https://sirijontvedt.com Siri Jøntvedt Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:15:49 +0000 https://sirijontvedt.com en https://sirijontvedt.com/Home Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:29:25 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/Home Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/About Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:30:19 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/About About <img width="1092" height="1092" width_o="1092" height_o="1092" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbf36d0619269a14ab4ea6bbe4319f59ccc4ddbb54a2e6fb0c230a194168e179/Portrettfoto.jpg" data-mid="125509940" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbf36d0619269a14ab4ea6bbe4319f59ccc4ddbb54a2e6fb0c230a194168e179/Portrettfoto.jpg" /> ︎&nbsp;Curriculum Vitae ︎&nbsp;Siri &amp; Snelle Siri Jøntvedt is an experienced and fearless dancer, with a distinctive style. Her dance is original, serious and humorous. Since 1990 she has been active in the Norwegian and international dance field operating between performing, choreographing, teaching, as well as supporting other artists in their work. Siri’s artistic practice revolves around the experimental, the personal, the human and honest, as an approach to creating art, and to life itself. She is greatly influenced by all the dancers, musicians, stage artists, students and creative people she has had the pleasure of working with – the dynamics between people is the source, the joy and the challenge that drives her continuous professional and personal progress. Her body of work spans from personal to collaborative creative work, performing in works by others, as well as teaching and mentoring. Her curiosity and passion continuously bring her towards new collaborations with artists across genres. Jøntvedt has performed in all sorts of venues from large stages to small clubs, working within a wide scope of formats, from happenings to full scale dance theatre productions. Siri’s physical practices are based on a love for the art of improvisation, choreographic scores as well as working with voice and text. Exploration and listening are central methods, and through resonance and responding, her work connects with what goes on in society at large. These practices support self-experience as a basis for developing material and creates a space where the intuitive and formal can meet and where seriousness and humour can merge. For more than 25 years she has created performances together with Snelle Hall in their company Siri&amp;Snelle, exploring their own lives and inadequacies, highlighting the intuitive, the emotional and the sensual, and insisting on “fluent non-conformity”. Siri is a dedicated teacher of release technique, improvisation and composition, and gives classes and workshops frequently for professional dancers and dance students in Norway and abroad. Siri Jøntvedt received her dance training at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), the Ballet Academy in Gothenburg, the Norwegian National Ballet School, and Merce Cunningham Studio, and through extensive studies of improvisation and various release-based and somatic dance techniques in New York and Europe. In 2018 she was employed in the Alliance for Actors and Dancers. She received a five-year working grant from the Norwegian Art Council in 2015, and in 2019 she received the Rolf Gammleng Award in the Category of Dance. https://sirijontvedt.com/fifty-ways-to-leave-a-shape-2023 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:15:49 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/fifty-ways-to-leave-a-shape-2023 fifty ways to leave a shape (2023) <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/845a89536b1d3cea5e730b5e9213488ec41ed4eb153ec28024100cbeb7b006df/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-67.jpg" data-mid="182277343" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/845a89536b1d3cea5e730b5e9213488ec41ed4eb153ec28024100cbeb7b006df/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-67.jpg" /> fifty ways to leave a shape is a personal solo that can be described as the internal processing of havingto say goodbye to a bodypart, a tribute to her worn out hips, and a welcoming of two brand newjoints. It is a reset in order to identify new opportunities. After more than thirty years as a dance artist,she has to teach herself to let go and not hold on. fifty ways to leave a shape is an exploration of therealisation that everything changes, and of the search for new physical meaning – a sensory journeythrough the transformation and confrontation involved in leaving something behind, and finding theway into something new. Through various expressions of song, film, text and dance, the audience canjoin this poetic and personal journey. The performance shows traces of what she has been throughand what is to come, and a deep love of movement. <img width="1399" height="1920" width_o="1399" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb868852fca1f3753ddd72590f5983355968ce3aaf98646bf73cfd347641dd1e/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-48.jpg" data-mid="182277339" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb868852fca1f3753ddd72590f5983355968ce3aaf98646bf73cfd347641dd1e/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-48.jpg" /> <img width="1323" height="1920" width_o="1323" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6708388578cf28a41a835fd1be6f9f04d4d1bb2610b1264aceada216a2004e63/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-33.jpg" data-mid="182277337" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6708388578cf28a41a835fd1be6f9f04d4d1bb2610b1264aceada216a2004e63/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-33.jpg" /> <img width="1305" height="1920" width_o="1305" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16d4d72855cb487527a5f269ee13e10c0012987645df3d8bd1c10018e2ba3304/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-8.jpg" data-mid="182277336" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16d4d72855cb487527a5f269ee13e10c0012987645df3d8bd1c10018e2ba3304/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-8.