OVERVIEW GRANTS (STIKK)
ROUND B - JUNE 2023
Information about artists granted travel support from STIKK.
THEATER CORPUS / LINDGREN SCENEROM
When: 24.-25.11.23
Where: Gothenburg, Sweden
Venue: Atalante Teater
Webpage: Theater Corpus/Lindgren Scenerom
Contact: Tormod Lindgren
About the performance:
Axel Jensen’s science-fiction Epp (1965) is a dark description of a future society with obvious connection to our present day’s society. The puppets, music and videos are strongly influenced by the retro 60’s space-age nostalgia. It’s the story of an old age pensioner (EPP) living in an anonymous housing block in Oblidor. The city is in the land of Gambolia, on an unnamed planet. A study in futility and self-deception, the novel has been interpreted as a satire on the welfare state.
About Theater Corpus:
Theater Corpus was founded in 2017 by Tormod Lindgren to produce adult puppet theatre. He has previously staged Edvard Munch’s The City of Free Love, and Simplicissimus, about the German satire magazine which opposed Nazism during the Weimar Republic.
Credit photo 1: Camilla Jensen, EPP, Theater Corpus
Credit photo 2 (above): Tormod Lindgren, EPP, Theater Corpus
ELLE SOFE COMPANY
When/Where/Venue:
5.-6.07.23 Amsterdam/The Netherlands Julidans
26.07.23 Paris/France, Paris l´été
14.09.23 Florence/Italy, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Webpage: Elle Sofe Company
Contact: Maiken Garder
About the perfomance:
Community and kinship between people, with nature and with the earth we all share, are the main themes of Vástádus eana/ The answer is land. The choreography is inspired by demonstrations, Sami spiritual practices and formation dance.
Written specially for the performance by composer and professor of yoik, Frode Fjellheim, the polyphonic yoik works as a supportive pillar throughout the work.
About Elle Sofe Sara:
Elle Sofe Sara (b. 1984) is a choreographer, director and filmmaker. Sara’s work expands upon seemingly mundane, often overlooked areas of Sámi physicality —unspoken rituals that have escaped the vice grip of colonialism. Sara uncovers a space in which the past and the present coincide. While her choreography is known for its playful approach, she also delves into taboo subjects such as trauma, abuse, and suicide. As an Indigenous artist, Sara seeks to create work that resonates as strongly for her community as it does for the art world. Internationally, Sara has created work with Liu Chi (China), Wimme (Finland), and Lana Hansen (Greenland) among others. She is also the co-founder of DÁIDDADÁLLU, a Sámi indiginous contemporary art collective. Hailing from Guovdageaidnu, Norway, Sara holds an MA in choreography from the Oslo Academy of Arts (2010) and studied dance at the LabanTrinity school, London. She is the featured artist of the Arctic Arts Festival in Harstad (2020, 2021), winner of the Moon Jury Award at the Imagine Native Film Festival (2019) and one of four artists selected for Talent Norway’s emerging filmmakers program (2020 -2023). When she is not working with choreography or film, or traveling for work, Sara can be found marking reindeer calves with her children or reading animal tracks in the snow.
Photo: Vivien Gaumand, Vástádus eana – The answer is land, Elle Sofe Company
FIKSDAL DANS STIFTELSE
When: 5.-6.09.23
Where: Rovereto/Italy
Venue: Oriente Occidente Dance Festival
Webpage: Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse
Contact: Eva Grainger
About the performance:
The Syncopators is a performance for public space that builds on the solo Fictions of the Flesh (2021) by Fiksdal/Floen/Slåttøy. It draws from the five performers’ physical jazz dance archives and combines them with speculative future fiction from literature and film to inspire new and more-than-human corporealities.
About Ingri Fiksdal:
Ingri Midgard Fiksdal (b. 1982) is a choreographer based in Oslo. In 2019 she finished a PhD in artistic research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, with the project Affective Choreographies. Ingri´s work has in recent years been performed at Kunstenfestival in Brussels, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Santarcangelo festival, Beijing Contemporary Dance Festival, Sommerszene in Salzburg, Reykjavik Art Museum, brut-Wien, Teatro di Roma, Harbourfront Centre Toronto, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, BUDA Kortrijk, Tanzhaus NRW in Dusseldorf and Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, alongside extensive touring in Norway. From 2016 to 2020 Fiksdal is supported by apap-Performing Europe 2020 – a project co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Her work receives base funding from the Norwegian Arts Council.
