Performing Arts Hub Norway is happy to present the Norwegian delegation present at CINARS 2022!
The Nordic countries are returning to this year's edition of CINARS with a delegation of 50 artists and producers. We will have a booth at Nordic Square, present 22 artists and their works at Nordic Pulse – Performing Arts from the Northern Latitudes and, last but not least, host the legendary Nordic Party!
Meet us at
NORDIC PULSE, NOVEMBER 8TH, 12:00 - 15:00
Join us for a pitch session from four Nordic countries highlighting their work that is in development or ready to tour. This is followed by networking opportunities for international collaboration, co-production and presenting.
Register here!NORDIC SQUARE (BOOTH AREA 124 - 127), NOVEMBER 10TH - 12TH
Please be sure to visit our delegation and organizers throughout the week at our CINARS Booth NORDIC SQUARE!NORDIC PARTY. NOVEMBER 8TH, 20:00 - 00:00
NORDIC PARTY- We are thrilled to be back hosting in-person gatherings! Please join us Nov 8th from 9pm-1am for a drink, snack and music at the underground bar/club Foufounes Electriques!
Norwegian EXHIBITORS
LIST OF Norwegian ATTENDANTS
Kirsti Buchanan Ulvestad, Senior Advisor & Head of International, Performing Arts Hub Norway
Anders Rohlan Småhaug, International Producer,, Performing Arts Hub Norway
Samme Raeymaekers, Artistic director, Dansens Hus, Oslo
Tony Tran, Choreographer, Tony Tran
Gulli Sekse, Touring Manager, Carte Blanche
Yohei Hamada, Dancer & Choreographer, Yohei Hamada
Lene Therese Teigen, Director/Artistic Director, House of Stories
Inger Marie Lupton, Producer, Nordting
Amund Sjølie Sveen, Artistic &Amp; Political Director, Nordting
Vanessa Storm, Producer, Jo Strømgren Kompani
Camilla Therese Karlsen, Artistic Director and Performing Artist, Ulv&Ugle
Claire Costa, International Manager, Plexus Polaire
Kirjan Waage, Artistic Director, Wakka Wakka.
Gwendolyn Warnock, Artistic Director, Wakka Wakka
Victoria Heggelund, Producer, Findlay//Sandsmark
Iver Findlay, Artist/Artistic Director, Findlay//Sandsmark
Marit Sandsmark, Artist/ Artistic Director, Findlay//Sandsmark
NORDIC PULSE
Information about artists participating in Nordic Pulse, November 8th.
NORDTING – The Northern Assembly
The Northern Assembly
Number of people on tour: 4
Length of production: 10 min up to 120 min
Contact: Inger-Marie Lupton
Email: imlupton@gmail.com
Website: https://www.nordting.no/
Company bio:
Nordting - a nomadic people's assembly for the North - a party for the periphery - a separatist movement for the Arctic colony, NORDTING is a mobile people's assembly for the Arctic, regularly inviting people to Ting (“Ting” is old Norse for governing assembly). From Vardø, Norway to Anchorage, Alaska, we welcome to stage local issues from local participants including: marching bands, choirs, mayors, punk bands, cheerleaders, indigenous people, musicians, dancers and more.
Show Desc:
Since the beginning on June 21st, 2014, NORDTING has traveled across the high North and beyond. People have gathered for assembly meetings from Vardø to Træna, Nordkapp to Oslo, Finland to Iceland, and the Faroe Islands to Alaska. NORDTING is a platform for intervention and reflection, arranging May Day parades and live TV broadcasts from court cases, waving flags and marking memorial days that no one else takes responsibility for. NORDTING destabilizes and strikes wedges into both personal perceptions and public debates, all while examining questions of power, art, money, identity, separatism, populism and periphery in a context of the circumpolar North. NORDTING creates new realities and contributes to shift both the prevailing narrative of the North and the prevailing power relations in the North. We ask ourselves after each NORDTING, after each flag-raising, after each voyage: Are we going to carry this with us tomorrow? Will it haunt us? Will it change us? Will it change the world? If not, it's just been a waste of time.
Findlay//Sandsmark
Every night in my dreams (early Cameron)
Company Name: Findlay//Sandsmark
Production Name: every night in my dreams (early Cameroon)
Number of people on tour: 6
Length of production: 60 minutes
Co-producers: BIT teatergarasjen-Bergen and Black Box teater-Oslo
Funded by: Norwegian Arts Council, Rogaland fylkeskommune, and Stavanger Kommune.