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/382a9d1c781ce9249be4d6472ac5542b9443dc385557ec3f03b12550a914a183/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-70.jpg" data-mid="182277344" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/382a9d1c781ce9249be4d6472ac5542b9443dc385557ec3f03b12550a914a183/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-70.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/845a89536b1d3cea5e730b5e9213488ec41ed4eb153ec28024100cbeb7b006df/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-67.jpg" data-mid="182277343" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/845a89536b1d3cea5e730b5e9213488ec41ed4eb153ec28024100cbeb7b006df/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-67.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1252" width_o="1920" height_o="1252" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b41dd67e191ae36bb48750a4ec089c76b24ebd00ad903ec07eab6cdd6d67484/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-60.jpg" data-mid="182277341" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b41dd67e191ae36bb48750a4ec089c76b24ebd00ad903ec07eab6cdd6d67484/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-60.jpg" /> <img width="1275" height="1920" width_o="1275" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66761ee9e2df229d91384e5243a60a5c6a2ea914f7a2bbbe1c7bef84d87b50ad/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022.jpg" data-mid="182277345" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66761ee9e2df229d91384e5243a60a5c6a2ea914f7a2bbbe1c7bef84d87b50ad/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022.jpg" /> <img width="1348" height="1920" width_o="1348" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/142db39775123a3934838afb1e8f52e3fb4f2f6662210351204e6d6e78445769/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-59.jpg" data-mid="182277340" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/142db39775123a3934838afb1e8f52e3fb4f2f6662210351204e6d6e78445769/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-59.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1920" width_o="1280" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ed5e43e52e83b807413da2878193245eafa0eedcc02337d04e66ba846fb9e98/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-46.jpg" data-mid="182277338" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ed5e43e52e83b807413da2878193245eafa0eedcc02337d04e66ba846fb9e98/Foto--Tale-Hendnes-2022-46.jpg" /> Ooooohh I’m on tonight, and my hips don’t lie and I’m starting to feel alright The attention, the direction, I can feel it in my body – Shakira “The communication with the audience is clear, warm and at the same time filled with emotionand nerve - as if something is at stake here and now. (…) ( ...)Nevertheless, it is the experience of necessity and vulnerability that remains in the days that follow the performance and which reminds me of the very own thing of witnessing genuinely and solidly,experiential dance art. (…)Both the sound and the light emphasize and support Jøntvedt's moving changes. Likea dancer who has had to redefine and recreate the body - and identity -again.” – Marte Reithaug Sterud/Norsk Shakespeartidsskrift, March 2023 “(...) This kind of experience Jøntvedt exhibits is something you rarely see on stage, and I welcome more bad hips, changing bodies, menopause and the like. Seen this way, Jøntvedt's performance is a welcome contribution in an otherwise rather empty room.” – Runa Borch Skolseg/Scenekunst.no , March 2023 Audience comments: &nbsp;“Congratulations on a wonderful solo, new hips, great stage presence.Thank you for daring to take your time and give us the opportunity to join the journey!” &nbsp;“Your obvious presence fills the big white room. Your voice goes straight from stem to eardrum (direction – perfection). Your gaze that sees and has seen. Forms that we find and leave. Keep on leaving! Thanks” “Thank you very much for a wonderful show. Each individual part so distinctive and clear, it also felt so fresh, like a beginning. Congratulations, wonderful!” CreditsConcept,choreography, text, performer: Siri Jøntvedt Composer, sound designer: Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad Light design: Evelina Dembacke Dramaturg, filmmaker: Darko Dragičević Outer eye,voice (Run That Body Down): Øyvind B. Lyse Assistant: Amy Pender Photos: Tale Hendnes (Dansens Hus) and Darko Dragičević: other photos Video, trailer: Vibeke Heide Additional music: Run That Body Down (Paul Simon), Hips Don´t Lie (Shakira) and Pavane pour une infante défunte (Maurice Ravel) performed by Kari Jøntvedt.Co-production: Dans i Trøndelag, Dansekunst i Grenland og DansiT.Supported: by Arts Council Norway, Fond For Lyd og Bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere and Dansens Hus Oslo ︎Performance Texts ︎Technical Rider https://sirijontvedt.com/fifty-ways-to-leave-a-shape-2020 Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:20:26 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/fifty-ways-to-leave-a-shape-2020 fifty ways to leave a shape (2020) <img width="1260" height="709" width_o="1260" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfe15aacc34011fe5781309717343ac3c48b532f2f5156f0fe34359152c0ac09/fiftywaystoleaveashape-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" data-mid="127999498" border="0" alt="Photo: Vibeke Heide" data-caption="Photo: Vibeke Heide" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfe15aacc34011fe5781309717343ac3c48b532f2f5156f0fe34359152c0ac09/fiftywaystoleaveashape-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" /> fifty ways to leave a shape is Siri Jøntvedt´s homage to her own hip. A process of dealing with what has passed and what is yet to come. With more than thirty years of experience as a performer and dance maker, she now needs to teach herself new ways to leave, and not hold on. Exploring the current possibilities of how to deal with the everchanging landscapes and the notion of a body searching for new meaning. In states of grief, fear and deep listening, the material oscillates between walking and singing and the spaces in between. Dark body beats stretch out in space. Scaling down expectations and looking for possibilities to arise, layer upon layer. The sonic environment consists of recordings of the hip and it´s decay, amplified and multiplied, blended with voice and transformed songs. Borders of understanding the body does not stop were the skin ends but expands further towards nature. <img width="4000" height="2248" width_o="4000" height_o="2248" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cfde4ec28b3e193e1797301c1b7b73b115eecf6a6eabc715aaf6f2ce2fd1dc0/1.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-Darko-Dragicevic.jpg" data-mid="93850179" border="0" alt="Photo: Darko Dragičević" data-caption="Photo: Darko Dragičević" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cfde4ec28b3e193e1797301c1b7b73b115eecf6a6eabc715aaf6f2ce2fd1dc0/1.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-Darko-Dragicevic.jpg" /> <img width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d87c612c2bfd85b63a60509dc42240d5d139e8a4568df43bd49b514f5a97487c/3.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" data-mid="93852807" border="0" alt="Photo: Vibeke Heide" data-caption="Photo: Vibeke Heide" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/d87c612c2bfd85b63a60509dc42240d5d139e8a4568df43bd49b514f5a97487c/3.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2248" width_o="4000" height_o="2248" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf815026f774909a480114875530f1ffac8a1bb0479c0512b3aebe47053b28e8/2.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-Darko-Dragicevic.jpg" data-mid="93852812" border="0" alt="Photo: Darko Dragičević" data-caption="Photo: Darko Dragičević" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf815026f774909a480114875530f1ffac8a1bb0479c0512b3aebe47053b28e8/2.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-Darko-Dragicevic.jpg" /> <img width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c60a9054e8e9a7fe701705189da96348a6933dca4f41284bb6017b01b53525b6/5.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" data-mid="93852814" border="0" alt="Photo: Vibeke Heide" data-caption="Photo: Vibeke Heide" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/c60a9054e8e9a7fe701705189da96348a6933dca4f41284bb6017b01b53525b6/5.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" /> <img width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7f3cdb76281ed10bdf58619231e8cf1a360032486b48c726cef7eb8faa7c293/6.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" data-mid="93852815" border="0" alt="Photo: Vibeke Heide" data-caption="Photo: Vibeke Heide" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/c7f3cdb76281ed10bdf58619231e8cf1a360032486b48c726cef7eb8faa7c293/6.-fiftywaystoleaveashape.-foto-vibeke-heide.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77e74c43ca0e3b737aa7d5e55b7aeb5ad1ff69dcd4b1aabab8d036c6b319ef70/fiftywaystoleaveashape_full.00_40_32_13.Still014.jpg" data-mid="125513968" border="0" alt="Photo: Vibeke Heide" data-caption="Photo: Vibeke Heide" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77e74c43ca0e3b737aa7d5e55b7aeb5ad1ff69dcd4b1aabab8d036c6b319ef70/fiftywaystoleaveashape_full.00_40_32_13.Still014.jpg" /> Ooooohh I’m on tonight, and my hips don’t lie and I’m starting to feel alright The attention, the direction, I can feel it in my body – Shakira What does it mean to leave a shape? In these strange times, everything shifts on a global level; the world offers new perspectives and demands different things from us than before. How do we leave something behind and move forward into uncertainty? The body is fragile, I'm fragile because the body is changing. Bodies are always changing, created to deal with change, it is inextricably intertwined. How does this work? What is working now? How can I surrender into change? This piece displays the traces of what my body has been through, and what is yet to come. Video trailer “Quite simply, and very elegantly, Jøntvedt demonstrates several ways to meet the floor. This can be divided into thousands of small details. [...] The sequences stand as proof that good craftmanship is timeless: Time literally stops here. […] Where brilliance often can be experienced as plastic and contrived, she proves that it can also be personal, intimate and an expression of a vast amount