Performing Arts Hub and FuturePerfect Productions with the support of the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, New York present Norway – Performing Arts Now from the Northern 2017 Latitudes

New York: January 8th, 2017 Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue New York, NY 10016 Program Introduction Sunday, January 8th, 2017 Performing Arts Hub Norway and Future- 10:30am – 10:35am Introductions Perfect Productions, with support from The Royal Norwegian Consulate in New York, Consul General: Elin Bergithe Rognlie Performing Arts Hub Norway, General Director: Tove Bratten The Royal Norwegian Consulate in New York, FuturePerfect Productions, Founding Executive Producer: Wayne Ashley present a special convening in New York City 10:35am – 11:25am on Sunday January 8, 2017, focusing on Pitch Session Part One Ingri Fiksdal p. 6 contemporary Norwegian performing arts. Jo Strømgren Kompani p .8 zero visibility corp. p. 10 winter guests p. 12 Now in its fifth edition, Norway Now: Performing Arts from Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt p. 14 Kari Hoaas p. 16 the Northern Latitudes serves as an opportunity for North Panta Rei Danseteater p. 18 American presenters to discover a wide range of in- Haugen Produksjoner p. 20 Siri & Snelle p. 22 dependent Norwegian artists creating exciting new works in film, , theater, opera, live music, puppet 11:25am – 11:40am theater and video art. Held annually in New York City Break at the renowned Scandinavia House, this year’s con- 11:40am – 12:30pm vening has been reworked as a forum for eighteen Pitch Session Part Two Norwegian artists and their producers to pitch new works to a specially invited audience. Each artist will Lisa Lie p. 24 Findlay/Sandsmark p. 26 give a 5-minute pitch highlighting one work that is Verk Produksjoner p. 28 NON Company p. 30 either in development or ready to tour. Molitrix Scenekunst p. 32 Goksøyr & Martens p. 34 the Krumple p. 36 The extraordinary breadth of work presented this Wakka Wakka p. 38 year is a result of Norway’s ongoing commitment to Dieserud/Lindgren p. 40 providing social and financial resources that enable performing artists to research, innovate, develop and 12:30pm – 12:35pm disseminate their work within a dynamic framework of Closing Remarks government agencies and cultural institutions, as well as individual and private efforts.

3 Over the past four years Norway Now’s efforts have Organizers been highly successful — helping to bring North Ameri- can presenters to Norway to see work and meet artists, as well as touring Norwegian companies throughout Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN) North America. The number of artists coming to the US Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN) is a national competence and information center struc- has increased exponentially. Some of these have in- tured as a network organization. The mission is to promote professional performing arts nation- ally and internationally, particularly emphasizing independent contemporary performing arts in cluded Jo Strømgren Kompani, Verdensteatret, Findlay/ Norway. We work closely with artists, organizations and policy makers to promote Norwegian Sandsmark, New International Encounter (NIE), Ingri arts, and to strengthen infrastructure and international relationships.

Fiksdal, Heine Avdal, Wakka Wakka, Alan Øyen / winter Tove Bratten, General Director Christina Friis, Senior Advisor guests, Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt, Verk Produksjoner, [email protected] [email protected] Grusomhetens Teater and many others. Participating danseogteatersentrum.no venues have included BAM, EMPAC, The Clarice Smith sceneweb.no Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, Watermill Center, New York Theater Workshop, Abrons Art Center, New York Live Arts, Philadelphia FringeArts, FuturePerfect Productions Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati Con- FuturePerfect Productions is a New York-based interdisciplinary production company with temporary Art Center, La Mama, the Kennedy Center, a practice that intersects fields of performance, media, visual art, & technology. FuturePerfect charts and generates new directions in performance by commissioning, producing, present- Seattle’s On the Boards and others. ing, and touring works that continue to emerge as computers, communication networks and other non-human systems become increasingly ubiquitous and part of contemporary culture.

Wayne Ashley, Founding Executive Producer, Lisa Reynolds, Project Coordinator [email protected] [email protected]

Xander Seren, Associate Producer [email protected]

futureperfectproductions.org Tove Bratten Wayne Ashley General Director Founding Executive Producer Performing Arts Hub Norway FuturePerfect Productions The Royal Norwegian Consulate General, New York

The Norwegian Consulate General in New York was established in 1906. It is the oldest and largest Norwegian Consulate General in the United States. The Consulate promotes Norwe- gian art and culture in collaboration with some of the city’s leading institutions, and aims to foster cultural exchange.

Elin Bergithe Rognlie Kristian Jul Røsjø norway.org/Embassy/newyork Consul General Consul The Royal Norwegian Consulate in New York The Royal Norwegian Consulate in New York

4 5 Creative team: Ingri Fiksdal Concept and : Ingri Fiksdal Concept and Dramaturgy: Jonas Corell Petersen STATE Musical Composer: Lasse Marhaug Light design Øyvind Wangensteen, Phillip Isaksen Costume design: Henrik Vibskov Developed with and performed by: Nuria Guiu Sagarra, Rosalind Goldberg, Rannei Grenne, Jeffrey Young and Louis Schou-Hansen Musicians: Anja Lauvdal, Heida Johannesdottir Mobeck Producer and Distribution: Nicole Schuchardt Administration and Assistant Choreographer: Eva Grainger

Produced by: Ingri Fiksdal Co-produced by: steirischer herbst festival (AT), Black Box Theater (NO), BIT teatergaras- jen (NO) in the frame of apap - performing 2020, Teaterhuset Avant Garden (NO) Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Norwegian Artistic Research Program and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union

