ALL OVER / ALT NÅ

ALT NÅ premiered at Dansens Hus, Oslo on November 22nd 2019 . The project had its international premiere as ALL OVER at ZOO Southside on august 7th 2022.

A poetic, subtle and playful work on conventions, expectations and perception. The project explores the notion of being singular plural, through an «interpassive simulator of the imaginary».

As in an audio guide, or a fake indoctrination machine, the audience are guided, or led through the performance by the dancers voices, through headphones, hanging from the ceiling — connecting you directly to the theatre machinery. The voices are commenting, interpreting and associating around the space, the situation and what is happening — with individual differences, depending on where you are sitting. This creates an intimate, and personal relationship between the audience and the dancers on stage.

The movement material is developed in close collaboration with the dancers and is a kind of multi-referencing material, balancing on lines between a practical, mimetic and poetic body.

The project seeks to emphasize the notion of being singular plural in a system of textual, auditive and bodily material. The work explores relations between information, projection, and manipulation.

Dancers: Ingrid Haakstad, Orfee Schuijt and Mathias Stoltenberg. Also performed by: Oda Bjørholm and Eivind Seljeseth.
Sound designer: Erik Hedin
Light designer: Martin Myrvold
Choreographer and text: Eivind Seljeseth

Upcoming performances:

"Imagine closing your eyes. The world is disappearing behind your eyelids and getting dark and still for a moment. Picture yourself in a room. A fairly large room, with a high ceiling and plenty of floor space. Imagine not being alone, but that just like you, others are sitting. In rows with their eyes closed. Listening. If you open your eyes, everything may have changed. Colors, shapes, and sensations may have swapped places and nothing is like it used to be. "

Review - Darker Neon ★★★★★

Review - Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift (in Norwegian)

Feature - Dagens Næringsliv, D2 (in Norwegian)

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