Contact: Victoria Heggelund
Email: victoria@findlay-sandsmark.com
Website: https://www.findlay-sandsmark.com/
Company bio
Findlay//Sandsmark (F//S) is a Stavanger, Norway based performance company working across dance, theater, live music and video art in a collaborative and collective effort. They have recently created several productions in the borderland between performing arts and installation, bending connections and correlations over disciplines to create live art which resonates from a physical and emotional plane. Their work has been presented across Norway and internationally at PS 122 Coil Festival and Abrons Arts Center / New York, On the Boards / Seattle, Wexner Center / Columbus, and Charlotte Street / Kansas City. They are also initiators of the platform/space RIMI/IMIR SceneKunst in Stavanger where they have a full-time production studio in an old boat factory/ grocery store as well as programming guest artists.
Show Desc:
With every night in my dreams (early Cameroon) Findlay// Sandsmark examine how a place can leave an imprint on the body and the senses, taking impulse from the childhood of Marit Sandsmark, who was born and grew up as a child of Christian missionaries in Ngaoundere, Cameroon. The small town, culture and people Marit knew as a child has undergone overwhelming change, and the global economic system we live off continues to ravage Africa.
How does one recall one’s past, filled with so much love, in the context of a void that feels impossible and unapproachable, and at the same time seems so necessary to address and understand?
When the pandemic lockdown made a journey to Ngaoundere impossible, Findlay//Sandsmark found a starting point by exploring other ways of addressing the void. Using ritual and hypnotic experience, multiple layers arise from memories and fragments. These imagined states find their way into clay objects, lights and shadows, patterns, shapes and sounds, and not the least, in the body of the solo performer as she negotiates and interacts with the landscape.
Plexus Polaire
Moby Dick (figure theatre)
Company Name: Plexus Polaire / Yngvild Aspeli
Production Name: Moby Dick
Number of people on tour: 17
Length of production: 1h 25 min
Contact: Claire Costa
Email: clairecosta@plexuspolaire.com
Website: www.plexuspolaire.com
Company Bio:
Artistic director Yngvild Aspeli develops a visual world that brings our most buried feelings to life. The use of life-sized puppets is at the center of her work, but the actor’s performance, the presence of the music and the use of light and video are all equal elements in communicating the story. Within her company Plexus Polaire, Aspeli has directed six shows: Signals (2011), Opera Opaque (2013), Ashes (2014), Chambre noire (2017), Moby Dick (2020) and Dracula (2021). She is currently working on an adaptation of A Doll’s House that will premiere autumn 2023.
PROJECT DESC:
An ancient white whale, a captain steering his ship into destruction and the inner storms of the human heart. Moby Dick is the tale of a whaling expedition, but also the story of an obsession or an investigation into the unexplained mysteries of life. To quote Melville: “It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.” With seven actors, fifty puppets, video-projections, a drowned orchestra and a whale-sized whale, Yngvild Aspeli stages a visual adaptation of this wonderful beast of a book.
CO-Producers: Nordland Teater, Mo I Rana (NO) - Figurteatret i Nordland, Stamsund (NO) - Groupe des 20 Théâtres en Ile-de-France (IDF) - Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana (SI) - Comédie de Caen CDN (FR) - EPCC Bords 2 scènes, Vitry-le-François (FR) -TJP CDN Strasbourg (FR) - Festival Mondial des théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières (FR) - Le Manège, scène nationale, Reims (FR) - Le Théâtre, scène conventionnée d’Auxerre (FR) - Le Mouffetard, Théâtre des arts de la Marionnette, Paris (FR) - Les 2 Scènes, Scène Nationale de Besançon (FR) - MA scène nationale - Pays de Montbéliard (FR) - Le Sablier, Ifs (FR) - Le Théâtre Jean Arp, Clamart (FR), La Maison, Nevers (FR) - Théâtre Romain Rolland, Villejuif (FR) - Le Bateau Feu, Scène nationale de Dunkerque (FR) - Théâtre de Choisy-le- Roi (FR), Teater Innlandet, Hamar (NO), POC, Alfortville (94-FR)
Funded By: Kulturrådet / Arts Council Norway (NO), DGCA Ministère de la Culture (FR), DRAC and Région Bourgogne Franche Comté (FR), Fond for lyd og bilde (NO), Conseil Général du Val de Marne (FR), Département de l’Yonne (FR), La Nef Manufacture d'utopies, Pantin (FR)
Ulv & Ugle / Camilla Therse Karlsen
Hidden Path (circus / interdisciplinary)
Company Name: Ulv & Ugle / Camilla Therse Karlsen
Production Name: Hidden Path
Number of people on tour: 7
Length of production: 60 min
Contact: Camilla Therese Karlsen
Email: aerialist@acrobamilla.no
Website: www.acrobamilla.no/ulvogugle
Company Bio:
Ulv & Ugle was founded by performing artist and playwright Camilla Therese Karlsen in 2017 with a focus on Sámi culture and related socio-political questions. They create cross-disciplinary performances incorporating Sámi joik, poetry, storytelling, dance, juggling and acrobatics. Their latest production, which premiered February 2022 in Oslo, has already been shown in 3 countries and performed in 2 different languages.
