Jacob – Tony Tran

JACOB is a performance for two male performers that explores a relationship of dependency between two people, and the friction and power shift that occurs. It is also a study of an emotional relationship between two men. The masculine intimacy depicted here is not necessarily about the romantic or sexual, but embraces all types of relationships.

Tony Tran and Knut Vikstrøm Precht invite the audience into a playful and physical choreography that examines how a relationship can be limiting, liberating, supportive and destructive at the same time. The audience joins in an exploration of both the performers' and their own boundaries for intimacy, friendship and love, and the tension that lies in the transition between all these phases and emotions. At the same time, the piece breaks with the traditional representation of masculinity and the conventional expectations of gender roles. The relationship depicted in Jakob appears humble and real, supported by an exploratory and metaphorical body language.

The work is the continuation of Tran's ongoing work on power and identity in human relationships. How do relationships and duality, the fact that we are no longer alone, affect the choices we make as individuals? How does this shape our behavior and our individual actions? And how do we encounter the other?

Reviews:
Anna Moberg from Unge Stemmer, 05.12.2019

Grace Tabea Tenga from Periscope, 10/12/2019

Marte Sterud from Shakespeare Journal, 16.11.2021

Target group: From 14 years old

Venue: Pilotscenen

Duration: 45 minutes

Cast:

Choreography: Tony Tran

Creation and performers: Tony Tran & Knut Vikstrøm Prech

Dramaturgy: Thomas Schaupp

Music composition: Magnus Bugge

Lighting design: Tobias Leira

Photo: Jacob-Andreas Leonardsen

Supported by Nordic Culture Fund, SPENN, Arts Council of Norway, Kulturkontakt Nord, Oslo Municipality, Fund for Performing Artists, i-Portunus

Sunday, June 22, 2025

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