Photo (top): Izabella Englund, The Syncopators, Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse
Photo (above): Ralf Silberkuhl, The Syncopators, Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse
HARALD BEHARIE
When/Where/Venue:
15.-16.09.23 Barcelona/Spain, Festival Salmon (ES)
24.11.23 Zurich/Sveits, Backslash festival (CH)
Webpage: Harald Beharie
Contact: Harald Beharie
About the performance:
A solo performance in collaboration with Karoline Bakken Lund, Veronica Bruce, Jassem Hindi and Ring van Mobius.
Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “Batty Bwoy” (litteraly, butt boy), slang for a queer person, the work twists and turns myths to invoke demonic sensitivities and charming cruelties, unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety. The horror and joy of Batty Bwoy, inherent to queer blackness, is unmasked.
About Harald Beharie:
Harald Beharie (he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo. Harald holds an interest for the unpolished, the DIY and vulnerability of being in the unknowing. His choreographic practice unfolds in various constellations with other artists using dance as a medium for creating elusive spaces of ambivalence and fantasy, oscillating between deconstruction and construction, optimism and doubt, apathy and affect. Haralds work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics Association prize for the performances Shine Utopians with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022). Some of the artists he has collaborated with are Kristin Helgebostad, Francois Chaignaud, Ingri Fiksdal, Bouchra Ouizguen, Pieter Ampe, Marcelo Evelin, Hooman Sharifi and Mia Habib. From 2016-2019 he was also a part of Carte Blanche - The Norwegian National company of contemporary dance.
Photo: Julie Hrncirova, Batty Bwoy, Harald Behaire
Photo: Pietro Bertora, Batty Bwoy, Harald Behaire
JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI
When:
The Loft
6.-7.10.23 – Jerevan/Armenia10.-11.10.23 - Istanbul/Turkey
The Ministry of Unresolved Feelings
21.-22.10.23 – Panama City/Panama24.-28.10.23 - Guanajuato/Mexico City /Mexico
Where: Jerevan/Armenia, Istanbul/Turkey, Panama City/Panama, Guanajuato/Mexico City /Mexico
Venue: HighFest International Performing Arts Festival (ARM), Das Das (TR), Festival Prisma (PA), Festival Cervantino (MX)
Webpage: Jo Strømgren Kompani
Contact: Vanessa Storm vanessa@jskompani.no
About THE LOFT:
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.
The Loft shows women in chaos and in control, impassioned and struggling at the bonds of temperance.
The plot of The Loft twists and turns unpredictably and depicts life under the microscope – for women in particular – and people in general.
About The Ministry of Unresolved Feelings:
This piece is the third one Jo Strømgren created for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, this time aimed at teenagers and young adults.
About Jo Strømgren Kompani:
Jo Strømgren Kompani (JSK), founded in 1998, is based in Norway and has grown to become one of the most successful independent groups in Scandinavia. The company has been touring more than 60 countries so far, and around 150 performances take place annually both in large national theatres and small alternative venues all over the world. JSK’s home stage in Oslo is the Norwegian Opera House, where Jo Strømgren is Choreographer in Residence. Their style is characterized by a peculiar mix of dance and theatre, with a distinct and often very physical humor combined with darker, political undertones. Another trademark is the extensive use of nonsensical language, and in the recent years a playful use of voiceover. JSK offers a standing repertoire of 10 -12 different performances, covering a broad range of genres. Variations of dance theater is our most typical form, but we also have pure theater performances and puppet performances. JSK also offers performances for young audiences.
Photo: Erik Berg, The LOFT, Jo Strømgren Kompani
MARTIJN JOLING
When/Where/Venue:
25.11.23 Amsterdam/Nederland, Plein Theater (NL)
09.-10.02.2024 Kingersheim/France, Festival Momix (FR)
Webpage: Martijn Joling
Contact: Martijn Joling contact@martijnjoling.com
About the performance:
Tribute to me is a dance concert choreographed by Martijn Joling, about (the conflict between a digital and physical) identity and the desire for fame. In this solo performance, we witness a search for belonging and a desire for social status. The performance aims to explore the fine line between fame and status, our private and public sides, objectification, self-promotion and the confrontation between our digital and actual identity.