Project website: ingrifiksdal.com/work/state-2016/ Touring personnel: 10 Length: 100 minutes (without intermission) Premiere: September 30 & October 1, 2016 at steirischer herbst festival, Graz (AT) Project Description Company Bio Fiksdal is currently a Research Availability: 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons STATE is part dance performance and Ingri Fiksdal is a Norwegian chore- Fellow at the Norwegian Artistic part live concert, and springs out of ographer and performer. Her work Research Program. Her most recent Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for a lengthy research into ritual deals with perception and affect, and productions Cosmic Body (2015), HOODS presentation and touring throughout from a range of places and times. places equal emphasis on sound, (2014), BAND (2013), Night Tripper (2012) and North America. The interest lies in what mental and light, choreography, costume and set. The Orchard Ballads (2011) have toured bodily states these dances can pro- An on-going theme within Fiks- to a number of venues in Norway, Contact duce amongst performers and spec- dal’s work is ritual and its inherent Europe and the US. Night Tripper won Nicole Schuchardt, International Producer tators. Together with renowned cos- ability to transform and ultimately the Award for Best Performance [email protected] tume designer Henrik Vibskov and transcending its participants. In her in 2012, and HOODS won the Dance the world-touring noise musician research, Fiksdal explores how the Critic Award for best performance in Lasse Marhaug, Fiksdal and Petersen capacities of ritual can be deployed 2014. In Norway Fiksdal collaborates create an immersive performance, in her performances. Fiksdal’s regularly with Black Box Theater, where choreography, costume, sound, work is concerned with the relation BIT teatergarasjen and Teaterhuset light and Norwegian spirits take the between cognition and affectivity Avant Garden. Ingri Fiksdal is also audience on a suggestive trip. STATE is and how they shape perception and part of the Advancing Performing performed by five dancers and two meaning. Arts Project - apap. musicians.

ingrifiksdal.com 6 7 Photo: Anders Lindén Project Description Creative team: Jo Strømgren Kompani The Virus Post- apocalyptic dance theatre Directed and Choreographed by THE VIRUS takes place in a near future where Jo Strømgren something has gone terribly wrong. The Performers Vânia Doutel Vaz, Dag Rune Sjøli, Mikkel Are Olsenlund, Ivar Sverrisson The Virus source of the misery is found in a small Set Design Jo Strømgren desolate bunker: a machine is infecting the Costumes Bregje van Balen world with a horrible virus. A small team Sound Design Lars Årdal, Ola Erik Blæsterdalen sees the opportunity to solve the problem Lighting Design Eirik Brenne Torsethaugen and give the world a restart, and an android is hired for the dangerous mission. How- Co-production The Norwegian Opera & , ever, it turns out that even machines can Bærum Kulturhus – Regionalt Kompetans- have their own will, conscience and a very esenter for Dans charming personality. Support Arts Council Norway

Project Website THE VIRUS is a whimsical homage to the jskompani.no/productions/32 future visions of popular culture, using a Touring Personnel 7 slightly twisted science fiction setting to Length Apr. 60 minutes (no intermission). address recognizable human shortcomings Premiere October 17th, 2016 at La Fabrika, and fears. THE VIRUS combines intriguing sto- Prague. rytelling, unexpected humour, nonsensical Availability 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons language, and large portions of dance. This characteristic formula is the company’s Seeking We are seeking opportunities for signature and backbone, implemented as a presentation and touring throughout North America. solid reference through touring in almost 60 countries.

Contact “...expertly straddles the fragile line between Sunniva Steine Managing Director humor and horror.” [email protected] – New York Times +47 413 18 232

Company Bio JSK is an acclaimed Norwegian dance-the- ater company with a large global distribu- tion. JSK aims to question contemporary issues through farfetched scenarios and ultra-fictional situations, with a dystopic yet humorous viewpoint.

JSK offers a standing repertoire of 10-12 different performances, covering a broad range of genres – dance-theater, pure theater performances, puppet performanc- es, and dance films. JSK also offers perfor- mances for young audiences. JSK’s home stage in Oslo is the Norwegian Opera House, where Jo Strømgren is a Choreographer in residence.

jskompani.no 8 9 Photo: Erik Berg Project Description Creative team: Ina Christel Johannessen / In 2008, an old dream of the United Nations Choreographer: Ina Christel Johannessen finally saw the light: on the island of Svalbard, (Zero Visibility Corp): one of the safest and most peaceful places Original Idea: Inger Buresund, Artistic Director at Hålogaland Teater/The Arctic Theatre zero visibility corp. in the world, a large warehouse was built Music: Stray Dogs 120 meters inside a mountain. In the middle Stage Design: Kristin Torp/Graa Hverdag AS of the “permafrost”, a thick layer of soil Frozen Songs Costumes: Kathrine Tollo; Multimedia that never melts, the Global Seed Vault was Artists: Feng Jiangzhou, Zhang Lin established. Since its opening eight years Dancers: Line Tørmoen, Pia Elton Hammer, ago 840,000 samples of seeds have been Ole Kristian Tangen, Valtteri Raekallio, Daniel deposited in the vault. The seed is a source Whiley, Fan Luo of life, the beginning of everything, and the Musicians: Frederik Meulyzer, Koenraad Ecker vault (also known as the “Doomsday Vault”) represents the need to protect it at all costs. Production Manager: Kirsti Ulvestad, (Zero Visibility Corp) As long as there are seeds, there is hope; Production: Hålogaland Teater(NO) and Zero everything that dies could blossom once Visibility Corp (NO) again. These “sleeping beauties”, resting in Co-producers: Ibsen International, Beijing the depths of a mountain close to the North (CHN), Dansens Hus, Oslo, (NO) Pole, could one day save the world. La Briqueterie, Paris (FR), Arts Printing House, Vilnius (LT) Frozen Songs is a “poem” about life, delivered Support: The Norwegian Arts Council by award winning Ina Christel Johannessen and her collective of expressive dancers in Project Website: zerovisibility.no/ close collaboration with multimedia artists news/2016/8/19/seeds-sleeping-beauties Touring Personnel: 12 Feng Jiangzhou and Zhang Lin. The creation Length: 70 – 90 minutes (without intermission) is expected to unfold chapter by chapter Premiere: September 7th–9th and September and will explore the juxtaposition of different 12th–16th, 2017 at Hålogaland Teater/The medias expressing the epic power of the seed. Arctic Theatre, Norway. October 25th-26th, 2017 at Coda Festival, Oslo, Norway. Company Bio Availability: 2018-19 seasons Ina Christel Johannessen is a pioneer. With her company zero visibility corp. she thrills Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for audiences worldwide. She is a choreographer, presentation and touring throughout North who through her art and experience is as America. capable of charming audiences as she is

of making them alert. Ina’s choreographies Contact explore opposites that are constantly Lene Bang International Manager, changing and her work is full of both energy zero visibility corp. and poetry. Since 2003 the company has [email protected] performed in 20 countries including: Sydney Opera House, Harbourfront Centre Touring in China (Toronto), Sadler’s Wells (London), The Cer- Fabrizio Massini Executive Producer, vantinos Festival (Guanajuato), Grec Festival Ibsen International (Barcelona). The sought-after Johannessen [email protected] additionally works for companies such as Ballet de Monte Carlo, CCDC Hong Kong, and Cullberg Ballet.

