Do not stand too close
Hege Haagenrud
In "Do Not Stand Too Close" we meet the morbidly self-absorbed, those who need so much that they end up being left alone. Personality disorders and mental disorders have become commonplace, and the web is overflowing with people sharing their personal experiences. These testimonies, loosely combined with clips from reality TV and the occasional soap opera, are the starting point for "Do Not Stand Too Close".
Photo by: Tale Hendnes
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/810132762
For more details: https://www.hegehaagenrud.com/do-not-stand-too-close
Dusk
Rebecca Laufer and Mattheus Van Rossum
Dusk is a dance theater piece that embarks on a cosmic journey of four entities lost in time, stuck in a spectral state, unbound by reality. They are wanderers, invisible to others, and yet their experience is linked within this wilting world. It is a research in the meditation of time, grief and emotional connection. By taking away identity, it poses the question of what lies beneath. It is a play of perception and ultimately an exploration of love and loss.
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Still from video: Rebecca Laufer
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Rotating Nora
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
Ingun Bjørnsgaard takes playful hold of Henrik Ibsen’s most renowned female character Nora (”A Dolls House”). One of Scandinavia’s foremost choreographers continues her deconstructive and liberating investigation on iconic dramatic works.
”Extraordinarily redeemed and mature – while at the same time fresh as dew.”– Chris Erichsen, scenekunst.no
Photo: Thomas Bjørk
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDe3uB_dCNs&t=42s
For more details: https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/rotating-nora/
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Disintegrate
Hege Haagenrud
Videoproject. Filmed by Siren Lauven.
Praeam'bulum
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
In "Praeambulum" Ingun Bjørnsgaard seeks a new concept of beauty in dance. The choreography is based on seven dancers – four women and three men – who form pair constellations in a game of roles and formalities. The role patterns crumble and leave the actors groping in an androgynous limbo. The performance is located at the intersection between rhythmic participation and derailment, and perpetuates moments of both revelation of truth and distorted communication.
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Photo: Erik Berg
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzrZ-ghFQ1k
For more details: https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/preambulum-2013/
Goodbye Penelope
Christopher Arouni
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"Goodbye Penelope" moves thematically between the states of dream and reality, or in the borderland between dream and waking state. The performance is based on a diary, where the notes become documentation and anchoring to reality, where dream and reality merge into one another. The diary is the sober narrative voice, and stands in contrast to the anarchy of the dream.
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Photo: Antero Hein
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2yhrM9wqEE
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Adveture without risk - is Disneyland
Hege Haagenrud
In the performance "Adventure without risk - is Disneyland" we meet two women who, in an isolated and limited existence, control and oppress each other to the point of the unbearable. They want to preserve their lives and suppress the passage of time by shutting out the outside world. What happens when reality catches up with them, and their own impermanence can no longer be denied?
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Photo: Siren Lauven
For more details:
https://hegehaagenrud.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/adventure-without-risk-3/
The demand for love
Hege Haagenrud
Videoproject. Filmed by Siren Lauven.
How to be alone
Hege Haagenrud
With well-meaning hindsight one wishes to educate the child and prepare him or her for what is coming. The problem is that the last thing one wants to do is to listen to advice given by those twice your age; learning by doing is the only possible way.
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The dance performance «How to be alone» is based on how children in this period move between that which is secure, and the abyss; between belonging and independence.
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Photo: Siren Lauven
For more details: https://hegehaagenrud.wordpress.com/repertoar/
Omega and The Deer
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
Ingun Bjørnsgaard often stages her fumbling, brutal and beautiful characters as they are crossing the boundary between restraint and spectacle. In Omega and the Deer they get lost in such a place, on the way to the forest, taken prisoner by their own shadows. There is a framework, which outlines different spaces and directions for our movements: our body, our gender, our sense of belonging to a place, our sociability, our past. This entails the perceptions and contrasts that shape us and create movement, friction, despair and melancholy. The piece addresses among other things the complex self-perception of the modern man, with references to the art of Edvard Munch.
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Photos: Erik Berg og Knut Bry
For more details: https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/omega-and-the-deer-2011/
Idunn's Epler
Marie Male Kalstø and Marta-Luiza Jankowska
"Brage sings about how Idunn picked the apples of youth, the magic apples that Idunn hides in a casket. They are such that whoever takes a small bite of one of them becomes many years younger than he really is. Now you know why the gods never grow old. They eat Idunn's apples and they become young again."
(https://www.skoletorget.no/abb/nor/normyt/idunn.htm)
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How do you hold on to youth and fertility when you are fated to grow old? "Idunn's Epler" takes inspiration from the Norse goddess Idunn and from the movie "Death becomes her". 100 Apples, dance, worship and rituals - the two dancers explore how far one is willing to go to stay young.
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Photo: Marie Male Kalstø
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The rest is silence
Hege Haagenrud
Video testing. Filmed by Siren Lauven.
Kamuyot
Ohad Naharin
Furiously intense with sixteen of the world's best young dancers! With Kamuyot, you get to experience dance where the audience is a co-creator and the barrier between stage and salon is blurred. The dancers become part of the audience, and the audience becomes part of the performance. Behind Kamuyot is Ohad Naharin, artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company in Israel and one of the world's most important and celebrated choreographers.
- The Swedish Riksteatern, 2009
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Streets of Barcelona
Christopher Arouni
Graduation piece in Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, (Khio) summer 2009
