FIELD WORKS - Hotel

FIELD WORKS - Hotel is part of the "FIELD WORKS" series.

In FIELD WORKS different semi public places are examined. Dancers are placed in unknown locations and situation to examine how these environments affect the body in motion. The performance FIELD WORKS - Hotel is presented at two hotel rooms during the dance festival Oktoberdans 2010. How can traces from different places and situation be stored in our bodies to be revived in other settings? In Field Works - Hotel the mythical and poetical aspects of a hotel room are examined. How many have stayed in this room? What happened here before you entered? How can your presence affect what has already happened? FIELD WORKS - Hotel is an intimate performance performed for an audience of one person at the time.

Heine Røsdal Avdal received the award Oktoberdansprisen in 2008 for his some notes are. He impressed with his choreography "Horizontal Planes" in the Carte Blanche trilogy "NyNORSK" in 2009.

The following is from the autumn program of Avant Garden 2010:

How much “at home” can you feel in a hotel, how lonely can you be and how unique is the experience in one chain hotel or another? What happens to you when you are alone in a hotel room?

Field Works–hotel is a place-specific project seeking to find the mystical and poetic qualities of a conventional hotel room. The performance venue and its surroundings are integrated and used as a medium to connect the visiting spectator to past events gradually changing into the present.

The Norwegian dancer and choreographer Heine Røsdal Avdal, based in Oslo and Brussels, has performed in Norway also at earlier times, among other performances with You Are Here (2009) which he made with Yukiko Shinozaki and the Belgian sound artist and dramaturge Christoph De Boeck.

Field Works – Hotel was supported by Arts Council Norway, The Audio Visual Fund, The Fund for Performing Artists, Vlaamse Gemeenschap and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/MFA (travel grant/performing arts).

Special thanks to: Toni Cots

Thanks to: Comfort Hotel Trondheim (During the festival Bastard 2010)

The production was performed eleven times a day during Bastard 2010.

Sources:

BIT Teatergarasjen, Oktoberdans 2010. 06.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/336

Autumn program 2010, Avant Garden

Frida Gullestad, 23/9-10, Review titled Rom 313* (Room 313) - adressa.no: http://www.adressa.no/kultur/scene/article1532809.ece 1/10-10:
"A hotel room will never be the same (...) Everything is the way it usually is. Or? (...) Even though I have tried to get prepared, I am taken by surprise and laugh out loud. For this room is not like every other room".

*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.