to the sides of this body (2023)

to the sides of this body is a duo work made in close collaboration with dancer Emilie Karlsen (NO). The work sheds light on what we call ‘craftswomenship’, looking at a dancer’s skills and craft – rather working through than around the obstacles and physical demanding states. It dives into physical precision, friendship, emotional ambiguity, infrastructure space, and the fact that we never really perform alone.

The work evolved through a common stance for movement research and by entering each other’s physical territories, presents and pasts. By trusting that material doesn’t need to come from a preconceived idea or concept, this work occurred from a hands-on and practice-based approach, spending time together in the studio, sharing, learning, reading, writing, moving, and adapting to each other’s suggestions and bodies.

The piece was part of my graduation work at the MA in Dance at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. It was accompanied by musician Lars Takla (NO).

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Video link (full-length performance):
https://vimeo.com/815026786