SHINE UTOPIANS
Shine Utopians is a large-scale performance, a festival, and a temporary utopian village which received a nomination for performance of the year by the Norwegian Critics Association in 2020.
Audiences enter a space as if they are guests visiting a strange community, nothing in the space is hidden, everything is already there and visible. Slowly, the 13 performers inhabiting the theater, engages in ways of practicing weird intimacies, navigating dances and everyday gestures, all while trying to perform a collective care for each other, the space, and their visitors. The project explores queer(er) ways of spending time together, village-making, and distorted desires.
Apart from the performance, the four days of occupying Dansens Hus in Oslo consisted of a seminar, a concert, parties, screenings, and workshops.
Initiated and made together with Harald Beharie and Karoline Bakken Lund.
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DATES
2019
PUBLICS - Today Is Our Tomorrow, Helsinki (FI)
Dansens Hus, Oslo (NO) premiere, Nov 7-11
RAS, Sandnes (NO) Nov 14
CONCEPT/CHOREOGRAPHY Harald Beharie & Louis Schou-Hansen | PERFORMERS Irene Theisen, Amie Mbye, Elise Nohr Nystad, Hans-Petter Rode, Magnus Spaarsaas, Christin B. Jørstad, Anne Panda Gjems Rudi, Heidi Steen Jensen, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen, Davvet Bruun-Solbakk, Guro Ørbech Olsen, Harald Beharie & Louis Schou-Hansen | COSTUME/SCENOGRAPHY Karoline Bakken Lund | PRODUCER Margrethe Nandrup Rylander | SOUND TECH Jens Ole Bjerkan | COMPOSITION Torbjørn Kolbeinsen | CO. PRODUCTION Dansens Hus, Oslo & RAS, Sandnes
FUNDED BY
Arts Council Norway
Fond For Lyd og Bilde
FFUK
Oslo Kommune
Sandnes Kommune
Danseinformasjonen
