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Harald Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution.For this work, they expand their continuous collaboration and research with visual artist Karoline Bakken Lund. Working together since 2017, they examine the poetic and physical possibilities of collapse, where objects, textures and bodies drift between support and obstruction, cultivating porous visual and social landscapes. In Sweet Spot they also collaborate for the first time with light designer Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud and composer and musician Ingvild Langgård.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Sweet Spot

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Anne Katrine and Liv Hanne Haugen have common backgrounds as dancers from London, Brussels, and Rotterdam. In 2003, they founded Haugen Produksjoner in connection with their first joint performance, Søstre (Sisters), which was shown 180 times and toured the country under the auspices of Riksteatret and Den Kulturelle Skolesekken.After this, the sisters developed their own individual projects, always in close dialogue with each other. Both are educated, among other places, at the London Contemporary Dance School and have worked in various dance companies in Belgium and the Netherlands. Today, they run Haugen Produksjoner from Tromsø, where both are based.Documentary and fiction, a spirit of rebellion and abstract dance, as well as a strong grounding in Northern Norwegian identity, characterize their artistic expression. Inclusive working processes and cross-disciplinary collaborations are central to their work, continually generating new movements and forms of expression.With curiosity about the contemporary world and a strong desire to stay in motion together with others, Haugen Produksjoner continues to develop dance art that moves, challenges, and reflects life as it is lived here and now.

Søstre til evig tid

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<h2>Book&nbsp;</h2>Book launch: Collage Dansekompani – i brytningen mellom moderne og postmoderne dans i Norge.&nbsp;The book will be launched in the foyer of Dansens Hus by its editor Torunn Liven and Gunnar R. Totland, head of the publishing company Solum Bokvennen. The book will be for sale to anyone who wants their own copy to take home.&nbsp;&nbsp; The anthology is a collection of eight essays and discussions reflecting on the significance of the company as an artistic and feminist pioneer. The book examines the living legacy left by Collage Dansekompani in Norwegian dance history.&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2> Bevegelse&nbsp;</h2>This is an opportunity to experience a revival of the production Like langt fra veggene (1991), choreographed by Kristina Gjems and performed by BA students in dance art specialising in contemporary dance at Kristiania University College, who have been studying this work: Ida Bakke Andreassen, Mira Alsted Jakobsen, Mina Engen Wang-Hansen, understudy: Tristan Elizabeth Baidal-Riley. The original cast of Like langt fra veggenewere Kristina Gjems, Cecilie Lindeman Steen and Mona Walderhaug, and the production was created for the opening of Collage Dansekompani’s new studio at Thune in 1991. The revival is a collaboration with Kristiania University College.During this part of the programme, you will also get the chance to experience a unique blend of past and present, in a screening of excerpts from the video recording of Filo D’erba or Frail Creation (1989) by Giorgio Rossi, featuring the dancers Aase With, Cathrine Smith, Mona Walderhaug, Nina Ly, Kristina Gjems and Cecilie Lindeman Steen. Gjems and Lindeman Steen will also dance live, alongside the excerpt being screened.<h2>&nbsp;</h2><h2>Bravur</h2>Danseinformasjonens special award for 2025 will be awarded to Collage Dansekompani.&nbsp;This is Danseinformasjonen’s way of honouring the company that was a groundbreaking and visionary artists’ collective, and that has had such a huge impact on the field of dance in Norway – back then, and continuing into our own era. The aim is to recognise strong performing, creative and pedagogical artistry.&nbsp; Collage Dansekompani had a cultural drive that brought individual voices together into a creative community. Through its way of working, Collage Dansekompani became a model of collaboration, creativity and inclusion, that continues to inspire. A pioneer in its day, when there were no established structures for modern dance in Norway, the company created a space where talented artists were able to develop.&nbsp;&nbsp;The award committee has selected nine people who they would like to receive the award on behalf of Collage Dansekompani: Aase With, Cathrine Smith, Mona Walderhaug, Sølvi Edvardsen, Kristina Gjems, Lise Nordal, Inger Buresund, Odd Johan Fritzøe and Lise Eger.&nbsp; &nbsp;

