Florence’s Fantasy

Follow the fairy Florence on a hallucinating journey through her dystopian clinic. FLORENCE’S FANTASY is a tale of magical powers and human decay.

Inspired by the myth of the self-sacrificing nurse Florence Nightingale, the story explores what happens when heroic images are retold across generations – how they shape our society, our view of women, and what it means for the individual who must live up to these illusions.

In the performance installation, Nightingale is revived as a fairy – a being that hovers between life and death, between the conscious and the unconscious. She hypnotizes us, medicates us, and choreographs us through the wards of the clinic, in a display of ethics and maternal care.

FLORENCE'S FANTASY examines the clinical languages and choreographies that unfold within the healthcare system, while also serving as a tribute to all those who, every day, hold our bodies, our trust, and our mobility in their hands.

CAST:
Co-creating performers: Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn, Linn Haldrup Lorenzen & Sarah Ann Lee
Idea and Concept: Rosa Birkedal & Linn Haldrup Lorenzen devised with the performers
Scenographers: Rosa Birkedal & Simone Bartolin
Dramaturgical consultant: Sarah Khaledi
Production manager: Laura Cornelius Petersen
Lights Designer: Rosa Birkedal
Sound Designer: Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn
Props: WAUW
Assistant scenographer: Anna Victoria Osbar
Stage manager: Daniel Vendelbo
Builder: Hans Monteli
Technician: Jakob Folke Ivarsson
Lights programming: Mikkel Magnus Olsen
Sound consulting: Philip Munksgaard Medom
Photografer: Rumle Skafte

The performance is made possible with support from:
Statens kunstfond, Direktør Michael Hermann Nielsens mindelegat, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and William Demant Fonden