Choreographer Masja Abrahamsen has taken her inspiration from the design and aesthetic of the opera house in Oslo – home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet – for CODAEvent, which will be staged in the foyer of this building. The associations created tend towards tight, linear structures, states of transition and the merging of urban and natural landscapes, as visualised by two dancers, Berit Lundene and Olav Andre Gravseth, and lighting designer…
Choreographer Masja Abrahamsen has taken her inspiration from the design and aesthetic of the opera house in Oslo – home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet – for CODAEvent, which will be staged in the foyer of this building. The associations created tend towards tight, linear structures, states of transition and the merging of urban and natural landscapes, as visualised by two dancers, Berit Lundene and Olav Andre Gravseth, and lighting designer…
How did the contrasting aesthetics of contemporary, modern and jazz styles enter the Norwegian art scene? And how do we best preserve and present our collective memory of a young and dynamic art form?
The art of dance has a short history in Norway. The 70s and 80s were particularly expansive decades in contemporary dance, paving the way for an artistic explosion in the 90s. Dance Information Norway has collected documentation from the artistic activities…
The performance is an adapted reconstruction of Har du sett min oldemors grønne korsett – det kan fly (”Have you seen my great-grandmother’s green corset – it can fly”) from 1992 which premiered at Scenehuset in Oslo. Four individual solos were created on the theme of foremothers.
The dancers exchanged roles with their true and imaginary mothers, foremothers and their surroundings as a means of developing the material for the production. Now the…
Gunhild Bjørnsgaard has in recent years worked with choreography concerts, in which the musician performs choreography as a dancer would. With this new piece Bjørnsgaard probes the depths of the world of composer Georges Aperghis.
His music requires great precision, evoking a journey through the unconscious, through the undisclosed dimensions of the performer. Aperghis is a composer who challenges musicians by having them employ theatre methods…
Interview with Pat Catterson
Trio A consists of a 5-minute sequence of movement that was initially presented as The Mind is a Muscle, Part I (1966) at Judson Church.
There it was performed by Yvonne Rainer, David Gordon and Steve Paxton simultaneously but not in unison. Since then the dance has taken on myriad forms, from execution by a large group in the nude to a retrograde version by Pat Catterson to a recent “geriatric with talking” version…
Ingun Bjørnsgaard often stages her fumbling, brutal and beautiful characters as they are crossing the boundary between restraint and spectacle. In Omega and the Deer they get lost in such a place, on the way to the forest, taken prisoner by their own shadows. There is a framework, which outlines different spaces and directions for our movements: our body, our gender, our sense of belonging to a place, our sociability, our past. This entails the perceptions…
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