Performing Arts Hub Norway is happy to present Performing Arts From the Northern Latitudes. This includes this year a small Norwegian delegation. In addition this space is shared with the newly established Performing Arts Centre Iceland.
Meet us at:
Booth nr. 54 in Agora at NRW Forum
The two performances selected by Tanzmesse (71Bodies and Caroline Eckly), or at Nicola Gunn’s pitch.
The nordic network meeting or Nordic party (31.08 / 02.09)
BOOTH 54
Who will you meet?
EXHIBITORS
Performing Arts Centre Iceland
CODA Oslo International Dance Festival
Caroline Eckly
LIST OF ATTENDANTS
Norway
Hege Knarvik Sande, CEO / Director, Performing Arts Hub Norway
Anders Rohlan Småhaug, International producer / Booth - coordinator, Performing Arts Hub Norway
Kirre Arneberg, Project Manager, Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform, Dansens Hus, Oslo
Samme Raeymaekers, Artistic director, Dansens Hus, Oslo
Stine Nilsen, Artistic Director, CODA International Dance Festival
Anne Katrine Haugen, Choreographer, Haugen Productions
Daniel Mariblanca, Artist/ Choreographer, 71BODIES
Davone Sirmans, 71BODIES
Nicola Gunn, Artist & choreographer
Caroline Eckly, Artist & choreographer
Sigrid Aakvik, Producer, Art & About, Caroline Eckly
Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Artist & Choreographer, Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt.
Iceland
Friðrik Friðriksson, Director, Perfroming Arts Centre Iceland
Heba Eir Kjeld, Producer for choreographer Katrin Gunnarsdottir
Inga Maren Rúnarsdóttir, Artist & choreographer
Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, Artist & choreographer
Sigríður Soffía Níelsdóttir, Artist & choreographer
Sveinbjörg Þórhallsdóttir, Artist & choreographer
Yelena Arakelow, Artist & choreographer
Read more about the Icelandic participants and delegation here.
Tanzmesse's international jury has selected two Norwegian dance artists to show works during this year's performance programme and one artist to participate in the pitching:
Caroline Eckly with the performance and yes I said yes I will yes
71BODIES / Daniel Mariblanca with the performance 71BODIES 1DANCE.
Nicola Gunn participates with a pitch about her project Working with Children
A number of joint Nordic activities are organized during Tanzmesse, which include these:
31.08 at 16-18: Nordic network meeting, niu Tab hotel, Moskauer str 29 (close to Tanzhaus NRW (3 min walk) and Hauptbanhof (15 min walk)).
02.09 at 18-20: Canadian-Nordic network meeting (venue TBC)
02.09 at 23 -02 Nordic party for all Tanzmesse participants, Tanzhaus NRW
Norwegian dance as part of Tanzmesse’s artistic programme!
71BODIES / Daniel Mariblanca
Daniel Mariblanca
When: 2 September, 19:00 – 20:00
Where: tanzhaus nrw | Small Stage | Wheelchair Access / Impaired mobility
Duration: 60min
Area: 54, Performing Arts from The Northern Latitudes
71BODIES 1DANCE
Choreography: Daniel Mariblanca
Choreographer and dancer Daniel Mariblanca dives into the complexity of the transgender community. The solo performance 71BODIES 1DANCE is inspired by 71 transgender people he met throughout Europe. By highlighting the great diversity within every personal journey, Daniel Mariblanca brings visibility, awakens curiosity, and generates knowledge about the transgender community. Each minute of his performance draws on the experience of an individual person, embracing 71 stories in one body.