About Martijn Joling:
Martijn Dirk Joling (b.1991, The Netherlands) started off his career as a Dutch rapper, and discovered his love for dance through hip hop. After getting familiar with hiphop as rap and dance style, he switched his focus to contemporary dance/ performance art, studied creative & cultural performance at the Roc Amsterdam dance Academy, and graduated with a BA of Modern Theatre Dance from Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Martijn is based in Drøbak, Norway as had worked as a dancer among others with David Zambrano, Dance Company Nanine Linning, Da Motus, State Theatre Braunschweig and Bodytalk dance theatre.
Photo: Antero Hein, Tribute to me, Martijn Joling
MIA HABIB PRODUCTIONS
How to. A Score.
When: 12.-25.06 and 13.-20.08.23
Where: Bassano del Grappa/Italia
Venue: Marketplace in Bassano del Grappa
Webpage: under construction
Contact: Frida Skinner frida@miahabibproductions.com
About the performance:
How to. A Score. is a piece for a core group of 10-12 dancers with Parkinson's, as well as approx. 50 additional Parkinson's dancers loosely associated with the process.
It is a macro-solo consisting of several individual solos based on a choreographic community and performance score developed by Mia Habib in collaboration with Janne-Camilla Lyster. Based on guidelines from a score, six artists from all over the world have been given the task of working closely with a group of people in the local community where they live. In the past, this has been from South Africa, Brazil, France, the USA, Turkey and Norway. Mia Habib Productions has now been invited to Bassano del Grappa and the festival B.motion to create a piece for a group of people with Parkinson's based on the score How to. A score.
About Mia Habib:
Mia graduated from the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in choreography. She has a large international area of influence, and works at the intersection of performing arts, exhibitions, publications, lectures, teaching, mentoring and curation. Her performances have been co-produced at a number of institutions across Europe.
Habib has been the initiator of several dance projects in Jerusalem and of the international art network Sweet & Tender Collaboration. In addition to her choreography education, she has an M.A. in conflict resolution and negotiation at Tel Aviv University. She has been a mentor for several key artists under the umbrella of the European Cultural Foundation, and since 2015 has been a mentor for the master's students in the choreography department at the Oslo Academy of the Arts. Mia has sat on the board of Den Norske Opera & Ballett and on the board of the Middle East Institute of Multitrack Diplomacy.
Photo: Yaniv Cohen, How to. A Score. Bassano., Mia Habib Productions
Photo: Arne Hauge, How to. A Score. Bassano., Mia Habib Productions
ROZA MOSHTAGHI
When: 09.09.23
Where: London/England
Venue: Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF)
Webpage: Roza Moshtaghi
Contact: Roza Moshtaghi mail.rozamoshtaghi@gmail.com
About the performance:
Bouncing Narratives is an interactive art installation in public space with the ability to be moved and installed in different locations. Through individual or collective engagement with intimacy, movement and play, the installation’s main aspiration is to foster a shared embodiment of trauma narratives. The project is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between choreographer Roza Moshtaghi and artist Shahrzad Malekian.
Through a combination of movement, space/installation and sound effects, representing the parts of memory that the narrator is unable to express in words; i.e. the silence and the gaps in verbal narratives that give way to bodily expressions, or, embodied pieces of narration. This mobile installation provides the spectators/participants with an unconventional perspective, a voluntary precarious position between power and powerlessness. Viewing body movements from different angles engages the audience with questions regarding the effects of assuming various viewpoints as a way of accessing and understanding narratives.
About Roza Moshtaghi:
Roza Moshtaghi is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Oslo. Her creations often are situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer/dancer and performer. Her works deal with the unexplained narratives of desire generated in adapting or reacting to systems/structures. The ordinary, or rather what we have forced inside the uniform of the ordinary, is Roza's playground. She looks for possibilities to hypothesize "the hidden" by digging into the ordinary as a silent landscape. Roza holds an MA in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She presents her work internationally and continues developing projects with other artists as a collaborator and performer.
Photo: Josh Lake, Bouncing Narratives, Roza Moshtaghi
PLEXUS POLAIRE / Yngvild Aspeli
When: 07.-24.07.23. There will be a total of 16 performances.