zerovisibility.no 10 11 Photo: Yaniv Cohen Creative team: Alan Lucien Øyen / winter guests Directed and Choreographed by: Alan Lucien Øyen Performers: Shôji Kôjima, Daniel Proietto Simulacrum Creative Associate: Andrew Wale Set Design: Åsmund Færavaag, Andy Cavatorta Lighting Design: Martin Flack Sound Design: Gunnar Innvær Kabuki Choreography & Music: Kanjuro Fujima

Sponsorship, Support and Production: winter guests, FuturePerfect Productions, The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland Partners: House of Dance Oslo Funding: The Norwegian Arts Council

Project Website: winterguests.com/performances/simulacrum Touring Personnel: 7 Length: 120 minutes (with one intermission) Premiere: October 13, 2016 at The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, Oslo Availability: 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons

Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for presentation and touring throughout North America.

Project Description very personal story of abandonment, performing works by Alan Lucien Contact Anne Cecilie Bodin Larsen Producer Simulacrum weaves together the real struggle and redemption. Øyen. winter guests tells stories of the winter guests and fictional journeys of two dancers contemporary world with words, video, [email protected] who left their countries of origin in With new Kabuki choreography and music and movement. The works are search of “truth” and “authenticity”: music by the famous Kanjuro Fujima, often based on real life experiences, Wayne Ashley 76 year-old Shōji Kojima migrated to Simulacrum is an intensely visceral, including original text, transcribed FuturePerfect Productions Spain from Japan in 1966 to become multi-disciplinary performance recordings and improvisations. In North American Producer & Management a master of ; and forty-six incorporating the secretive, familial 2014 they won the HEDDA, the most www.futureperfectproductions.org years later, contemporary Argentine formality of Kabuki; the fierce, prideful distinguished award for theatre in [email protected] dancer Daniel Proietto traveled to energy of Flamenco and contemporary Norway, in the category best written (917) 803-4420 Japan to study the Onnagata (the dance. Performed around a large stage-play, for their epic 5 ½ hour female role in Kabuki). elegant wooden puzzle box, the work long play Coelacanth. Since 2013 Øyen unfolds mysteriously, revealing the has been Artist in Residence at the Simulacrum brings these award-winning dancers’ relationships to both one new Norwegian Opera House in Oslo dancers together across geographical another and to the people they left and has recently premiered a series and cultural borders to explore the behind. of new works including Simulacrum and problems and pleasures of cultural AMERICA – Ep. 2 – Psychopatriot. exchange, and dramatizes the quest Company Bio of two determined artists pursuing winter guests is an international their creative ideals. But it is also a company from , Norway,

winterguests.com 12 13 Photo: Martin Flack Creative team: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt Directed and Choreographed by: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Performers: Marianne Haugli, Ida Wigdel, New production Guro Schia, Catharina Vehre Gresslien Music: Christian Wallumrød Set Design: Thomas Bjørk Lighting Design: Thilo Hahn Sound Design: Morten Pettersen Funding: The Norwegian Arts Council

Touring Personnel: 8 Length: around 60 minutes Premiere: October 2017 during the CODA festival at Bærum Kulturhus Availability: 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons

Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for presentation and touring throughout North America.

Contact Anne Cecilie Bodin Larsen IBP Producer [email protected]

Project Description Fundamentally drawn to beauty as a and dramaturgy. Bjørnsgaard’s For the upcoming 25th anniversary of Ingun concept, Bjørnsgaard and her dancers work features new music composed Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt in fall 2017, develop the performance through specifically for the performances and Bjørnsgaard returns to the com- visual abstractions of motifs and explores the relationship between plexities of femininity and ventures mythologies derived from an archive movement and music from the clas- further into her investigations of of art forms. Through the company’s sical and baroque eras. gender. refined costume design, the female disguise represents both restriction Bjørnsgaard’s combination of formal Four female dancers struggle with and definition of movement. precision and everyday pathos is inner conflict and share a longing to widely recognized. She has received transcend solitude that perhaps can Company Bio a number of prestigious prizes and is only be articulated through the body. Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt was founded commissioned to work with prominent Traces of their fragmented stories/ in Oslo in 1992 by Ingun Bjørnsgaard, a companies such as the Norwegian diaries collide and coincide, yet never choreographer whose work continues National Ballet, Carte Blanche, CCN appear coherent. What the women to influence the Nordic dance scene. - Ballet de Lorraine, Tanztheater have in common remains unrevealed, Through her own company, Bjørns- , Komische Oper , and however through the dancerly language gaard has rigorously followed her GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. and dramaturgy an intimate possi- artistic vision with a preeminent bility for belonging evolves. ensemble of dancers who sensitively engage in the creation of movement

ingunbp.no 14 15 Photo: Knut Bry Project Description Creative team: Kari Hoaas Productions Created with the fear of the impending man- Concept, Choreography, Direction: made apocalypse of climate change as a Kari Hoaas backdrop, Kari Hoaas has chosen to work Dancers: Antero Hein, Thais Hvidt, Anne Lise Rønne, Åsne Storli, Gerd Kaisa Vorren, Anton Be Like Water within a poetic and impressionistic vein, Wretling exploring the physical, emotional, ritual, Light and Video Design: Tord Eliassen scientific and social themes of the basic Music: Meredith Monk, Kayhan Kalhor, Levon element of all life: water. Minassian, Delphine Mantoulet & Valentin Dahmani, Armand Amar & Seyed Mohammad “The Ocean is roaring, the dancers roll over Hanjani each other, try to get up, grabbing each other, Sound Design: Morten Pettersen supporting, fighting, hugging, struggling. Costume Design: Signe Vasshus Thoughts go to drowning refugees in the Med- Video Trailer: Yaniv Cohen iterranean, or to John Akomfrahs video work Production: Kari Hoaas Productions “Vertigo Sea”... Somehow it feels hopeful.” Co-producers Premiere: Bærum Culture- - Karin Krämsby, Danstidningen, Sweden. house, Norway and Culture Skellefteå in Sweden. Company Bio

