Performance
AVGANG 2019: PRESENTATIONS edt. 1.1.–1.4. Performing the self in the self(ie) society
PRESENTATIONS edition 1.1.–1.4. is a series of independent, yet intertwined, dance performances – created as four individual self-portraits.
Jonas is staged. Jonas is masked. Jonas is created. Jonas is Jonas.
From different perspectives, Jonas Øren approaches and researches self-performance through movement and dance in four choreographic processes . The material, partly coming from his autobiography, actualises the split self in the meeting between fiction and reality.
The stage is given as the meeting point between the objectified, staged and sensed self. It opens up for a multitude of questions: how can and cannot "I" coincide with "me"? Will statements, dance and movements based on Øren's autobiography be able to create answers? And is it possible to stage a self-portrait?
Interviews and self-interviews are used in the extraction of a matter based on four guiding topics: past, sex, career and future. Two choreographers, one dancer and a selection of Youtube-videos work with Øren in what has become four individual modules. Each module will be framed on stage within the format of abstracted talk shows and live interviews. Guests and artists are included in this staging.
28. mars: "Choreographing Whiteness" by Thomas Talawa Prestø.
Guests: Charlotte Thiis-Evensen and Camara Lundestad Joof
Music: Orlin Kantardjiev
29. mars: "In the Middle Somewhat Elevated Deconstructed" based on Youtube-films of William Forsythe ballets.
Music: Drippin
1. april: "Self-study / Sjølvstudie" by Solveig Styve Holte.
Guests: Myra and Finn Skårderud
2. april: "Nostalgia" created with Mathias Stoltenberg
Concept and dance artist: Jonas Øren
Choreography: Solveig Styve Holte, Thomas Talawa Prestø, Youtube/"William Forsythe"
Co-creative dancer: Mathias Stoltenberg
Light design: Inger Johanne Byhring
Costume: Hedda Simonsen Lund
Internal supervisors: Torunn Robstad og Bojana Cvejic
External supervisor: Kai Johnsen
Photography: Simen Øvergaard, Emma Sukalic, Martin Rustad Johansen og Christina Leithe