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Turbulent Flows
Karolina Bieszczad-Stie
PREMIERE: DANSENS HUS OSLO, 2026
Turbulent Flows is a hypnotic dance performance by choreographer Karolina Bieszczad-Stie. Through the powerful movements of dancer Marta-Luiza Jankowska, the piece explores how the human body navigates and interacts with chaos. Inspired by the turbulent currents of nature, the performance blends contemporary dance with laser light, smoke, and advanced sensors, creating a striking intersection between the laws of physics and human vulnerability.
Photo by: Tale Hendnes
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8Pfq7cazI
Interview with me:
https://www.dansenshus.com/en/article/med-royk-som-meddanser
Article OsloMet:
https://www.oslomet.no/en/research/featured-research/how-turbulence-unfolds
For more details: https://www.butoh-encounters.com/turbulentflows2026
In search for certainty
Joy Kammin, tanztz.jetzt
PREMIERE: GOLDENBERG CHURCH, REMSCHEID 2025
Contradictions shape our humanity: We believe,
feel, and know things that are difficult to reconcile.
This inner tension—known as cognitive
dissonance—is the starting point of the new
tanz.jetzt 2025 production: In Search for Certainty.
Together with internationally acclaimed
performers, choreographer Joy Kammin is
developing an evening-long performance that
unsettles familiar patterns, connects memory with
change, and opens our eyes to the new. Physical,
poetic, and immediate.
Photo by: Kh Krauskopf
Deus Ex MAchina
Butoh Encounters
PREMIERE: GRUSOMHETENS TEATER OSLO 2025
"Deus ex machina" is a 60-minute dance performance inspired by the surreal Norwegian puppet show Pompel og Pilt (1969)—a cult classic
once criticized for its illogical and non educational content. Like its source, the performance draws audiences into an offbeat world where bumbling
repairmen, surreal humour, and strained logic collide in a strange, captivating experience.
Photo: Magne Risnes
For more details: https://www.butoh-encounters.com/deus-ex-machina
The Spell
Marta Kosieradska and Marta-Luiza Jankowska
PREMIERE: WARSZAWA CHOREOGRAPHY CONTEST, 2024
“The Spell” is a dance project inspired by the work and life of Louise Bourgeois, a French-American artist celebrated as one of the most influential female figures of the 20th century. Taking her desire to connect to the subconscious and dreams, we play with the idea of being under a
spell—a state that blurs the boundaries between waking and dreaming, action and stillness, control and surrender.
The piece won 3rd price in Warszawa Dance Competition, has been invited to multiple festvals in Poland and is part of Polska Platforma Tanca 2026.
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.
Still from video: Rebecca Laufer
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/
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.
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
"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.
Photo: Antero Hein
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2yhrM9wqEE
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?
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Photo: Marie Male Kalstø
The rest is silence
Hege Haagenrud
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
Streets of Barcelona
Christopher Arouni
Graduation piece in Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, (Khio) summer 2009