Fredrik Floen
Fredrik Floen (born in Bergen in 1988) is a Norwegian costume designer.
Floen was responsible for the stage design and costume design in We Come in Peace (2019), a dance production by Helgebostad, Johannesdottir, Lauvdal, Floen and Theisen. He, Kristin Helgebostad, Heida Karine Johannesdottir Mobeck, Anja Lauvdal and Irene Vesterhus Theisen received Norwegian Critics' Award for Dance 2019/2020 for their work on the production.
"We Come in Peace is a remarkable production. It has been called a beautiful piece of performance art, a brave and moving project, a performance shining far into space and back. It is rare, because it is a genre of its own: We Come in Peace is the first contemporary dancical in the world. We hope it's a genre come to stay.
For in this intersection, there are possibilities both dance and music can grab hold of. When the freedom and enormous repertoire of contemporary dance meet the essence of the musical - the kind that can, with the lightest of hearts, embrace the cliches and has let go of irony a long time ago - the essence of We Come in Peace comes to life.
Through the Matrix look, through PVC and leather and babydolls, the naked, unvarnished and unaffected shine through, what is often the most difficult of all: Sincerity. It sits in every movement, in the demanding choreographic patterns, in the intricate footwork, in the tempo, in the sweat, in the pauses, in the music - and in the address.
I said that this year's nominees challenge the gaze. We Come in Peace challenges to be seen. We Come in Peace is like Frida, it stands with its heart in its hand. We Come in Peace invites us into ourselves. The performance is a visit from space, creatures who come - in peace - and want to show us something. It could have been a show of power. Instead, it is a show of love."
SOURCE:
Norwegian Critics' Association, kritikerlaget.no, 21.09.2020, https://kritikerlaget.no/saker/dansekritikerprisen-2019-2020
- Marie & Fredriks Teaterlag - Artistic director
- The Great Pretenders - Member of board
- Fredrik Floen - Manager
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Songs of Chaos (Moshtaghi Productions) | October 17, 2024 | Costume design |
| Lavaskogen (Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse) | March 11, 2023 | Costume design |
| The Syncopators (Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse) | May 27, 2022 | Costume |
| Brannen (The National TheatreDe Utvalgte) | January 22, 2022 | Costume design |
| Fictions of the Flesh (Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse) | October 28, 2021 | Concept/Idea, Costume, Visual design, Photo |
| Den andra naturen (Oslo National Academy of the Arts) | April 26, 2021 | Counsellor |
| Spectral (Ingri Midgard Fiksdal Dans) | September 1, 2020 | Concept/Idea, Costume, Photo, Stage design |
| Diorama. Digital versjon (Ingri Midgard Fiksdal Dans) | April 26, 2020 | Costume, Video/Film |
| We Come in Peace () | September 19, 2019 | Stage design, Costume, Photo, Concept/Idea |
| Vake* (Vigil) (Nordenfjeldske horlaug) | August 23, 2019 | Performer, Makeup |
| Fru Inger til Østeraat (Marie & Fredriks Teaterlag) | August 24, 2018 | Concept/Idea, Costume design, Stage design, Props, Mask design, Producer, Actor |
| Highway Hypnosis (Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret Bergen) | June 27, 2017 | Research |
| Lightness: Fleire () | March 23, 2017 | Costume, Stage design |
| Diorama (Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse) | 2017 | Costume |
| Live () | Navember 15, 2016 | Performer |
| Soft Manifesto () | October 22, 2015 | Costume |
| Kongsemnerne (The Great Pretenders) | August 8, 2015 | Artistic director, Visual design, Actor (Skule Jarl / Gregorius Jonssøn / Pål Flida / gæster / almuen og bymenn i Nidaros, Bergen og Oslo) |
| Lightness () | June 4, 2015 | Costume, Stage design |
| Peer på en pall* (Peer on a pallet) (Teater Joker) | August 31, 2012 | Mask design, Mask design |
| John Gabriel Borkman (Vegard Vinge/Ida MüllerTrond Reinholdtsen) | October 27, 2011 | Actor |