X & Y, The Bastards of Grey, Everyday Living – The BarBar gallery; Kulturhuset, Stockholm/The Museum of Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark/Centre Culturel Suedois and Cafe de la danse, Paris, France/S:t Pauli Theater, Hamburg, Germany/Auckland International Comedy Festival, New Zealand/Scandinavia House, New York.

The above recording is from Swedish TV 1986

X & Y were originally performed between 1982 -1990 at amongst many other locations The BarBar gallery, Kulturhuset Stockholm, The Museum of Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Centre Culturel Suedois and Cafe de la danse at the 2eme Concours International de Mimographie (that we won…) in Paris, S:t Pauli Theater, Hamburg, and Auckland International Comedy Festival, New Zealand, and in the beginning of 2009 at Scandinavia House, New York.

The pieces chosen for the Northern Realms program  at Scandinavia House, New York, were

  1. “The Iron” to “Hapax Legomena” by Shriekback
  2. “The Family” to “Full house” by David Moss
  3. “The Gardener” to “Wreath” by Phil Minton
  4. “The Meal” to “Lucinda” by A Certain Ratio
  5. ”Employment agency” to ”Legs” by Massacre
  6. ”The Café” to ”Would you rather dancing be”/”Bloody chamber” by Ludus
  7. ”At the barbers” to ”Heritage” by Material

After touring “X & Y – The Gray Bastards Of Everyday Life” on 12th January at Scandinavia House in New York, where we showed our and Jonas Åkerlunds short film “The Hidden”, we played “X & Y” at Salon Giraffe/Orionteatern in addition to Folkoperan March 20th 2009, and lastly at the Boulevard Theaters Mime festival March 28th 2012.

The pieces are still rocking after all these years, being created in 1982 😉

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