotta Öfverholm, Samuel Brown and Danijela Steinfeld
Photo Fabian Kriese
Anna Ångström November 7 2024:
Two strong forces are in circulation when Charlotta Öfverholm and Lindy Larsson share an evening at Dansens hus. Her physical ramblings embrace and his musical empathy energizes.
On the same day that the world is trying to digest the outcome of the presidential election in the United States, I see “Dick So So”, a set whose pitch reads “about alpha males and self-aggrandizing masculinity.” The production also happens to be part of Charlotta Öfverholm’s EU-supported project “Age on stage”, which started in 2015.
So it is not only presidential candidates who can remain in the limelight despite their advanced age. Choreographer and dancer Charlotta Öfverholm, 59, is a source of energy that never seems to run out. This time she surprises as the alter ego Dick So So. She storms onto the stage like the worst rock star, with bucking hips, cap and air guitar. A domptor who gives orders to the audience.But behind the macho facade is an angry woman who tries to outwit the patriarchy by donning its attributes and taking us to a female empowerment seminar. Because with a (big) penis comes money and success, reads the thesis to be proven. At the coup, there will be both an identity crisis, woodchopping and a lavish tribute to Meat Loaf with the song “Bat out of hell”.
“Dick So So” is mainly a dance monologue in English (sometimes Swedish) with a lot of humor and fucking embrace. British Sam Brown is responsible for directing and scripting. In the background there is also a choir that appears on video screens. Sometimes the concept becomes a bit long-winded and well overexplained, like the long digression about Sweden’s richest man, H&M boss Stefan Persson, the exclusive gym he allegedly trained at and his less wealthy sister Lottie, who is also a multi-billionaire.
But the tempo is increased and the dance gets more scope when Oscar Salomonsson throws himself into the battle of the sexes. A warlike duet turns into tenderness and a floating release from the yoke of trying to be someone you’re not. Magnus Krepper’s beautiful singing is heard in the background.
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TICKETS AND INFORAMTION:
https://dansenshus.se/program/charlotta-ofverholm-dick-so-so/