Program jubileum

10 The Artist, the Institution and the Future of Dance 26th – 28th of April 2018

ABOUT

The seminar The Artist, the Institution and the Future of Dance is an initiative from Dansens Hus Oslo to discuss the current situation for dance artists and its institutions and together orientate towards the future. The seminar is developed by Solveig Styve Holte in collaboration with Per Roar and Mia Habib. We want to make apparent questions, experiences and perspectives that will shape a shared future for Dansens Hus and our field. Through inviting influential international thinkers in combination with a wide range of artists with different backgrounds from the Norwegian field of dance and choreography we hope to make this happen.

PROGRAMME Thursday 26th of April 17.00: What is artistic work today?

Lecture by Bojana Kunst 18.30: Conversation: The performer as an independent artist Kristine Karåla Øren, Camilla Tellefsen, Sulekha Ali Omar, Gry Kipperberg and Lars Jacob Holm 20.00: Conversation: What is artistic work?

Helle Siljeholm, Veroncia Thorseth, Margunn Kilde, Martin Slaatto and Brynjar Bandlien Friday 27th of April 17.00: Why do we need institutions?

Lecture by Goran Sergej Pristaš 18.30: Conversation: The artist as an institution Jo Strømgren, Ingri Fiksdal, Anne Ekenes, Ingun Bjørnsgaard and Ina Christel Johannessen

20.00: Conversation: How to create an institution?

Un-Magritt Nordseth, Per Ananiassen, Efva Lilja, Anne-Cécile Sibué-Birkeland and Hooman Sharifi Saturday 28th of April 10.00: choreo | graphy Lecture by Eleanor Bauer 11.30: Conversation: What is a choreographic practice?

Cecilie Lindeman Steen, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Kristina Gjems, Thomas Talawa Prestø and Hallgrim Hansegård 20.00: Anniversary celebration. Free entrance, book your ticket via www.dansenshus.com 21.30: Clubbing – Party and dancing on the main stage with DJ’s Vari Loves, Andre Bravo, Daniel Vaz, AMO and Grei DJ. Free entrance.

17.00 What is artistic work today?

Lecture by Bojana KunstÂ

THE

ARTIST

Thursday 26th of April

Bojana Kunst is a philosopher, dramaturg and performance theoretician. She is a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Justus Liebig University Giessen, where she is leading an international master programme in Choreography and Performance. She is a member of the editorial board of Maska Magazine, Amfiteater and Performance Research. Her primary research interests are the problem of the body in the contemporary performance, theatre and dance, gender studies, philosophy of the body, art and technology, art and science, theatre and dance studies and representation of contemporary identities. Her essays appear in numerous international journals and publications and she is teaching and lecturing extensively in Europe.

Her essays have appeared in numerous journals.

She has lectured extensively at the various universities in Europe and published several publications, latest Artist At Work — Proximity of Art and Capitalism (Zone Books 2015).

18.30 Conversation: The performer as an independent artist

and elaborate artistic work experience as a performer, project manager, initiator, facilitator and participant in collective processes.

Kristine Karåla Øren

Sulekha Ali Omar

Kristine Karåla Øren is yogi, Rabagast and dance artist, and the newly appointed Federal Leader for NODA - Norwegian Dancers Union. Since graduating at KHiO, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 1993, she has been active in the non-institutional performing arts scene. She has had long-term cooperations with artists who focus on working with creative flow and playful seriousness such as Eva Cecilie Richardsen, Amanda Steggell, Henriette Pedersen, Mette Edvardsen and Steffi Lund. She is a part of the Dansedyrkerne, which organized Seminarium 1-6 between 2011-2015, and has initiated and established the art production unit Rabagast, an experimental zone for dance, which currently works on the project Sang, Stepp og Samtidsdans. With over twenty years of experience in the free project-based dance arts field, both nationally and internationally, she has a varied

Sulekha graduated with a bachelor in dance from KHiO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2007, and has since then worked as a freelance dancer. For the last 6 years, she has in addition worked with acting, and has gained a wide range of experience in the field. Among the people she has worked with are Cecilie Mosli, Marit Moen Aune, Nina Wester, Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Lene Therese Teigen, Frikar, Dans Design, Mia Habib, Anne Karen Hytten, Håkon Mathias Vassvik. She is currently working with the Norwegian choreographer Henriette Pedersen.