Artistic Crew / Team:
CONCEPT/CHOREOGRAPHY/PERFORMANCE Daniel Mariblanca | PHOTOGRAPHY ARTIST Mar C. Liop | FILMMAKER Ursula Kaufmann | MUSIC COMPOSITION Gunnar Innvær, Miriam Casal, Florian Oerrhoefer | TOUR TECHNICIAN Thomas Bruvik | ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE/ CHOREOGRAPHIC DRAMATURGY Amanda Billberg | LIGHT DESIGNER Jon Eirik Sira | FINANCIAL PRODUCER Camilla Svingen | COMPANY & TOUR MANAGER Davone Sirmans
Co-Producers:
BIT-Teatergarasjen, Kunsthallen 3,14, Ravnedans, Bora Bora, What You See Festival, Norrlandsoperan, Carte Blanche
Funders and Supporters:
Norwegian Art Council, Fond for Sound and Picture, FFUK, Bergen kommune, Vestland fylkeskommune, Nordisk Kulturfond, NAA
Caroline Eckly
Caroline Eckly & Marcelo Evelin
When: 3 September, 18:00 – 18:55
Where: FFT Düsseldorf at KAP1 | Big Stage | Wheelchair Access Impaired mobility
Duration: 55min
Area: 54, Performing Arts from The Northern Latitudes
and yes I said yes I will yes
Choreography: Caroline Eckly & Marcelo Evelin
Inspired by the myth of Medusa, performer Caroline Eckly invites the audience to ceremony in a timeless space, where they can witness a body in transformation. Medusa was a woman who – as a punishment for being raped – was turned into a monster that could kill with her gaze. The gaze serves as a starting point; the eyes which mirror-like reflect the violence of the world and catch and absorb the gaze of others. Eckly keeps her eyes closed for the whole duration of the piece, cancelling the individual gaze, offering a dive into the inside, a call for imagination.
Artistic Crew / Team:
CREATION Caroline Eckly, Marcelo Evelin | PERFORMER Caroline Eckly | LIGHT DESIGN Robert Roespel | ORIGINAL MUSIC Kota Yamauchi
Co-Producers:
BIT-Teatergarasjen, Carte Blanche-the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance, RosendalTeater Trondheim
Funders and Supporters:
Bergenkommune, Scandinavia-Japan-Sasakawa Foundation, FFUK (Fond For Utøvende Kunstnere), PAHN (Performing Hub Art Norway)
Nicola Gunn
Nicola Gunn (Pitching)
When: 3 September, 14:30 – 15:50
Where: FFT Düsseldorf at KAP1 | Foyer | Wheelchair Access / Impaired mobility
Total duration: 80min
Working with Children
Choreography: Nicola Gunn
Choreographer Nicola Gunn often uses subversive, humorous, choreographic and philosophical tactics to come at things from a moral and ethical standpoint. Her project Working with Children is a joyful and comic choreographic essay about shame, the risk of exposure and the ethics of working with children. Against a projected text that sits behind and above the children’s heads as a flow of continuous surtitles, a group of 12-year-olds are led through a series of rehearsal exercises, creating choreography live in front of the audience.
Moderation: Henrike Kollmar
Artistic Crew / Team:
WRITER/DIRECTOR Nicola Gunn | CHOREOGRAPHERS/PERFORMERS Nicola Gunn and Five or Seven Children | SOUND DESIGNER Duane Morrison | LIGHTING DESIGNERS Nicola Gunn, Hans Skogan | COSTUMES Natalie Seifert
Co-Producers:
Bit Teatergarasjen, Rosendal Teater, Carte Blanche, Melbourne Theatre Company
Funders and Supporters:
Norsk Kulturrådet, Bergen Kommune, Bergen Dansesenter, Australia Council for the Arts
Information about Exhibitors
Learn more about the exhibitors at booth 54.
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.
Performing Arts Centre Iceland is a promotional, resource and capacity building centre for the performing arts in Iceland including theatre, dance, circus, opera, puppetry and childrens theatre.
Performing Arts Centre Iceland began operations in 2022 and is founded by all the main stakeholders in the performing arts in Iceland. The centre is run with support from the Ministry of Culture and Commerce.
Performing Arts Centre Iceland plays a role in supporting Icelandic performing arts and increasing their visibility and reputation in Iceland and abroad.
