Photography: Märta Thisner

The EDIE&EDIE project

Emma Tolander and Amanda Apetrea started the EDIE&EDIE project 2012.

The EDIE&EDIE project is about unconditional support and to be the muse, the mentor and the genius at the same time. Many male artists through time have had female muses. The famous muse Edie Sedgwick inspired a bunch of them. In the EDIE&EDIE project, Emma and Amanda want to be two equal geniuses as well as each other’s Edie. Through a democratic, non-hierarchical process they inspire and challenge each other. The EDIE&EDIE project doesn’t believe in the lone ranger or the lonely male genius, they believe in togetherness as a way to creativity!

EDIE&EDIE is a working method and a strategy to create dance. It’s about unconditional support and sisterhood. The project is about lifting up and intensifying each other’s artistry through being together and sharing work.

Part one: the solos

Covers by Amanda Apetrea and Dancer by Emma Tolander are two solos that exist within the same landscape, and grow out of the same soil of ideas and ideology but take very different expressions. Together they make an evening of dancing, body, dancehistory, feminism, fakeism, realness, fantasy and wild west that will blow you away.

Part two: the duet EDIE&EDIE

The duet that is also called EDIE&EDIE is the second part of The EDIE&EDIE project.

It is created and performed by Amanda and Emma, light and set designer Chrisander Brun and sound designer Anna Sóley Tryggvadóttir.

The performance is two women dancing, it’s about their struggle, love, friendship and community. They are ugly, sassy, sexy, angry, happy, funny, loud, clumsy and rowdy. They stumble around, fumble, embrace, catch each other, support each other, scratch, hump, rock, hope and yearn. They fight to be who they want to be deep within. They want to dance for everyone who ever felt someone else’s skin against theirs, who ever felt that they are searching for something, who ever felt that they maybe don’t fit in, who maybe thinks that something should change in this world.

Photography: Märta Thisner

“Covers” (with and by Amanda Apetrea, light and set design by Chrisander Brun)

“Covers”, is a solo where Amanda plays with the idea of dance performance vs concert. It is new version of a contemporary or previously made, commercially released or popular dance or choreography.

Photography: Märta Thisner

"Dancer" (with and by Emma Tolander)

"I am a dancer. To dance is the best thing I know. I feel bad if I do not practice every day. I always work to be as good a dancer as I can. " In her solo, Emma will search for the deepest and darkest intentions and ideals of being a dancer.