A collaboration between the performance theatres Hotel Pro Forma and Dumb Type (Japan), the architects Diller + Scofidio (USA) and Willie Flindt (DK).

A performance in memory of money. 'Monkey Business Class' is a musical performance that celebrates money bills with a last farewell before they disappear from our world. Today, electronic currency is beginning to render paper obsolete and assets sweep across borders as digital codes. After plastic cards and pin codes we return to the body with a new code language: Biometrical access control systems - the future gateway to wealth. The print of a finger, the recognition of a voice and the scanning of an eye give the answer to the machine who asks the question: Are you who you say you are? Human capital acquires a new meaning, and manual work as an expression of work and survival is replaced. Simultaneously, money bills are treated as icons, and as visual art they become collector's items.

A performance in memory of the musical. Formally, the performance takes its point of departure in the 1930s American film musicals with their catchy songs, moral stories and extravagant dance scenes.

A performance in memory of the senses. The scenography is seen as an ambiguous architectural landscape. As a challenge to the visual perception of the eye it unfolds like cinematic and visual art at a two- and three-dimensional level. Through video projections and changing lights, the eye transforms scenic space and the positioning of the performers.

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