Residence week 51 / 2023

Kompani Morell is back in residence with the performance FORELSKA! It will once again go on tour and spread its butterflies-in-the-stomach-like effect, and DansiT and Rosendal Teater are contributing with a studio and technical equipment to the preparations.

Photograph from the performance FORELSKA! Two women on stage. At the front of the picture we see dancer Karoline Ellingsen Wheeler who is lying on her stomach on the floor. She is reading in a brown book with little hearts on it, and smiles as she looks down into the book. Her hair is light and she is wearing a light brown t-shirt. Behind her on a wooden bench sits actress Emilie Mordal. She looks towards Karoline and smiles. She has dark hair and bangs, a dark brown jumper, green loose trousers and light pink socks with thick stripes on them. Wide blue curtains hang from the ceiling in the background, and the floor is covered with a brown wall-to-wall carpet. The stage lighting from spots in the ceiling creates a contrasting light with lots of shadows.
Photo: Terje Trobe

With the performance FORLELSKA! Kompani Morell has used their own diaries as a starting point, and shares, among other things, the hopeless crush that was so strong that it still hurts a little to think about it. Dancer Karoline Ellingsen Wheeler and actress Emilie Mordal try to find help in old advice, and try to gain knowledge about making out by entering the body and seeing how the hormones affect us. This honest, informal and humorous performance provides knowledge about one’s own body, and opens up dialogue about falling in love and one’s own feelings. FORELSKA! has children between the ages of 10 and 13 as the target group.

About the artists

Kompani Morell is a Trondheim-based company consisting of dancer Karoline Ellingsen Wheeler and actress Emilie Mordal. In 2018, they created their first performance, The Girl Who Lost Her Name, in collaboration with DansiT and Det Andre Teatret. The company aims to create cross-artistic performances for children and young people, where the target group must always be an important part of the process.