Liggende Foto Tale Hendnes Dansens Hus 2026 9

Sweet Spot

Accessibility

Nakedness

Norwegian

Stage:

Main stage

Price:

165 - 395 kr

A tempting and seductive hellmouth.

Illustration credit Karoline Bakken Lund1 1

Sweet Spot is a tempting and seductive hellmouth filled with mischief and tender allure, a hellish pit dancing and kneading itself back and forth between intertwining epochs. Dwelling in the abyss, Sweet Spot conjures a distorted dance macabre in a hypnotic landscape gathering six ecstatic figures who sing, collapse and syncopate around each other.

Driven by a “dromomaniac” pull; an uncontrollable urge to keep moving, Sweet Spot spirals into a ceaseless whirlwind, an abundance of unhinged rhythms, mythologies, groovy processions and sudden surges devouring the spectator and everything in its path. 

Sweet Spot is the last part of a trilogy of works which includes the solo piece Batty Bwoy (2022) playing with the fictions surrounding the queer body and the group work Undersang (2024) that takes shape as a collective ritual in the forest. Together, these works plunge into how pleasure, excess, and monstrosity can become forces for empowerment and transformation while using the body as a site of ambivalence. Where identity and power are constantly negotiated and mutating, unraveling a porous and unstable surface opening up for rituals, new ways of togetherness and uncanny play.  

Since this is a world premiere, the performance is still evolving. We therefore can’t say exactly how long it will last, but we estimate somewhere between 90 and 120 minutes.

Concept and choreography

Harald Beharie

Close Collaborator and Artistic Research

Karoline Bakken Lund

Co-creating Performers

Loan Ha
Carlisle Sienes
Harald Beharie
Amie Mbye
Irene Theisen
Ester Thunander

Sculpture/Set Design and Costumes

Karoline Bakken Lund

Musician

Ester Thunander

Composer

Ingvild Langgård

Light Design

Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud

Sound Design

Gunnar Innvær
Ingvild Langgård

Artistic Facilitatator/ Dramaturg

Deise Faria Nunes

Intimacy- coordinator

Lexie Koren

Producer

Kristina Melbø Valvik

Distribution/Touring

Damien Valette

Co-producers: Dansens Hus, Oslo, Rosendal Teater (Trondheim) , RAS (Sandnes), BIT Bergen Internasjonale Teater (Bergen), Arsenic, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), SPRING festival (Utrecht), Zodiak - Centre for New Dance, Helsinki (Helsinki), MDT Moderna Dansteatern (Stockholm) 
Residency Support: Fabbrica Europa (IT) Kaserne (CH), Kilden Teater (NO) Supported by: Norwegian Art Council and Kristiansand Municipality