Norway’s Jo Strømgren Kompani makes its eagerly awaited return to New York City with their internationally acclaimed production of The Hospital.
Characterized by Strømgren’s darkly humorous mix of dance and theatre, The Hospital is set in a remote hospital where three nurses try to endure the lack of patients by injuring then treating each other, performing their duties on themselves as an alternative to the real thing. Everything is serious. Everything is nonsense.
As with previous productions, one of the aims is to explore dance theatre forms with actors not trained in dance, the continuous exploration of nonsense languages is this time represented by a linguistic alias of Icelandic, a language which resembles the ancient mother tongue of all Scandinavians. The intention of verbal abstraction is the same as with abstract movement – creating a wider range of associative interpretations.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