Project Desc:
In the days of old, the Sámi people would say that we had to follow hidden paths in order to avoid those who want to harm us. There is a parallel to how the Sámi identity went on a hidden path during the hard Norwegian assimilation process. Now, generations of Sámi live in shame, denying their heritage; a painful story experienced by many indigenous people around the world.
In the interdisciplinary production Hidden Path, the cliché of indigenous heritage is questioned, along with the problem of not being “Sámi enough.” How can this be fixed? How do we “unshame”? Using a combination of Sámi joik music, poetry, contemporary dance, circus, music and projections- this production tells a story about assimilation, shame, identity and belonging
Co-producers: Riksscenen, Dramatikkens Hus in Oslo, as well as Oyoun in Berlin
Funded by: Sámediggi, Dáiddáfoándá, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Stiftelsen Fritt Ord, Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere, Figurteateret i Nordland, Tanzfabrik Berlin
Jo Strømgren Kompani
The Loft (dance)
Company Name: Jo Strømgren Kompani
Production Name: The Loft
Number of people on tour: 7
Length of production: 60 min
Contact: Vanessa Storm
Email: vanessa@jskompani.no
Website: https://jskompani.no
Company bio:
JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI was founded in 1998 and has from its base in Oslo, Norway, grown to become one of the most established independent groups in Scandinavia. The company presents 100–200 shows in 10–20 countries each year. The touring list covers more than 60 countries, frequented by a repertory of 34 stage productions and 3 movie productions. The company operates through widespread networks and performs in both large national theatres and small alternative venues. Their style is characterized by a mix of dance and theatre, with puppet theatre, nonsensical language, film and live music often added. Jo Strømgren also has a successful career as a freelance choreographer, theatre director and playwright.
Show Desc:
THE LOFT bathes in gallows humor – showing it to be a true human coping mechanism that enables folk to laugh at the twin faux of evil and error. Four female co-workers sneak into an attic during their lunch break, where the friction between them sets in motion a series of conflicts. Feelings of unrequited love and surreal dreams hint at unspeakable wants, repressed instincts emerge revealing a caustic existential grey zone full of alarming questions that only add to the bubbling cauldron.
Friction between people in a confined space is a timeless problem that has afflicted our species since we began living in caves. THE LOFT reminds us that in in modern life we’re still grappling with that same ancient problem. In many cases, the aspect of psychological strain is more problematic than the situation itself, and people can quickly lose sight of what is trivial, what is important, and what is ‘merely’ existential.
Co-producers: The Norwegian Opera and Ballet
Funded by: Fritt Ord, The Ministry of Culture and Equality
Yohei Hamada
A Tail Holder (dance)
Company Name: Yohei Hamada
Production Name: A Tail Holder
Number of people on tour: 2
Length of production: 53 minutes
Contact: Yohei Hamada
Email: odorusakana@gmail.com
Website: www.odorusakana.com
Company bio:
Yohei Hamada(b. 1987) is a Norway based dance artist from Japan, who holds a BA in Liberal Arts and a MA in Philosophy from Yokohama National University. Hamada seeks out non-egoistic dance- dance as a correspondent of a de-personified body within ever-changing surroundings. His works are interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from the knowledge of mathematics, architecture, physics, anthropology, linguistics, martial arts, and dance methodology, as well as the wisdom of daily life. Hamada is currently researching the physicality of Norwegian and Japanese woodworking tools and ropes.
Show Desc:
A TAIL HOLDER is a dance of the human body and Japanese candles. With minimal sound effects and light created in collaboration with Randiane Sandboe, the audience experiences a soothing temporality through the ever-changing space of Hamada’s dance. His movement, which is actively passive, precise and fragile, comes from his research on non-egoistic movements - like those of water, smoke, flame, as well as his tailbone and each body part.
