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Lunch & (dance) lecture: About the intrinsic value of dance

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Artist presentation: Ingun Bjørnsgaard

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Norwegian

In Object and Despair, Ingun Bjørnsgaard explores human fallibility in close collaboration with dancers Catharina Vehre Gresslien, Edith Strand Askeland, and Ludvig Daae.

The gender aspect is as always at stake in the company’s work, and masculine and feminine qualities are distributed between the performers, as in the attempts to shield other people from their own errors. Bodily self-censorship is at risk in the many practical tasks and tools that life consists of. And at the same time, the primal, underlying chaos becomes all the more visible in the performers' aim to navigate without fault.&nbsp;Through a complex layering of the performance, well-composed sculptural movement patterns and detailed physical references create an ambiguous, dynamic landscape, in a private space that the performers try to transcend. In the construction and deconstruction of visual tableaux, human fragility becomes a separate poetic idiom in itself, and clumsiness ab essential component in the experience of beauty.The choreographic work is developed in close cooperation between movement, music and the physical space, created by set designer Thomas Björk and costume designer Solveig Holthe Bygdnes.&nbsp;Bjørnsgaard works for the first time with the Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal. Smørdal is known for experimentation and improvisation as a method, where the music becomes a product of social factors. The composer himself performs parts of the music live on stage, and through everyday instrument-objects created for Object and despair, the musical score also suggests the likelihood that sublime moments arise through relational interaction and lack of control.

- The starting position is odd. The feet are together as if on alert, and when sitting down you end up too far towards the edge of the chair. The movements are – as the pictures show – ugly, and the result unfortunate.

- The goal has been to free people from doubt, thoughts and confusion, so that the spiritual forces can be used for the one essential thing: to come into contact with fellow human beings without stumbling blocks. The work is an attack on the personal insecurity that prevails in the new social forms of communication. The work’s motto is: Through knowledge of the forms we are freed from them.

Gjenstand og fortvilelse

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Samtale Ingun

Samtale: Dag Johan Haugerud, Andrea Bræin Hovig og Andrine Sæther

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Debrief: Gjenstand og fortvilelse

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In WHITEOUT, strategies are sought to bring forth what is unresolved, where certain gnawing feelings refuse to let go, dragging you through uncomfortable stage encounters. Therefore, the dance offers no resolution and becomes an image of our times: Where are we really heading?In our attempts to address necessary climate measures, everyone experiences a sense of being overwhelmed and exhausted by the seemingly impossible task and lack of mastery. Yet, instead of creating a definitive picture of uncertainty as something solely negative or problematic, this work opens up for a more open and exploratory approach. The performance thus argues that even battles that seem hopeless are never lost and reflects on the historical changes that have emerged from the darkness.Geir Hytten is a Norwegian dancer and choreographer. He holds an MA in dance from Laban in London and an MPhil in Human Geography from the University of Oslo. In the UK, he danced for a decade with Punchdrunk, as well as with Lea Anderson and Complicite. In Norway, he has collaborated with choreographers such as Jo Strømgren, Impure Company, and Karstein Solli, among others. He has created several of his own performances, of which grief will be our companion&nbsp;and Red Flag have been presented at Dansens Hus, and he is a performer in the trio Dancing by the legendary choreographer Deborah Hay which had its world premiere at Dansens Hus in spring 2025.

Whiteout

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Debrief: Whiteout

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Barn og unge

- The costumes show children and adults that you are allowed to be a man any way you like in this world.

- The performance offers a unique, colorful experience precisely tailored to children's perceptual abilities.

The glam rock and poodle rock of the 1970s and 80s blurred the boundaries between the genders, with the artists often having an androgynous expression. When the five male performers in&nbsp;Rock me Baby&nbsp;explore this historic trend, they open up new possibilities about gender options.Rock me Baby&nbsp;was created by&nbsp;Øystein Elle&nbsp;and&nbsp;Karstein Solli,&nbsp;who have already collaborated on several popular productions for young children, that have been performed in Norway and abroad. Kjell I. Nordstrøm, who may be familiar to many people from NRK’s Maskorama entertainment series, has designed the production’s spectacular costumes. &nbsp;

- There is plenty of magic and experiences for all generations.

Øystein Elle/Capto Musicae og Karstein Solli Produksjoner

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After talk: Geir Hytten

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Urban

Christine Nypan is both a creative and performing dance artist and teacher, and holds a master's degree in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). She has worked with choreographers and companies including Leela Petronio, Raphale Delauney, Membros, Elle Sofe Sara, Frikar/ Hallgrim Hansegård, Sudesh Adhana, Jens Trinidad, dEEp doWN dopEiZM, Panta Rei Danseteater, Tekst lab, Viktor Frojd and Mia Habib. She has developed her own productions and collaborative projects, which have been performed at Dansens Hus in Oslo, Dansens Hus in Stockholm, Urbfestival in Helsinki, Scenehuset, Urban Moves and Rommen Scene, and she has toured with DKS Viken in Rogaland and Vestlandet. She has also created productions for many dance courses, including Kompani Munch, KHiO, Edvard Munch upper secondary school and Trippel dance. Chriz is a co-founder of MUD session Oslo, and works as a teacher in street dance studies at Edvard Munch upper secondary school and KHiO.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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After talk: Chriz Nypan

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