Kari Hoaas Productions was established in 2005 Created, in part, in Residence: Vitlycke Cen- by dancer and choreographer Kari Hoaas, tre for Performing Arts, Tanumshede, Sweden upon returning to Oslo after fifteen years and Hallen, Nordanå, Culture Skellefteå, working in New York City. Her productions Sweden. have been co-produced, presented and toured in the USA, Dominican Republic, Creation Funds: Arts Council Norway, the Spain, France, Russia, Jordan, Palestine, Norwegian Fund for Sound and Image and Nordic Culture Point. Georgia, Sweden, Greenland and Norway, Touring Funds: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign at venues such as Performance Space 122, Affairs, Arts Council Norway, Norwegian New York and Dansens Hus, Oslo. Fund for Performing Artists and Norwegian Embassies. Her complex and engaging performances allow for ambiguity and contradiction, while Project Website:karihoaas.com/2014/08/11/ retaining a profoundly human expression be-like-water-new-creation-under-develop- connected to the larger culture. The work ment-2015/ evolves in the conflicts between abstract Touring Personnel: 8 and literal dance, physicality and theatrical Length: 60 minutes (no intermission) Premiere: September 10th and 11th, 2015 at expression. Bærum Culturhouse, Norway Availability: 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons Kari is dedicated to developing her own distinct extremely physical, yet organic Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for movement vocabulary, while exploring the presentation and touring throughout North boundaries of through America. an experimental approach and inclusive layering of disciplines. The need to subvert established dance traditions, while retaining Contact and refining this embodied knowledge, Kari Hoaas [email protected] drives her physical and choreographic explorations.

karihoaas.com 16 17 Photo:: Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen Creative team: Choreography Part 1: Anne Holck Ekenes and Panta Rei Danseteater Pia Holden Choreography Part 2: Hélène Blackburn Composer: Sverre Indris Joner Lullaby Musicians: Gustavo Tavares and Sverre Indris Joner Performers: Matias Rønningen/Gareth Mole, Johnny Autin, Robert Guy/Anton Wretling Light Design: Joakim Brink Dramaturge: Kjell Moberg

Sponsorship, Support and Production: The performance is co-produced and financed by Scenekunst Østfold with support from Nordre Aker Bydel, Oslo, Norway.

Length: 60 min Premiere: October 2015, Scenekunst Østfold, Norway Availability: 2018-2019 & 2019-2020 season

Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for presentation and touring throughout North America.

Contact Annika Ostwald International Manager [email protected] +47 4148 7651 / Skype: annikaostwald

Project Description Company Bio Lullaby, presents a cast of three dynamic Panta Rei Dance Theatre is known for fast-paced col- young male dancers who explore a compli- orful dance theatre performances often set in the cated friendship fraught with friction, teas- round, performed both in theatres and non-the- ing, needling, aggression and the dynamics ater spaces. Since it was established in 2000 the of mediation between bickering factions. company has produced 11 works for touring and led numerous national and international projects. In Lullaby, provides a thought-provoking and 2015 the company won the prestigious best stage contemporary metaphor for current inter- production award for the performance GODOS at national politics. the theatre festival in Rokiškis in Lithuania. GODOS was co-produced by AURA Dance Theatre (LT). In “… Panta Rei, go right to the heart (again) of 2016 and 2017 PRD will co-produce two new works pressing social and personal issues with an for touring with the theatres Teater Innlandet and honesty which is startling.” Brageteatret in Norway. – Tim Smithies, Carn to Cove pantareidanseteater.com 18 19 Photo: Trine Sirnes Creative team: Haugen Productions Idea and Concept: Anne Katrine Haugen and Liv Hanne Haugen Scenography: Lawrence Malstaf Sisters 11 years later Music: Erik Stifjell Film: Hilde Korsæth Film Sisters 2003: Knut Skoglund Artistic Assistance: Jon Tombre Photo: Jens Kristian Nilsen, Nicolas Tourrenc Co-Production: National House of Dance, Oslo, Norway

Sponsorship, Support and Production: Haugen Productions Funding: The Norwegian Arts Council Partners: National House of Dance, Oslo, Norway, Dansearena nord

Project Website:haugenproduksjoner.no/ kommende-prosjekter/sostre-11-ar-etter/ Touring Personnel: 4 Length: 70 minutes (no intermission) Premiere: 9th of May 2014 at The National House of Dance, Oslo Availability: 2017-2018, 2018-2019 and 2019- 2020 seasons

Contact Anne Katrine Haugen Producer/danceartist Haugen Productions [email protected] + 47 418 08 699 vimeo.com/haugenproduksjoner facebook.com/haugenproduksjoner/

Project Description Company Bio Sisters 11 years later is the story of two sisters confronted with death, aging and Norwegian sisters Liv Hanne and Anne Katrine Haugen founded Haugen Pro- the loss of a mother; a personal and existential story told through dance, ductions in 2003 in Tromsø in with their first joint performance text, voice, an installation of hanging ropes and films of their five remaining Sisters. Over a period of three years they performed Sisters 180 times. aunts, aged 85 to 95. Since then, they have worked both alone and in collaboration with each oth- “The whole thing is so masterly done, and I don’t remember if I was breathing er creating dances that border on documentary and fiction and are strongly during the whole performance, I just remember that something strongly took shaped by their North-Norwegian identity and background. They both stud- hold of my heart and kept me tight...” ied at the London Contemporary Dance School and from 1991 – 2009 they – Helle Østvik, Finnmark Dagblad worked extensively in Belgium and the Netherlands with dance companies such as Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus and Angelika Oei. They present work in traditional black-box settings as well as site-specific locations.

