Disorder of Desire is a psychedelic mash-up of various tragedies, comedies, mythical figures, gods, nuns, permaculturists, and intellectual barbarians. Through film, elaborate costumes, pop songs, experimental hybrid texts, and choreographic scores, Dionysian Corp. materialize excess and explore subjectivity and experience, as well as the potential for a realism defined by surplus and the irrational.
Disorder of Desire is a drama of fate grounded in politics and ideological critique. It is love stories gone bad and narratives about the relationship between life and death and the passage between them through grief and remembrance. We meet Medea, who kills her two children and exposes how evil and unjust the world is; Myrrha, who shows us how any person can become someone else through language, and how the division of language into a literal and metaphorical layer is abused for base motives. We encounter the blazing-hot Antigone and lustful Hydra sisters transformed into Victoria’s Secret angels. There’s Salome, who in a fever dreams up and initiates the downfall of fundamentalism in a destructive cocktail of diffuse fear and doom.
Disorder of Desire is a collage where worlds collide and characters reappear – with fashion houses in Paris, sitting in court awaiting their verdict, or suddenly finding themselves blissfully lost in a moment of complete intoxication and ecstasy.
Welcome to a Dionysian and tragic evening of festivity, where one may both laugh and cry!
● Dionysian Corp. is a family business comprising costume designer Fredrik Floen and author and playwright Runa Borch Skolseg. Their interests lie in the tension between costume, fashion, literature, choreography, ecstasy, horses, tragic destinies, carnival, scandal, death, Germany and Austria, high-intensity training, and manic energy. They became friends over Rei Kawakubo and Miuccia Prada in spring 2014 and have never looked back since.
