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Performance

Avgang 2025: Marte Kristine Brustad Melhus / It is what it is

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, 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.

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