Residens uke 21 / 2026

I uke 21 er britiske Imogen Reeve & Co i residens ved DansiT / Svartlamon for å jobbe med sitt nyeste koreografiske verk Mother Computer: Folk Dances From the Future

Designed as a trio for both indoor and outdoor settings, the project reimagines traditional folk dance and storytelling practices through a feminist lens that responds to urgent questions of today — including gender bias in artificial intelligence, digital isolation, and the changing nature of community.

Drawing on collective movement structures found in folk traditions, the choreography moves between moments of shared rhythm and deliberate disruption. Dancers gather, separate, collide and reorganise — reflecting how connection and belonging shift within technologically mediated worlds. Where traditional folk practices once centred physical closeness and communal ritual, Mother Computer explores how those dynamics are transformed in the digital age.

Visually, the work incorporates reflective, metallic materials that suggest both robotics and futurism. Activated by the performers, these materials transform — becoming cloud-like, river-like, and occasionally mythical — evoking the way technological systems reshape ideas of nature, myth and collective imagination.

Rather than illustrating technology, the work approaches these themes through embodied research: using choreography to think through how systems of power, bias and connection are felt in the body.
The project is being developed collaboratively with performers and creative partners through an ongoing research process.

Åpen studiovisning fredag 22. mai kl. 15
Kunstnerne inviterer til studiovisning ved DansiT/Svartlamon torsdag 22. mai fra kl 15.
Reserver plass her: www.tickettailor.com/events/imogenreeveco
Ta kontakt med produsent Betty om du ikke finner frem: 924 35 225

Movement Labs – workshops

A series of focused, high-energy workshops exploring Imogen Reeve & Co.’s choreographic practice

Location: DansiTs production space – Strandveien 33

Evening: Monday 18. May at 6 – 8pm
This workshop is together with Danselaboratoriet – sign up to ingeborg(at)dansit.no
Mornings: Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20. and Thursday 21. May at 9 –10:30am
Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/imogenreeveco

Language: English

Movement Labs invite professional dancers and experienced movement enthusiasts into a shared space of experimentation — working with tightly structured improvisation and choreographic textures developed by the company over the past five years.

What to expect
Each session begins with a rigorous, voice-led warm-up — somatic, energetic and relational — before moving into detailed choreographic textures.

These repeatable movement structures act as research tools, designed to:

  • expand movement range and quality
  • challenge habitual patterns
  • build clarity, adaptability and precision

You’ll move between structure and freedom — working collectively through witnessing, copying, drifting and flocking, as the space shifts between individual and shared experience.

The approach
Movement Labs are not about fixed outcomes. They are about process, attention and possibility.

Participants are invited into a decentralised learning environment where:

  • hierarchies are softened
  • agency is shared
  • movement is continuously reshaped 

This is a space for rigour, play and the emergence of new movement languages.

 

Om Imogen Reeve

Imogen Reeve er en britisk koreograf og kunstnerisk leder som arbeider i skjæringspunktet mellom samtidsdans, teknologi og feministisk scenekunstpraksis.

Hun leder et forskningsdrevet dansekompani med et internasjonalt perspektiv, og arbeidet hennes omformer radikalt forholdet mellom kropper og maskiner – ved å skape forestillinger og koreografiske systemer der mennesker og fremvoksende teknologier kolliderer.

Gjennom et særegent samtidsdansspråk utforsker Imogen kropp og teknologi i scenekunst, og utfordrer dominerende fortellinger om kjønn, handlingskraft og kroppsliggjøring. Arbeidet hennes befinner seg i fronten av britisk samtidsdans, og gir publikum møter med nye sceniske uttrykk som forener fysisk praksis, feministisk tenkning og kritisk undersøkelse.

Forankret i feministisk teori undersøker hun skjevheter som er innebygd i nye teknologier, og omplasserer kroppen som et sted for motstand, intelligens og transformasjon. Gjennom forestillinger, forskning og studioarbeid skaper hun dansekunst som er både konseptuelt presis og fysisk slående.

Imogen er en tydelig stemme innen samtidsdans i Storbritannia og internasjonalt – og flytter koreografisk praksis inn i ukjent og utfordrende territorium.

Les om resten av kompaniet her:
imogenreeve.com/thecompany

Medvirkende

Idé og regi: Imogen Reeve
Koreografi: Imogen Reeve i samarbeid med utøverne
Utøvere: Allegra Vistalli, Hannah Durkan, Jemima Collins
Produsent: Natalie Richardson

Med støtte fra: Arts Council England, Yorkshire Dance, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Exeter Phoenix, DansiT Koreografisk senter, Stage Leeds.