Knut Ove Arntzen, a theater scholar from the University of Bergen, recognizes Hamadas’ movement and work in the context of new authenticity describing it as: “no more a question of fake or non-fake, pretending or not pretending, but rather a question concerning the political function of art as an elaboration of truth through the fictionalization of truth.”
First staged in a black box, A TAIL HOLDER is intended to be performed in a wide variety of open spaces (galleries, abandoned factories, caves, vacant stores…).
Co-producers
BIT teatergarasjen, Chino Cultural Complex and Frontlosjen
Funded by
Bergen City, Fond for Lyd og Bilde (Arts Council Norway) and FFUK
Wakka Wakka
The Immortal Jellyfishgirl (figure theatre)
Company Name: Wakka Wakka
Production Name: The Immortal Jellyfishgirl
Number of people on tour: 8
Length of production: 1 hr 15 min
Contact: Kirjan Waage
Email: kirjan@gmail.com
Website: www.wakkawakka.org
Company bio:
Wakka Wakka is an OBIE and DRAMA DESK award winning theatre company consisting of artists who share a common language in creation and ensemble work. Their mission is to create works of theatre that are bold, unique and unpredictable. Since 2001, Wakka Wakka has created and produced ten original works of highly visual theatre, overlapping a wide range of styles. Based in Norway and as a non-profit company in New York City, Wakka Wakka has toured extensively throughout festivals, theatres and universities in North America, Europe and Asia.
Show Desc:
Part coming of age story, part dystopian tragedy, and part metaphysical meditation on the fate of humanity, THE IMMORTAL JELLYFISH GIRL soars through dimensions, unconfined by time, gravity, or biology. The year is 2555, large swaths of the earth’s surface are considered dead zones, and the final showdown, the war between the Homo Technalis and the Homo Animalis, has begun. Yet in this age of loneliness and destruction there is still hope…
The last of the Homo Sapiens, a man disguised in a fox suit who hails from the “now,” is coordinating a resistance network that can change the future. A centuries-old prophecy looms, as the omnipotent Doyenne threatens imminent eradication of the natural world. And in an underground laboratory, the wrinkled and ancient Turtle works on a secret weapon while Aurelia, the Immortal Jellyfish Girl, is on the brink of regenerating the animal kingdom and restoring ecosystems on earth.
Hilarious, ridiculous and virtuosic, The Immortal Jellyfish Girl is a post-apocalyptic future drama that leaves audiences with exhilaration, doom, and hope.
Co-producers: Nordland Visual Theatre, Akershus Teater, Circus Xanti
Funded by: Norwegian Arts Council, Nordland Visual Theatre, Akershus Theatre, Spenn, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, The Jim Henson Foundation, Creative Capital, NYSCA, The County of Oslo
House of Stories / Lene Therese Teigen
Livia's Room (interdisciplinary)
Company Name: House of Stories / Lene Therese Teigen
Production Name: Livia's Room
Number of people on tour: 12
Length of production: 1 hour 45 min
Contact: Lene Therese Teigen
Email: therteig@online.no
Website: www.houseofstories.no
Company bio:
House of Stories (HoS) premiered their first production, Mater Nexus by Lene Therese in 2001 to stunning reviews. They have since produced and co-produced performances, readings, lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally, bringing in various expertise from project to project. Their latest work Time Without Books (2020) was created after conducting workshops in both Uruguay and Norway. The Norwegian production toured festivals/venues in Norway/Svalbard and the Uruguayan production was featured in the documentary Camino a Casa (2021). Their production, Livia’s Room has been in development since 2018, with collaborators from various art fields, as well as young talents.
Show Desc:
LIVIA’s ROOM is a cross-disciplinary Nordic project, developed with the Roman Era as its historical backdrop. It is inspired by a room with frescoes depicting a garden; now exhibited in a Roman museum it originally belonged to Livia, the wife of Emperor Augustus. With an amalgamation of text, music, sound, textiles and bodies, a unique sensory experience is created all while examining from who and what our understanding of historic events and figures is formed. The connection between past and present is put into play, emphasizing the women around Augustus and how they have been “treated” by history. Who takes power in what rooms is the political angle of the project. A combination of installation, contemporary dance, opera, live music, experimental texts, and characters- LIVIA’s ROOM fluctuates through time and space, yet always remains close to the audience at hand.
