A Snowball’s Chance in Hell
In A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, Danish physical theatre and dance company DON GNU travels back to the 1920s to examine the beautiful art of failing.
A Snowball’s Chance in Hell
In A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, Danish physical theatre and dance company DON GNU travels back to the 1920s to examine the beautiful art of failing.
Two men, in the form of DON (Jannik Elkær) and GNU (Kristoffer Louis Andrup Pedersen), throw themselves into the world of silent film in order to explore the clown inside us all. The flickering light of a projector, the specks of white dust on the screen and the spirit of Charlie Chaplin set the scene, as the audience begins to wonder whether DON and GNU can manage to stay in the frame.
In an intimate, entertaining and expressive performance where dance, video, music and audience interaction collide, we are drawn into a world of simple human conflicts, failures and micro-level power-struggles, where it is difficult not to recognize and laugh at our inner clown.
About DON GNU
DON GNU is a guarantee of physical action theatre and dance combined in a playfull and poetic power universe!
The company was founded in 2010 by the two choreographers Jannik Elkær and Kristoffer Louis Andrup, who also constitute the artistic duo at the helm of DON GNU. Today the company is one of the most touring companies in Denmark. In addition to extensive tour activities in Denmark, DON GNU has also toured in all the Nordic Countries, South Korea, Canada, big parts of Europe and Cuba.
The company’s name is built around the paradox embedded in the name DON GNU. Don as an individual, and Gnu (wildebeest) as a herd animal, the constellation of both the individual and the collective creates the dynamism, experimentation and development-basis for the ideas that are the hallmark of DON GNU productions.