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Tone Kittelsen is from Kristiansand and works as a freelance dance artist based in Oslo. Kittelsen produces and creates her own performances. She has produced several projects that have been presented at venues such as Kristiansand Kunsthall, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, the National Museum, Dansens Hus, and Bærum Kulturhus. Her work is characterized by an in-depth exploration of movement, the body’s potential, and the emotional landscapes that dance can create.In recent years, she has collaborated closely with Tori Wrånes and has toured nationally and internationally as part of her team. She has performed in works such as Sirkling, Ældgammel Baby, Naam Yai, Lips Don’t Cry, and Garden of Lefthand. Kittelsen has also been employed by the Norwegian National Opera &amp; Ballet as a contemporary dancer in the new productions of The Csárdás Princess in 2022 and 2024.In Kristiansand, she has been involved in founding and running the Ravnedans Festival since its inception in 2009. From 2020 to 2023, she was a recipient of the Norwegian Government Grant for Newly Established Artists.

How To Solo

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International

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Køteren og Terrieren is an artistic collaboration between Bjørk-Mynte Paulse (she/her), a dance artist based in Copenhagen, and Jonathan Ibsen (he/him), a dance artist based in Oslo. The duo’s work challenges and examines society’s norms through the perspective of a trans woman with a minority background and a gay white man. Using curiosity and an untamed approach, they use choreography to examine issues of gender, sexuality and identity – and to create new spaces where narratives and visions of the future can take shape. They are interested in the interface between what is, and what could be. By deconstructing and rewriting the known, they open us up to speculation and new ways of understanding time and experience.Køteren og Terrieren seek to create art which dares to highlight current issues, break down barriers and invite audiences to reflect and start dialogue on the structures that shape and restrict us.

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Roza Moshtaghi is a Tehran-born choreographer and artist based in Oslo. She explores how the body, desire, and everyday structures are shaped by social and political systems. Through abstract, almost sculptural movements, she creates works that challenge our perceptions of the ordinary. Her works are presented in theatres, museums, galleries, and public spaces, often in interplay with sculptural installations. In 2025, her performance Songs of Chaos was nominated for the Hedda Award for “Best Dance Production.” Previous works include BUD (2022), LIMBO (2021), and Only Forever (2018). Moshtaghi is supported by the Arts Council Norway through its “Independent Performing Arts – Artist” programme.Ronak Moshtaghi is also born in Tehran, and she lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. Her practice crosses the boundaries between drawing, sculpture, and interactive installations, addressing themes of language, translation, violence, and decolonial perspectives. Her work has been exhibited at venues including MUNCH, Kunsthall Oslo, The Mosaic Rooms in London, and Oktoberdans in Bergen. She also collaborates regularly with performing artists and is behind collective initiatives such as Bazar Art Book and Tahqiqotaxayyol.

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- Globalisation taught me that there is no such thing as a pure ‘us’; everything is already mixed, and the hybrid is a strength. Post-Orientalist Express is the crystallisation of this recognition.

Post-Orientalist Express

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Hip hop

Soul Sessions Encounters

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Sons of Wind (SOW) represents a lifestyle. Since their founding in 2013, they have explored hip-hop freestyle — in both movement and music — in order to preserve and carry forward a shared cultural heritage that stretches from past to future. Since 2021, SOW has been supported and accompanied by the FAIR-E / CCN collective in Rennes and Brittany, and by Théâtre Louis Aragon in Tremblay-en-France during the 22–23 and 23–24 seasons. SOW consists of around twenty artists working across dance, music, photography, and video. The name points to a pure and simple idea of movement, and to a group where knowledge and expression are constantly shared and passed on between members. It also reflects the diversity of identities that give the group its life. Here, the individual is in service of the collective. Sharing and passing things forward is the core of the project. The artists wish to transmit what they themselves experience through music. S.O.W is more concerned with the experiences you make along the way than with the finished result.&nbsp;

Bounce

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Choreographing Antifascism

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Urban

In Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, multiple strands come together to create a unique choreographic language. The piece aims to return to the core, the structure of Vivaldi’s famous composition and the many associations and emotions it evokes, while offering a choreographic counterpoint to it. At the same time the dance underscores that there may be something contemplative to be found in The Four Seasons, in its familiarity, and in the familiarity of nature.

Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione

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Carl Aquilizan&nbsp;(they/them) is a Norwegian-Filipino dance artist living in Oslo. They explore decolonial and transformative practices from a gay and multicultural perspective, with the aim of challenging Western norms and opening up new ways of thinking. In their latest and future projects, they take a look at Filipino heritage and what it means to carry your ancestors’ knowledge and stories in your body. Their work also looks at traces of precolonial worldview in the Filipino language, culture and contemporary expression. Carl Aquilizan took the foundation course in dance at Spin Off, and graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Previous works include dis_func&nbsp;(2021), Flower Boy (2022/24), Blooming (2022/23) and Out of Place&nbsp;(2025) which have been performed at theatres throughout Norway, including a production of Flower Boy at Dansens Hus in 2024. They are also a performer for various other choreographers and companies. &nbsp;

Siya

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- Full of imagination, and creativity springing from an empty page

Club Origami

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- Visually arresting, and full of possibility.

The Australian company Chunky Move is known for its bold, genre-defying contemporary dance. It is internationally recognised for its ambitious and highly original works, and under the leadership of the company’s two directors, Antony Hamilton and Kristy Ayre, Chunky Move plays a significant role in the development of dance in Australia—with an impact extending far beyond the country’s borders. Artists and audiences are at the heart of the company, a commitment reflected in an extensive program of large-scale productions, commissioned works, residencies, and educational activities.Over the past 30 years, Chunky Move has performed in 130 cities at 150 festivals around the world, reaching an audience of more than 610,000 people.

- Even in post-industrial, hyper-urban contexts, our connection to the spiritual and the unknown remains deeply rooted—even if it is often overlooked.

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Karolina Bieszczad-Stie is a choreographer and dancer living in Oslo. She has a PhD in Performing Arts from Brunel University in London and runs the Butoh Encounters platform, which explores the intersection between dance, science and new technology.Her earlier projects include Micro-choreography, a choreographic work developed in collaboration with the Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming at the University of Oslo, in which the cancer cells’ own signalling methods are used to create movement; Limit(less), a duet between a human and a robot, achieved through collaboration with KUKA Robotics and robotics engineer Mathias H. Arbo from SINTEF; and Kvinnen som giftet seg med en reke, a dance production combining performance art and blockchain technology.She also regularly receives choreographic commissions, such as Navel, created for the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in 2024, and a new work for two Yaskawa robots and a dancer, which will have its world première at the European Robotics Forum 2026. Karolina works closely with contemporary dancers from Norway and abroad, and uses dance and choreography to investigate how our bodies and experience change alongside new technology and scientific breakthroughs, and how we imagine what lies ahead of us.

Turbulent Flows

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Uppercut Danseteater is a Danish, internationally acclaimed dance company with more than 40 years of experience. The company creates powerful and physically striking performances at the intersection of contemporary dance, breakdance and theatre, characterized by a raw expression and unexpected moments of humor.Founded in 1982 and currently led by Stephanie Thomasen and Mark Philip, Uppercut has developed a broad repertoire for adults, young audiences and children alike. The company’s work has received numerous awards and nominations, and Uppercut is today in high demand by theatres, cultural institutions and schools both nationally and internationally.

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Chollada Phinitduang, born in 1990, is a Thai-Norwegian dance artist, choreographer and performance artist based in Tromsø. She works at the interface between dance, text, sound and video, using the body as a living archive for memories, heritage and belonging.&nbsp;She explores movement as recognition – an interface between body, language, stillness and landscape. She graduated from the College of Contemporary Dance (now the University College of Dance Art) and has continued to develop her artistry internationally, including a two-year collaboration with Marina Abramović on The Cleaner tour. She has also worked with Carole Douillard (Oslo Biennale), Rina Eide Løvaasen (Sweden, Uzbekistan, Norway) and Lisa Holterman Halle Berge (Malmö Museum and Roskilde Festival 2023).With her dual Thai and Northern Norwegian background, she is interested in how identity, perception, nature and contemporary structures form ways of being in the world. She created works such as Wounded Rhymes(Berlin 2024) and Wired Buffalo (Bangkok 2024).&nbsp;She has been awarded a three-year work grant from Arts and Culture Norway (2025–2027), and in 2026 will take part in a Dance Artist Exchange Residency between the Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts and the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre in Canada.

