Performance
Avgang 2025: Marte Kristine Brustad Melhus / It is what it is
The performance It is what it is is Marte Kristine Brustad Melhus’s graduation project in master dance at KHiO.
I want to become a ball, but also an animal. I want movement for the sake of movement, and the joy of challenging the body. I want one thing today, and probably something else tomorrow, but I always want to dance. Can we, just for now, let dance be what it is? A moment in time that is soon gone forever.
This project started with an interest in sports, games and competition, and an exploration of sports-like movements and movement qualities. Slowly it has grown into something else, and now, it is this.
Credits
Choreography and performance: Marte Kristine Brustad Melhus
Music: Harald Jordal Johannessen
Costume: Signe Vasshus
External supervisor: Loan Ha
Internal supervisor: Torunn Helene Robstad
Lights: Eirik Lie Hegre
Stage manager: Hanna Dybfest
Technical department team: Kjetil Skåret, Are Engebretsen and Olaf Stangeland
Special thanks to: my amazing classmates Emma Leah Culén Khei, Yelena Arakelow, Antonia Harke and Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas, to Nora Landau Werner for doing my hair, and to Lars Zimmermann Vonen, Martin Bergo Selsjord, Nikolina Pristaš, Bojana Cvejić, Janne-Camilla Lyster and Per Roar Thorsnes, and the students in MA choreography for help, support and important insight along the way.
