LOOPS & HOOPS, 2023
Location: Amager shopping Mall, Copenhagen
Duration: Three hours
Photographer: Malle Madsen
Performers: Agi / Astrid Haugesen, Laura Cotton, Anne Sofie Djernis, Nanna Erika, David Marshal, Kajsa Balk-Møller, Hannah Owens, Line Rolf, Nanna Segall, Viktoria Semenova, Emil Steensen, Mia Lomholt Tvede and Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Loops and Hoops mixes hula hooping and the body’s carefree circularity into the busy center choreography. Hula hooping is a dynamic game that spreads positive energy and, for many, creates associations with the carefree and non-binding time-wasting of childhood.
The hula hoops also represent the symbol of the circular, of the cycle, the female energy, which the artist subtly spreads with her infectious, circular movements. As a playful contrast to the masculine and to the contemporary linear perception of time, Cuenca Rasmussen’s performance becomes a symbolic attempt to move against the streamlining of the performance society. At the same time, she insists on defying the number 13 and letting the 13 hula-hooping performers become a showdown with the superstition, that is deeply connected to both religious precepts and rule-bound systems.
