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It is as it is

A song cycle-a dance macabre

Maria Johansson Josephsson & Tove Sahlin 

Through musings, danced incantations and newly written music for one - and sometimes two voices - we encounter narrative interpretative resources in form of possible transactions, possible and impossible passages in time and space, the unmentionable but also the lust for life, the joy of being and a large measure of humor in relation to loss and dying. The aim is to investigate the cycles of change that meet humans throughout life, both the everyday movements through the years but also the worrying injuries, diseases, the caring practices and the worrying end of earthly life.

It's a performance with two actors, using their voices and bodies to make visible change in the different stages of life. The work has been created in a collaboration between Maria Johansson Josephsson, singer, actor and composer and Tove Sahlin choreographer and dancer.

"It is as it is" is inspired by various theories and thoughts about change, transformation, care, decay and human's opportunity to find comfort in and believe in the power of music, dance and art.