Where: Avignon/France
Venue: La Manufacture
Webpage: Yngvild Aspeli - Plexus Polaire
Contact: Claire Costa clairecosta@plexuspolaire.com
About the performance:
In her visual adaptation of the famous myth of Dracula, Yngvild Aspeli chooses to freely draw inspiration from the story of Bram Stoker to focus more particularly on the figure of the woman. She focuses on the experience of Lucy's character, in her fight against her inner demon embodied by Dracula, who then represents domination, dependence, addiction to a destructive force. A metaphor of control, both forced and desired, seductive and deceptive. The spectator embarks on an intimate and psychic journey, in this phantasmagorical universe that Lucy has built herself, in which she has plunged and against which she fights. This show directed by Yngvild Aspeli for the company Plexus Polaire premiered on december 2nd 2021. The performance has been selected by the artistic committee of La Manufacture to take part in the Festival off d'Avignon 2023 for a series of 16 performances from July 7th till July 23rd .
About Yngvild Aspeli:
Director, actress, puppeteer and puppet-maker, Yngvild Aspeli studied at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris (2003-2005) and at ESNAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette) in Charleville-Mézières (2005-2008).
Within her French-Norwegian company Plexus Polaire, she has directed six shows: Signals (2011), Opera Opaque (2013), Ashes (2014), Chambre noire (2017), Moby Dick (2020) and Dracula (2022). She is currently working on an adaptation of A Doll’s House that will premiere in Autumn 2023.
Photo: João Catarino, Dracula Lucy`s Dream, Plexus Polaire
Photo: Mathias Leander Olsen, Dracula Lucy`s Dream, Plexus Polaire
LOST AND FOUND PRODUCTIONS
When/Where/Venue:
12.07.23 Avignon/France, La Manufacture
15.07.23 Trento/Italia, Centrale Fies
Webpage: Lost and Found productions
Contact: Victoria Røising lostandfoundprod@outlook.com
About the performance:
Witch Club Satan is a new, feminist black metal band, which has gained notoriety for its extreme and theatrical expression. Witch Club Satan not only brings together music and theater in a new way, but makes black metal available, and an experimental expression with its overall aesthetics and presentation.
Witch Club Satan is already being talked about as a phenomenon. Several newspapers and media write stories about the new black metal, where Witch Club Satan is highlighted as an important voice, precisely because they both by virtue of being women, and with their feminist and humanist agenda, promote a much-needed counterpart to the traditional black metal bands.
About Lost and Found productions:
Lost and Found productions is a theater company based on Andøya in Northern Norway. The company was founded by Nikoline J. Spjelkavik and Victoria F. S. Røising in 2016 after our education at the Norwegian Theater Academy. Lost and Found productions is working interdisciplinary with a specific emphasis on exploring audiovisual theater. We create original, independent performances, which are usually presented at programming scenes and theater festivals. Our aim is to make experimental theater more inviting for a broader audience, where music often plays a key role to make the performances more accessible to the public.
Photo: Helge Brekke, Witch Club Satan, Lost and Found productions
Photo: Anine Desire, Witch Club Satan, Lost and Found productions
NICOLA GUNN
When: 05.-09.03.24
Where: Paris/France
Venue: Le Monfort Theater
Webpage: Nicola Gunn
Contact: Nicola Gunn nicolagunn@gmail.com
About the performance:
Working with Children combines theatre and choreographic languages to create a conceptually sophisticated, subversive, joyful and participatory contemporary performance with young people.
It is a choreographic essay about the ethics of working with children and the risk of intimacy and exposure. Against a projected text that sits behind and above the children´s heads in a flow of continuous surtitles, 5 children create choreography live in front of the audience. The piece insists on vulnerability, and orbits around an imploding – and very funny – text made up of whirlwinds of thought all caught up in each other: what can we say, what can’t we say, who can say it, who cannot, and what are the implications of saying one thing and doing another? The children’s movement at times corresponds – either by accident, suggestion, or association – with the written language, allowing the work of the children to constantly slide in and out of focus.
About Nicola Gunn:
Nicola Gunn works across contemporary performance, choreography, theatre and socially-engaged art as a performance artist, writer, director, choreographer, facilitator and dramaturg. She makes live performances, videos, objects, site-specific events, installations and books; and has collaborated with dancers, choreographers, actors, anthropologists, indigenous language archivists, comic book artists, translators, children, architects, senior citizens and the audience. Major awards include an Australia Council Theatre Fellowship, Sidney Myer Fellowship for Artistic Practice, Winston Churchill Memorial Research Fellowship, Playking Asia Travel Grant, Norsk Kulturråd Arbeidsstipend, Bergen Kommune Arbeidsstipend and an Australia Council Emerging Artist Fellowship. Residencies include Carte Blanche and USF Verftet (Bergen), The Chocolate Factory (Long Island City/NYC), Cité des Arts (Paris), CAMPO (Gent), Bundanon (Australia) and Banff Centre for the Creative Arts (Canada).
