Black sun

Sandvika Teater, 1999; Nysirkusfestivalen i Sandvika 1999.

Directed by: Lars Øyno
With: Torbjørn Davidsen, Hanne Dieserud, Elin Lindberg, Lillian Lydersen, Damir Dado Pudar, Marit Schade Ødegaard, Martin Slaatto
Set design: Rus Mesic
Composer: Øyvind Borgemoen, Torkil Hammer and Lars Pedersen
Lighting design: Helge Rinnan
Costume design: Ricardo Gonzales
Assistant choreographer: Lise Eger
Make-up design: Britt-Helen Rise
Sound technician: Vegard Engebretsen
Photography: Stein Jarle Nilsen
In co-production with the Municipality of Bærum

”Black Sun” is based on Antonin Artaud’s text “Tutuguri” - a poetic description of the Native Mexican Tarahumara people’s ritual of Sun worship.

I do not know whether it is the wind rising

Or a wind that rises out of this music from back then

Which still is today

But it feels like being whipped by a breathing of the night

A breath that has ascended from a disappeared

Humankind’s caves and is showing its face here

A painted face,

Sneering, with merciless features

Be pure and chaste

It seems to say

Be virginal.