Sew Flunk Fury Wit
Sew Flunk Fury Wit creates enigmatic musicdramatic signature performances in a hard to categorize hybridgenre of hyper-surreal human sized neo-puppetry, poetic dramatic worlds and seductive soundscapes of new composed opera with a broad and exploring sense of music and instruments.
The company was founded by artistic director – Svend E. Kristensen (DK) – in 2013. He began his artistic career at the experimental music scene in Denmark in the early 80’s. Up through the years he has elaborated, developed and designed various life-sized puppets from materials such as carbon fibers, silicones and other composites. Read about artistic director Svend E. Kristensen here.
METAMORPHOSEN is a mesmerizing, experimental and relevant musicdramatic catastrophe-historical interpretion of Richard Strauss composition. With the remarcable instrument ondes martenot, soprano and an enchanting human-sized puppet.
CORPO SURREAL an ecstatic tribute to the courageous attempt of the corposurreal transformation. An enigmatic, innovative and intensely mesmerizing, music-dramatic experience that releases the eyes and imagination of both creator and audience. Co-produced with Antibodies Collective (JP) and Folk Opera Iceland.
STØV (DUST) telling the tale of a world gone horribly wrong in the shape of five fascinating human-sized puppets, a luminescent opera soprano and a shadowy figure.
CRASH is a story about a couple who dies in a car crash, the story is told through music & song, Opera & Ambient rock, accompanied by neo puppets, in a New Music Dramatics-framing.
The performance FEINSCHMECKER (2014) was the first collectively produced work by Sew Flunk Fury Wit, staging a relational drama of 3 life- sized hypernaturalistic female puppets and 3 male puppeteers. Created by Thomas Hejlesen (Von Heiduck) and Svend E. Kristensen.
DUST, CRASH, and Corpo Surreal are developed collectively with director Jesper Pedersen.