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Kollhellaren Foto Ingrid Sommerseth

Norwegian

-These figures are ghosts all dancing together, and I am a ghost too, and there is a conviviality to them, to us, to the thousands of years for which they have been dancing here together

This year marks 20 years since Mia Habib’s first production, Missing In Action, at the House of Dance (then a nomadic stage). Since then, she has produced a number of performances both nationally and internationally.Psychedelic Cave is part of a long-standing and ongoing practice in Mia Habib’s artistic career. Her work springs from questions like: How to protest, how to touch, how to fall, how to hope, how to continue, how to dream, how to fight, how to meet, how to change?In a time marked by global unrest, wars, and protests, Habib – together with invited artists – continues to explore the body's potential as counterforce.The work reaches back thousands of years, to the cave paintings, but also to our own time through different lenses of collective stories about migration, oppression, and dying cultures.The various formats move from public space to private homes, from stage to different communities worldwide. The work often touches upon the power of meeting and gathering. To be changed by encountering others. To enter the unknown together. To speak across invisible borders.Last year, Mia Habib took us into the collective space of grief with Samkome. Now she opens the door to the cave. Another space that insists on darkness as a place for encounter and transformation. - If we remember that the commonest form of rock art is the open hand with ochre spat around it, then this is to remember the first act of touching rock, of opening hand, spit, lip, and breath to the question of touching earth and its geologic perspective. Kathryn Yusoff Festival Pass: CODA Oslo International Dance Festival 2025 offers a festival pass that provides access to all performances. More information <a href="https://coda.hoopla.no/event/466099326">HERE</a> &nbsp;

Psychedelic Cave

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The dancers' movements on the sand dune evoke associations with ancient civilizations and create space for contemplating possible futures. With soundscapes by Lasse Marhaug and a new choral work by Gaute Tønder, the soundscape shifts between bass-heavy landscapes and human voices. The sand dune contains small remnants from countless past lives and puts our cities and lives into perspective.In a future Norway, where temperatures rise and winds change direction, desert-like sand dunes begin to appear in parks and urban spaces. They become new, moving landmarks—clear signs that nature is taking space in the city.Sand Flight revisits a past and envisions a future where sand and soil particles take over landscapes and cities, exploring how our urban lives are transformed in the face of global warming. The production challenges and seduces, inviting the audience to rethink the city, nature, and ourselves. A magnificent piece of climate fiction in physical form.Sand Flight had its world premiere in Toronto in June 2025 before embarking on a tour to the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Portugal, Latvia, and Norway, adapted to local conditions and featuring local performers

Sandflukt

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International

Behind the work is the French artist collective Collectif ÈS, known for their playful, physical, and deeply inclusive approach to performing arts. For the collective, dance is precisely about participation—being present in the body, in the moment, in community. Their name, meaning 'with regard to', says it all: they create with consideration for the people in the space. Karaodance is more than just a performance. It’s an invitation. An opportunity to let loose and shine. To be present, in movement, together. You can be yourself or discover a new version of yourself, right on the dance floor. There are no rules, no limits. Only rhythm, freedom and joy. &nbsp;

Karaodance

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After talk: Mia Habib & company

Samtale

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Book launch and conversation

Workshop

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Workshop: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Project x PRODA

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Workshop: Carte Blanche x PRODA

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- what really makes the piece work are the dancers. Playful yet precise, they all perform terrifically.

The performance, by contrast, shifts effortlessly between grand collective set-pieces and more subdued, stripped-down sessions. It works very well.

Jan Martens (1984, Belgium) studied in Tilburg and Antwerp, graduating in 2006. His choreography explores body communication and recontextualizes movement to redefine the performer-audience relationship. Notable works include THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER (2014), RULE OF THREE (2017, nominated for the Zwaan Award), any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones (Festival d’Avignon 2020), and his latest work VOICE NOISE (2024). Martens co-founded GRIP in 2014 and is an associate artist at DE SINGEL Antwerp and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. He received the Charlotte Köhler Prize in 2015.

All in all, this show is very creatively conceived, and I would recommend everyone to go and see this piece.

It’s exciting to observe the dancers an

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Dance intro: Cancel Bertha

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Family workshop

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After talk: CARTE BLANCHE

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Invoking the&nbsp;umuko, the healing tree, the ancestral tree, the gardian of stories, Dorothée Munyaneza invites five young artists, poets, dancers, musicians, from the Rwandese scene who are weaving the legacy of the past with the creativity and the audacity of the future, so stubborn in the precariousness of daily life. In&nbsp;umuko,&nbsp;ejo, the past and the future in Kinyarwanda, meet and tell stories through body, poetry, music, and song.

umuko

Seminar

Bridges

Seminar: Frictioned futures – power, responsibility and the work of change

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After talk: Dorothée Munyaneza & crew

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Barn og unge

Familiedager 2025

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Since its founding in 2014, the Dutch company The 100Hands has developed its own form of physical and interactive dance, with a recognizable signature and communication that resonates with audiences of all ages. Based in their hometown of Breda, they work with sustainable partners both within and outside the arts sector, and have built a strong local, regional, and international foundation. Their performances have been shown in Belgium, China, Denmark, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands, Austria, and Sweden.Read more about The 100Hands <a href="https://www.the100hands.com/en">HER</a>E

Out of the box

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Praxisfestivalen

Panel discussion: Why dance now?

