Performing Arts Hub Norway is happy to present Performing Arts From Norway. This includes this year a Norwegian delegation of nine exhibitors.
Meet us at:
Booth nr. 55 in Agora.
Open studio presentation by Nabinam Dance Company.
Insights presentations by Yaniv Cohen and Harald Beharie.
The Nordic Mingle (30.08 at 16.00).
Or send us an email to request a meeting at anders@pahn.no.
I collaboration with Nordics Combined and supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
BOOTH 55
Who will you meet?
EXHIBITORS & ATTENDANTS
Anders Rohlan Småhaug, Executive Producer & Adviser / Booth-coordinator
Stine Nilsen, Artistic director
Yaniv Cohen, Choreographer & Artist
Madeleine Fairminer, Producer
Jean-Baptiste Baele, Choreographer & Artist
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes, Producer
Anne Katrine Haugen, Choreographer & Artist
Wim Casier, Producer StepTurnMove, representing Eivind Seljeseth.
Carte Blanche - The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance
Gulli Sekse, Touring Director
Camilla Therese Karlsen / Kompani Ulv & Ugle
Camilla Therese Karlsen, Choreographer & Artist
Tanzmesse's international jury has selected one Norwegian dance artist/choreographer for Open Studio presentation during this year's performance programme and two artist/choreographers to participate in the pitches/insights:
Nabinam Dance Company in the Open Studio presentations with the performance X10.
Yaniv Cohen participates in the Insights with the performance (A)attention Deficit Delight.
Harald Beharie participates in the Insights with the performance Batty Bwoy.
*More info below.
Joint Nordic activities organized during Tanzmesse:
28.08 at 16-18: Nordic Mingle (for artists) at Motel One.
30.08 at 16.00 Nordic Mingle (for presenters) courtyard of Tanzhaus NRW.
Norwegian dance as part of Tanzmesse’s artistic programme!
Jean-Baptiste Baele
OPEN STUDIO: X10
When: 31 August, 14:00 – 15:20
Where: tanzhaus nrw | Studio 5 | Wheelchair Access / Impaired mobility
Duration: 80 minutes
INSIGHTS: A(ttention) Deficit Delight
When: 30 August, 14:30 – 15:50
Where: FFT Düsseldorf | Foyer | Wheelchair Access / Impaired mobility
Duration: 80 minutes
Read more here!
INSIGHTS: Batty Bwoy
When: 31 August, 14:30 – 15:50
Where: Zentralbibliothek | Herzkammer | Wheelchair Access / Impaired mobility
Duration: 80 minutes
Read more here!
Information about Exhibitors
Learn more about the exhibitors at booth 55.
Carte Blanche
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.
Contact: Gulli Sekse, Touring Director.
Nabinam Dance Company
Jean-Baptiste Baele is a freelance Belgian choreographer based in Kristiansand, Norway. Originally from Madagascar, he grew up in Belgium with his adopted family where he started to dance when he was 19 years old. Under the mentorship of Valérie Matthieu and Talina Jager, Jean-Baptiste evolved as a dancer in Belgium for three years before moving to London to study a bachelor degree at Trinity Laban conservatory of Music and Dance. After graduating in 2015 with the Marion North Award Of Outstanding Performance Achievement, Jean-Baptiste presented his piece Rhetorical is the good word, a duet with young Belgian artist Malik Zaryaty, in the Bonnie Bird Theater. He has performed for several choreographers such as Mia Habib (How to Die Inopiné, Norway), Daniel Mariblanca (Normal, Norway), Fred Gehrig (Synchronicity, UK), Freya Pauwels (Morning, BEL), Niki Van Callandt (Spectrum, NDL), Raynold Battesti (Nuits Nocturnes by Cie des sources, BEL), and Yves Ruth (U.F.O. by W.A.N.P., BEL) among others. In 2021 Jean-Baptiste created his first auto-biographical solo piece, Nabinam, which will be chosen to be part of Aerowaves Spring Forward 2023. In 2022, Jean-Baptiste created his own company, Nabinam Dance Company which he is now the artistic director of.
Contact: Jean-Baptiste Baele, Choreographer and artist.
