Dim deals with anesthesia – anesthesia as a consequence of the times we live in, and as a tool to be able to deal with these times. Dim is a work for three dancers. A realm of numbness steers their relations and pathways, where care, violence, indifference, boundlessness and desire quiver in an uneven path.
Dim derives from bodily states of anesthesia that arise as a consequence of an over-aestheticized, accelerated, and information-rich society: anesthesia emerges due to the impressions one is exposed to being too many and too strong so that the perception changes as a result. The idea is that one is numbed by taking part in an over-aestheticized world that roars out non-stop sensory experiences. The numbing can be understood as a response to a reality where one is overwhelmed by images, sounds, and other impressions.
Goldberg is interested in the physical implications of anesthesia, how it affects relationships and where one draws boundaries.
Dim means obscure and blurred, reflecting the numbness this piece takes as its starting point. Dim explores the physical logic these states evoke. You are not shielded sensorial inputs within this state, so what kind of impressions seep in and are picked up? What is it that you just ignore because it doesn't concern you, due to your numbness? And what can be done because less is felt?
Rosalind Goldberg is a Norwegian-Swedish choreographer based in Oslo. She holds a PhD in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, with the title: Choreography as a meaning-generating aggregate. Goldberg’s work explores processes of change and is characterized by a physical and conceptual approach to choreography, where the entanglement of the two directs the process.
