Stage situation: A teenager jumps into the air, hair blowing wildly. In the background, other teenagers stand in a semi-circle.
 All the teenagers stand and sit together as a group and sing, in the centre a seated person with a guitar.
All the teenagers stand and sit together as a group and sing, in the centre a seated person with a guitar.  A single person with a bass guitar.

Teenage Songbook of Love and Sex

Ásrún Magnúsdóttir & Alexander Roberts

Reykjavík

Butterflies in the tummy, the first sexual experience, (self-doubt), fear, heartache – how else can we talk about this tempest of emotions other than through music? Twenty teenagers from Braunschweig and Reykjavík take to the microphone and in Teenage Songbook of Love and Sex catapult us right into their untamed minds and thumping hearts. They sing catchy pop songs with lyrics they have written themselves about the big themes of growing up, which they worked on together in Braunschweig. Because the songs we listen to in our youth and the stories they tell determine how we come to understand ourselves and the world around us. But what if all heteronormative pop songs told alternative stories? The young people sing for themselves, for each other and for “every virgin, every slut and every thirsty bitch” – so no one ever needs to feel alone again. A show filled with emotions, which we guarantee will leave no eye dry or heart cold.

 

Alexander Roberts & Ásrún Magnúsdóttir have been working intensively together for several years on a variety of dance and performance projects. Their common goal is to expand the established artistic expressions in the field of dance and performance by working with groups whose voices are often underrepresented in this context. Their collaboration manifests itself through joint authorship, choreography, dramaturgy, artistic design, and curation.

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Production credits

Concept, Creation Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, Alexander Roberts Musical Direction, Composition Teitur Magnússon Co-Authors, Performance Performance Lísbet Sveinsdóttir, Marta Ákadóttir, Salóme Júlíusdóttir, Ísafold Kristín, Katla Sigurðardóttir Snædal, Kolfinna Ingólfsdóttir, Oliver Ali, Chisom Osuala, Uloma Osuala, Una Barkadóttir, Karen Nordquist Ragnarsdóttir, Egill Andrason, Haukur Guðnason, Hanna Gréta Jónsdóttir, Sverrir Gauti Svavarsson og Karólína Einarsdóttir, Anna Bíbí Wium Axelsdóttir, Þór Ari Grétarsson, Monika Lárusdóttir, Fannar Árni Ágústsson, Kiara Raum, Leni Becker, Annika Betker, Nicolas Minke, Emilie Überschär, Mo Seditschka, Vivian Carolina Meier, Wencke Bergmann, Anna Berger, Mariella Witt, Fiona Behrens  Choir Conducting Sigríður Soffía Hafliðadóttir, Aron Steinn Ásbjarnarson German Translation Aristea Bagia Operator Michael Gress Photos Mehdi Amiri


Co-produced by BIT Teatergarasjen, Teenagers in Reykjavík, Reykjavík Dance Festival,the Nordic Residency Platform, NORDBUK and apap - Performing Europe 2020. Funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Special thanks to TANZKOOP and Verein für sexuelle Emanzipation e.V. (VSE).