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

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).

Heavily supported by feedback from fellow classmates, professors, internal mentor Bojana Cvejic, and external mentor Siri Jøntvedt. 

Also check: drawings

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