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Prøverommet at Bergen inkluderingssenter

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Tilgjengelighet (partly) Unkown Accessible with wheelchair No blackout No stage smoke or scents No strobe lights Non verbal Seated or seating options With English text/speech

Welcome to the first Prøverommet at Bergen inkluderingssenter, where artwork and several performances will pop-up in different places on site: Folkoteket, Grip mikrofonen stage, and the greenhouse.

Artists are: Hanna Pherson, Kaveh Ayreek, Sophia Obermeyer & Maria O’Hearce, Monica Botchway, and Tine Adler & Nayara Leite. Expect song, dance, performance and sculpture, presented within a social and fun atmosphere! The event is free but it’s nice if you to reserve a ticket so we know how many people to expect.

Tine Adler & Nayara Leite

Tine is a Danish artist and writer based in Bergen. They use unconventional techniques and materials to stage stories around themes of belonging versus outsideness. Nayara is a Bergen-based Brazilian artist and writer, working across different media, often in combination with autobiographical narrative, political news and archival material, to portray the reality in which LGBTQ+ communities live. At Prøverommet, Tine & Nayara will present Finding hope in a dumpster fire, a performative presentation where they hope to end the unconstructive loop of despair and pessimism they have been trapped in for so long. It’s a dive into how the communities, religions and folklore they grew up with shaped their ideas of what trust and hope embodies, and how these ideas reinforced a notion of non-belonging. From joining a campaign to canonise Brazil’s first queer saint to searching for gender fluidity in Norse Mythology, they’ll share their different journeys to redefine elements of the pasts to meet in a more hopeful shared present.

Monica Botchway

Monica is a gospel singer who sings in churches and at various events. She has lived in Norway for 4 years and comes from Ghana. Currently, she is learning Norwegian at Bergen Inkluderingssenter. At Prøverommet, Monica will sing a few gospel songs in a mix of languages.

Sophia Obermeyer & Maria O’Herce

Maria is a choreographer and performer based between Barcelona and Berlin, blending physicality, voice and visual language. Sophia is a dance artist and philosopher based in Berlin, whose work centres bodies in how they are. They are currently on a residency at Bergen Dansesenter collaborating on Falling Mountains, the project they will present at Prøverommet, which explores a surreal and intimate relationship between two nearly identical figures. They approach, embrace, and collapse, folding into uncanny shapes through repetition and touch. As they fall, they climb on one another – quietly persisisting in a dance of mutual support and failure. Collapse here is not a sudden or dramatic fallout of the system, but a gradual erosion. In a world that demands coherence and control, this duet lingers in the messier, in-between spaces of identity, where gestures falter and bodies relate through strangeness and care.

Kaveh Ayreek

Kaveh is a performance artist, photographer, theatre and film director, living in Norway. He was born in Afghanistan and lived in Iran as a refugee. This did not stop him from prolific activity in the professional theatre and film fields, in Iran, Afghanistan and Europe. In most of his works, he tries to share his experiences as a member of the Hazara people in Afghanistan and as an artist in exile. His works are mostly about women, children and the role and status of ethnic, linguistic and gender minorities in Afghanistan. At Prøverommet Kaveh will present an anti-war solo performance.

Hanna Pherson

Hanna is a Swedish artist living in Bergen. With a background in crafts and performance, her installations explore queer symbolism, the boundaries between public and the private, as well as touching on the relationship between the synthetic and the natural world. At Bergen Inkluderingssenter, Hanna will exhibit textile sculptures of plants with the working title Backdrop Plants – a material exploration in preparation for her upcoming exhibition at Visningsrommet USF: The sun always shines on tv. The works are inspired by film TV sets such as Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, where one leaves reality to enter a fantasy world.

What is Prøverommet?

Prøverommet has been running since 1998, originally in the bar of BIT’s former venue Teatergarasjen for 10 years, now popping up at various venues throughout the seasons. It’s a social and low threshold environment to try out new artistic material in front of an audience using any medium: dance, theatre, poetry, visual art, music… The programme is open to everyone to apply or attend, with at least 10 events per year. Almost 2500 projects have been presented so far!

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