Three Norwegian performing artists to PUSH+ Failure-lab in September

Ingvild Lien is an actor and director with extensive experience in working with young audiences. She has written, directed and acted in several performances, and is a certified stage combat choreographer. In 2010 she started the theater company Memento, and she is currently on tour with the monologue performance Hvordan Bli SuperHappy på 50 Minutter.

Hediyeh Azma is a dancer and choreographer with 21 years of experience in Iranian urban and contemporary dance. In 2009 she founded Deir, a dance school in Iran. She holds a master's degree in dance anthropology, looking at the relationship between audiences and dancers in site-specific and participatory performances.

Martijn Dirk Joling started his career as a Dutch rapper. He has studied dance at the ROC Amsterdam dance academy and the Amsterdam art academy. In recent years he has focused on creating his own work, influenced by the interaction between stage design, installations, film, music and poetry.

About the theme "Failure":

The Failure Lab will take place in Belgium from 13 - 22 September 2019 and will investigate on a more philosophical level how failure is related to success as a positive norm in society. What is failure compared to success, who decides on that, what does failure mean on a personal and social level? What if failure turns out to be as positive as success? Then we might need real Institutes of Failures as an antidote to our society imposed fear for failures.

About PUSH+:

PUSH+ is a 3-year Creative Europe co-operation project led by Imaginate (Scotland) alongside Aaben Dans (Denmark), Krokusfestival (Belgium), Scenekunstbruket (Norway), The Ark (Ireland) and associate partner Bangkok International Children's Festival (Thailand).  

PUSH+ will stimulate European dialogue and initiate new artistic ideas and performances around three important topics in performance for young audiences - Home, Failure and Different Bodies. These are topics that push us
to take more risks as makers and presenters, to address the
underrepresentation of different lives and bodies on our stages and to
tell stories that really connect with children and who they are. Each
topic will have a year-long focus with a Lab, Residency and Festival
Visit/Presentation. We will also explore three artistic formats - Participatory, Site-specific and Intergenerational - across all three topics.