Information:
Date: Saturday 22.08.26
Time / duration: 12:30-14:00 / 1.5 hours
Location: Main Stage, Dansens Hus - Vulkan 1, 0182 Oslo
Language: English
For: Professional and pre-professional dancers and stage performers
Dressing rooms are not available. The workshop is done with clothes.
The workshop is free and is a collaboration with PRODA Oslo, but requires registration:
This workshop provides an insight into the work and idea of the protesting body, the human mass and its power. The exploration takes place through the repetitive actions of walking and running in circles, choreographic methods that can be found in the choreographic works A song to… and its successor, the epic protest ritual, ALL - a physical poem of protest.
Through the workshop, participants gain insight into how these works can both be and function as performances, protests and community works at the same time.
The workshop is led by the two dancers Linn Ragnarson (Sweden) and Shantelle Jackson (USA). Both have toured these pieces several times in Europe and the USA, and have facilitated the work for hundreds of people from different communities in countless countries.
Mia reminds us that we are walking and standing
for something. A process constantly ongoing, but
heightened in this work. I consider the generations
of queer ancestors and siblings that have not been
able to walk in public as themselves. I consider the
danger of walking in public as a person of colour.
Different bodies experience the vulnerability of
public space in different ways. For some, it is a
place where power is exercised. For some, it is
uneasy. For others, it is quite dangerous. To perform
naked on stage in New York is still to propose your
being in a public space; riskier for some than others.
As we walk through the space, I am reminded that
we are not walking alone. We are walking with
the past and the future that each of us carries
individually and that all of us carry together. I am
bowled over by my privilege. No matter how tired
my legs are, I’ll keep walking.
Reflections written by Shiloh Hodges, a participant in ALL – A Physical Poem of Protest. The text is an excerpt from the chapter ALL – A Physical Poem of Protest by MIA HABIB & LAUREL V. MCLAUGHLIN in the book Bare Bodies by Marielle Greil.
Biography:
Linn Ragnarsson is based in Stockholm and works within the field of dance and choreography in Sweden and internationally. She is educated at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm. Linn has collaborated with choreographers such as Gisèle Vienne, Philip Berlin, Nicole Neidert, Hagar Malin Hellqvist Sellén, Sindri Runudde, Malin Elgán, Mia Habib, or/eller, Claire Parson, Anna Vnuk, Lena Josefsson, Khosro Adibi, Judith Sanches Ruíz, David Zambrano and others. 2022 she was the artistic director of Dansfestival Raande-Vo, arranged in memory of Lena Josefsson. Own works: Worlds End Inside, Flesh & Blood and others. She is currently studying at the Master's program New Performative Practices at Stockholm University of the Arts.