Today was the first day of working with the full team of the project EXPLODED VIEW that premieres at Dansens hus, Oslo on December 14th. Looking forward to diving into the unknown together with this great group of artists!
ALT NÅ at ICE HOT
ALT NÅ / ALL OVER is selected to be presented at Ice Hot Nordic dance platform in Oslo, February 14th – 18th 2024. We are happy to be in such good company with the other work being presented and are looking forward to the festival! Follow ICE HOT for the artistic program, dates, venues etc.
Book launch!
After years in the making, the book “Av historisk grunn” was released on friday June 2nd 2023 at Dansens hus, Oslo. The book is documenting and thinking further on the project with the same name. The book is in Norwegian. Details on how to get a copy etc will come soon!
AV HISTORISK GRUNN:
Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad, Eivind Seljeseth og Anette Therese Pettersen (ed.)
Texts written by: Berstad/Helgebostad/Seljeseth, Ingri Midgard Fiksdal, Ine Therese Berg, Alf Jørgen Schnell, Agder Nye Teater, Anette Therese Pettersen, Mette Edvardsen, Sigrid Ø. Svendal, Ravnedans/BAREDANS/Scene:Bluss, Runa Borch Skolseg, Namik Mačkić, and an interview with Ola Beskow.
Illustrations by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien.
Photos by Simen Dieserud Thornquist, Maren Hald Bjørgum og Eivind Seljeseth.
The book is designed in Oslo by Ylva Greni Gulbrandsen, set in LD Genzsch Antiqua (© 2019 Michael Wörgötter), printed on uncoated paper from Arctic Paper Munkedals at Nilz & Otto Grafisk and RKGrafisk in Oslo og er binded at Bokbinderiet Johnsen i Skien 2023.
Produced by Bananaz – Forening for Scenekunst
Supported by Kulturrådet
© 2023 Uten Tittel under licence from Berstad/Helgebostad/Seljeseth
Talking with Maria
Maria Landmark did an interview with me for her SNAKK-series (it’s in Norwegian). Read it at her website: https://www.marialandmark.com/post/som-en-vev-av-ulike-tråder-snakk-30
ALT NÅ is up and running again
After several cancelations and postponements of the performance ALT NÅ due to COVID19, one showing finally went as planned. Bodø Biennale 2020 was realized with infection prevention and control taken very seriously and made it possible to present the work in a nice and safe way. We even had to set up an extra performance because of great interest! It was heartwarming to be met in this way and to finally materialize the work again!
From the showing of ALT NÅ at Stormen Konserthus in Bodø during Bodø Biennale 2020.
Cancelations because of COVID-19
As for most of society, my work is heavily affected by the global crisis due to the spread of the coronavirus and the necessary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The performance ALT NÅ should be presented on several venues during the spring and summer of 2020. These showings are canceled, but we´re working together with the venues and presenters on finding new possibilities for presenting the work in the future. First nationally and hopefully also internationally when the situation allows that to happen.
Stay safe and don’t hesitate to contact me with questions on future presentations of performances!
An ad for ALT NÅ!
Photos from rehearsals. Alt nå.
Tale Hendnes from Dansens Hus, Oslo visited us in our rehearsals with her camera the other day, Here’s some moments:
Work-in-progress at The DEN - CODA Oslo International Dance Festival
We're about halfway into the process of ALT NÅ, and on Thursday, October 17th we did our first test with an audience at Black Box theater in Oslo. It was great to do this under the context of CODA Oslo International Dance Festivals platform THE DEN - DANCE EXPO NORWAY. A big thank you CODA, Black box and everyone who came for your reflections and interest in the project. Looking forward to seeing you again in November at Dansens Hus!
The ALT NÅ production is up and running!
We’re having our first week together as the full group of artists in the project ALT NÅ. In the first period of the project, we are working at Oslo Teatersenter / Trafo at Tøyen, Oslo. We’ll move to different spaces as the prosess evolves, trying to not forget anything important anywhere.
In some weeks, we’ll do a work-in-progess showing, during CODA international dance festival (October 17th).
The work premieres at Dansens Hus, Oslo on November 22nd
ALT NÅ, SKS-LAB!
As the very beginning of the actualization of a new project titled “ALT NÅ”, me and dramaturge André Eiermann are working under the wings of Scenekunst Sør and their LAB-residency program. We are mapping out formats and testing ideas for materials as a way to dig ourselves into the matter of this work. Thank you Scenekunst Sør for facilitating the time and space for us to do this!
Link to work in progress showing (facebook event) november 23. 2018
The project ALT NÅ will premiere in the fall of 2019, in Oslo. For more information on this project, CONTACT me.
Thank you, Ravnedans!