haugenproduksjoner.no 20 21 Photo: Nicolas Tourrenc Project Description Creative team: Siri & Snelle / Siri Jøntvedt, Snelle Hall A vital element to this work will be its Concept: Siri Jøntvedt and Snelle Hall nomadic development, allowing the Performers: Siri Jøntvedt (NO), Snelle Hall project to be informed by different (NO), Johanna S. Meyer (USA), Alexandra Collapsing Distance surroundings and conditions and Hartmann (USA), Katarina Eriksson (USA/SE), Bronja Novak Lindblad (SE). actively collapsing the distance

between art and work, aesthetics This work can be performed in different for- and life, age and experience, local mats, both concerning number of performers and global. As individuals and as and technical assistance. For full theatre a collective, how can we stand up production we need to also bring our light against society´s demands and designer: Tilo Hahn or Evelina Dembacke. expectations? How can we create sustainably consistent spaces for Sponsorship, Support and Production: women to reflect, defy convention, Siri & Snelle produksjoner and stay crazy? Funding: The Norwegian Arts Council

Touring Personnel: 4-7 depending on format In exploring the feminist theme of Length: 60-90 minutes (no intermission) Collapsing Distance, key concepts will Premiere: Fall 2017, place and dates to be include: the body, bestiality, plea- announced sure, panic, self-destruction, posing, Availability: 2018 and 2019 catastrophe, hysteria, civility, and exhaustion. In other words, an ag- Seeking: We are seeking opportunities gregate of sensory experiences and for residencies, presentation and touring perceptions. throughout North America.

Company Bio Contact For over 20 years, Norwegian duo Siri Jøntvedt / Snelle Hall Siri&Snelle have explored their own Siri&Snelle produksjoner lives and inadequacies, pursued an- Choreographers and executives ti-hierarchical forms and highlighted [email protected] / +47 920 854 89 the intuitive, the emotional, and the [email protected] / +47 909 222 04 sensual. Collaboration and coopera- tion with others has been central in their productions since the begin- ning, and improvisation is a consis- tent basis of their creative method- ology. Collectively, their body of work could be described as an insistence on fluent non-conformity.

Siri&Snelle have produced cutting edge work within a wide scope of formats, from happenings to full scale dance theatre productions – including independent productions and commissioned works for Carte Blanche – The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance.

siriogsnelle.no 22 23 Photo: Marit-Anna Evanger Creative team: Lisa Lie / PONR Concept/Text/Direction: Lisa Lie Co-Creators/Actors: Lisa Lie, Ivar Furre Aam, Helga Kristine Edvindsen, Kenneth Homstad I Cloni Extra: Sissel Lie Light Design: Kerstin Weimers Sound Design: Christoffer Karlsson Project Description Set Design and Costumes: Maja Nilsen Is it normal to feel this way? Masks: Magnhild Kennedy The moment I am no longer filled Producer: Aurora Kvamsdal with euphoria, life turns insufferable Dramatic Advisor: Elin Amundsen Grinaker and I just want to die. This sorrow is Consultants: Henriette Pedersen, Julie Moe too big and I’m too small, and time Sandø doesn’t work. Co-producers: Black Box teater, Teaterhuset Avant Garden, BIT-teatergarasjen and I CLONI is the edge where everything Dramatikkens hus. starts to dissolve but you keep on Support: Arts Council Norway, Fond for talking. All we can say for sure is frilansere, FFUK, the municipality of Oslo, the that if there is life after death, it is municipality of Trondheim, FFLB and Norsk just as mundane as life, maybe more Skuespillersenter. intensively so. There will be more blood and screams than in any movie. PONR are Lisa Lie, Maja Nilsen, Ivar Furre Aam, Our feelings are too strong and too Kenneth Homstad, Helga Kristine Edvindsen, Kerstin Weimers, Elin Amundsen Grinaker, many. We believe in what can neither Christoffer Karlsson, Aurora Kvamsdal, Sissel be seen or be kept at bay. We try to Lie. rattle the wails separating dreamers from the dead. Learn to appreciate Touring Personnel: 9 life before you lose both your legs Length: 140 minutes (no intermission) and learn the hard way. Shall we join Premiere: April 21, 2015 at Black Box Teater, Oslo hands and contact the living? Availability: 2017 – 2018

Company Bio Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for Lisa Lie is a Norwegian director, per- presentation and touring throughout North America. formance artist, actress, playwright and author. Her pieces exist at the

intersection of performance art and Contact text-based theater. Lisa Lie Artistic Director [email protected] Lie has earned great success as +47 48 74 725 a writer and director producing work with her artistic platform Lisa Elisabeth C. Gmeiner International Contact Lie / PONR. Lisa Lie was awarded the [email protected] +47 968 30 512 Hedda prize 2015, the most presti- gious theatre award in Norway, for “extraordinary artistic achievement” with Blue Motell (2013).

lisalie.no 24 25 Photo: Kjell Ruben Strøm Creative team: Findlay//Sandsmark Iver Findlay and Marit Sandsmark with Sound artist: Pål Asle Pettersen Musician: Brendan Dougherty >>returner<< Performer/Text: Joey Truman Video: Victor Morales Set: Philip Bussmann Film: Bill Morrison Sound: Gregory Beller Light: Jean-Vincent Kerebel.

Production and Support: Findlay//Sandsmark, Bit Teatergarasjen (Ber- gen) and the EU-Network APAP (Advancing Performing Arts Project), Black Box Teater (Oslo), RIMI/IMIR Scenekunst (Stavanger), Collapsable Hole (New York). Funding: Nor- wegian Arts Council, Stavanger Kommune, Rogaland Fylkeskommune, FFUK.