of time.” – Jonas Øren, Norsk Shakespeare tidsskrift Video teaser CreditsConcept, Choreography, Performance: Siri JøntvedtComposer/Sound Designer: Gyrid Nordal KaldestadOutside eye/Sound (Run That Body Down): Øyvind B. LyseFilmmaker/Artistic Collaborator/Photo: Darko DragičevićFilm and photo at Kunsthall Grenland: Vibeke HeideLight Designer: Evelina Dembacke/Svein Inge NeergårdProducer: Annika Ostwald Thanks to Anna Nordanstedt, Snelle Hall, Harald Fetveit, Anna Westberg and c.off Stockholm Co-Production: Dans i Trøndelag, Dansekunst i Grenland and DansiT.Supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Fond For Lyd og Bilde, FFUK (There have been multiple cancellations/postponements of this project in both 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19) https://sirijontvedt.com/Result-Guaranteed Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:28:57 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/Result-Guaranteed Result Guaranteed (2020) <img width="1280" height="710" width_o="1280" height_o="710" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba4a407dc6fa06ed80f2abc2dc2a6747f5f40500a44c24b6319e6511cb4d3b8e/1Foto-Harald-Fossen-resultat-garantert.jpg" data-mid="125508166" border="0" alt="Photo: Harald Fossen" data-caption="Photo: Harald Fossen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba4a407dc6fa06ed80f2abc2dc2a6747f5f40500a44c24b6319e6511cb4d3b8e/1Foto-Harald-Fossen-resultat-garantert.jpg" /> Initiated by Liv Kristin Holmberg, performer, Stefan Thorsson, composer, Camilla Wexels Riser, scenographer. How to rediscover the pathway to magic?An interdisciplinary, musical and dramatic performing arts project based on Herman Hesse’s novel “Steppenwolf” – inspired by C. G. Jung’s theses of our dream life. <img width="961" height="967" width_o="961" height_o="967" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88c02a4d3ca122d1f40b8c5058edc0b210ff5d229892238caa08046659dab3ac/-Harald-Fossenjpeg.jpeg" data-mid="125508165" border="0" alt="Photo: Harald Fossen" data-caption="Photo: Harald Fossen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/961/i/88c02a4d3ca122d1f40b8c5058edc0b210ff5d229892238caa08046659dab3ac/-Harald-Fossenjpeg.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f39bdd8310a5d8cfd2c34d2748f2f635d7e986d1c0e622ee816504bab6e1f910/Camilla-Wexel-Riser22-4AB6-8F34-F5A389CFE2B1.jpeg" data-mid="125508167" border="0" alt="Photo: Harald Fossen" data-caption="Photo: Harald Fossen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/f39bdd8310a5d8cfd2c34d2748f2f635d7e986d1c0e622ee816504bab6e1f910/Camilla-Wexel-Riser22-4AB6-8F34-F5A389CFE2B1.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="590" width_o="1280" height_o="590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28f4d7556d49da8f69569468b28c2d2e3223b178d38d8f4a508c1206aa2ca573/Foto-Harald-Fossen.jpeg" data-mid="125508168" border="0" alt="Photo: Harald Fossen" data-caption="Photo: Harald Fossen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28f4d7556d49da8f69569468b28c2d2e3223b178d38d8f4a508c1206aa2ca573/Foto-Harald-Fossen.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="942" width_o="1280" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f1b9e78831fa6b27530f496bb833d5c21b6bf74dd52ad6a5c8feef695ebb58a/HovedbildeHarald-Fossen-foto-gisle.jpg" data-mid="125508169" border="0" alt="Photo: Harald Fossen" data-caption="Photo: Harald Fossen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f1b9e78831fa6b27530f496bb833d5c21b6bf74dd52ad6a5c8feef695ebb58a/HovedbildeHarald-Fossen-foto-gisle.jpg" /> Hesse’s metaphor, the magical theatre, can be considered an allegory of the human mind. The different theatre spaces each offer distinct experiences and insights, different methods and ways of encountering yourself Thus, the magical theatre thematizes the junctures between life and art. Video teaser CollaboratorsFernanda Branco, performer, Catrine Danielsen, host, Ruhi Erdogan, musician, Siri Jøntvedt, choreographer, Gisle Hass, actor, Liv Kristin Holmberg, performer,Fernanda Branco, performer, Magnar Mork, technician, Martin Olsen, musician/conductor, Einar Ottestad, host, Stefan Thorsson, composer, Camilla Wexels Riser, scenographer and Telemark Brass Ensemble. Première and performance: Spriten Kunsthall, Skien, September 11th and 12th, 2020 Supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere. Link http://spriten.no/resultat-garantert/ https://sirijontvedt.com/Lear Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:30:16 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/Lear Lear (2020) <img width="1536" height="1022" width_o="1536" height_o="1022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95d6ed8b9e29b2352f383728023edc300230689369600e384580e1ea40d616a6/forsidebilde.jpg" data-mid="125508174" border="0" alt="Photo: Chrisander Brun" data-caption="Photo: Chrisander Brun" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95d6ed8b9e29b2352f383728023edc300230689369600e384580e1ea40d616a6/forsidebilde.jpg" /> After William Shakespeare Is it in a parent’s rights to demand their children’s care when growing old? How is the self-esteem affected by coming of age? Lear has no plans to hang onto the strap until he falls; he will enjoy his last days as king. It ends in a ruthless inheritance settlement... In this version of King Lear, director Tatu Hämäläinen addresses ageing, treating the play as an image of growing old, and the consequences ageing may have. We must all one day leave our kingdom, our work, our position and our history and become something else. Lear has the same wishes as many future retirees for when they leave working life: enjoying life with no responsibility. The fear of being at the mercy of others characterizes Lear's decisions. He feels betrayed by the world when he does not get his way. Being challenged on authority can be difficult, being set aside as a result of age can be unbearable. <img width="3219" height="4837" width_o="3219" height_o="4837" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/783edfe70c6c42416873a70864cce624cfe0a6e10db7cc27db6fe8596d8d37e0/CBX_7760-2_LEAR_.jpg" data-mid="125508173" border="0" alt="Photo: Chrisander Brun" data-caption="Photo: Chrisander Brun" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/783edfe70c6c42416873a70864cce624cfe0a6e10db7cc27db6fe8596d8d37e0/CBX_7760-2_LEAR_.