Co-producers: Cornerstones Bergen, The National Scene in Bergen
Funded by: Arts Council Norway, Nordic Culture Point, The Iceland-Norway fund, Icelandic Composers Union, Bergen Municipality, FLB, FFUK, The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting, Meltzer's Foundation for visual arts, The Norwegian Embassy in Rome, Norwegian Director's Union
INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER EXHIBITORS
Carte Blanche – The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance
Carte Blanche was established in 1989 in Bergen, Norway and is owned and funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, Vestland County Council, and the City of Bergen. From our home base, Studio Bergen, we create 2-3 new creations each season, working with both Norwegian and international guest choreographers with strong artistic visions. The ensemble consists of 14 dancers from all over the world.
We tour in Norway and internationally throughout the year. With a repertoire of several productions, we can tour with different pieces at the same time.
Carte Blanche’s ambition is to share our point of view and take part in the important cultural diversity and exchange in the international dance field.
Tony Tran
Tony Tran is a Norwegian-Vietnamese choreographer and performer based out of Oslo, Norway, graduated from the Oslo National Academy of Arts and the Danish National School of Performing Arts Copenhagen in 2012. His artistic works have toured in Europe, Asia and North America. His choreographic research has consistently centered on masculine identities and its construction. He is the recipient of a Work grant for younger and newly established artists from Arts Council Norway from 2021-23. Tran is also on the committee for performance arts for The Audio and Visual Fund during 2020-22, and from 2022 he is an advisor for the festival Lyse Netter, responsible for the programming of performance arts.
Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform
Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform is an event presenting both emerging and established names of Nordic contemporary dance and choreography to presenters, programmers, and other professionals from all over the world.
Ice Hot platforms are excellent networking events in a uniquely warm and cosy atmosphere. The aim of Ice Hot Nordic Dance partners is to increase international touring and other working opportunities of Nordic artists, and to help our communities to share ideas and connections.
As the Nordic countries share a lot of economic, social and cultural structures as well as values, we find it fruitful to collaborate on a Nordic level in order to strengthen the dance ecosystem in our countries. Ice Hot Nordic Dance also aims to be a forerunner in sustainable dance promotion and in organizing sustainable platform events.
Ice Hot platforms attract many professionals from all continents. Hundreds of international guests and Nordic artists and managers come to see more than 20 live performances and 15 More More More pitch presentations, as well as take part in several seminars during the platform days.
Ice Hot Nordic Dance is a collaboration network of partner organizations in five Nordic countries: Dance Info Finland, Dansehallerne (Denmark), Dansens Hus Oslo (Norway), Dansens Hus Stockholm (Sweden) and Performing Arts Iceland.
Next platform takes place in Oslo February 14. - 18th 2024.
Dansens Hus
Dansens Hus is Norway’s national stage for dance. It presents productions covering a broad spectrum of dance, from productions for babies to appearances by major international guest artists, from new Norwegian choreographers to well established ones. Workshops, hip hop festivals, master classes, talks by artists, debates and exhibitions are some of what Dansens Hus often offer alongside the productions.
Established in 2004, Dansens Hus moved into its current location in 2008. Major national and international names that have appeared at Dansens Hus in recent years include: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt, Zero Visibility/Ina Christel Johannessen, Jo Strømgren Kompani, Hooman Sharifi, WEE, Carte Blanche, Alan Lucien Øyen/Winterguests, Carte Blanche, Oslo Dance Ensemble, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, CullbergBalletten,Vim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez, Peeping Tom, Akram Kahn Company, DV8 Physical Theatre, Meg Stuart, Les Ballets C de la B, to name but a few.
Dansens Hus is located in the Vulkan area of Oslo, a former industrial district beside the Akerselva river, now a buzzling part of town with neighbouring Mathallen Food Court, hotels, shops, apartments and restaurants. The building is a converted factory building, and is one of the finest and most modern theatres in Oslo, with top quality technical equipment. The main stage can seat an audience of 334, and the studio stage has a maximum capacity of 150.
Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN)
PAHN is a state-subsidized network organization and competence centre for the professional performing arts sector in Norway. The office is in Oslo.
The purpose of PAHN is to be a national competence centre, promoting professional performing arts at a national and international level, with emphasis on independent performing arts. Through close contact with the Norwegian art field, and the international field of performing arts, Performing Arts Hub Norway creates new networks and opportunities for mobility, while opening and developing new international markets for Norwegian performing arts. This is done through long-term strategies, close local partnerships and flexible support programmes for artists and the field. PAHN will participate with a Norwegian small delegation of artists, presenters and producers at Tanzmesse 2022.
QUESTIONS? CONTACT
Kirsti Buchanan Ulvestad // Anders Rohlan Småhaug,
Email: kirsti@pahn.no // anders@pahn.no,
tel: +47 92080587 // +47 98055685