From form to fumbling is a new choreographic piece that has its starting point in the material traces in the archive of Høvik ballet, the first independent professional dance company in Norway in recent years. The company existed from 1969 to 1989, and had the Henie Onstad Art Center at Høvikodden outside Oslo as its permanent location. Compared to music, theater, visual art and literature from the same period, the early art of dance is poorly documented, but some material exists. The project has worked with photo and film material from the first period from 1969 to 1975, and the title is a reversal of the NRK program Fra famling til form from 1969, the first film documentation of the company.

The choreography has been developed in close collaboration and through a multi-year exploration with dance artists such as Ilse Ghekiere, Terje Tjøme Mossige, Magdalene Solli and Per Roar. The artists meet the traces of the original material in our time, and wonder which bodies and events were present and absent in the storytelling of Høvik ballet. In this space of resonance, a polyphony of new connections appears.