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<h2>Biografier: Hanna Våge Skjeggestad</h2>Hanna Våge Skjeggestad is a dance artist from Sandnes based in Oslo. She is interested in the simultaneous duality of working both choreographically and as a performer. In her work she is drawn to the multi-faceted, ungraspable and constantly changing, in this the physical body as matter is a starting point she continually returns to.Terrarium – A terrarium in the shape of all the visible and invisible layers that bind the bodies together, through symbiotic collaboration and parasitic exploitation. For I AM UNDONE Hanna Våge Skjeggestad (dance) will, together with Anu Laiho (dance) and Peder Niilas Tårnesvik (sound/music), show a work in progress.&nbsp;&nbsp; Credits: Concept and Initiation: Hanna Våge Skjeggestad&nbsp; Choreography and Dance: Hanna Våge Skjeggestad, Anu Laiho and Putli Hellesen&nbsp; Sound/Music: Peder Niilas Tårnesvik&nbsp; Photo: Kristin Evy Stubberud &nbsp;<h2>Yohei Hamada</h2>Yohei Hamada is a dance artist originally from Japan, currently based in Røst in Nordland, who holds a MA in philosophy at Yokohama National University. Hamada sees dance as an intellectual act to perceive the dynamic world as it is, as dynamic. Recently, he explored the dance of the human body with tools – in Push Pull Matters (2023) and Shin-Shin-Shinwa (2024), and with the surroundings – in FormBodyMaterials (2025). In his new project Anima Choir, he will create a ritualistic dance choir with sculptures made by Daniela Bergschneider, together with other dance artists. The piece is planned to premiere at Bodø Biennale in September 2026.&nbsp; Credits: (for I AM UNDONE showing)&nbsp; Directed by: Yohei Hamada&nbsp; Dance: Yohei Hamada Sculpture: Daniela Bergschneider In collaboration with Katarina Skår Lisa, Janita Rantanen, Trine Samuelsen Hansen, Bergen Dansesenter, Davvi - senter for scenekunst og PROSESS Supported by Kulturrådet and Barents Secretariat Photo:&nbsp;Thor Brødreskift&nbsp;<h2>Ingvild Sandstø Isaksen &amp;&nbsp; Katrine Ellefsen</h2>Ingvild works as an interdisciplinary performing artist mainly using movement, sound and text as tools for exploring our surroundings. Katrine experiments with textiles and different materials, constantly looking for new solutions and answers, driven by continuous analysis of life.Together they wish to explore how the other’s approach can bring new perspective on their work, uncovering layers of engagement curious of what will appear in the intersection, with reflection and humor as a common ground. Photo credit: Vilde Rudjord&nbsp;<h2>Ferdinand Schwarz</h2>Ferdinand Schwarz is a composer-performer and sound artist intrigued by slow and seemingly simple sound, that he deploys in the design of compositions and communal listening practices. Ferdinand approaches listening as an active condition, a creative and contingent tool for states of presence.In Embracing Waves (working title) he shares aspects of his daily listening practice: listening with sound-space as a physical matter, a relationship in-between listener and the heard. Can I touch a sound? How does it feel feeling it? Photo credit: Henk Szanto Photos in the same ordrer as the presentation of artists.&nbsp;

I AM UNDONE

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Harald Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution.For this work, they expand their continuous collaboration and research with visual artist Karoline Bakken Lund. Working together since 2017, they examine the poetic and physical possibilities of collapse, where objects, textures and bodies drift between support and obstruction, cultivating porous visual and social landscapes. In Sweet Spot they also collaborate for the first time with light designer Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud and composer and musician Ingvild Langgård.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Sweet Spot

Workshop

WSLHH

Workshop: Liv Hanne Haugen x PRODA

Ettersnakk

ETTERSNAKKHP

After talk: Liv Hanne Haugen & Anne Katrine Haugen

ESBJ

After talk: Køteren og terrieren

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Barn og unge

Roza Moshtaghi is a Tehran-born choreographer and artist based in Oslo. She explores how the body, desire, and everyday structures are shaped by social and political systems. Through abstract, almost sculptural movements, she creates works that challenge our perceptions of the ordinary. Her works are presented in theatres, museums, galleries, and public spaces, often in interplay with sculptural installations. In 2025, her performance Songs of Chaos was nominated for the Hedda Award for “Best Dance Production.” Previous works include BUD (2022), LIMBO (2021), and Only Forever (2018). Moshtaghi is supported by the Arts Council Norway through its “Independent Performing Arts – Artist” programme.Ronak Moshtaghi is also born in Tehran, and she lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. Her practice crosses the boundaries between drawing, sculpture, and interactive installations, addressing themes of language, translation, violence, and decolonial perspectives. Her work has been exhibited at venues including MUNCH, Kunsthall Oslo, The Mosaic Rooms in London, and Oktoberdans in Bergen. She also collaborates regularly with performing artists and is behind collective initiatives such as Bazar Art Book and Tahqiqotaxayyol.