Touring Personnel: 6 Length: 80 minutes Premiere: March 16-18, 2017 @ Oslo Interna- tional Teater Festival, Black Box teater, Oslo, and March 24/25, 2017, Bit Teatergarasjen, Bergen Availability: March 2017 and onwards.

Seeking: Presentation and touring possi- bilities as well as co-producing partners/ residencies for future projects.

Contact Iver Findlay Project Description alchemy where one can perhaps see made six large scale performances [email protected] >>returner<< is a companion piece sound and hear movement, offering including most recently- biograph, to Findlay//Sandsmark’s earli- sensations that did not exist before last year was pretty/shitty (2013/2014), o’ Marit Sandsmark er work fractured bones/ let’s get lost. they emerged through the work. death (2014/2015), and (re)remember [email protected] It examines notions and contrasts study (2015/2016). This work has been between the natural and synthetic, Company Bio presented in regular collaboration the inner and outer, presence and Findlay//Sandsmark (F//S) is a Norway in Norway with Black Box Teater in absence. The performance-instal- based performance company Oslo, Bit Teatergarasjen in Bergen, lation works with modes of sim- working across the disciplines of and Avant Garden in Trondheim, and ulation and how they function in dance, theater, live music and video internationally at PS 122 Coil Festival contrast to physical existence and art. Over the past 6 years they have and Abrons Arts Center in New York, ‘real world’ presence in a shifting created several productions in the On the Boards, Seattle, Charlotte landscape moving from technologi- borderland between performing arts Street, Kansas City, and coming up cal overload to simplicity. The piece and installation, bending connec- this February @ Wexner Center in takes shape amongst a circulatory tions and correlations over disci- Columbus, Ohio. system of artistic practices and plines to create live art that reso- collaborations to create an immer- nates from a physical and emotional sive state, presenting moments of plane. In that brief time, they have

findlay-sandsmark.com 26 27 Photo: V.Morales / I.Findlay Project Description Creative team: Verk Produksjoner ‘Come as you are’ Saila Hyttinen, Fredrik Hannestad, Anders Four performers that have been working Mossling, Solveig Laland Mohn, Camilla together for a decade strip everything down Eeg-Tverbakk. Come as you are to the bones revealing the expressive power Sponsorship, Support and Production: of imitation and simple gestures. What is Verk Produksjoner, Black Box Teater, Drama- absorbed, transformed, engaged and ap- tikkens Hus propriated in the making of performance? Funding: The Norwegian Arts Council. They search for small moments of joy: the joy in repetition, the joy in patterns, the Project Website: joy of connecting meaning and the joy of verkproduksjoner.no/come-as-you-are-2017/ change. Touring Personnel: 5 Premiere: March 17th 2017 at Oslo International It is also an urge to examine the simple, na- Theatre Festival / Black Box Teater. ive and expressive power in a small gesture, Availability: 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons a word, a tiny variation of tone or rhythm: Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for To look for potentialities between things presentation and touring throughout North together with the audience. Their wish is America. to create an “open” space, which invites performers and audiences alike to play along. A space where any and every–thing Contact can happen within a structured duration. It Pernille Mogensen Verk Produksjoner is an exercise of awareness: to evoke one´s Producer attentiveness, and the fundamental inabili- [email protected] ty to ever grasp that present moment.

Company Bio The Norwegian theatre company VERK is known for their epic and vaudeville-esque form of acting with satirical and political under- tones, changing swiftly between storytelling, acting and improvisation. The company mixes different styles and approaches and establishes a strong connection with the audience creating a solid sense of here and now. Verk was founded in Oslo, Norway in 1998 by three actors. They started from scratch, focusing on a collective working process and proximity/lucidity on stage. Today, they are comprised of many artists working together in different constellations. In 2012 and 2014 they won the HEDDA, the most distinguished award for theatre in Norway, for best performance of the year.

verkproduksjoner.no 28 29 Photo: Ingrid Eggen Creative team: NONcompany Actor/Text/Dramaturgy: Lise Risom Olsen Performer/Scenography/Design: Lena Lundsten Buchacz KAZAK - the trilogy Performer/Musician/Lights /Visuals: Hans Skogen Performer/Sound Design/Music: Morten Pettersen Performer/Musical Arrangements/Music: Øyvind B. Lyse Technical Design/Engineer/Video: Brynjar Vik Administration: Tone Myklatun

Support: Arts Council Norway, The City Council of Bergen - department for ​ arts and culture, Fund for Image and Sound, Fund for Performing Artists and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Created in Residence / Collaboration: ​ Arts Printing House - Vilnius, Moving Arts - Lublin, Proscen - Bergen, Cornerteateret - Bergen, Ufer Studios - Berlin, Lydlosjen - Oslo. Other Collaborators: The​ Norwegian Forest Museum - Elverum, MAP - Bergen, Reality Research Centre - Helsinki, The Novo- sibirsk Drama Theater - Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk Drama Theater - Krasnoyarsk, Bora Bora - Århus, Teater Innlandet - Hamar, VOLUM festivalen - Elverum, Body Navigation Festival - Saint Petersburg, Jukka Hyde Hytti - Theater info Helsinki, Knut Ove Arntzen, Bar 98 - Whitehorse, Yukon Arts Centre, and Yngvild Berg - inter- pretation and translation.

