VirrVarr – Husby/Kittelsen (NO)

Join us for a patchwork of threads, movements, and possibilities – a whirl of spirals, spinning axes, and twined questions. 

Life can be both chaotic and strange. Sometimes you can’t tell up from down and everything ties itself in knots. At other times you’re left with only loose ends in your hands and your head becomes one big question mark. Thoughts can turn into nothing but tangles and feelings into a buzzing snarl.

In VirrVarr children meet two dancers, an evocative soundscape, and a stage environment they can help shape and transform as the piece unfolds. Can we help one another recognise that we belong together, that we are intertwined? That the threads we pull on also pull on someone else’s?

VirrVarr is Husby/Kittelsen’s second production for young audiences. The performance investigates how dance, materials, and sound can merge to invite participation and reflection, offering children new encounters with the art of dance where they themselves can influence the outcome.

Credits

Choreographers and Performers: Victoria Husby & Tone Kittelsen
Light Design: Ingunn Fjellang Sæther
Composition: Alf Lund Godbolt
Scenography: Ingunn Fjellang Sæther, Victoria Husby & Tone Kittelsen
Costume: Victoria Husby & Tone Kittelsen

Supported by: Kulturdirektoratet
Co-produced by: DansiT Choreographic Center

About the artists:

Victoria Husby comes from Trondheim. She is a dancer and pedagogue from the University of Stavanger, has a master’s degree in dance science, and is currently a doctoral fellow in educational research in dance at NTNU. Husby has worked in the independent performing arts field in Norway as both a dancer and choreographer in various projects, and has extensive experience in teaching and choreographic work with children and young people.

Tone Kittelsen comes from Kristiansand and works freelance as a dance artist based in Oslo. She holds a BA in contemporary dance from the University of Stavanger and from the Escola Superior de Danza in Lisbon. Kittelsen produces her own performances that have been shown at both galleries and stage houses, and in recent years has been relevant as a performer in various performances by Tori Wrånes and has been employed by the Norwegian Opera and Ballet as part of the production Czardasfyrstinnen. In Kristiansand, she has been involved in starting and running the Ravnedans festival since its inception in 2009. From 2020 to 2023, she was a recipient of the State Artist Grant for newly established artists.