LAYING ON OF HANDS
MAJORSTUA PRAYER HOUSE (SCENEHUSET), 2022
LAYING ON OF HANDS is a two-story choreography and flute concert for the Majorstua prayer house. Even though we as we as dance artists know the room (Scenehuset) very well, as a central place for dance art for many years, another work space opens up when we turn it around and take the house of prayer that it once was into the body. There is a different listening to what has been, and new fantasies emerge in the attention we give to the room.
Body book for Community Churches is a small book with texts and drawings from the work.
Concept/ Choreography: Marie Bergby Handeland
Composer: Henriette Hvidsten Eilertsen
Performance, light and costumes: Terje Tjøme Mossige, Henriette Hvidsten Eilertsen and Marie Bergby Handeland
Body Book for Community Churches, text: Marie Bergby Handeland
Body Book for Community Churches, illustration: Ella Honeyman-Novotny
Photo: Simen Thornquist Dieserud
Thanks to: Sindre Jacobsen for å vært med i arbeidets oppstart og utvikling, Bananaz for lån av lysutstyr, Geir Hytten og Kristin Ryg Helgebostad
Founded by: Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere, Norsk Kulturråd, Tono-stipendet, Det norske Komponistfond and Oslo kommune.