Diner Journal

ROSES & BEANS – a performance about the private, the political and the pop aspects of love

With: Tove Sahlin and Dag Andersson (Sweden)

» Tomorrow, Jan 12th, 6.00-8.00 pm

This Must Be The Place, 81 Broadway 3rd floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

No cover, fika[1] included

With support of the Swedish arts Grants Committee, Swedish arts council and The culture committee of Stockholm

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Bastardproduktion is pleased to announce the well noticed, internationally played Swedish dance performance duet ROSES & BEANS, for one night only at This Must Be The Place in New York.

With flirty bodies and occasional love songs, the performers Tove Sahlin and Dag Andersson invite you to a private fika[2] party of chorographical material in an empty living room. ROSES & BEANS takes its starting point in the striking power of pop culture and joins in with the ever-present choruses about love, relationships and sexuality.

Being sick of living with the stories we’ve heard over and over, Tove Sahlin and Dag Andersson attempt to create new ones, borrowing extracts from life and art from Marina & Ulay, John & Yoko and Brad & Angelina. As an act of curiosity, and precise equality measured by every step we take and every move we make, they critically investigate the concept of the couple relationship and the template of success.

Together a special moment is shared, accompanied by a sweetened cake of romance and some Swedish fika[3].

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Number of seats is limited and given on a first-come, first-served basis. The performance is 45 minutes and will start at 6.30 sharp.

For more information, interviews and high-resolution images, please contact dag@bastardproduktion.se

[1] Fika is a social institution in Sweden; it means having a break, most often a coffeebreak, with one’s colleagues, friends, date, or family. Swedes consider having a coffee an important part of the culture. You can fika at work by taking a “coffee break,” fika with someone like a “coffee date,” or just drink a cup of coffee. As such, the word has quite ambiguous connotations, but always including something to eat accompanied by a drink, such as cookies, cakes and even candy.

[2] This practice of taking a break, typically with a cinnamon roll or some biscuits or cookies, is central to Swedish life and culture, and is regularly  enjoyed even by the government.

[3] For more information about fika, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_(coffee_break)