Lars Jacob Holm Lars Jacob is educated at the Norwegian School of Ballet (today KHiO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts). Over the last twenty years, he has

been involved as a dancer and actor in a wide range of theater and musical performances in Oslo, and worked with Oslo Danse Ensemble and Ingun Bjørnsgaard Project. Lately he has been performing in the Jungle Book at Det Norske Teater, in Cats at Chat Noir and choreographed Around the World in Eighty Days for The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet. In 2014 and 2015 he participated in the performances Guys and Dolls and Chicago as well as being a choreographer for Kongen Dør at The National Theatre in 2016 and Cabaret at Nordland teater.

Camilla Tellefsen Camilla is a versatile street dancer with twenty years on her back from her first B-girl steps in her hometown in Norway. The past years she has put her main focus on popping and lately she won the Nordic prelimination for Juste Debout. Also she has won several battles in Norway: Pop What you Got/hiphop, popping and all styles, Soul Sessions all styles, Floorknights anniversary, Battle Of the South and more. Camilla also teaches and choreographs and with her

crew dEEp doWN dopEiZM she has performed in San Francisco, Montpellier, Paris, Copenhagen and most parts of Norway. She is deeply rooted in the culture of hiphop and has been dedicated to organize Urban Moves and Soul Sessions Oslo for 10 years. Whilst running the dancestudio Subsdans in Oslo she is teaching the new generation popping.

Gry Kipperberg Gry graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts 1986-89 and Merce Cunningham Studio, New York 1989-90, as well as workshops in release and somatic techniques, composition and improvisation. Since 1990 she has participated in a wide range of performances including Ingun Bjørnsgaard Project, Dance Design, Un-Magritt Nordseth, Giorgio Rossi, Øyvind Jørgensen, Collage Dance Company, Arne Johan Hegdahl, LOOC/OL Ceremonies at Lillehammer, The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet , Room for dance by Nesse/Myhre and Arts Alliance, and in various collaborative projects in which she has also been responsible for choreogra-

phy. In 1999, she and choreographer Francesco Scavetta established the company Wee, where she has her main role as a dancer and producer.

Wee has produced 21 full-length performances and has toured internationally. In total, she has been touring with Wee in 35 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America and the Middle East.

Kravas and Antonija Livingstone. In the period 2004-2010 Bandlien had his base in Bucharest, Romania and took part in the development of the Centrul National al Dansului-Buchuresti (CNDB.) Bandlien is currently doing a PhD as a research fellow at KHiO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts-Department Dance in Norway in the Norwegian Artistic Research Program. Since 2010 he has been based in Oslo and Berlin.

20.00 Conversation: What is artistic work?

Helle Siljeholm

Brynjar Åbel Bandlien Brynjar trained ballet in his native Norway (199193) and at the Hamburg Ballet (1993-95.) After his graduation Bandlien worked for three years as a dancer the dutch company NDT2 in Den Haag, Holland, with which he toured Europe, the US and South-Africa. In 1998 he started to work as a freelance dancer in Scandinavia, Europe and the US with artists such as Manuel Pelmus, Jennifer Lacey, Phillip Gehmacher, Vera Mantero, Raimund Hoghe, Florin Flueras, Heather

Helle is a choreographer, performer and visual artist, based in Oslo. She holds a BA (hons) from London Contemporary Dance School in 2003 and MA in Visual Arts from the Oslo Academy of Art (KHiO) (2016). Her artistic practice involve film, photo, sculpture, installation, choreography and performance. She is a recipient of Ibsen Scholarship award (2011), 3 year artist grant, younger dance artists (Norwegian Arts Council (2014- 2017), Hans Christian Osterø´s memory award (2015) with choreographer Sara Christophersen, and 1 year working grant visual artists BKV (2018) amongst others. Recent

group- and solo exhibitions/works include: Hey, lets wait for the group!, Chambre d’Amis, Vienna (2015), Black Mountain – An Interdisciplinary experiment 1933 – 1957, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2015), Area Y, Siljeholm/Christophersen, Palestine (2015-17), Nodes on stars fish and the social, Black Box Theatre, Oslo (2017). In 2018 works (solo or group) is exhibited/presented in Oslo Kunstforening (NO), Ystad Kunstmuseum (SV), National Gallery of Iceland (IS), Akershus Kunstsenter (NO), Teaterhuset Avantgarden (NO) amongst other.

