Performance
Avgang 2025: Emma Leah Culén Khei / POP Liminal
The performance POP Liminal is Emma Leah Culén Khei’s graduation project in master dance at KHiO.
POP Liminal is a piece that investigates the relationship between dance and music. It is a collaboration between Emma Leah Culén Khei from the Master’s programme in dance at KHIO and Christian Moosdorf, a final year student at the Master of Music with Individual Concentration (FRIMA) at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Their work began from a common interest in abstracting the expression offered by commercial pop culture. Breaking from and returning to references from pop culture the dance performance explores a dancer's autonomy and pliancy in the meeting with music.
Credits
Dance, choreography, concept: Emma Leah Culén Khei
Live music, co-creation: Christian Moosdorf
Light design, video arrangement: Martin Brandvoll
Costume Design: Signe Vasshus
Videographer & editing: Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne
External Supervisor: Jens Trinidad
Internal Supervisor: Torunn Helene Robstad, Bojana Cvejić
Props: Tormod Fuglestad
Stage Manager: Hanna Kristine Dybfest
Technical team: Kjetil Skåret, Are Skaanes Engebretsen
A big extended thanks to everyone who has helped make this happen and guided me on the way, Christian Moosdorf, Yelena Arakelow, Antonia Harke, Sigrid Vesaas, Marte Kristine Brustad Melhus, Sunniva Moen Rørvik, Magnus Emaka Einang, Vetle Springgard, Anna Einemo Frøysland, Malene Olsen, Tim Winter, Clarinde Wesselink, Jens Trinidad, Torunn Robstad, Bojana Cvejić, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Per Roar Thorsnes and Nikolina Pristaš.
Trigger Warning: Loud and busy sound/noise, smoke, flickering screens and lights.
