‘Boy and girl jumping fence’ is a coming of age story of two people passing geographical and personal borders, as they travel by other people’s cars through Europe.
Moving freely is not something we can take for granted. I always knew it, but I never really felt it. As most European borders were closed off this spring 2020, I got an emotional hint of being stuck within national borders, and I decided to re-visit a carefree memory of another summer in Europe. The two main characters of the story; the boy and the girl, are anyone who ever naïvely hitchhiked from one country to another, slept on the couch in the house of a stranger, or put up their tent to the sound of howling dogs: light travellers, ready to jump.
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Ditte Tells:
I tell stories about humans from a personal and intimate perspective, using private diaries and letters as a departure for my work. Whilst I often use written words in my drawings, films, and books, my performances are usually nonverbal attempts to share an intimate space with the viewer. I look at the world around me through the eyes of a dancer. The practice of movement is essential for my work, both literally to be seen in my performances, and as a way to think: Just like I can tighten and release a muscle, I distinguish between initiating and allowing when I work with art. I need initiative to push through the heavy parts of a project to make it happen, but without allowing un-expectations in my practice it is for me not worth the effort to work in the field(s) of arts. My work displays emotional life and touches upon themes such as sexuality, romantic love, nostalgia, longing, and connections (or lack of same) between people. The aesthetics, however, are often childlike and colourful, and seem to laugh at the navel-gazing grown-up’s dramatic self-importance.
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