Dramaturgy seminar: Choreography, dramaturgy and infrastructure
Dansens Hus, in collaboration with Oslo National Academy of the Arts – department of dance, invites performers and creators within the dance and performing arts field to participate in seminars on different forms of dramaturgical thinking.
CHAPTER VIII:
DAY 1 – the seminar:
Saturday 15 March, 2025
Time 10:00-16:00
English vocal language
Registration:
– CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION –
About:
How to work creatively with site, context and audience? And how can such approaches influence artistic practice, choreography and dramaturgy? Based on these questions, Hild Borchgrevink and Venke Sortland will share experiences from their practices in art and public spaces, choreography, dramaturgy and editorial work.
We often think of artworks as independent, even if art happens in sites, contexts and social spaces that are themselves never neutral. In the pamphlet Produktionsæstetik from 2022, cultural researcher and dance artist Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt emphasises ‘all the material and immaterial work that surrounds the artwork’. In the new anthology Infrastructure Aesthetics (DeGruyter), Ullerup Schmidt and two co-authors write about how such infrastructures can also become part of artistic work, as ‘borders between the artwork and its surroundings are becoming increasingly blurred’.
The seminar will be structured in two parts. On Saturday morning, Hild Borchgrevink and Venke Sortland will share their respective practices before entering a joint conversation with dance artist and Associate Professor Snelle Hall.
After lunch, we invite participants to share experiences from their own practice around questions of place, context and audience.
Accessibility information:
Step-free access space with accessible toilet
Audio description will be done by the speakers. The seminar will be sign language interpreted (from English to Norwegian sign language)
Please let us know of any access requirements in advance.
For accessibility information, please contact:
Jo Even Bjørke
+47 932 47 111
joeven@dansenshus.com
Address:
Dansens Hus
Vulkan 1
0182 Oslo
Bios:
Hild Borchgrevink is a writer, artist and curator. In 2024, she is on the editorial board of two publications about art and place: Metodar for Nordøyane (Fragment) and Våtmarksbiblioteket (Paviljong Våtmark). She works with temporary interventions in public space, shown at a.o. Kristiansand kunsthall and at the festival Høstscena. She co-curates the KORO project STUDIO and is the former editor-in-chief of the online journal Scenekunst.no. Hild holds an MFA in art and public spaces from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and an MA in musicology, as well as training in creative writing. She is currently a research fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music with a project on contemporary music and dramaturgy.
Venke Marie Sortland is a dance artist, performer and writer based in Oslo. She has her artistic education from Skolen for samtidsdans (2002-05) and an MA in pedagogy from the University of Oslo. Her own projects include Landing and Bøler Samvirkelag. As a performer she has worked with choreographers such as Norwegian Ingri Fiksdal and German Jana Umüssig. Venke was a member of the editorial board for the anthology KOREOGRAFI and is on the editorial board for the performing arts journal Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift.
Snelle Ingrid Hall is a dance artist, theatre scholar and associate professor. She worked as a dance artist for more than 30 years, mostly in the independent dance field, and especially in the constellation Siri&Snelle. She is an experienced teacher of dance composition and dance theory, and has also worked as a writer and dramaturg/outside eye. Snelle is currently Dean of the Dance Department at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
DAY 2 – practicum
Sunday 16 March, 2025
Individual timeslots
To register for a session discussing a process, project, an idea or a performance with Hild Borchgrevink, please send an e-mail to billettsalg@dansenshus.com
Mark the e-mail with PRACTICUM.
Please let us know of any access requirements in advance and if you will bring your own assistant or translator.
Address
Oslo National Academy of the Arts – studio 12, building 3.4
Fossveien 24,
0551 Oslo