Jonas Øren is a dance artist, investigating how the self, subjectivity and identity are linked to communication, production and strategic performance through dance and choreography. By looking at self-performativity, both on and off the stage, he reflects over the present and the ways in which we communicate today.
The first part of the workshop is a praxis sharing session, where Øren will share his methods of body cultivation.
In the second part of the workshop, Øren will propose methods of danced fantasy driven images – tableau vivants – of the ideals that shaped and shaped us in the way we present our bodies in society. The ambition is to comment on how we are followers of those who present themselves or are given the role as superior, eminent, influential and powerful. It sheds light on who has written the story of how we understand success and virtuosity, and how we give bodies value. Through musical acts, song, story-telling and choreography, Øren narrates the meaning of the ideal through philosopher Rene Girard’s notions of imitation and mimesis: How we imitate and mirror the people we look up to, and why we make these body-images a part of our own self. Øren questions the effect of how popular culture choreographs its followers by presenting bodies of success as emancipating and edifying, yet cruel, toxic and unattainable.
Information:
Where: PRODA Profesjonell dansetrening – Marstrand gata 8. 0566 Oslo.
When: Thursday 25.01.24
Time 09:00-12:30
For whom: Professional dance artists
The workshop is free of charge.
Bio:
Jonas Øren has a bachelor's degree in classical ballet and a master's degree in dance from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and has worked with dance within several contexts and in collaboration with various fields. In 2022, he choreographed the operetta The Czardas Princess for The Norwegian Opera. Øren has toured nationally and internationally with his the production HYBRIS: Choreographing Whiteness (2021), and nationally with Somewhat Deconstructed (2021) In addition to his artistic work, Øren also works with dissemination and contextualisation at Dansens Hus and is editor for the publication SKEIV BEVEGELSE (Queer Movement) by Danseinformasjonen. He was the recipient of the Goverment Grants for young and newly established artists 2021–2023.