Banquet for the bees

Banquet for Bees immerses audiences into landscape, a beehive and into the lives of bees. A group of humans gradually transforms into a community of bees, and the work aims to recreate bee life both sensually and factually. Banquet for Bees is a collaboration between Secret Hotel, Denmark and Triage Live Art Collective, Australia. Banquet for Bees is a project which aims to explore the world of bees from a bee’s point of view. The work has been presented at April Festival Denmark, Copenhagen:STAGE, Jord Arts Festival, Momentum, Passage Festival Helsingor, Ebeltoft Festival Denmark and Pro Progressione Festival Hungary.

CREDITS

Project Concept Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy and Christine Fentz
Co-created with Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad, Gergö Lukacs, Viktoria Makra, and Bodil Buonaventzen.
Dramaturgy: Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy and John Tinning
Sound design: Birgit Løkke
Funded by Statens Kunstfond, Aarhus Kommune, midt, Krus Vask Denmark
Premiere: Ebeltoft Festival 2020

PRESS

The audience participates in Banquet for Bees as both spectators and performers in a fascinating way which takes place in the open air. … A very special nature-immersive atmosphere envelops you when you sit in the grass and listen to Swedish performer Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad’s story about how, as a child, she watched her father work as a beekeeper from behind the windows of the house.

Kirsten Dahl Teateravisen 2020

Wearing baggy pants, we ourselves became a kind of worker bees, who, after being tuned in with a buzzing straw beehive over our heads, were assigned various bee jobs and learned something about swarm intelligence. Fun to be sent out as scout bees with huge magnifiers as insect eyes in search of flowers to suck nectar from. Just as the bees dance to signal to the flock where the tempting flowers are, we were to do a tail dance to signal the grand banquet finale around a long table.

Monna Dithmer Politiken 2020