THE AUTHOR MOVEMENT
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BAREDANS, 2021
LITTERATURSYMPOSIET I ODDA, 2019
KAPITTELFESTIVALEN / TOU SCENE, 2019
THE NORWEGIAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL, 2018
OSLO INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL, DANSENS HUS, 2018
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The Author Movement is six solos performed by six authors. Each of them has selected their own literary work that they would like to republish as contemporary dance. In their outcomes as dance, the literary works have been given new titles. The Author Movement consists of Walking the dog, Car theme, Two hundred and seventy-eight, A ceremony elsewhere, It never gets light here and A folk dance.
The author movement shows how specific rhythms, tempo, moods and movements in text, are also found in the bodies that have written and thought these out. After several years where Marie Bergby Handeland has been interested in writing in her work as a dancer, she wanted to work with movements in those who sit still and write. In close collaboration with the authors Henning Bergsvåg, Gro Dahle, Tina Åmodt, Kjartan Fløgstad, Gunstein Bakke and Aina Villanger, Marie investigates what kind of movement language an author carries. In newer editions of The Author Movement, Maia Kjeldset Siverts, Gunnar Wærness and Mathias Nyhagen Asplund also dance, with the solos Rat dance, Milking goats up and down and Mountain.
Marie was awarded the Dance Critics Award 2017/2018 by the Norwegian Critics' Association for her work with The Author Movement.
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Two text works were published in connection with The Author Movement - the book single Tur med hunden at Flamme forlag, and Alle spør Alle.
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Watch and read NRK's ​​longer report and photo series about the work here.
Read an interview with Marie and some of the authors in D2 here.
Listen to Dramatikkens hus podcast here.
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Concept, choreography: Marie Bergby Handeland Performers: Gro Dahle, Aina Villanger, Henning Bergsvåg, Kjartan Fløgstad, Tina Åmodt, Gunstein Bakke, Maia Kjeldset Siverts, Gunnar Wærness and Mathias Nyhagen Asplund Literary works: Magdalenafjorden, Audiens, Du er ikke her, Total Eclipse of the mind, Haren, Det blir aldri lyst her, Det ble en rotte!, Venn med Alle and eins pust Scenography and light design: Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson Music: Elisabeth Vatn and Celiné Dion Outside eye and guest in the solo of Gunstein: Morten Liene Graphic design: Marie Haakstad Costume adviser: Matilda Karlström Production: Jorunn Kjersem Hildre Photo: Asgeir Ravndal photo 1 + 8, Tale Hendnes photo 2-7 Co-production: Dansens Hus, Oslo International Theatre festival at Black Box teater, Dramatikkens hus Supported by: The Norwegian Art council, Municipality of Oslo, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere
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«The author movement rests, as I see it, on a clear democratic idea. (...) The writers' movement provides the opportunity to take in the potential of exposing their vulnerability. (...) And it is precisely in relation to this that the performance itself also becomes an exercise in democracy - that is, as a conversation in which one dares to stand up for one another as incomplete and non-omniscient, rather than through assertions and biases.»
- Norwegian Critics' Association, read the whole reasoning here.
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«I think it should be allowed for our hands to tremble much more in public.»
- Read the whole review in Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift here.
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