Oil-Dino-Du

ESEMA

After talk: Eun Me-Ahn

ESCA

Workshop: Carl Aquilizan x PRODA

Seminar

Choreographing Antifascism – seminar

After talk: Carl Aquilizan

Club Origami 2021 Summer Dean 26 MAIN IMAGE Featuring Takeshi Matsumoto Makiko Aoyama

Club Origami 2021 Summer Dean 29 Featuring Takeshi Matsumoto Makiko Aoyama

- Full of imagination, and creativity springing from an empty page

Club Origami

ESCM

After talk: Anthony Hamilton

WS KBS

Workshop: Karolina Bieszczad-Stie x PRODA

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Karolina Bieszczad-Stie er en koreograf og forsker bosatt i Oslo. Hun har en doktorgrad i Performing Arts fra Brunel University i London og driver plattformen Butoh Encounters, som utforsker møtepunktet mellom dans, vitenskap og ny teknologi.Hennes tidligere prosjekter omfatter blant annet Micro-choreography, et koreografisk verk utviklet i samarbeid med Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming ved Universitetet i Oslo, der kreftcellenes egne signaliseringsmetoder brukes til å skape bevegelse; Limit(less), en duett mellom et menneske og en robot, realisert i samarbeid med KUKA Robotics og robotingeniør Mathias H. Arbo fra SINTEF; og Kvinnen som giftet seg med en reke, en danseforestilling som kombinerer scenekunst og blockchain-teknologi.I tillegg mottar hun jevnlig koreografiske bestillinger, som Navel, skapt til Nobel Peace Prize Forum i 2024, og et nytt verk for to Yaskawa-roboter og en danser som får urpremiere under European Robotics Forum 2026. Karolina arbeider tett med samtidsdansere fra både Norge og utlandet, og bruker dans og koreografi til å undersøke hvordan kropp og erfaring forandres sammen med nye teknologiske og vitenskapelige gjennombrudd, og hvordan vi forestiller oss det som ligger foran oss.

Turbulent Flows

ETTERSKARO

After talk: Karolina Bieszczad-Stie

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Chollada Phinitduang, born in 1990, is a Thai-Norwegian dance artist, choreographer and performance artist based in Tromsø. She works at the interface between dance, text, sound and video, using the body as a living archive for memories, heritage and belonging.&nbsp;She explores movement as recognition – an interface between body, language, stillness and landscape. She graduated from the College of Contemporary Dance (now the University College of Dance Art) and has continued to develop her artistry internationally, including a two-year collaboration with Marina Abramović on The Cleaner tour. She has also worked with Carole Douillard (Oslo Biennale), Rina Eide Løvaasen (Sweden, Uzbekistan, Norway) and Lisa Holterman Halle Berge (Malmö Museum and Roskilde Festival 2023).With her dual Thai and Northern Norwegian background, she is interested in how identity, perception, nature and contemporary structures form ways of being in the world. She created works such as Wounded Rhymes(Berlin 2024) and Wired Buffalo (Bangkok 2024).&nbsp;She has been awarded a three-year work grant from Arts and Culture Norway (2025–2027), and in 2026 will take part in a Dance Artist Exchange Residency between the Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts and the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre in Canada.

