Studio ALTA | Bára Sigfúsdóttir & Orfee Schuijt (Oslo)

Dates

31.08.2023 / 19:30

Information

Fabulation is a duo performance created and performed by choreographers Bára Sigfúsdóttir (IS/NO) and Orfee Schuijt (FR/NO). It is also created in collaboration with scenographer Kjersti Alm Eriksen, composers/musicians Eivind Lønning and Kim Myhr, and light designer Martin Myrvold. The two performers follow physically fantastic speculative pathways. Down and up through magic wormholes, from one dancer to the other, ideas and affects are passed on and on, bouncing furthermore into the room. The dancers absorb each other’s bodies just like insects would merge with and imitate their environment, losing themselves in their quest of becoming other. Their journey weaves a common world, full of ornaments and eccentricity, like a techno-organic storytelling with plenty of explicit musicality. The performance balances between fiction and the real. What is my body made of? Is what I feel through my skin real? The dancers put into question the materiality of things and gladly explore and tell stories of somatic fiction.

choreography: Bára Sigfúsdóttir and Orfee Schuijt
dance: Bára Sigfúsdóttir and Orfee Schuijt
scenography and costume design: Kjersti Alm Eriksen
music and sound design: Eivind Lønning and Kim Myhr
lighting design: Martin Myrvold
outside eye: Janne-Camilla Lyster and Siri Jøntvedt
co-produced: Dansens Hus Oslo and Rosendal Teater Trondheim
supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, Det Norske komponistfond and Oslo Commune.

The Icelandic choreographer and dancer Bára Sigfúsdóttir has a unique way of researching and composing movement material which is articulated, eloquent and musical. Bára creates visual and reflective work in which the position of the individual in relation to society and nature are recurrent motives. Bára is interested in giving special attention to the details and nuances of our bodies. Bára is based in Norway and her performances tour both locally and internationally. Orfee Schuijt is a dancer and choreographer who works in collaborative settings and with a variety of practices. Her interests in weaving different art fields; writing, drawing, choreography, sculpture have led her to develop a practice honoring form and the sensuous. She has danced in the works of Eivind Seljeseth, Yukiko Shinozaki and Heine Avdal and Francesco Scavetta and collaborated with Jenny Hval on a series of performative concerts connected to her albums and toured internationally with her band.

Project „Cooperation of Cultural Houses: Studio ALTA, Baerum Kulturhus, Black Box Teater“ is supported from the EHP and Norway Grants 2014–2021.