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="1022" width_o="1536" height_o="1022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34061111cf8e4d3f4aced3ced81af0e645bc8418237ff9dba3571f004e124bfb/Lear-2.photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" data-mid="125508175" border="0" alt="Photo: Chrisander Brun" data-caption="Photo: Chrisander Brun" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34061111cf8e4d3f4aced3ced81af0e645bc8418237ff9dba3571f004e124bfb/Lear-2.photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" /> <img 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de7d40f60aeb5bc5b28ff9200cf59d91e27ed504ccd83b13ea582508f68cb5cd/Lear-12.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" data-mid="125508181" border="0" alt="Photo: Chrisander Brun" data-caption="Photo: Chrisander Brun" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de7d40f60aeb5bc5b28ff9200cf59d91e27ed504ccd83b13ea582508f68cb5cd/Lear-12.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="1022" width_o="1536" height_o="1022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b30ae289372dbe2fac3c757a8c13258c2202b659f5de38f09319c1de5306f906/Lear-13.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" data-mid="125508182" border="0" alt="Photo: Chrisander Brun" data-caption="Photo: Chrisander Brun" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b30ae289372dbe2fac3c757a8c13258c2202b659f5de38f09319c1de5306f906/Lear-13.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2306" width_o="1536" height_o="2306" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92c29981bda63a8bc0aa3fbff9b5d3375b92f899b1dca98c81b28e9a77a04fb7/Lear-16.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" data-mid="125508183" border="0" alt="Photo: Chrisander Brun" data-caption="Photo: Chrisander Brun" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92c29981bda63a8bc0aa3fbff9b5d3375b92f899b1dca98c81b28e9a77a04fb7/Lear-16.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2401" width_o="1536" height_o="2401" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6acab35f50db219a1daf6c41e2261c2238d30a3c8d8b6c75e33614c729be8841/Lear-17.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" data-mid="125508184" border="0" alt="Photo: Chrisander Brun" data-caption="Photo: Chrisander Brun" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6acab35f50db219a1daf6c41e2261c2238d30a3c8d8b6c75e33614c729be8841/Lear-17.-photo-Chrisander-Brun.jpg" /> Lear is referred to as "old", or "the foolish". The identity as "old" or "silly" is something Lear is not entirely comfortable with. How is our self-image affected when reduced to an age by the outside world? What happens when both the body and the mind become marked by aging? https://www.nrk.no/anmeldelser/anmeldelse_-_lear_-pa-det-norske-teatret-1.14921244 CreditsAdaptation by Tatu HämäläinenBased on a translation of King Lear by Edvard Hoem Director: Tatu HämäläinenScenographer and lighting designer: Chrisander BrunCostume and Mask-designer: Tove BerglundComposer: Ingvild LanggårdChoreographer: Siri JøntvedtDramaturge: Elin Grinaker og Ingrid Weme Nilsen Première at Det Norske Teatret, Scene 2, February 29th, 2020 The translation is available in full version, published by Oktober Forlag Link https://www.detnorsketeatret.no/framsyningar/lear https://sirijontvedt.com/Det-er-natur Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:31:56 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/Det-er-natur Det er natur (2019) <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83e031f7da64d184c41b9d1bb6e5a1b610e84f358239b483bc49893666241314/IMG_0331.jpeg" data-mid="125508190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83e031f7da64d184c41b9d1bb6e5a1b610e84f358239b483bc49893666241314/IMG_0331.jpeg" /> I was commissioned to choreograph work for the graduating students at Norwegian Dance Academy (now Høgskolen Kristiania) in Spring, 2019. Performances at Riksscenen in Oslo, June 14th and 15th. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f1e54cc416b0dceacc1b9dc7a2f9b496c6fe5bba61bbf97048dc7062dc26b04/IMG_0330.jpeg" data-mid="125508189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f1e54cc416b0dceacc1b9dc7a2f9b496c6fe5bba61bbf97048dc7062dc26b04/IMG_0330.jpeg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05c264c7ca5427c15246e0e07c60bb8836015393f54b5a19844081b0e7549294/IMG_0332.jpeg" data-mid="125508191" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05c264c7ca5427c15246e0e07c60bb8836015393f54b5a19844081b0e7549294/IMG_0332.jpeg" /> Video CreditsPerformers:&nbsp;Vilde Eriksen, Emilie Fuglestad, Emilie Hals, Mai Rose Pedersen, Jeffrey Zhang, Astrid Johanne Ødegård, Mathilde Thomassen, Agnes Antal. Music: “Presque Rien Avec Files” by Luc Ferrari https://sirijontvedt.com/Sta-sitt-kast-Face-the-Music Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:32:43 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/Sta-sitt-kast-Face-the-Music Stå sitt kast/ Face the Music (2018) <img width="3648" height="2736" width_o="3648" height_o="2736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f87d52cbec6804ee0f32aa289943dc0892636f57d9212e25b75a6019145e98d8/8.JPG" data-mid="125508200" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f87d52cbec6804ee0f32aa289943dc0892636f57d9212e25b75a6019145e98d8/8.JPG" /> What does it mean to open your workspace, to show your art?