The festival is over and we're all trying to move on. Many thanks to Ravedans for facilitating the new production of Hus forbi, good nabors for housing, everyone who came to see and everyone we met during these days in Kristiansand. Thank you for the good conversations, reflections, parties, hard work and good energy! See you at Bodø Biennale in September!
New premiere for Hus forbi @ Ravnedans!
Tonight, on july 12th, a new version of the project Hus forbi will be presented at Kilden teater- og konserthus in Kristiansand during the Ravnedans festival!
The recreation of Hus forbi has started!
We (Eivind, Ingrid, Matias, Iselin, Sebastian, Julie, Erik, André and Chrisander) have started working on creating a new version of Hus forbi for the showings at Ravnedans and Bodø Biennale this summer! We will be rebuilding, demolishing and putting the work back together from now until the new premiere on July 12th at Kilden Kulturhus.
Coming up / going down: DIORAMA for Huk
Her er smakebit fra forestillingen «Diorama for Huk». Lydsporet er komponert av Jenny Hval i samarbeid med Lasse Marhaug. Film: Elin Osjord
Posted by Dansens Hus, Oslo on 6. mars 2018
On march Thursday 8th till Sunday 11th the piece "Diorama for Huk" by choreographer Ingri Fiksdal is performed in Oslo as a part of Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival. The production is a collaboration between Black box teater and Dansens Hus, Oslo.
Eivind Seljeseth is contributing to the work as a performer.
Blundering about - a workshop
Between October 9th and 13th, I will host a workshop for the students at the University College of Dance Art in Oslo, Norway. We will be trying to build understandings, tools, questions, strategies and energies to use in artistic practices. We'll be moving back to the start, looking for old beginnings and new starting points.
And the nominees are...
Lulleli for Fruholmen fyr is nominated for the critics' award in the category of dance for best performance of the year 2016-2017. The other nominees are Carte Blanche: Jerada and Mette Edvardsen: Oslo. We are very honored to be mentioned in such good company and for the words from the Norwegian Critics' Association.
http://kritikerlaget.no/saker/de-nominerte-til-kritikerprisene-for-teater-musikk-og-dans-1202
Begrunnelse:
Norsk landskapsteater (Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad, Tormod Carlsen og Eivind Seljeseth) for forestillingen Lulleli for Fruholmen fyr, 13. august 2016, Ingøy, Finnmark
Med prosjektet Lulleli utfordrer Norsk landskapsteater både hvor dansekunst kan vises og hva koreografi kan være. Lulleli utfordrer også forestillingen som formidlingsform og kategori ved å beskrive seg selv som en egen sjanger – hendelsen har likheter med mer folkelige kulturformer som spel, festivaler og idrettsarrangementer, og setter dermed fokus på scenekunst som en forhandling mellom sosiale og kunstneriske aspekter. Gjennom et grundig publikumsarbeid i samarbeid med blant annet Dansearena Nord, og gjennom involvering av et høyt antall frivillige, greier landskapsteateret å trekke et stort publikum til øya, noe som i seg selv bidrar til å skape koreografien. Hendelsen, som strekker seg over minst en dag (noen publikummere var der i flere dager), er både spektakulær og underfundig, og fryser seg fast i hukommelsen på en måte som få andre scenekunstopplevelser gjør. Selv om prosjektet kulminerer i én enkelthendelse, der alt kruttet bokstavelig talt brukes opp i en salutt til ære for Fruholmen fyr på dets 150-års dag, gir landskapsteaterets enorme, flerårige forarbeid prosjektet ringvirkninger som vi nok fremdeles ikke har sett den fulle effekten av.
If this then that...
Currently, I am working with the pilot project "If this then that"(working title) together with dancers Ingird Haakstad, Ida Gudbrandsen, Julie Moviken, and dramaturge André Eiermann. As for now it is an examination of adaptations of causal systems to choreography and "quasi-causal autopoietic bodies". Its turning out to be quite a balancing act between the impossible and the plain stupid. Last week we had five days of working together at Scenehuset in Oslo.
Ida Gudbrandsen, Julie Moviken and Ingrid Haakstad.
The pilot continues with more working sessions and thinking in the future. Stay tuned. The pilot it supported by Arts Council Norway.
In Brussels, having coffee with myself
After some years of intense work, I have decided to take some time to drink coffee. So I am in Brussels drinking coffee and making a new website. This is my first note. This is a kind of a "News section". But a producer (Maiken Garder) once told me (over and over) that a news-page needs almost daily updates. "Otherwise it is not news" she said. So, after this lesson I understand that this might not be news, but my latest notes on what I am up to.
So in the future, this will be where I write about upcoming work etc. For now, it is a kind of coffee-blog.