Klampenborg dancescape

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Video 6'12''

author Neda kovinic

dancers Adrien Gaume, Neda Kovinic

story in subtitles: excerpt from "The Fir tree", H. C. Andersen

camera Neda Kovinic

editor Arion Asllani

2020.

Exhibited at "Cvijeta Zuzorić" pavilion, Spring exhibition, Association of Fine Artists, Serbia

 and at "Podroom " gallery, CCB, July, 2020.

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The video is based on recordings of a site-specific dance improvisation, in the Klampenborg forest in Copenhagen, which I had visited in the summer 2018. Instead of a fresh summer in Denmark, I experienced the biggest heat wave “Lucifer”, that has ever happened in that part of Europe. The disaster created tension and an apocalyptic atmosphere in the city, so that the nearest forest Klanpenborg became a kind of refuge.

We had exposed ourselves to the elements of nature and climate disasters. The magical forest triggered the narrative from Andersen's fairy tales. The video film is followed by the text of the fairy tale "Fir tree", which is about an unfortunate young tree. Despite the ideal living conditions, the young fir tree, surrounded by the adult trees, suffers inconsolably, because people do not choose it and do not cut it to take it to their homes and use it as a Christmas tree. Young wood is inconsolable because it is not recognized by people as a useful material. This fairy tale is paradoxical from contemporary perspective, when the survival of the planet is in question due to the destructive effects of man on the planet and nature.