Nicola has a Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) from RMIT in Melbourne. She is presently Associate Professor in Performance and Time-based Art at KMD, the art academy of the University of Bergen.
Photo: Laimonas Puisys, Working with Children, Nicola Gunn
DE UTVALGTE
When: 13.-20.08.23
Where: Gröningen/The Netherlands
Venue: Noorderzon Festival of performing Arts and Society
Webpage: De Utvalgte AS
Contact: Ida Holthe Lid post@deutvalgte.no
About the performance:
My Twisted World is a performance about men, sexuality and violence. The performance stands in the gap between fiction and documentary. We use the actors' personal experiences, material from various authentic forums such as sex chats, platforms for online dating and meeting places for Incel groups. This material has been processed and inserted into a theatrical scenic context.
We explore the relationship between biological human drives and cultural taboos. Between longing for love, impotence and thirst for revenge.
The desire for something that cannot be obtained is the fiction that lies as a premise for sex chatting and online dating.
About De Utvalgte AS:
De Utvalgte is an autonomous theater company that has made its mark during the last fifteen years by displaying a desire to seek new expression, but also new content in the stage arts. De Utvalgte is a theater company founded in Oslo in 1994 after the group’s original lineup graduated at the Nordic School of Theatre in Denmark. The company consists of Kari Holtan, Boya Bøckman, Torbjørn Davidsen, Anne Holtan, and link up with other artists as needed.
De Utvalgte deals with contemporary theater and their performances are moving in the borderland between theater, visual art and performance. They create a distinctive and multifaceted expression through the assembly of self-made instruments such as video, text, sound and music. De Utvalgte has as the first in the world developed new technology that uses 3D film scenography and narratives.
The performances often have a cast consisting of people with and without acting experience. This adds a dimension to the play with roles and identities, authenticity and theatricality. The company mixes the comic and the tragic in bold ridicule of their own and others’ inadequacies.
In 2014 the company received the Norwegian Arts Councils base funding.
Photo: De Utvalgte, My Twisted World, De Utvalgte
K:13 SCENEKUNST
When: 10.-13.10.23
Where: Sliven/Bulgaria
Venue: Festival Magic of the wind and State Puppet Theatre Sliven
Webpage: K:13 Scenekunst
Contact: Jorunn Sofie Lullau jorunn.lullau@gmail.com
About the performance:
Romeo and Juliet is a performance that engages the audience with simple interactive tools. This version of the story is created with young people aged 13-19 in mind, who are in fact as old as Romeo and Juliet were. However, this show engages audiences of all ages. The aim of the project is that the topics in the performance can lead to further discussion, reflection and knowledge about these moral-philosophical questions. The actors use very simple methods and a few props to bring the story of Capulet and the Montague families to life. Along the way, they engage the audience in simple and elegant ways, so that they become participants in the story.
About K:13 Scenekunst:
K:13 focuses on using theatre and art to promote social and political issues and create dialogue with the audience.
K:13 is a Norwegian theatre ensemble consisting of the experienced artists Steinar Thorsen and Jorunn Lullau, both with over 25 years of experience in art and theatre. K:13 explores both puppet theatre and visual theatre combined with philosophical and political conditions. K:13 is passionate about discussing these issues in performances for children and young people, with an emphasis on interactivity in both the process of creation and within the actual performances. The company firmly believes that theatre should be a reflection of society, and artists have a responsibility to use theatre to reflect life. K:13 was founded in 2013 and has produced 8 performances thus far.