Project Description Taigans coming from the big forest in music and sound. The company aims Availability:​ From summer 2017 KAZAK is a performance trilogy created the North. at exploring new viewpoints and per- by NONcompany. The KAZAK project spectives on their surroundings and has been the company’s main focus As part of the work NONcompany the time we live in, through hybrids Contact over the last years and is currently has travelled through great parts of of form and genres. Tone Myklatun NONcompany Producer available as single performanc- the taiga where they collected and [email protected] es. In Summer 2017 it will also be created material. Each of the three Throughout the past 15 years NON- presented as a compressed trilogy pieces, along with an additional company has developed a character- where the work will be adapted for sidetrack, offers new perspectives on istic style by placing all aesthetic ele- one performance, KAZAK - the trilogy. belonging, and on the company’s own ments on equal footing and by taking KAZAK is based on the idea that the material. a conceptual approach in collective taiga, the boreal forest that stretches processes. The company’s works around the northern hemisphere, is Company Bio have an international profile and one big forest. Through this work the NONcompany is a multidisciplinary many of their projects have partly company examines what that means performing arts group founded in been created abroad. to them, both as individuals and as 2002. The company consists of art- a part of a society -- geographical- ists with background from different ly, culturally and politically. We are fields, including theatre, film, design,

noncompany.no 30 31 Photo: Arne Hauge Project Description Creative team: Molitrix Scenekunst / Linda Birkedal SISU is based on the Finnish term sisu, Production: Molitrix Scenekunst which means force. The work examines Idea and Concept: Linda Birkedal how selected loneliness and force manifest Development of Concept/Performers: Linda Birkedal, John Derek Bishop SISU themselves in an individual’s relationship Choreography/Movement: Linda Birkedal SISU to the community. examines how these Music/Sound: John Derek Bishop concepts are linked, and how they affect our Artistic Dialogue and Development of experience and choice. Loneliness is often Concept: Kenneth Varpe associated with something negative, but SISU Scenography and Costume: Molitrix focuses on the positive and constructive Scenekunst aspects of chosen loneliness and the need for time alone. SISU includes the mineral Support: Fond for utøvende kunstnere, salt in these investigations. The body needs Rogaland Fylkeskommune, Sandnes kommune, Stavanger kommune, Tou Scene, RAS, UiS / salt. Salt has the ability to bind water in the IMD. body, while also secreting it, through sweat Co-produced: Tou Scene and tears. This process of tightening and repulsion can be related to the individual Touring Personnel: 4 and relationship to others – in the tension Length: approx. 60 min between the need for community and need Premiere: November 23rd, 2016 at Tou Scene, to be by ourselves. Stavanger/Norway Availability: 2017-18 and 2018-19. Company Bio Molitrix Scenekunst (MoS) is a Stavanger/Nor- Seeking: We are seeking touring, collabora- tion and residency opportunities for SISU way-based performance company working and other productions. with visual art, electronic music, text and film. They aim to produce performances that are visually and physically strong, Contact relevant and personal. This has resulted in Geir Lindahl Producer projects created specifically for the Internet, [email protected] installations at lighthouses, site-specific + 47 48 19 17 87 projects, as well as performances for the stage. In 2015, MoS produced two works – Linda Birkedal Artistic Director In between (RAS) and Backup (Tou Scene), as well [email protected] + 47 971 62 723 as four new dance films.This is personal (Tou vimeo.com/molitrix Scene) was produced April 2016 and SISU (Tou Scene) November 2016. Plans for new works are Sense Me autumn 2017, and Talk about it 2018.

MoS works closely with local stages Tou Scene and RAS, and has performed at Bit Teatergarasjen, Dance House Norway and Dansehallerne in Copenhagen. MoS receives funding from: The Norwegian Arts Council, City of Stavanger, City of Sandnes, Rogaland County, Fund for Performing Art- ist and The Audio and Visual Fund.

molitrixscenekunst.com 32 33 Photo: Inge Schreuder-Lindløv Creative team: Goksøyr & Martens Written and Directed by: Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens Set Design: Olav Ryland Myrtvedt 11 YEARS Sound Design: Fredric Vogel Lighting Design: Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud Performers: Kjersti Dalseide, Agnes Kittelsen, Project Description Julie Moe Sandø, Jon Bleiklie Devik, Oddgeir A young teacher experiences that one of her Thune and 20 children between 9 and 12 students, an 11-year-old girl, commits suicide. years old (children will be cast locally) She is now going to have a meeting with the Music: Ane Brun. girl’s parents and the school`s principal. In Partners: Det norske teatret, Oslo, Drama- her bag, she carries something she had for- tikkens hus, Oslo gotten to tell them about. Funding: The Norwegian Arts Council

11 YEARS is a story about love, loneliness and Touring Personnel: 10 (plus children cast locally) things we don’t dare to put into words. Length: 90 minutes Premiere: May 23, 2017 at Det Norske Teatret, Worldwide, suicide is the fastest growing Oslo, Norway cause of death among children and ado- Availability: After June 14, 2017 lescents. In Norway alone more than nine thousand girls attempt suicide every year. Seeking: We are seeking collaborators and opportunities for presenting “11 years” in

New York and throughout North America. This production is based on interviews with parents, children, principals, teachers, lawyers, psychiatrists, and researchers in the Contact areas of bullying, children and adolescent Silje Underhaug Fosseli mental health, and children and suicide. Producer, Goksøyr & Martens [email protected] The audience is placed on 13-foot tall +47 48029951. scaffolding, looking down into a school yard with climbing bars, a and places to sit. Via headphones, the audience follows the dialogue and the actions in one of the school`s classrooms. This enables the pos- sibility of following actions in two different places simultaneously.

Company Bio The artist duo Goksøyr & Martens was established in 1997 by Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens. They make use of documentary strategies and authentic elements in their work, con- necting theatre to reality. Goksøyr & Martens have presented their work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, The National Theatre Oslo, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Festival D’Avignon, F.I.N.D Schaubühne Berlin, Art Salon Belgrade, Liverpool Art Biennale and the Venice Biennale.

goksoyr-martens.com 34 35 Photo: Kim Hiorthøy Creative team: the Krumple Direction, Performance, Set & Prop Design: Oda Kirkebø Nyfløtt, David Tholander, Vanes- sa Mecke, Léna Rondé, Vincent Vernerie and YŌKAI Jo Even Bjørke

Sponsorship, Support and Production: Co-producers: Le Groupe Geste(s), L’ÉCAM - Théâtre de Kremlin-Bicetre, Municipality of Billom. Partner: Studio l’Akuarium. Funding: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fund for Performing Artists Norway/ FFUK, Arts Council Norway

Project Website: thekrumple.com/collectif Touring Personnel: 7 Length: 60 minutes (no intermission) Premiere: June 7th - 11th, 2016 at FRiNGE Festival Recklinghausen in Availability: 2017-18, 2018-19 seasons

Seeking: We are seeking opportunities for presentation and touring throughout North America.

