24 -26th Oktober 2025 in UFERSTUDIOS Berlin
Premiered 11th Oktober 2023
in Athanor Academy
Today we lost our human constitution, if we have the courage we will let our selves stay lost.
We tried to find something, it felt desperate at first and then better and better, it was like an ecstasy that almost ends in madness, mayhem and then subsides again. Throwing our bodies into places.
And then: Disorientation. Lack of identity. White. No. No. No. White. Where. Who. Hurt. Floating. Body. Where. Away. Somewhere I am melting
Dissolving
Milk
Somewhere my self is melting and my narrative is me.
Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. Suddenly things no longer need to make sense. I’m satisfied with being. Are
you? Certainly you are. The meaninglessness of things makes me smile complacently. Everything surely must go on being what it is.
Today is a day of nothing. Today is down to the wire. Could there be a number that is nothing? that is less than zero? that begins where there is no beginning because it always was? and was before always? Clarice Lispector
"Milk" is a dance performance made for and with the third year of the Athanor Academy under the direction of choreographer Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen. The work builds on the collaboration between Edith and the performing students through the exchange of personal thoughts, texts and video material in the exploration of physical tasks given over the course of several months. The result: it takes shape in “Milk”
Premiered 11th Oktober 2023
in Athanor Academy
Today we lost our human constitution, if we have the courage we will let our selves stay lost.
We tried to find something, it felt desperate at first and then better and better, it was like an ecstasy that almost ends in madness, mayhem and then subsides again. Throwing our bodies into places.
And then: Disorientation. Lack of identity. White. No. No. No. White. Where. Who. Hurt. Floating. Body. Where. Away. Somewhere I am melting
Dissolving
Milk
Somewhere my self is melting and my narrative is me.
Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. Suddenly things no longer need to make sense. I’m satisfied with being. Are
you? Certainly you are. The meaninglessness of things makes me smile complacently. Everything surely must go on being what it is.
Today is a day of nothing. Today is down to the wire. Could there be a number that is nothing? that is less than zero? that begins where there is no beginning because it always was? and was before always? Clarice Lispector
"Milk" is a dance performance made for and with the third year of the Athanor Academy under the direction of choreographer Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen. The work builds on the collaboration between Edith and the performing students through the exchange of personal thoughts, texts and video material in the exploration of physical tasks given over the course of several months. The result: it takes shape in “Milk”
Concept and Artistic Direction
Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen
Performance and Co-creation
Tekla Farkas
Malaika Lermer
Lara Pauli
Julia Reisser
Olga Tomkowiak
Nele Wirth
Hannes Kainz
Dramaturgy and stage support
Florian von Hoermann
Directors Assistant
Anna Waibel
Live Technique
Alexander Urban
Voice Support
Helmut Schwaiger
Texts by
Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen and The Performers
Inspired by Clarice Lispector
Music in Teaser by Lea Porcelain