Chollada Phinitduang (f. 1990) er en thailandsk-norsk dansekunstner, koreograf og performancekunstner med base i Tromsø. Hun arbeider i skjæringspunktet mellom dans, tekst, lyd og video, der kroppen fungerer som et levende arkiv for minner, arv og tilhørighet.&nbsp;Hun utforsker bevegelse som erkjennelse – et møte mellom kropp, språk, stillhet og landskap. Hun er utdannet ved Skolen for Samtidsdans (nå Høyskolen for dansekunst), og har videreutviklet sitt kunstnerskap internasjonalt, blant annet gjennom to års arbeid med Marina Abramović under The Cleaner-turneen. Hun har også samarbeidet med Carole Douillard (Oslo Biennale), Rina Eide Løvaasen (Sverige, Usbekistan, Norge) og Lisa Holterman Halle Berge (Malmö Museum og Roskilde Festival 2023).Med sin bakgrunn fra både Thailand og Nord-Norge er hun opptatt av hvordan identitet, sansning, natur og samtidens strukturer former måter å være i verden på. Hun står bak verk som Wounded Rhymes (Berlin 2024) og Wired Buffalo (Bangkok 2024).&nbsp;Hun mottar et treårig arbeidsstipend fra Kulturdirektoratet (2025–2027), og i 2026 deltar hun i Dance Artist Exchange Residency mellom Davvi – Senter for scenekunst og Northern Arts and Cultural Centre i Canada.

To Be a Body, Is to Be Tied to a Certain World

ESCP

After talk: Chollada Phinitduang

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Ingri Fiksdal, born in 1982, is a choreographer living in Oslo. She has a PhD in artistic research form the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and has been affiliated with the CoFutures research team at the University of Oslo. In her works, she uses choreography as a form of speculative fiction, exploring the hierarchies of power in relation to the body, knowledge and history. In recent years, she has presented works at a number of international festivals and art institutions, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussel, Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf and Steirischer Herbst in Graz, and has also been on tour in Norway. Her later works include Sand Flight, created for The Bentway in Toronto in collaboration with director Jonas Corell Petersen, and the choreographic installation Hjemsøkt hus at Kunstnernes Hus, developed with Helle Siljeholm.&nbsp;Louis Schou-Hansen, born in 1992, is a choreographer and dancer living in Oslo. Their work explores the human body as a vulnerable and disobedient arena for fiction, often shaped by desire, mortality and self-destruction. Schou-Hansen frequently returns to history and counter-history – particularly the political chaos of early-modern Europe – to trace ghostly figures in contemporary culture. They have an MA from The Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and a BA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Louis’ work has recently been performed in venues including ICA London, New Art Dealers Alliance in New York, Dansehallerne København, Black Box Teater Oslo, Suprainfinit Bucuresti, My Wild Flag Stockholm and Centrale Fies in Dro, Italy, and they have also toured Norway. In 2024 they initiated and have since run the Mind Eater performance festival, alongside Runa Borch Skolseg.&nbsp;

The Court

ES NG

After talk: Nicola Gunn

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International

Australian Nicola Gunn is a Bergen-based artist working between contemporary performance, choreography, writing and pedagogy. Her works have been presented in venues and festivals across 19 countries, among them: Venezia Biennale di Danza, Tanz im August, Tanzquartier Wien, La Villette, Theatre Silvia Monfort, 4+4 Days in Motion Prague, Southbank Centre, Dublin Theatre Festival and others. Her works tend to complicate the relationship between herself, the material and the audience, and the slippages between the body on stage and text – whether written or spoken.

The Chekhov

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Skeiv tematikk

- a deeply personal, and intensely political, exploration of gay and Aboriginal identities.”

Joel weaves his way through and around the audience, one moment channeling childlike innocence, the next exuding muscular gay-male bravado and moments later crashing to the floor in torment. The audience gradually learns the true story of lost innocence, colonisation and sexual assault that has led to his family and cultural dislocation.Hilarious, provocative and heartfelt, this show tickles the nerve endings of desire while prodding the cavities left by colonisation. Featuring Joel Bray’s trademark confection of conversation, dance and all-you-can-eat audience participation, Daddy is a sweet feast with a deadly aftertaste. The performance involves the use of sweets, including large amounts of powdered sugar. This is a standing performance, but a limited number of priority seats (with restricted view) are available for those who cannot stand for longer periods.

- Joel has developed a reputation as one of the most electric new figures in Australian dance who has an uncanny ability to explore his journey and unapologetically present it in a conversational manner.

DADDY

LiLi Re

Harald Beharie

Roza Moshtaghi/Ronak Moshtaghi

Makiko Aoyama/Robert Howart/Takeshi Matsumoto

Karolina Bieszczad-Stie

Chollada Phinitduang

Fiksdal/Schou-Hansen

Nicola Gunn

Joel Bray Dance