Veronica Thorseth Veronica is the co-founder of Wrap in Bergen, is a dancer and artist, alias thud! moving endangered spaces. Educated from Laban Centre of Movement & Dance (GB), University of Bergen, Academy of Art and Design in Bergen and Wrap. Works as curator, performer and artist with dance installation and endangered spaces - space as both a physical place, situations and incidents. ​Margunn Kilde

Martin Slaatto Martin Slaatto, actor and dancer, has for more than three decades performed and created within dance, film and theatre. Within the frame of his solo works, he has since 1998 explored the intersection between art and life, as with his Transporteringsdans - also known as TD - a ruleset for playfully transporting yourself from A to B - with your body and mind.

Margunn is a dance artist and singer based in Tromsø. She started Vilje produksjoner in 2014 produces dance concert performances investigating the emotional and physiological bonds between the body and the voice/movement and sound, and how movement can shape vocal sound. Studied at London Studio Centre and produced site specific dance performances in Oslo, before moving to Tromsø in 2007.

17.00 Why do we need institutions?

Lecture by Goran Sergej PristaĹĄ

THE

INSTITUTION

Friday 27th of April

Goran is a professor at the Academy of Drama Art, University of Zagreb since 1994. From 1990 to 1992, he was artistic director of the SKUC theatre. In 1993 a dramaturge and member of the artistic council of &TD theatre. From 1994 – 1999 he was a dramaturge in theatre group Montazstroj. He has written a few short scripts for documentary films. As a dramaturge, he participated in numerous dance and theatre productions.

He is program coordinator in Centre for Drama Art (CDU) since 1995, and was president of the board of CDU from 2000-2007. Founder and editor-in-chief (1996-2007) of Frakcija, a magazine for the performing arts (one of the most highly respected performing magazines in Europe).

One of the initiators of the project Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000. Director, producer, dramaturge and performer in internationally presented artistic collective BADco.

18.30 Conversation: The artist as an institution Jo Strømgren Choreographer, theatre director, set designer, and playwright. His CV covers 150 productions in more than 60 countries. As a choreographer he has been commissioned by a vast range of companies, both classical and contemporary.

He is currently a House Choreographer at the Norwegian National Ballet. As a theatre director he has been working in most Norwegian theatres as well as abroad, predominantly in Europe. As a playwright he has written more than 20 plays, amongst others for The Norwegian National Theatre, Pushkin Drama Theatre in Moscow, Mungo Park in Copenhagen, and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. He has also directed a feature film, several short movies, and two operas. He is artistic Director of Jo Strømgren Kompani, the first independent company to recieve Basisfinansiering along with Verdensteatret.

Ingri Fiksdal Choreographer based in Oslo, currently finishing a PhD in artistic research at KHiO, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts with the project Affective Choreographies. The focus of the research project is to explore choreography as affective through the development of specific choreographic methods. She aims to create work that produces potential for altered states, experiences, thoughts and ideas to occur. This is founded in a belief in art as a motor for change, through taking the role as «utterly useless» in a society where most other things have a given and known purpose. When confronted with something that doesn’t perform as expected or resists classification we have to look for new approaches, and in these moments of liminality there is potential for the unpredictable and unforeseen to occur. Recent pieces include Diorama (2017), STATE (2016), Shadows of Tomorrow (2016) and Cosmic Body (2015). The work has toured extensively in Norway and Europe, as well as to the US and China. Deep Field, will premiere at Black Box Theatre on the 7th of November, and mark the end of the PhD.

Anne Holck Ekenes

Ingun Bjørnsgaard

Anne is Director & Artistic Director for Panta Rei Danseteater (PRD) and Master of Art. Ekenes established Panta Rei Danseteater in 2000. Since being established, PRD has enjoyed recognition for providing fresh, exciting and inspiring performance- and outreach programmes. The company has its base in Oslo where they create new works. PRD tours the U.S., Tanzania, Palestine, England and Norway in 2018. As the Director for PRD. She also currently leads the dance projects TILT and TILT Grow. TILT is the largest dance project The Savings Bank Foundation DNB has funded in its history of funding arts, culture and social entrepreneurship. TILT Grow is a talent programme for professional dancers funded by Talent Norway. Anne studied at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, London and graduated with a BA in dance theatre and MA in performance, dance for camera and choreography.

The MA dissertation explores the relations between dance and film. As a dancer Anne worked with choreographers such as Jamie Watton, Rosemary Lee, Roger Sinha, Allen Kaeja, Noa Dhar, Amanda Miller and Lois Taylor.

