E du me mæ? // Er du med meg?

Presentations of the duet:
Jan 24: DansiT, Trondheim
Des 23: KGB CC Vest, Oslo
March 23: Trøndertun FHS, Melhus
Des 22: Mind the gap, Oslo

Preproject- week:
July 22, Verdal.  Founded by Trøndelag Fylkeskommune.

Co -Creating Dancer: Julie Schartum Dokken juliedokken.com

Duration: 15 min.

Workshop: we can also offer a workshop in Contact Improvisation & partnering

longer sessions of Contact Improvisation during the process:
Contact Impro Festival in Trondheim 6-8. october 2023
“Bevegelsesfestivalen”  i Trondheim, Mai 2022 and 2023
C. I. 50 years anniversery weekend, Oslo. Oktober 2022.

Feedback sessions with: Anna thu Smidt, Brita Grov and Louis Schou-Hansen

Pictures: Rune Aasen (from pre-project) and Simen Thornquist (mind the gap

Featured Picture on top:  Simen Thornquist

One picture in the series: photo credit: Ann Kristin Holden  

THEMATICS:

What can be good key points for building a connection and friendship between two people? who does not know each other well, and can dance show us that?  In this duet you will meet post Covid awkward greetings, the one-meter rule, struggles to understand eacother but also close connections and flow. In the search for the good meeting points between people, in dance and life, that we all want.

PHYSICAL RESEARCH:

The duet “Are you with me?” works with partnering and Contact improvisationto show the thematic. Because in C.I you solve movement task together with your duet partner. You need the other for the movement and meetings to happen.  Through the work we also question if the basics of this movement style: listening, give and take , working together and have some fun, can be good key points for also other types of building relationships and communication.

The idea for this duet is that the thematic and the physical research comes together as one.

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Some clipps from the 3 first processes.

Pictures by: Rune Aasen ( Verdal 2022)  and Simen Thornquist ( MDG desember 2022)

EARLIER PROCESSES:

MADE IN VÆRDALN 2024-23.

This duet is part of my own show “MiV” that showcases own creations from the previous years. For performing places and dates: Made in Værdaln


TRØNDERTUN 2023 (the pictures under)

This duett In March we worked on a third version. We rehearsed in Trøndelag: Verdal, Trondheim and Melhus. Then we had a showing for the students at Trøndertun Fhs. In this week we went into the depths of certain parts. We also got a session of supervising on the technique. The viewing was a doubble bill and Knute(r)  was also shown this day in a longer version.


MIND THE GAP 2022.

This training and reflections then helped me get in tuned with the style and creation again , Then we continued working together for 4 days and presented a second version of our duet at Mind the Gap, Oslo, 4th December 2022: MIND THE GAP 2022 | Facebook


CONTACT IMPROVISATION 50 YEARS IN 2022:

Coinsidences want it that this year this movement form has its 50ths anniversary!  October 2022 I then travelled to Oslo to participate in a weekend workshop. To move and celebrating partnering and contact improvisation. Together with a lot of people from the CI community in Norway. This weekend I got to test the thematic in real time: To do a lot of meetingspoints with new people.  Video from the weekened (2min)


VERDAL JULI 2022:

With founding from Trøndelag County, we started our process in Verdal, Trøndelag with 5 days intensive work. Here an early version started to take form.

Interested in this project?

feel free to contact me.