Mermaids of the Hypersea is a somatic and performative research on being a body of water set in a choreographic context. It is a dance with the water we all carry inside, the water we are and the water that passes through us and blurs the boundaries between you, me and us as well as the human and the non-human. 

The Hypersea is what Dianna & Mark McMenamin calls water we, all living organisms, carry within. In Mermaids of the Hypersea the performers are getting in touch with this common inner sea by working in borderland where bodies of water are transformed and the imaginative, the sensual, the performative and the fictional creates an overall understanding of ever changing liquid bodies.

Mermaids as mythical divas that manifests in-betweenness, queerness and more-than-humanness becomes figures to embody. Through singing, dancing, tea-making and pouring bodies of water the performance becomes a ritual of becoming mermaids of the hypersea - mermaids of our collective inner ocean.  

The performance is a duet version of the solo performance Mermaid of the Hypersea (2019) by Snorre Evin.

Concept: Snorre Elvin
Choreography and performance: Snorre Elvin in collaboration with Peter Scherrebeck Hansen

Sound: Nanna Elvin Hansen, Minais B, t0ni

Costumes: Alectra Rothschild

Light: Magnus Hjortlund

Pictures: Ville Vidø

Trailer: filmed by Thomas Dyrholm, edited by Snorre Elvin

Thanks to: David Kummer, Oline Marie Andersen, Linnea Slipsager, Kai Merke, Mathilde Hyttel and Sol Ravn
Support from: Danish Arts Council, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Danseatelier, Dance All Year Long, Ravnedans & Göteborgs dans- och teaterfestival

Presented at: Rakete - Tanzquatier Wien, Göteborgs dans- och teaterfestival and The Danish National School of Performing Arts