Contact Jo Even Bjørke, the Krumple Co-artistic director and producer [email protected] 004793247111

Project Description visual style, creating a terrain that was founded in 2013 and consists In a desolate space stands a group of is grotesque and poetic, tragic and of actors, directors, puppeteers and curious looking people. With minia- humorous. A tone of ironic distance musicians, all graduates of École ture trees and paper seagulls in their permeates the show, fueled by Internationale de Théâtre Jacques pockets they begin to recreate the the company’s rich aesthetic and Lecoq. Straddling the borders of world as they see it. A premeditated movement. The performance won the Norway, Germany, Denmark, France car accident, a ravenous cod and 1st prize at Les Plateaux du Groupe and the United States, the Krumple a dreadful Christmas Eve are part Geste(s) 2016 in Paris. seeks to create a language through of the chaos created by the Yōkai. the expression of the human body. Combining dance, magic, poetry and Company Bio Together with the performances Go sheer stupidity, the Krumple tells a the Krumple is an international theater to Sleep, Goddamnit!, Do Not Feed the Trolls contemporary tale of our attempts to company based in Oslo and Paris, and YŌKAI the company has toured find hope in moments of despair. committed to creating dynam- in Norway, Denmark, Great Britain, YŌKAI continues the company’s ic, daring physical work through Germany, France and the US. research within a physical and expressive movement. The company thekrumple.com 36 37 Photo: James Coote Creative team: Wakka Wakka Company: Gwendolyn Warnock, Gabrielle Brechner, Peter J. Russo, Andrew Manjuck and Made in China Kirjan Waage Co-producers: Nordland Visual Theater, Dartmouth College, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center Puppet Residence Support: Norwegian Arts Council, Creative Capital, MAP Fund, NYSCA, NYFA

Touring Personnel: 9 Length: 1 hr 30 Premiere: January 14, 2017 Availability: 2017/18/19

Seeking: We are seeking co-producers, residen- cies and workshop possibilities from similar institutions.

Contact Gwendolyn Warnock Artistic Director [email protected] +13275351005

Project Description Company Bip Wakka Wakka have enjoyed res- Obie-winning puppet troupe Wakka Wakka Wakka Wakka is a non-profit visual idencies at The Watermill Center, addresses human rights, consumerism theatre company based in NYC. Their Nordland Visual Theater, The Eugene and American-Chinese relations in mission is to push the boundaries of O’Neill Theatre Center and Dart- this satirically comic puppet musical. the imagination by creating works that mouth College. Company members Baby pandas, dancing appliances and are bold, unique and unpredictable. have been artists in residence at the romping middle-aged lovers populate Since 2001 Wakka Wakka has created Princeton Atelier and at The Eugene Wakka’s universe of tiny-to-huge and produced eight original works of O’Neill Theater Center. puppets, belting out original songs. theatre which have toured extensively As it did with climate change in Baby throughout the US and abroad. Wakka Universe the company spins issues Wakka’s productions are highly phys- of our times into a vastly entertaining ical, combining a wide range of styles, human story with surreal dimen- including grotesque, absurd and clown, sions, lots of laughs and powerful and incorporate elements such as takeaways. object manipulation, puppetry, masks and original music.

wakkawakka.org 38 39 Photo: Wakka Wakka Project Description Creative team: Dieserud/ Lindgren Dragon-zoo is a performance for Idea, Concept and Direction: Christina Lindgren children ages 0-3 and their adult Music: Julian Skar Scenography: Tormod Lindgren companions. This non-linear perfor- Dragon-Zoo Costume Design: Christina Lindgren mance presents a “zoological garden” Text: Maria Tryti Vennerød of plants, smoke and sounds in Choreography: Hanne Dieserud which the audience encounters three Performers: Sondre Pettersen, Katja Henrik- performers, dressed as dragons. sen Schia and Daniel Rodrigo Nilsen

Dragon-zoo explores dragons as a Producer: Marianne Roland biological species and cultural myth Production: Dieserud/Lindgren in co-produc- asking how do they move? What tion with Det Norske Teatret Support: Arts Council Norway, NOTAM Nor- sounds do they make? What do they wegian Center for Technology in Music and find interesting and what do they the Arts, Fund for Performing Artist and The find funny? Audiovisual Fund Norway.

With Dragon-zoo, Dieserud/Lindgren Touring Personnel: 4 build upon their experience creating Length: 20 minutes works specifically for children. The Premiere: April 6th, 2017 Det Norske Teater piece features collaborations with Tickets and Information: detnorsketeatret. composer Julian Skar and author no/framsyningar/drake-zoo/ Maria Tryti Vennerød and inter- Availability: Dragon-Zoo available from Spring 2018 onward twines an array of intriguing visual, aural and performance elements.

Contact Project Description Christina Lindgren Dieserud/ Lindgren make performances Production Manager for children ages 0-3. They produce [email protected] shows where children and adults +47 9505 6157 share the same conditions for an experience; where nothing needs to be explained to be understood. Their shows are a series of events present- ed with both humor and tranquility.

Dieserub/Lindgren’s Korall Koral – A Baby Opera (2009) and Up in the Mountains (2011) have been presented at 160 venues in 11 European countries, including opera houses, contempo- rary and classical music festivals, theatre festivals and in venues such as Southbank Centre, London. Both works are scheduled to be performed in the US in 2017.

babyopera.no 40 41 Photo: Tine Poppe ingrifiksdal.com jskompani.no zerovisibility.no winterguests.com ingunbp.no karihoaas.com pantareidanseteater.com haugenproduksjoner.no siriogsnelle.no lisalie.no findlay-sandsmark.com verkproduksjoner.no noncompany.no molitrixscenekunst.com goksoyr-martens.com thekrumple.com wakkawakka.org Cover photo (from artist Ingri Fiksdal works): Anders Lindén babyopera.no Design and layout by Metric – metricdesign.no New York