Any Moment – Eivind Seljeseth (NO)
There will be an Artist Talk after the performance Friday 24. of October, the talk will be in English.
Content Warning
Loud bass, Total black out towards the end, Haze
…As in an abstract, somatic magic show.
– A physical and metaphorical exploration of time, synchronization and collective singularity. Any Moment is a playful, poetic and cunning dance performance featuring nine dancers and five large stones. Through the dynamic movements of human bodies and the slow movement of the heavy stones, the work is juxtaposing human- and geological time in an elegant and intriguing way, letting non-human entities take center stage, – in a parallel reality before your very eyes!
– Any moment now, not now, but at any moment, something is going to take place, everything will fall to pieces and pieces will fall into place.
With a living and precise dance material at the center, the performance moves between a type of order and a kind of chaos, between individual antics and sudden unity. As in an abstract, somatic magic show. The dancers are negotiating a meticulous choreographic system, finding freedoms and playfulness in a rigorous structure that holds an ever-evolving, cyclic composition.
Seljeseth’s ongoing interest in how the world teems with subjective realities coexisting side by side, is central to the work. But whereas his previous projects often revolved around spatial, textual, and conceptual formats, this time, movement itself is the point of interest – as the very heart of the work. The dancers Anton Skaaning Thomsen, Ian Ancheta, Ingrid Haakstad, Marie Ursin, Mathias Aas Stoltenberg, Oda Bjørholm, Orfee Schuijt, Putli Hellesen and Sebastian Biong all work in the independent arts field and are based in Oslo. Not only is this an impressively large group of dancers for a performance outside of companies and institutions, but also a group with extensive, strong and varied artistic practices.
Credits
Choreographer: Eivind Seljeseth
Dancers: Anton Skaaning Thomsen, Ian Ancheta, Ingrid Haakstad, Marie Ursin, Mathias Aas Stoltenberg, Oda Bjørholm, Orfee Schuijt, Putli Hellesen & Sebastian Biong
Lighting Designer: Martin Myrvold
Composer: Kim Myhr
Sound Technician: Terje Wessel Øverland
Costumes: Ingrid Pettersson
Props Makers: Turid Ousland og Helene Sunde.
Robotics: Andreas Holm
Dramaturgical Advisor: Igor Dobričić
Photo: Tale Hendnes/Dansens Hus
Co-produced by: Dansens Hus, DansiT
Supported by: Kulturrådet, Fond for lyd og bilde, FFUK