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NO-projects

NO-projects (2009) by Impure Company/ Hooman Sharifi is an intimate, but open situation between spectator, performer and text.

Information

(Objekt ID 2854)
Object type Production
Premiere February 12, 2010
Produced by Impure Company/Hooman Sharifi
Audience Adults
Subtitles English
Keywords Dance, Installation, Contemporary dance
Website Teaterhuset Avant Garden

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NO-projects by Impure Company/Hooman Sharifi is an installation aspiring to involve the spectator without demanding him/her to be physically active. The performer puts a text in an overhead projector and begin a solo lasting for 20 minutes.

The texts are written by the avant gardist novel writer and playwright Peter Handke and the influential semiotic and critic Roland Barthes, and the involvement by the spectator is about how he/she reads the text, understands it and links it to the movement seen. The movement material doesn’t illustrate the text but is generated by it. The aim is opening a room between the text and the movement.

Norwegian-Irani Hooman Sharifi is considered as one of Norway’s most important choreographers. His works are characterised by intense energy, strong will and political content. Impure Company was established in 2001 and is an internationally touring company established in Norway. Among other things, the company has visited important festivals such as ImpulsTanz in Vienna, Baltoscandal in Rakvere, André Lepecki’s Transit festival, Springdance in Utrecht, Atelier REAL/Joao Fiadeiro and Cena11. NO-projects had its world wide premiere in Frankfurt in May 2009.

NO-projects was supported by Arts Council Norway, the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs/MFA (travel grant/performing arts).

In Avant Garden NO-projects was part of the performance series Norsk Sandwich (literally: Norwegian Sandwich) the spring of 2010.

Sources:

BIT Teatergarasjen spring program 2010. 10.08.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/296

Spring program 2010, Avant Garden. 

Contributors (20)
Name Role
Roland Barthes – Text
Peter Handke – Text
Hooman Sharifi – Concept/Idea
Hooman Sharifi – Direction
Hooman Sharifi – Choreography
Hooman Sharifi – Lighting design
Rikke Baewert – Co-creator
Loan Thanh Ha – Co-creator
Peder Horgen – Co-creator
Marianne Kjærsund – Co-creator
Matthew William Smith – Co-creator
Rikke Baewert – Dancer
Loan Thanh Ha – Dancer
Peder Horgen – Dancer
Marianne Kjærsund – Dancer
Matthew William Smith – Dancer
Ida Gudbrandsen – Producer
Bojana Kunst – Advisor (Dramaturgisk rådgivning)
Marianne Van Kerkhoven – Advisor
Valerié Lanciaux – Other (Kunstnerisk Koordinator)
Performance dates
Navember 2011The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York Show
March 27, 2011 18:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 26, 2011 18:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 25, 2011 18:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 24, 2011 18:00 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 4, 2010 18:00 – Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
March 3, 2010 18:00 – Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
March 2, 2010 18:00 – Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
February 13, 2010 18:00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet Show
February 12, 2010 18:00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet National premiere, Norway
May 30, 2009 19:30 – Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Show
May 29, 2009 19:30 – Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Show
May 28, 2009 19:30 – Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Show