From her point of departure as a dancer, Ingun Bjørnsgaard’s strong visual approach to dance swiftly brought her to choreography. Educated at Statens Balletthøgskole, Norway, she moved directly to New York to dance at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, whose choreographic parameters still echo within the foundations of her work. Bjørnsgaard’s combination of formal precision and everyday pathos has been rewarded with a number of prestigious prizes and she is commissioned to work with prominent companies such as the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Carte Blanche, CCN - Ballet de Lorraine, Tanztheater Bremen, Komische Oper, Berlin, and GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. Since its foundation in 1992, her company, 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 skills, 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. IBP has been guaranteed funding by the Norwegian Cultural Council until 2019.

Ina Christel Johannessen Ina Christel is the artistic leader and choreographer of zero visibility corp., based in Oslo. She is educated at KHiO, The National Academy of the Arts, where she now teaches choreography classes. As a sought-after choreographer Ina has been invited to create works for international companies and institutions. Among them are Helsinki City Dance Company, The Royal Swedish Opera, Scottish Dance Theatre, The National Theatres in Oslo and Bergen, Dance and Theatre Academy of Helsinki, Les Ballet de Monte Carlo, CCDC Hong Kong, Cullberg Ballet, The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and Gothenburg Opera Dance Company.

20.00 Conversation: How to create an institution?

Efva Lilja Efva is an artist, researcher, Professor of choreography and the Director at Dansehallerne in Copenhagen, She has written several books about dance and choreography among others 100 Exercises for a Choreographer and Other Survivors. In 1985-2005 she was Artistic Director of the E.L.D. Company in Stockholm, producing work in more than 35 countries. Artistically she works with choreography in performances, installations, visual art, films and writings.

Un-Magritt Nordseth Norwegian choreographer and dancer and Artistic Director of Dansens Hus since 2010. Graduated at KHiO, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 1983. She also studied at Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, New York.

Co-founder of Scirocco Dansekompani, where she has created a number of works. Choreogra-

pher of several theater plays, including the musical The Black Rider at the Norwegian Theater in 1998. Choreographer for The Hunt for Nora for the Chinese Cultural Festival in Oslo 2007.

Per Ananiassen Per is the artistic director of Teaterhuset Avant Garden in Trondheim since 2008, and the artistic director of Bastard- Trondheim international festival for performing arts. From 2001-2008 he worked as a dramaturge at Trøndelag teater.

Anne-Cécile Sibué-Birkeland Anne-Cécile is artistic and general director Black Box Teater and was born in the French Alps. She began her work as general manager and producer for independent groups including the French-Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola.

In 2004 she founded the production office Bureau Cassiopee in Paris. Anne-Cécile has collaborated with artists such as Gisele Vienne, Jonathan Capdevielle and Herman Diephuis

over several years. She has initiated artistic development on large-scale productions, international coproductions and touring. Since 2012 she has been an international advisor in Nouveau Theatre de Montreuil and worked as artistic advisor for festivals, theater companies and independent artists internationally. She is also a board member of IETM. Hooman Sharifi Hooman is currently the artistic director in Carte Blanche 2014-2018. He is also the founder, choreographer and Artistic Director of Impure Company. He is born in Teheran in 1973, and came to Norway at the age of 14. His background ranges from hip-hop and and street dance to a bachelor from the choreographer-education at KHiO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Since 2000 he has created 30 dance performances. He is known for the statement art = politics, and his movement language is physically challenging, powerful and borderlining theater, dance and visual arts. His works explores structures hidden behind hierarchy, violence, power and abuse.

10.00 choreo | graphy Lecture by Eleanor Bauer

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DA N C E

Saturday 28th of April

Eleanor is a performer and choreographer, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, working at the intersections of dance, writing, and music. Her work underlines the synthesis of physical, conceptual, emotional, affective, formal, and aesthetic understandings. Bauer studied at Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, holds a BFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, completed the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, and is currently a PhD candidate in Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts. She has been producing her pieces via GoodMove vzw in Brussels since 2007 and was artist in residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels from 2013-2016. She co-founded the open-source format for exchange of practices in the performing arts called Nobody’s Business in 2015 together with Ellen Söderhult and Alice Chauchat. Bauer has worked as a performer with, among others, Xavier Le Roy, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Boris Charmatz, Trisha Brown, kunstnerne Matthew Barney og Emily Roysdon; og musikerne Ictus ensemble og The Knife.

11.30 Samtale: What is a choreographic practice?

Janne- Camilla Lyster Janne-Camilla studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where she graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance in 2006. She is a dancer, choreographer and author. She has published several collections of poetry, as well as writing literary scores generating choreography through the interpretation of dancers.

