Illustration credit Karoline Bakken Lund1 1

Sweet Spot

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.  

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