&nbsp;Reveal the flaws, blunders, mistakes, the unfinished, the undone.&nbsp;Whatever you do, you choose to show something and opt out of showing something else.&nbsp;Moving in space like a living sculpture, like a medium of non-moving things. A performance by and with dance artist Siri Jøntvedt and visual artist Elinor Strøm. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/448fd3aea6f6b830b403256df29316ec84f71e2e7e0732562a6033cf01b31c85/3.MG_0546.jpeg" data-mid="125508194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/448fd3aea6f6b830b403256df29316ec84f71e2e7e0732562a6033cf01b31c85/3.MG_0546.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bbcc384c2d405a97e081d42ebc6b752f36f5e815a526157ee5eb9e153f062fe/4._0630.JPG" data-mid="125508195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bbcc384c2d405a97e081d42ebc6b752f36f5e815a526157ee5eb9e153f062fe/4._0630.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c3a4a36d0446d5a31dec64b87b1a07a258f29a26d671fc587100bd3d793dc69/5.IMG_0619.JPG" data-mid="125508196" 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width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/295616f850e9cd71361c7ae4dd3bb2a35b156e77ab5d551163caf02d11e9d52b/18.JPG" data-mid="125508210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/295616f850e9cd71361c7ae4dd3bb2a35b156e77ab5d551163caf02d11e9d52b/18.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/405f416c81d55e0a5709383d01cbb09b0f3610683329050587a36239de4f935d/19.JPG" data-mid="125508211" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/405f416c81d55e0a5709383d01cbb09b0f3610683329050587a36239de4f935d/19.JPG" /> The performance was shown in two versions The first version was shown November 3rd, 2018, in Elinor Strøm´s atelier in Marieboesgate 11, Oslo. The second version was shown May 15th, 2019 in Grønlandsleiret 47, Oslo as part of PlussPluss + + (Black Box Theater, curated by Ingeleiv Berstad) Antique Drooling (2019) My body – my future. My body – my furniture.My body, my cupboard, my ashtray.My case, my container. My body – my guitar caseA pile of crap. My crap, your crap. Antiques. Old junk, old stuff, used stuff. Better used.In between. In the middle (of the road).Growing white. Growing grey.Going vintage, tune in with the old ones.The young ones. The old ones.Me and my patina. Us and our spots. Us and our favourite spots.You and your wrinkles. Wrinkle about. Invisible Affiliation among old furniture. Old stuff – old furniture – Home among old stuff.Arrangements. Move things around, and yourself.It’s a lot to keep track of. It´s a bit too much now. I move, I think. Move and think. Relate. Arrange arrangements. Be present with whatever.Put together and take apart. Keep going. Body and Things in motion.Art in motion. (Text by Elinor Strøm) CreditsSiri and Elinor have collaborated since 2006. Elinor made costumes, scenography, photography and poster design for most of Siri&amp;Snelle’s works. In addition, she performs with the Swedish trio HuggerMugger. Photos by Elinor Strøm, Snelle Hall, Hilde Rustad, Øyvind B Lyse https://sirijontvedt.com/A-Collective-Body Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:20:28 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/A-Collective-Body A Collecive Body (2018) <img width="3654" height="2079" width_o="3654" height_o="2079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4964ae514e9aa2be9c4d20c0c7c82b3c98cf434215b265d59e9ae2bdba3a6a07/Collective-body-2.jpg" data-mid="93851061" border="0" alt="Photo: Darko Dragičević" data-caption="Photo: Darko Dragičević" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4964ae514e9aa2be9c4d20c0c7c82b3c98cf434215b265d59e9ae2bdba3a6a07/Collective-body-2.jpg" /> Tired of constantly inventing new, optimized and virtual self-portrayals for social media and professional networks, Siri Jøntvedt and Martin Sonderkamp interviewed friends and colleagues about how the two of them were perceived in a pre-digitalized world, beyond social media. The documentation of these interviews became the starting point for A Collective Body, in which the two choreographers, together with visual artist Darko Dragicevic and musician Øyvind B. Lyse, trace the gaps between the interstitial spaces of fragmental memories with poetic objects, artificial fur, low-fi audio, text and choreography. <img width="2530" height="3855" width_o="2530" height_o="3855" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acbe60c47d4a2d624dfde62b5d6d143b57aaec45588d36acc13073a6cba8bbdb/DSC_1452.jpg" data-mid="93852159" border="0" alt="Photo: Darko Dragičević" data-caption="Photo: Darko Dragičević" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acbe60c47d4a2d624dfde62b5d6d143b57aaec45588d36acc13073a6cba8bbdb/DSC_1452.jpg" /> <img width="2574" height="3844" width_o="2574" height_o="3844" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85c64328d3fb43e036c3e245eeff9812f4450dc104be8ecf94111ffd2b8160fe/Collective-Body-5.jpg" data-mid="93852158" border="0" alt="Photo: Darko Dragičević" data-caption="Photo: Darko Dragičević" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85c64328d3fb43e036c3e245eeff9812f4450dc104be8ecf94111ffd2b8160fe/Collective-Body-5.jpg" /> <img width="1758" height="1335" width_o="1758" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23ca7478c3556ab87cdabc120d874c94cb9a85e7e8078ed20510dc5d432c2680/DSC_1504.jpg" data-mid="93852160" border="0" alt="Photo: Darko Dragičević" data-caption="Photo: Darko Dragičević" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23ca7478c3556ab87cdabc120d874c94cb9a85e7e8078ed20510dc5d432c2680/DSC_1504.jpg" /> The individual auto-biographical narratives of the texts produced a certain - yet unwanted - nostalgia of the self. We wanted to find an approach that would allow the distribution of text, movement and body in a non-representational manner, subsequently freeing the body from being the carrier of personal history only. The body is no longer the only signifier and carrier of identity and persona. Instead, personage resonates through the subtle arrangements between body, space, object, sound and recorded text. A Collective Body is an attempt to create a work of art in which the stage itself becomes a site of negotiation of identities through corporeal, sonic, pictorial and medial assemblages. Stage furthermore serves as a space-time sensorium that bears the properties of individual and virtual personas in a non-representational manner. Jøntvedt and Sonderkamp understands this approach as a virtual out-of-body experience, an extended being-placed-in between-things through which they aim to ‘’redeem’’ the body from being the main site of personage and auto-biographical truth. On the contrary, the auto-biographical self, detached from its own narrative and physical self are splayed out into the interstitial spaces between visuals, objects and sound. Full performance – Uferstudios, Berlin Full performance – Scenehuset, Oslo https://vimeo.com/314264982 (Vimeo är privat) Performance dates 2018 Tanzfaktur Cologne, www.tanzfaktur.euSat, 24.03 Sun, 25.03 Uferstudios www.uferstudios.comFri, 06.04, Sat, 07.04 at Studio 1Scenehuset, Oslo www.facebook.com &gt; scenehusetFri, 20.04, Sat, 21.04 Sun, 22.04 CreditsPerformance: Siri Jøntvedt, Martin SonderkampChoreography: Siri Jøntvedt, Martin SonderkampSet Design &amp; Costume: Darko Dragičević Sound: Øyvind B. LyseSet Design Assistance: Karin RosemannSound Assistance: Marius HaraldsenGraphic Design: Dragana KrtinićPhoto &amp; Video: Darko DragičevićProducer: Margrete Rylander Supported by Norsk Kulturråd and Fond For Lyd og BildeSupported by TanzFaktur, Cologne Thanks to Martin Pilz, Jörn Loges, Slava Gepner https://sirijontvedt.com/Can-t-you-hear-what-I-am-dancing Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:20:27 +0000 Siri Jøntvedt https://sirijontvedt.com/Can-t-you-hear-what-I-am-dancing Can’t you hear what I am dancing? (2017) <img width="2362" height="1575" width_o="2362" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9da60ca6bef36f421def7e2235e288db07692d769554ae7c93acc8300c17610/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-50-copy.jpeg" data-mid="67667039" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9da60ca6bef36f421def7e2235e288db07692d769554ae7c93acc8300c17610/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-50-copy.jpeg" /> By and with Siri Jøntvedt and Ivar Grydeland. Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love not a jewel not a single line. – Patti Smith “Can’t you hear what I’m dancing?” is about listening. It is a tribute to the duet format and a recognition of what we think about when we perform. It is partly a performance, partly an experimental investigation into how inner processes can be used as material to shape the external expression. We try to eliminate the distinction between the performance and the idea of it. <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a54f3aff66cc38f1a41efb6d1ea46d5001e8242e1a5c4a1e0b0ccf8dee2036e/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-36.jpg" data-mid="93865897" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a54f3aff66cc38f1a41efb6d1ea46d5001e8242e1a5c4a1e0b0ccf8dee2036e/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-36.jpg" /> <img width="5503" height="3669" width_o="5503" height_o="3669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0149926a700ff02cd95ad5afbc81ebef8f5c2055d4a68e501fbe072dc4b0f4f/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-31.jpeg" data-mid="93865885" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0149926a700ff02cd95ad5afbc81ebef8f5c2055d4a68e501fbe072dc4b0f4f/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-31.jpeg" /> <img width="2362" height="1575" width_o="2362" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9da60ca6bef36f421def7e2235e288db07692d769554ae7c93acc8300c17610/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-50-copy.jpeg" data-mid="67667039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9da60ca6bef36f421def7e2235e288db07692d769554ae7c93acc8300c17610/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-50-copy.jpeg" /> <img width="3198" height="4192" width_o="3198" height_o="4192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41259f7f00db45ae7e9b4322b6560826e7f2bac49e4ee1d4521bdb9949eeb5d5/foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" data-mid="125508279" border="0" alt="Photo: Antero Hein" data-caption="Photo: Antero