Dancing (2024) is a new work initiated by the iconic American choreographer Deborah Hay, who has been an internationally influential dancer and choreographer for many decades. Hay has invited the three experienced Norwegian dancers Ingrid Haakstad, Geir Hytten and Gry Kipperberg onto the Deborah Hay’s Trio Project – a series of works exploring ‘the practical magic of the trio.’ Based on an earlier solo score, the Dancing Trio was developed in a joint process in Austin, Texas in the spring of 2024. The choreographic course of the production develops in interaction between Hay’s instructions, the score, the dancers’ changing relationship with the work, and decisions made in the moment. 

Dancing is a mutual developmental relationship through a process of interpretation, perception and choices, which results in a choreography that is never quite the same each time, but which can be regarded as ‘samples’ in a continuous process. By surrendering to the reality and complexity arising from the fact that it is impossible for them to know what is going to happen from one moment to the next, the result is a thrilling and childlike joy, with the production unfolding in this tension – in a continuity of discontinuity.