AV HISTORISK GRUNN

AV HISTORISK GRUNN is collaboration between Eivind Seljeseth, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad and Ingeleiv Berstad. It grew to be ongoing for five years and consisting of three different parts. Part 1 was presented in 2011 in a party tent outside Dansens Hus in Oslo during the CODA-festival. In part 2, the project traveled to (outside of) 15 different newly build houses for performing arts as a temporary, reflecting house. In part 3, this house moved indoors (back to Dansens Hus in Oslo) and turned inside out.

Project AGENDA

PART 3 - self-reflection

"PART 3, SELF REFLECTION is the third an final stage of the project. It contained a new performance, a photo exhibition and a seminar about the future cultural buildings i Norway. All presented at Dansens Hus, Oslo.

Whereas the other two parts of AHG was taking an outsider position (literally) related to cultural institutions, part three was going inside different institutions, looking for possibilities for expansions in a new context."

A publication about the project is in the making.

Credits

Choreography: Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad and Eivind Seljeseth.
Co-creating dancers: Julie Mjøen, Marie Ronold Mathisen, Mina Weider and Åse Marie Eide Rannestad.
Set design: Eivind Seljeseth
Sound design: Ingeleiv Berstad
Consultant sound: Erik Hedin
Costume design: Kristin Ryg Helgebostad
Seam: Karen Wien
Light design: Eivind Seljeseth
Consultant light: Martin Myrvold
Co-producer: Dansens Hus, Oslo
In collaboration with: Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Co-producer, seminar: Danseinformasjonen.
Seminar supported by: Dansens hus, Danseinformasjonen and Arts Council Norway.

Premiered October 13th 2016
at Dansens Hus, Oslo

Pictures from the performance:

The seminar "Future houses of culture"

The panel. Left to right: Per Möller, Ola Beskow, Charlotte Myrbråten, Lisa Lie, Mette Edvardsen, Bo Krister Wallström, Even Smith Wergeland, Martin Revheim and Ine Therese Berg

The seminar is available on Facebook in two parts (its in Norwegian):

Pictures from the exhibition (exhibits part 2):

PART 2 - the long journey

"A performance about a potential Norwegian dance history and choreographic works that could have been created. Three young choreographers have interviewed some 20 other Norwegian choreographers with a bigger body of work, about projects once planned or thought of, which for some reason were left in the drawer. In "AV HISTORISK GRUNN" they investigate these potential works and form a separate independent performance."

Credits

Concept, dance, choreography, set design, text, costume, sound, light deigns: Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Helgebostad and Eivind Seljeseth
Technical consultants: Erik Hedin, Martin Myrvold, Tormod Carlsen, Gunhild Mathea Olaussen og Ragnar Berntsson
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere and Oslo kommune

Premiered august 12th 2015
on (literally)
The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet.

Pictures from the performance:

Program / fanzine (In Norwegian):

PART 1 - archaeological excavation

"AV HISTORISK GRUNN part 1 is an archaeological excavation of the Norwegian dance history form the sixties to 1983 (when Ingeleiv, the oldest in the group was born). We were serving rizhomatic mushroom soup and looking for immaterial historical art-objects"