Hein" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41259f7f00db45ae7e9b4322b6560826e7f2bac49e4ee1d4521bdb9949eeb5d5/foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" /> <img width="5520" height="3680" width_o="5520" height_o="3680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce8e8a46f80c57fd32697520adff1450bcde861dd9f0bfca8e20770bab9f7697/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-81.jpg" data-mid="125508355" border="0" alt="Photo: Tale Hendnes" data-caption="Photo: Tale Hendnes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce8e8a46f80c57fd32697520adff1450bcde861dd9f0bfca8e20770bab9f7697/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-81.jpg" /> <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a14ddd99811c5b41bba229709b9e6ce0ebc3a3b342dedbe6faaa4d82f913a19/DSC06162-foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" data-mid="125508266" border="0" alt="Photo: Antero Hein" data-caption="Photo: Antero Hein" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a14ddd99811c5b41bba229709b9e6ce0ebc3a3b342dedbe6faaa4d82f913a19/DSC06162-foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" /> <img width="5304" height="3535" width_o="5304" height_o="3535" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9a21df45de696fd81c011648d3d80be8d08c52bfe8ee86a6623cf5a376075ea/foto-A-Hein.jpg" data-mid="125508277" border="0" alt="Photo: Antero Hein" data-caption="Photo: Antero Hein" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9a21df45de696fd81c011648d3d80be8d08c52bfe8ee86a6623cf5a376075ea/foto-A-Hein.jpg" /> Considerations, associations and dialogues on craft and artistic practice inform the choreography and music material live on stage. A continuous interaction between body and thought takes place – it’s a play between letting needs, strategies and experience govern on the floor. We cherish our danger zones. The piece adapts itself to the different spaces where it is performed. The space becomes the third additional participant in the piece. It can be performed in a gallery, foyer, library etc. It is a sharing between the audience, the space and us. It attempts to highlight where we are. <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a14ddd99811c5b41bba229709b9e6ce0ebc3a3b342dedbe6faaa4d82f913a19/DSC06162-foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" data-mid="125508266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a14ddd99811c5b41bba229709b9e6ce0ebc3a3b342dedbe6faaa4d82f913a19/DSC06162-foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" /> <img width="5304" height="3535" width_o="5304" height_o="3535" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9a21df45de696fd81c011648d3d80be8d08c52bfe8ee86a6623cf5a376075ea/foto-A-Hein.jpg" data-mid="125508277" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9a21df45de696fd81c011648d3d80be8d08c52bfe8ee86a6623cf5a376075ea/foto-A-Hein.jpg" /> <img width="3198" height="4192" width_o="3198" height_o="4192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41259f7f00db45ae7e9b4322b6560826e7f2bac49e4ee1d4521bdb9949eeb5d5/foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" data-mid="125508279" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41259f7f00db45ae7e9b4322b6560826e7f2bac49e4ee1d4521bdb9949eeb5d5/foto-Antero-Hein.jpg" /> <img width="5520" height="3680" width_o="5520" height_o="3680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce8e8a46f80c57fd32697520adff1450bcde861dd9f0bfca8e20770bab9f7697/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-81.jpg" data-mid="125508355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce8e8a46f80c57fd32697520adff1450bcde861dd9f0bfca8e20770bab9f7697/Foto-Tale-Hendnes-81.jpg" /> Première Scenehuset in Oslo June 23rd, 2017 with additional performances June 24th and 25th with guest musician Christian Wallumrød (June 25th) July 10th, 2017 Ravnedans Festival, Kristiansand October 6th, 2017 Cinemateket, Trondheim/ faculty of music technology, NTNU November 2nd, 2017 Deichmanske Bibliotek, Oslo with guest musician Michaela AntalowaJune 08th, 2018 Fylkingen Scene for Ny Musikk &amp; Intermediakonst, Stockholm Video trailer “When Jøntvedt engages in abstract movement sequences and Grydeland disappears in his guitar playing, I get a bit of something I really appreciate about contemporary dance, but I find all the more difficult to define. The poetry arising in a wordless communication and the mysterious potential latent in the abstract, becomes an analogy of the sides to being human which are indescribable.” Excerpt from Scenekunst.no, written by Andrea Csaszni Rygh “Whilst the piece explores the often disparate energies of sound and body, it also experiments with the very notion of material: what performs on stage, and how are we drawing such distinct boundaries between human and constructed, natural and artificial? The drone-like reverberation, minimalist, rising soundscape and movements of a body in response. (…) seemingly repetitious movement structure invites us to feel and see, again, differently. And whilst similar experiments tend to foreground language as a means of fragmentation, or of accessing something beyond the body, Can’t You Hear…toys with the idea of instrument – the distorted riff of a guitar, the abstracted body”Excerpt from the online magazine exeunt, written by Diana Damian Martin Thanks to Elinor Strøm, Sidsel Endresen, Norges Musikkhøgskole, Johann Lindvall, Annika Ostwald, Anna Westberg, Daniel Karlsson, Deichmanske Bibliotek Supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Fond For Lyd og Bilde and Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere