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Artist residency | Dance

a body remembered  (artist residency) by Ole Kristian Tangen (NO)

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Together with dancer Even Eileraas and musicians Sverre Breivik and Vetle Junker, Ole Kristian Tangen develops a new performance at Samvirket i Fjaler. They then come to Bergen to show an excerpt from the process at Prøverommet.  

The project begins somewhere in the bodily and sensory experience of stillness and transition, drawing on a personal experience that to varying degrees has helped to redefine Tangen’s understanding of body, time and presence. Through different approaches to physicality and the use of sound, they will investigate how a physical vacuum is experienced, and how tactility and touch become a tool for navigating through the unknown.  

What spontaneous bodily reactions emerge in moments of paralysis, – and in the subsequent process of regaining control and sensuality? What happens in the encounter between two bodies, when one movement supports, explores or challenges the other? How can music and sound mirror or disrupt the physical experience of balance, loss and reconstruction?  

Through an open process where physicality, tactile sensory impressions and bodily relationships become the driving force for the artistic material, the goal is to develop a physical and sonic dialogue that lays the foundation for further scenic production. 

Medvirkende

Concept: Ole Kristian Tangen  
Choreographer: Ole Kristian Tangen  
Dancers: Even Eileraas, Ole Kristian Tangen Music: Sverre Breivik, Vetle Junker

a body remembered is in collaboration with PreForm / Samvirket.

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Bio

Ole Kristian Tangen began his career in Spain under artistic director Catherine Allard in the company IT DANSA. He has danced on some of Europe’s most prestigious stages and festivals, and has worked closely with Ina Christel Johannessen (zero visibility corp.).  

He established the company Tangen|Benzal (2015–2022) in collaboration with Jesús Benzal, and he has created commissioned works for companies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Spain. 

 Tangen is interested in physicality and the possibilities that are created through physicality in relation to others, the expressive body and the dialogue that is created in the scenic expression. 

Ole Kristian Tangen © Ole Kristian Tangen

Even Eileraas is from Haugesund and graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts with a bachelor’s degree in dance. He mainly works with contemporary dance in projects across the art fields, where movement is a meeting point between theatre, live music, costume design and film.  

He has collaborated with choreographers such as Damien Jalet, Ingri Fiksdal, Roza Moshtaghi and Janne-Camilla Lyster, and is also affiliated with project-based dance companies such as Kompani Haugesund and Nagelhus Schia Productions. Eileraas received the Rogaland County Council’s cultural grant in 2021 and the Norwegian State’s artist grant in 2024. 

Even Eileraas

Sverre Breivik is an actor and musician under his artist alias Metteson. After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of the Arts (2013–2016), he worked in Bergen for several years at Den Nationale Scene. Here he was primarily an actor (Engler i Amerika, Hamlet, etc.), but also initiator of the performance Physical/Playtime, as director, text editor and musician – a collaboration with dancers from Carte Blanche.

In recent years, Sverre has worked as a freelance musician, primarily with pop music through Metteson (the year’s shooting star at By:Larm 2021) but also recently as co-composer in Hege Haagenrud’s Do Not Stand Too Close at Dansens Hus. 

Sverre Breivik ©

Vetle Junker is a Norwegian artist, producer and musician from Skien, now living in Bergen. He has collaborated with artists such as AURORA, Metteson, Lars Vaular and Sondre Lerche, and in 2022 was awarded the Musikkforlaggerprisen for the years breakthrough in the popular music category.

As part of the duo Malstrøm, together with saxophonist Jonas Flemsæter Hamre, he was nominated for the Spellemannprisen in 2024 for the album Ytre tegn på indre bevegelse. 

Vetle Junker