Workshop: Dabke “level up”

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I Gjenstand og fortvilelse undersøker Ingun Bjørnsgaard menneskelig feilbarlighet, i nært samarbeid med danserne Catharina Vehre Gresslien, Edith Strand Askeland og Ludvig Daae.

The gender aspect is as always at stake in the company’s work, and masculine and feminine qualities are distributed between the performers, as in the attempts to shield other people from their own errors. Bodily self-censorship is at risk in the many practical tasks and tools that life consists of. And at the same time, the primal, underlying chaos becomes all the more visible in the performers' aim to navigate without fault.&nbsp;Through a complex layering of the performance, well-composed sculptural movement patterns and detailed physical references create an ambiguous, dynamic landscape, in a private space that the performers try to transcend. In the construction and deconstruction of visual tableaux, human fragility becomes a separate poetic idiom in itself, and clumsiness ab essential component in the experience of beauty.The choreographic work is developed in close cooperation between movement, music and the physical space, created by set designer Thomas Björk and costume designer Solveig Holthe Bygdnes.&nbsp;Bjørnsgaard works for the first time with the Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal. Smørdal is known for experimentation and improvisation as a method, where the music becomes a product of social factors. The composer himself performs parts of the music live on stage, and through everyday instrument-objects created for Object and despair, the musical score also suggests the likelihood that sublime moments arise through relational interaction and lack of control.

- The starting position is odd. The feet are together as if on alert, and when sitting down you end up too far towards the edge of the chair. The movements are – as the pictures show – ugly, and the result unfortunate.

- The goal has been to free people from doubt, thoughts and confusion, so that the spiritual forces can be used for the one essential thing: to come into contact with fellow human beings without stumbling blocks. The work is an attack on the personal insecurity that prevails in the new social forms of communication. The work’s motto is: Through knowledge of the forms we are freed from them.

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Artist presentation: Ingun Bjørnsgaard

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Debrief: Gjenstand og fortvilelse

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In WHITEOUT, strategies are sought to bring forth what is unresolved, where certain gnawing feelings refuse to let go, dragging you through uncomfortable stage encounters. Therefore, the dance offers no resolution and becomes an image of our times: Where are we really heading?In our attempts to address necessary climate measures, everyone experiences a sense of being overwhelmed and exhausted by the seemingly impossible task and lack of mastery. Yet, instead of creating a definitive picture of uncertainty as something solely negative or problematic, this work opens up for a more open and exploratory approach. The performance thus argues that even battles that seem hopeless are never lost and reflects on the historical changes that have emerged from the darkness.Geir Hytten is a Norwegian dancer and choreographer. He holds an MA in dance from Laban in London and an MPhil in Human Geography from the University of Oslo. In the UK, he danced for a decade with Punchdrunk, as well as with Lea Anderson and Complicite. In Norway, he has collaborated with choreographers such as Jo Strømgren, Impure Company, and Karstein Solli, among others. He has created several of his own performances, of which grief will be our companion&nbsp;and Red Flag have been presented at Dansens Hus, and he is a performer in the trio Dancing by the legendary choreographer Deborah Hay which had its world premiere at Dansens Hus in spring 2025.

Whiteout

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Debrief: Whiteout

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- The costumes show children and adults that you are allowed to be a man any way you like in this world.

- The performance offers a unique, colorful experience precisely tailored to children's perceptual abilities.

The glam rock and poodle rock of the 1970s and 80s blurred the boundaries between the genders, with the artists often having an androgynous expression. When the five male performers in&nbsp;Rock me Baby&nbsp;explore this historic trend, they open up new possibilities about gender options.Rock me Baby&nbsp;was created by&nbsp;Øystein Elle&nbsp;and&nbsp;Karstein Solli,&nbsp;who have already collaborated on several popular productions for young children, that have been performed in Norway and abroad. Kjell I. Nordstrøm, who may be familiar to many people from NRK’s Maskorama entertainment series, has designed the production’s spectacular costumes. &nbsp;

- There is plenty of magic and experiences for all generations.

Øystein Elle/Capto Musicae og Karstein Solli Produksjoner

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After talk: Geir Hytten

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Urban

Christine Nypan is both a creative and performing dance artist and teacher, and holds a master's degree in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). She has worked with choreographers and companies including Leela Petronio, Raphale Delauney, Membros, Elle Sofe Sara, Frikar/ Hallgrim Hansegård, Sudesh Adhana, Jens Trinidad, dEEp doWN dopEiZM, Panta Rei Danseteater, Tekst lab, Viktor Frojd and Mia Habib. She has developed her own productions and collaborative projects, which have been performed at Dansens Hus in Oslo, Dansens Hus in Stockholm, Urbfestival in Helsinki, Scenehuset, Urban Moves and Rommen Scene, and she has toured with DKS Viken in Rogaland and Vestlandet. She has also created productions for many dance courses, including Kompani Munch, KHiO, Edvard Munch upper secondary school and Trippel dance. Chriz is a co-founder of MUD session Oslo, and works as a teacher in street dance studies at Edvard Munch upper secondary school and KHiO.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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After talk: Chriz Nypan

Mia Habib Productions

Ingri Fiksdal & Jonas Corell Petersen

Collectif ÈS

Carte Blanche/Jan Martens

Cie Kadidi

Familiedager 2025

The 100Hands

Praxisfestivalen

Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt

Geir Hytten

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Chriz Nypan