Her work is presented at theatres and venues including the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Black Box Theatre, Dansens Hus, Det Norske Teatret, and tours internationally. She is currently an artistic research fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, The Academy of Dance, with the project Choreographic poetry: Creating literary scores for dance.

Cecilie Lindeman Steen Cecilie graduated from the National Academy of Dance in Oslo in 1985, and has worked as a dance artist since then, mainly related to the free independent art filed, except two years in Carte Blanche (The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance). In addition to her own projects Steen has collaborated with a wide range of choreographers and other artists.

She has been working closely with Ina Christel Johannessen since her studies, and in recent years she has worked in projects with Kristina Gjems, Mia Habib and Shanti Brahmachari.

Steen received Dance Information Norway’s Honorary Award 2017. Steen has collaborated with poet and choreographer Janne-Camilla Lyster since 2015. She did an adaption of the score SNOW and HUNTER, NEEDLE and KNIFE in Lyster’s Nordic Score, Flight and Transformation, at the Dance House in November 2015. For the last year she has worked with interpretation of Lyster’s scores Beauty I –X, which was performed recently at Dansens Hus this April.

Kristina Gjems

Thomas Talawa Prestø

Kristina Gjems was trained at London Contemporary Dance School and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1984. First in Collage dance company from 1984-92 and later creating her own works through her company Dreamscreen Productions. Her works include stage and site-specific productions as well as dance films. She has been practicing and teaching T’ai Chi for many years, which influences her movement vocabulary and inspires her artistic approach and expression.

Thomas was initiated into dance by his Trinidad grandfather, a medical doctor. Dance was passed on as art, as body work, as resistance, and a spiritual and healing technique. After that Thomas Prestø went on to undertake an extended African and Caribbean journey to advance in his development. Travelling to Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, Brazil and meeting the great names in the Africanist Dance Movement: Kathrine Dunham, Viviane Gauthier, L’Antoinette Stines, Queen Kumina, Pearl Primus etc. Out of this, came a technique clearly centered on the deeply rooted body, summoned between its diverse centers, a body language that simultaneously embraces and concentrates diversity – upon a common essence of dance of Africa and African cultures, the TALAWA technique. Thomas Prestø is based in Norway, where he has founded the Tabanka African and Caribbean Dance Ensemble, making his company a unique model of openness in the dance world.

Hallgrim Hansegård Hallgrim is a choreographer, dancer and film maker. He is known for bold and playful projects crossing physical and mental borders. His works have been performed in 32 countries for more than 400.000. In 2017 he received Anders Jahres culture prize and in 2013 The Silver Prize of Prix Italia. Hansegård has five years of film and arts education and is four times Norwegian champion of traditional dance.

Per Roar

THE

PEOPLE BEHIND

Per Roar is an artist-researcher and choreographer-performer who merges a socio-political interest and contextual enquiry with a somatic approach to movement in his artistic work. After a Cand. mag. in history and social sciences (University of Oslo), followed by postgraduate studies in sociology (Corvinius University Budapest; Oxford University), he obtained a BA in choreography (KHiO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts), a MA in Performance Studies (New York University), and a Doctor of Arts (Dance) with the choreographic research project Docudancing Griefscapes (University of the Arts Helsinki).

Since 2017 he has worked as professor and head of the MA Choreography at KHIO. Mia Habib Mia is a dancer and choreographer working in a variety of contexts ranging from larger stages and galleries to public spaces, private houses, religious buildings, squats, contexts of protest and war zones the world over. Habib holds an

M.A. in conflict resolution and mediation (Tel Aviv University) and a B.A. in choreography (Oslo National Academy of the Arts). Habib has collaborated with Jassem Hindi, Steinunn Ketilsdottir, Carte Blanche, Guilherme Garrido, Julie Nioche, Rani Nair, Monica Gillette, Maija Hirvanen among others and was recently engaged as a dancer for Carte Blanche, The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance.

Solveig Styve Holte Solveig is a dancer and choreographer, and is currently responsible for the professional and public programme at Dansens Hus. She holds a BA from The Norwegian University College of Dance, University College of Dance Art and a MA in choreography from Oslo National Academy of Art. Recent works include Flakkande røynd, with Rannei Grenne, About, with Ann-Christin Kongsness, and Lightness: Fleire in collaboration with Pernille Holden, Marte Sterud, Ann-Christin Kongsness, Fredrik Floen, Matilda Karlström, Hanna Gjermundrød and Elisabeth Nilsson, coeditor of Koreografi/Choreography anthology 2016.