Y to C - Yaniv Cohen
Yaniv Cohen (1977) is a dancer, choreographer, and professor of contemporary dance at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. He holds an MA in Choreography from the Art Academy in Oslo. Cohen has been working as a dancer for the past 24 years and has been choreographing since 2019. He danced both as a freelancer and with dance companies such as Carte Blanche Dance Company, Iceland Dance Company, and has been a guest dancer with the Norwegian Ballet. Cohen's work explores the fundamental human desire to communicate and the interplay between personal responsibility and societal norms. His journey with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) has been both a personal and artistic exploration. Growing up with ADHD, Cohen experienced firsthand the complexities of 'masking'—the effort to conceal symptoms to fit societal norms. This personal experience has influenced his artistic direction, where he delves into the realms of ADHD and hypersensitivity not just as challenges, but as powerful drivers of creativity.
Contact: Yaniv Cohen, Choreographer and artist.
Producer: Madeleine Fairminer, Y to C - Yaniv Cohen
Harald Beharie
Harald Beharie(he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway.
Harald's choreographic practice are collaborative voyages, navigating through realms of ambiguity and phantasm, punctuated by themes of construction and deconstruction, hope and uncertainty, disinterest and emotional intensity. They hold a special interest for the DIY and vulnerability of being in the unknown. In a quest to dissect established corporeal and bodily narratives their work celebrate a spectrum of embodiment—ranging from the pathetic to the ecstatic, the collapsing to the exuberant, the faltering to the tenacious while fostering a deliberate naiveté and queer playfulness. Haralds focus is being with local people, local ideas, and developing ideas with and within the community.
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). In 2023 Batty Bwoy also won the Hedda prize for “best dance production”.
Read more here.
Contact: Harald Beharie, Choreographer and artist.
Production: Mariana Suikkanen Gomes, Producer, Harald Beharie
Haugen Productions
Haugen Productions, Norwegian sisters Liv Hanne and Anne Katrine Haugen founded Haugen Productions in 2003 in Tromsø, northern Norway, with the first joint performance, ‘Sisters’. They both studied at the London Contemporary Dance School. From 1991 – 2009 they worked extensively in Belgium and the Netherlands with dance companies such as Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus and Angelika Oei. Their work is presented both nationally and internationally, both in traditional black-box settings as well as site-specific locations. Creating performances on the border between documentary and fiction, their aim is to bring everyday life into theatre and theatre into everyday life while holding on to humorous and up-lifting expressions. Their work is presented both nationally and internationally, in theatres and site- specific locations.
Contact: Anne Katrine Haugen, Choreographer & artist.
Ulv & Ugle
Ulv & Ugle, founded by Camilla Therese Karlsen in 2017, is a Sámi company that create performing art with a focus on promoting Sámi culture and spread awareness on indigenous questions. The work of the company can be branded as crossover performance and contain sami joik, poetry, storytelling, dance, juggling and acrobatics on the floor and in the air. The productions been shown in Norway, Finland, Germany, and Canada with indigenous artists from around the world. The big project “Electric Lies” is a project in 3 parts over several years that involve cooperation with different companies and indigenous artists from around the world. A project that aim to discuss the problem of green colonialism, promote indigenous arts, and build a method of creation based on indigenous tradition of communication.
Contact: Camilla Therese Karlsen, Choreographer and artist.
Eivind Seljeseth
Eivind Seljeseth is working within the field of dance and choreography. He is based in Oslo, Norway, working nationally and internationally. His artistic practice spans from performing in works by others, creating his own work to collaborative creations. His choreographic interest is expansive and can materialize within different formats. His main artistic objective is a specific «poetifying» of spaces, places and situations through bodily, technical, virtual and conceptual interventions. Eivind Seljeseth is a graduate of Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) (MA in Choreography) and School of new dance, Oslo (now University College of Dance Art). As a performer Seljeseth have been working with different groups and choreographers such as Ingri Fiksdal, Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki / fieldworks, Eva-Cecilie Richardsen, Hege Haagenrud, Holte/Westgård and Myhre/Wahlstrøm. Eivind Seljeseth is involved in different collaborations in the Norwegian art field.
Contact: Wim Casier, StepTurnMove, agent / producer.
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, Hooman Sharifi, Carte Blanche, Alan Lucien Øyen/Winterguests, Inés Belli, Roza Moshtaghi, CullbergBalletten, Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, Akram Kahn Company, Hofesh Shechter Company, DV8 Physical Theatre, Via Kathalong, Robyn Orlin, Meg Stuart, Les Ballets C de la B, to name but a few.
Contact: Stine Nilsen, Artistic director.
Performing Arts Hub Norway
Performing Arts Hub Norway (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.
CONTACT
Anders Rohlan Småhaug, project manager, executive producer, booth coordinator
Email: anders@pahn.no,
tel: +47 98055685
