The organ is an extension of our and Teigen's lungs
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BANANAZ, 2020
LITTERATURHUSET I OSLO, 2019
KORTREIST DANSEFESTIVAL, 2019
VINTERSCENEN, 2019
OKTOBERDANS, 2018
MULTIPLIÉ DANSEFESTIVAL, 2018
DANSENS HUS OSLO, 2017
DEICHMANSKE BIBLIOTEK AVD. GRÜNERLØKKA, 2017
BLEST LITTERATURFEST, 2017
LITTERATURSYMPOSIET I ODDA, 2017
TEATERFESTIVALEN I FJALER, 2017
RAVNEDANS, 2017
SÅNAFEST, 2017
NORWEGIAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL, 2017
VOIE CHURCH KRISTIANSAND, 2017
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In The organ is an extension of our and Teigen's lungs, Marie Bergby Handeland and Morten Liene study the sanctified, exalted and melancholic aspects of Jahn Teigen. Using a small fifties organ, they sing a handful of his best songs. In their versions, they succumb to great emotions and heartfelt movements, inspired by Teigen's own study of why it is so much easier for him to cry now than some years ago. Teigen longs, cries, yet he is still the happiest man on earth.
Jahn Teigen is considered a legend within the Norwegian entertainment industry. Since the 1970s he has released more than 40 albums, 60 singles, and has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest more than anyone else.
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Choreography: Marie Bergby Handeland and Morten Liene
Photo: Morten Arnfred
Supported by: The Norwegian Art Council and FFUK
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The organ is an extension of our and Teigen's lungs are part of Marie and Morten's concert series The Wish Concert. The same series also includes Everyone Regrets (2016), ZERO (2018) and Grease is the way we are feeling (2019) .
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«Another center in the festival (….) Consisted of Marie Bergby Handeland and Morten Liene's series of musical tributes to the fervor and seriousness of the seemingly banal. The common denominator is "big and warm emotions in body and voice", with choreography as the basic structure. (… ..) to step into the liberating lightness that surrounds Handeland and Liene's review of Jahn Teigen's greatest hits in the Organ is an extension of our and Teigen's lungs. The two sat next to each other and sang while accompanying themselves "four-handed" on an old-fashioned, cheap electric home organ from the 1950s by the brand Magnus, without opportunities to nuance estimates, intensity or volume. (….) All songs were, as far as I could judge, performed in minor, regardless of the original. This as an emphasis on the potential built-in sadness that Teigen himself may not always be able to release in his own songs. In that way, miraculously, something touchingly lonely and longing came over, among other things, the chorus of the song Sala Palmer from the musical "Fantomets glade bryllup"
- Scenekunst.no
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