In DANTE, three lost souls encounter one another on a misty odyssey of songs, fragments of text, and restrained dance. Following 37 hours and 3 minutes and Merkurius, Gunilla Heilborn continues her exploration of time, doubt, and the uncertain - with her unmistakable style of dry humour and delicate poetry.
The starting point is Heilborn’s unsuccessful trip to Florence. In search of Dante - and of a long-vanished era - she loses her way among groups of tourists in the city’s narrow streets. “Some people simply don’t want the Middle Ages to end.” Past and present overlap in a deeply personal reading of Dante’s eternal questions. Gunilla Heilborn creates her very own Commedia Divina: There are no answers, but all the more questions. She does promise one thing, though. Like all comedies, DANTE begins badly - and ends well…
After the performance: Talk with the artists
