W.O.M.B

W.O.M.B. (Worth of My Body) is a multimedia choreographic piece accompanied by live instrumentation. It explores the birthing and becoming of motherhood with the many changes this entails: the relationship to one's body and physicality, the passage of time, and one's senses of identity and origin.

W.O.M.B. embraces all the poetry, compassion and pain that comes from creating life. The performance invites a reflection on the body's ability to change through witnessing the three dancers' culturally-inflected interpretations of motherhood. No one, nobody can go through birthing without being transformed. In an era of physical scrutiny where bodily "flaws" are to be removed or hidden, W.O.M.B. pays homage to the body that bears the signs of creating life.

CHOREOGRAPHER Julienne Doko in collaboration with the dancers
DANCERS Naa Ayeley, Meire Oliveira & Julienne Doko
COMPOSER & MUSICIAN Gert Østergaard Pedersen
COSTUME DESIGNER Charlotte Østergaard
VISUAL ARTISTS Jules Fischer & Mette Hammer Juhl
POET Lesley-Ann Brown
CONSULTANT & MENTOR Marylise Tanvet

Statens Kunstfond and BikubenFonden have supported the production.

The visit was made possible thanks to the support of Nordisk Kulturfond.