Photo: Joanna Jakubek, Romeo and Juliet, K:13 Scenekunst
Marina Popović
When: 7.-10.06.23
Where: Copenhagen/Denmark
Venue: Husets Teater under CPH Stage
Webpage: Marina Popovic
Contact: Marina Popović, popmavic@gmail.com
About the performance:
The frame is a narrative monologue for one actor and several foreboding signs, in the form of both sound, light and objects. By articulating the theme directly, the actor creates a situation with the audience where our fear of evil, whatever that means for us today, is illuminated, by both invoking it and addressing it in a room that supports a mood of something ominous. How charged can a room be at the same time that we are clear about the theatre's means of action, and does that make the fact that it is theatrical means that tell the story, the actual unrest we live with, less uncomfortable? Where the stories we have inherited are no longer sufficient, we as a society today have common pop cultural references and collective rituals that are commercialized and accessible, often with a darker and often violent background.
About Marina Popović:
Marina Popović is a Norwegian-Bosnian actress. She studied acting at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and holds an MA from NTNU in Trondheim, specialized in Cultural Memory Studies. She works as an actress in both institutional theatre, tv and independent theatre groups, both Norwegian and international. She has received the Norwegian Arts Councils working grant for young artists in 2018, 2021 and 2022. Marina is based in Oslo.
Photo: Nadia Caroline Andersen, So Far So Good, Marina Popović
SIMONSEN /STRAUME
When: 18.08.23
Where: Edinburgh/Scotland
Venue: Blundabus under Edinburgh Fringe
Webpage: Simonsen/Straume
Contact: Marie Kallevik Straume marie.kallevik@gmail.com
About the performance:
Naughty cabaret springs from the performance Naughty - a socially critical comedy about the sexualization of girls, which is based on a game between a 6-year-old girl in pink crocs and the patriarchy. The 6-year-old girl (Naughty) is now the host of a whole cabaret, consisting of other female and non-binary guest players, they will observe and reflect the world from a non-male perspective. Naughty (played by Anna Marie Simonsen) brings her assistant (played by Marie Kallevik Straume), a Marie Antoinette-like character with a corset but without a skirt. Featuring London-based guest performers, we'll see comedy, clowning and drag kingpins. All genres that are still relatively underground in the performing arts, and it is even more rare that it is performed by women.
About Simonsen/Straume:
Marie Kallevik Straume & Anna Marie Simonsen are two clowns from Norway, and the hosts & producers of Naughty Cabaret.
Anna Marie is a London based clown with a BA Drama & Theatre Arts from Goldsmiths University. She’s a SOHO Theatre alumni, and is trained in clowning by Goze Saner, Dr Brown & Spymonkey.
Marie Kallevik studied at École Jacques Lecoq and LAMDA, and has also taken clown courses with Phillippe Gaulier, Spymonkey and Angela de Castro.
Photo: Rebecca Need-Menear, Naughty Cabaret, Simonsen/Straume
Photo: Maya Yoncali, Naughty Cabaret, Simonsen/Straume
Stiftelsen NIE Teater
When: 11.-13.12.23
Where: Prague/Czech Republic
Venue: Palac Akropolis
Webpage: Stiftelsen NIE Teater
Contact: Iva Moberg iva.moberg@gmail.com
About What The F**k is Going On
This performance is a story about growing up, about being part of a family, and about having a problem that must be solved in order to survive. It's about insecurity, about the fear of failing, of failing, of not being good enough.
With storytelling and humor, NIE takes us on a journey into the teenage room. In a world filled with love, vitality and joy, there is also great uncertainty and grief over a secret problem. The performance has been developed in collaboration with the target group, who have also contributed their stories to the action.
About We Come From Far Far Away
It is a theater production based on stories collected at the Hvalstad transit reception for minor asylum seekers in Asker, and the performance won the Hedda prize for best youth performance in 2017. The production is for audiences aged 11 and over. The framework for this production was added to the crisis in Syria, but aims to say something more universal about the topic.
About Museum of Memories
Exploring true stories and accounts from people that have experienced suicide in their family. The project is a movable installation that is both an exhibition space and a space for the performance. Made up out of 70 m2 of rusty drawers. Inside this room five people reconstructs a life that has ended. Two brothers, a neighbor, a teacher and a lover. With warmth, humor and music, they tell stories about the one they have lost. A brother, a student, a neighbor boy, the first love.
About NIE Teater:
Over the past 20 years, NIE has created 39 shows and performed more than 3500 times in over 1000 places across three continents. The NIE team spans across Europe and includes creative, production, technical and producing teams, as well as our board members, in both the UK and Norway.
Studium Actoris AS
Sweet Home on Wheels - Europaturné Part 2 2023 .
