BIG BIG BANG

BIG, BIG BANG brings together eight young dancers who merge into one collective mass. With force, energy, and velocity, they hurl themselves into a transformative journey, pulling the audience into an attempt to spark a new beginning. Spinning in endless loops of intensity and heat, they balance on the edge between exhaustion and resurgence. The dancers unite as an unyielding entity, striving to distort our perception of time, space, and presence.

The performance takes the scientific theory of the universe’s origin as its point of departure. From the unimaginable explosion of energy and matter that shaped time, space, and everything we know, BIG, BIG BANG asks: can the body be imagined as the birthplace of transformation?

Through dance, movement, and collective intensity, the work explores change—what it takes to imagine it, what it costs to generate it, and what becomes possible when bodies insist on a new reality. On stage, the dancers act as generators, producing energy, heat, and momentum that build toward an inevitable eruption. The piece oscillates between exhaustion and renewal, friction and release, chaos and order, as the performers push to the very limits of what a body—and a collective body—can endure and achieve.

BIG, BIG, BANG is a piece made for and collaboration with ESC dansekompani in Bergen (NO). It premiered the 20th of January 2024 at BIT teatergarasjen