The Centre intends to achieve its purpose through strong promotional and specific initiatives that encourage international relations among performing artists and institutions in Iceland.
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 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.
CODA Oslo International Dance Festival creates unforgettable experiences, stimulates the development of dance as an artform and is a meeting place for seeing, doing and talking about dance.
CODA Oslo International Dance Festival was initiated by the choreographers Lise Nordal og Odd Johan Fritzøe in 2002 and has developed into the largest contemporary Dance Festival in the Nordics.
Every third week in October the festival gathers the best of national and international contemporary dance. In collaboration with our five partner venues – Dansens Hus, The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, Bærum Kulturhus, Black Box teater, Riksscenen and Vega Scene – we show a diverse range of performances and films. But dance does not only belong on the stage, and the festival has shown dance at bars, in the streets and other places where you would not expect it. We are a festival for everyone. From those who already love dance, to those who are new to it –everyone is invited.
71 Bodies / Daniel Mariblanca is a transgender inclusive dance and performance company based in Bergen, Norway. The company was created by Daniel Mariblanca at the beginning of his gender transition out of an urgency to both understand and document the complexities that lie within the transgender identity.
In 2018, the company premiered the multidisciplinary production 71BODIES 1DANCE, which was inspired by seventy one transgender people and their stories. The company has since received local, national and international support and visibility, and is currently working on the productions In First Person, NORMAL. and A TRUE STORY.
71BODIES emphasizes diverse narratives by including essential perspectives communicated through film, photography and documentary style videography incorporated in its dance and performance productions.
Caroline Eckly is working as a dancer for Carte Blanche, the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance since 2008 and has participated in all the productions since (lately with Bouchra Ouizghen, Pieter Ampe, François Chaignaud, Lia Rodrigues, Eszter Salamon), along with doing her own projects. She was born in 1977 in Paris, started her professional carrier as a ballet dancer with Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse and rapidly turned to contemporary creation. She worked as a free lancer in France and Germany for some years, among others with Blanca Li, then for the National Theatre in Nuremberg, Germany between 2002 and 2008 where she danced for various choreographers (such as Jorma Elo, Jo Kanamori, Rui Horta, Tero Saarinen, Rodolfo Leoni, Russel Maliphant).
Nicola Gunn is a performance maker based in Bergen. Her interests have always centered around the body and more specifically, the experience of living inside one. She has presented her work in 19 countries at festivals and venues including Meteor Festival, Tanz im August, Black Box Teater, Tanzquartier Wien, Venice Biennale di Danza, Southbank Centre, La Villette, Theatre Garonne, and PuSh Festival among others.
Haugen Productions, Norwegian sisters Liv Hanne and Anne Katrine Haugen founded Haugen Productions in 2003 in Tromsø in connection with the first joint performance ‘Sisters’.
Over a periode of three years they performed Sisters 180 times. Since then, they have worked both alone and in collaboration with each other creating performances in the border of documentary and fiction, strongly shaped by their North-Norwegian identity and background. Their aim is to bring everyday life into theatre and theatre into everyday life while holding on to humorous and up-lifting expressions. Working in close collaboration with different artists and forms ensures an ongoing freshness and dynamic in their work.
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.
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt has for three decades been one of Noway’s leading and most remarkable dance companies, and has also received huge international acclaim through co-productions and performances worldwide. Since its foundation in 1992, Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt has presented some of the most remarkable productions in Norwegian contemporary dance. Ingun Bjørnsgaard’s style and vocabulary derives from her close cooperation with her dancers. Their technical skill, areas of specialization, personal expression, and creativity are vital resources in the development of the choreography and dramaturgy of the work. Through such collaboration, the Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt cultivates a genuine openness to the new and unexpected, the current, and the extravagant.
CONTACT
Anders Rohlan Småhaug, project manager, producer, booth coordinator
Email: anders@pahn.no,
tel: +47 98055685