UtoSafari
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A performance about risk and relationships where three furry figures turn the room upside down and clash in clashes and embraces. Wild, witty and deadly serious, UtoSafari is about risk and relationships; about being alone and about being two or three. How lonely can you get among others? Do you have to be two to be happy? A UtoSafari starts with a dance performance, continues with a dialogue between children and performers, and ends with a workshop where the children get to explore the space and the theme together with the dancers.We want to give the children experiences they can feel in their own bodies, both physically and emotionally, and encourage them to reflect on their own experiences. Through this work, the children are met as equals. The starting point for the meeting is an attitude that opposite answers to the same question can be equally correct.UtoSafari is a dance performance that explores physical encounters between the performers and with the space. From being cautious and helping each other, to teasing, tumbling, fighting and crossing the line. It's about knowing your own limits, setting boundaries, being confident in your own body and taking care of each other. Associations with animals, play and other movements that children can recognize have been an inspiration in the work with the material. Through our relationship to the house, we focus on the space as an equal part of the whole, and expand the audience's attention and perspective to include the surroundings outside the house: Landing DACoProducers: Rom for Dans ASSupported by: Arts Council Norway - Den kulturelle skolesekken and Kunstløftet, The Fund for Performing Artists, Sør Trøndelag County Council and Oslo Municipality.
Duration:
30 minutes
Max capacity:
30
Set up:
90 minutes
Download:
30 minutes
Stage size:
Width: 8 Height: 4 Depth: 10
Power:
minimum 10 A power outlet, 1 course.
Comments on the workshop:
Immediately after the performance, we open up a space where the children's immediate reactions, reflections, ideas and associations become central. The performers sit down with the audience and start a dialog about "what was this like?", and whether anyone has questions about what they have experienced. At the end of the conversation, the performers ask if the audience would like to try some of the things they've seen in the performance. This second part of Utosafari's process now develops into a movement laboratory where we explore the theme further with the children on the floor. By giving the children the opportunity to work physically with what they have experienced, we believe they can gain direct access through their bodies to reflect on the theme and their own experiences. After a joint warm-up in a circle, the pupils are divided into groups to learn and explore different movement principles. Here, we are keen for everyone to be involved in doing their own work, to be watched by others as they work, and to train themselves to watch others. We set a clear framework for what is not allowed, and that it is allowed to say STOP. Two of the children go into battle with each of the three bears while the rest watch. Can we find out together where the boundaries in interaction with others lie? What is play and when does it become serious? Other principles from the performance are also explored, such as movements using the wall as a partner and dancing together with three people. We see this as a very dynamic part of the project where we are open to changing the structure/scheme based on our experiences along the way.
Guro Anna Wyller Odden
Other
Venke Marie Sortland
Other
Ina Coll Kjømoen
Other
Pernille Holden
Other
Inger Kristin Haugsevje
Other
Maja Roel
Annet
Anne Synnøve Skogstad
Other
Travel, per diem and accommodation not included
Number of people on tour
4
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Get in touch with:
Ina Coll Kjølmoen
inacoll@gmail.com
99017441