When: 18.07.23
Where: Hannover/Germany
Venue: Großer Garten
Webpage: Studium Actoris AS
Contact: Paolo Martini - office@studiumactoris.no
About the performance:
Comical street theatre show for audience of all ages! Sweet Home on Wheels is based upon an idea by Hungarian director Pál Kalman (Karzat Theatre) and created in 2016 by actor Adrian Schvarzstein. Sweet Home on Wheels is absurd and comical where slap-stick situations are created like pearls on a string! In this «tête-à-tête» relationship between husband and wife «the third wheel» appears, the caravanette the couple so lovingly calls «Old Betsy». The camper’s tight living conditions, keeps disrupting the harmony in the «old world» made of «old things» the couple lives in. Adrian Schvarzstein performs the character of the «wife» while actor Paolo Martini performs the character of the «husband».
About Studium Actoris AS:
Studium Actoris (SA) was founded in 1989 in Bodø and has been based in Fredrikstad since 1997. The main focus and tradition of the ensemble is based on international cooperation and exchange of experience and knowledge across national and genre boundaries. SA is a laboratory for the development of the actor's physical expression.
Credit Photo: HEIC, Sweet Home on Wheels, Studium Actoris AS
JANNE ERAKER
When: 06.-08.03.24
Where: Bogota/Colombia
Venue: BogoTap
Webpage: Janne Eraker
Contact: Janne Eraker janneeraker@gmail.com
About the performance:
Øy is a duo consisting of tap dancer Janne Eraker and electronic musician Kristoffer Lislegaard. The sound from Eraker's tap dance is sent into the electronics and used to modulate different parameters, to trigger sequencers, or as a sound source for processing and sampling. Exactly how the tap sound interacts with the electronics is programmed live on the spot as part of the performance. The result is a two-way communication where they both are reacting to what the other one is contributing. The music is based on improvisations and has its roots in tap dance, jazz music, electronic dance and art music, free improvised music and Nordic nu jazz. The focus of their collaboration is to work together as one complex unit or as two completely separate parts, and the changes between these two states bring a wide dynamic variation into their artistic expression. They are also interested in exploring how they can use each other's features to augment their own instruments. Tap dance is often limited by having a very defined and narrow sound, and gets a much wider range from the electronics. Electronic instruments on the other hand can often have a cold and robotic quality, but by having the dance as a trigger and modulation source it adapts some human qualities.
About Janne Eraker:
Eraker is a tap dancer who works as a musician and dance artist in projects in Norway and abroad. She has roots in many places; born in Germany, raised in Norway, educated and started a family in the Netherlands. Also her dancing has many roots, starting with Balkan folk dances, swinging by competition dancing, musicals, contemporary and modern dance, and now fermenting all of it into her tap dancing. Eraker is fascinated by the sound of tap dance, and has worked a long time to create all kinds of music with it. Her work spans from improvised concerts to choreographed dance pieces, collaborating with a wide range of artists. As a performer she also dances in the Sebastian Weber Dance Company in Germany.
Photo: Øy, Marius Beatles Abrahamsen
ACTING FOR CLIMATE
When: 04.-17.09.23
Where: Odense/Denmark
Venue: DYNAMO Workspace for Circus and Performing Arts
Webpage: Acting for Climate
Contact: Abigael Rydtun Winsvold actingforclimate@gmail.com
About the performance:
BARK is a spectacular, poetic and thought-provoking walking performance for a forest, an audience and five performers.
It is about our invariable connection to nature, and our connection to each other and the forest. The performance mixes a physical expression with group acrobatics, vertical dancing in the treetops, dance and theatre, with an acoustic soundscape and poetic text, and is an all-consuming, sensual experience.
We invite the public on a performance tour in their local forest. It all takes place in the treetops, and between, with and around the trees, and the performance is approximately 70 minutes and two kilometers long.
About Acting for Climate:
Acting for Climate is not just a group of performers, it is a mindset and a movement. The seed of Acting for Climate was planted in Norway in 2014, with a dream of using our profession as artists to inspire action for a sustainable future. Now, we are a company creating and touring our own performances, and a growing network of people, artists and activists that nurture collaboration for sustainability.
The Acting for Climate tree is growing, both as a professional contemporary circus and performing arts company, with our branches in Europe and Montréal, and as a community platform for arts and sustainability.
Photo: C.Cirstea, BARK, Acting for Climate