Residens uke 17 / 2025

Mike / Who the f*ck is my father? is a storytelling performance about the unusual and adventurous life of my father Mike Schuijt. An intimate project exploring the stories of his extraordinary adventures and projects, and his nonlinear, offbeat approach to life. This isn’t initially a father/daughter piece. It is a piece about my father told through my practice of dancing and choreographing. The performance is a celebration of making art with no rules and retraces a personal history where dream and reality befriend each other.

– Orfee Schuijt about the project

Participants

Choreography and performance: Orfee Schuijt, Mike Schuijt

Music and sound design: Kim Myhr

Set design/Scenography: Orfee Schuijt and Mike Schuijt

Costumes: Calypso Schuijt

Co- produced with: DansiT and Uzés danse

Supported by: Kulturrådet

About the artists

Orfee Schuijt (FR/NL) is a dancer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. Originally from France, she earned her BA from the Theaterschool of Amsterdam and later completed a Master in New Performative Practices at DOCH in Stockholm. Schuijt’s artistic practice is deeply multidisciplinary, exploring the sensuous relationship between animated and inanimate bodies. Her work often stems from the perspective of the dancer, with a focus on embodiment, the development of scores. As a dancer, Schuijt has performed in productions by choreographers such as Eivind Seljeseth, Janne Camilla Lyster, Heine & Yukiko Avdal, Francesco Scavetta, Arno Schuitemaker, Keren Levi, and Itamar Serussi. From 2017 to 2020, she collaborated with Norwegian experimental pop singer Jenny Hval, touring internationally and creating performative concerts and exhibitions connected to Hval’s albums at prestigious venues and festivals including Noma PS1, Øya Festival, Roskilde, Big Ears, Arcosanti, and Ultima Festival. Schuijt’s own works, including Thing Power, Fabulation, and Shaking the Libidinous, have been showcased at international venues and festivals such as Blackbox Teater in Oslo, Rimi/Imir in Stavanger, Weld in Stockholm, Ehkå Spring Roll Festival in Turku and Rosendal Teater in Trondheim. In collaboration with Bára Sigfúsdóttir, she was nominated as ‘Choreographer of the Year’ for her performance Fabulation at the Icelandic Performing Arts Awards in 2023. Schuijt was awarded a three-year working grant from the Norwegian Culture Fund in 2018 and has been a member of the dancer alliance SKUDA since the same year.

Mike Schuijt (born 1943) is a self-taught and pluri-disciplinary artist from Holland now based in Uzès France. From photography, food art, sculpture and architecture, Mike Schuijt floated from medium to medium throughout his career. Between 1976 to 1989, together with Joost Elffer, he published a series of art book on Architecture, Tangram games, Strings figures, Matches games, Soap bubbles art and Anamorphoses. He has had two major exhibitions; “Fantastic architecture” at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam and “Anamorphoses” at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, and in other major museums in the United States and Japan. Mike Schuijt met iconic artists Niki De St Phalle and Jean Tinguely with whom he collaborated on building the Tarot Card Garden in Italy. He also had a long-lasting friendship with surrealist architect Edward James and together built a fantastic house in Perinaldo Italy. He now resides in Uzès France where he continues his work as a sculptor.