To Be a Body, Is to Be Tied to a Certain World

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Ingri Fiksdal, born in 1982, is a choreographer living in Oslo. She has a PhD in artistic research form the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and has been affiliated with the CoFutures research team at the University of Oslo. In her works, she uses choreography as a form of speculative fiction, exploring the hierarchies of power in relation to the body, knowledge and history. In recent years, she has presented works at a number of international festivals and art institutions, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussel, Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf and Steirischer Herbst in Graz, and has also been on tour in Norway. Her later works include Sand Flight, created for The Bentway in Toronto in collaboration with director Jonas Corell Petersen, and the choreographic installation Hjemsøkt hus at Kunstnernes Hus, developed with Helle Siljeholm.&nbsp;Louis Schou-Hansen, born in 1992, is a choreographer and dancer living in Oslo. Their work explores the human body as a vulnerable and disobedient arena for fiction, often shaped by desire, mortality and self-destruction. Schou-Hansen frequently returns to history and counter-history – particularly the political chaos of early-modern Europe – to trace ghostly figures in contemporary culture. They have an MA from The Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and a BA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Louis’ work has recently been performed in venues including ICA London, New Art Dealers Alliance in New York, Dansehallerne København, Black Box Teater Oslo, Suprainfinit Bucuresti, My Wild Flag Stockholm and Centrale Fies in Dro, Italy, and they have also toured Norway. In 2024 they initiated and have since run the Mind Eater performance festival, alongside Runa Borch Skolseg.&nbsp;

The Court

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Australian Nicola Gunn is a Bergen-based artist working between contemporary performance, choreography, writing and pedagogy. Her works have been presented in venues and festivals across 19 countries, among them: Venezia Biennale di Danza, Tanz im August, Tanzquartier Wien, La Villette, Theatre Silvia Monfort, 4+4 Days in Motion Prague, Southbank Centre, Dublin Theatre Festival and others. Her works tend to complicate the relationship between herself, the material and the audience, and the slippages between the body on stage and text – whether written or spoken.

The Chekhov

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What is TILT&nbsp;Grow? TILT&nbsp;Grow is Panta Rei Danseteater’s own talent development programme. The aim of the programme is to promote the artistic development of dance artists and equip them with the tools to thrive in an ever-changing field. For an entire year, the dance artists are given the opportunity to immerse themselves in their own projects and take the joy of dance into the wider community.&nbsp;

Oslofjorden danser 2026

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STICKY Productions (Edginton/Lothe/Olsen/Parsons) is a dance collective of gay, female dance artists based in Oslo. Their works delve into the physical and the sensitive, the playful and the peculiar. Using the open and expressive body, they investigate social themes in productions that move between the actual and the abstract. These productions aim to give their audiences the chance to get close to imagination and to absorb stories kinaesthetically.Their first work Økohelter, has toured extensively in Norway (with performances at Dansens Hus in 2022 and 2023), and was nominated for the Gulljerven and Hedda awards in the ‘best children’s production’ and ‘best dance production’ categories.&nbsp;

OOZE

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- a deeply personal, and intensely political, exploration of gay and Aboriginal identities.

Joel weaves his way through and around the audience, one moment channeling childlike innocence, the next exuding muscular gay-male bravado and moments later crashing to the floor in torment. The audience gradually learns the true story of lost innocence, colonisation and sexual assault that has led to his family and cultural dislocation.Hilarious, provocative and heartfelt, this show tickles the nerve endings of desire while prodding the cavities left by colonisation. Featuring Joel Bray’s trademark confection of conversation, dance and all-you-can-eat audience participation, Daddy is a sweet feast with a deadly aftertaste. The performance involves the use of sweets, including large amounts of powdered sugar. This is a standing performance, but a limited number of priority seats (with restricted view) are available for those who cannot stand for longer periods.

- Joel has developed a reputation as one of the most electric new figures in Australian dance who has an uncanny ability to explore his journey and unapologetically present it in a conversational manner.

Haugen produksjoner

Collage Dansekompani

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