This Person

This Person (2008) by Hege Haagenrud: "Someone is getting excited. Somebody somewhere is shaking with excitement because something tremendous is going to happen to this person. This person has dressed for the occasion: this person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is not an issue here, the time for faith and fantasy is over, it is really really happening." – excerpt from the short story This Person by Miranda July.

The performance was part of the series Dans Til Folket (Dance to the People) during the festival Oktoberdans 2008.

Information

(Objekt ID 3567)
Object type Production
Premiere October 29, 2008
Produced by Hege Haagenrud
Coproducers BIT Teatergarasjen
Based on This Person by Miranda July
Keywords Dance, Performance, Site spesific performance
Running period October 29, 2008  

Requirements to venue

Blackout No
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"Dans Til Folket – a dogma dance project – is a not very camouflaged attempt at partly copying the Dogme 95 Manifesto launched during the Film Festival in Cannes in 1995, and to direct the spotlight towards the truly free and non-commercial dance in Norway as of today."

The goal with the project Dans Til Folket (literally meaning: Dance to the People) was to move the focus towards the good story playing in real time and unexpected places by challenging the way of thinking about a dance production and to emphasise different, at times unexpected, terms in the meeting between artists and audience. The choreographers and companies Fiksdal/Lie, Hege Haagenrud, Linda Birkedal/Molitrix Scenekunst and Rebekka/Huy were invited to participate. Each chose their arenas in Bergen. The results were presented during the festival Oktoberdans 2008.

" Von Trier and Vinterberg of Dogme 95 underlined in Cannes, Dans Til Folket in Bergen 2008 also directed a mild creative critic, was a counterweight, towards the commercialization and uniformity taking place in Norwegian dance of today. The budget size, the technical rigs and the degree of using effects seems to be allocated a larger and more central room, whereas the content pays the cost. The productions shall be directed towards an audience as large as possible, and to be as suitable for the advanced onlooker as the one watching dance art for the first time. Independent of gender, age, ethnic origin and economic ability, Dans Til Folket shall meet the ordinary folks!"

Source:

BIT Teatergarasjen, Oktoberdans 2008. 12.08.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -archive

Contributors (3)
Name Role
Hege Haagenrud – Choreography
Rebekka Karijord – Music
Sigrid Hirsch Kopperdal – Dancer
Performance dates
October 31, 2008Pingvinen Show
October 30, 2008Pingvinen Show
October 29, 2008Pingvinen Worldwide premiere
Festivals (1)
Oktoberdans October 29, 2008