Photo: Mila Elisabeth Larvoll (Prøverommet at Østre 12.12.2024)
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Prøverommet is coming up at Østre and it’s going to be a good one! With Svalbard inspired tapestries and a monologue by Ananda Serné, Wet Country’s line dancing club concept, and Vilde Jensen’s Hysteric Choir, performed by satyrs on stilts; how can you not be there?
A Milky Blue Light combines digitally woven tapestries with a monologue Serné wrote based on her stay at the Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard. The tapestries depart from laser-reflectant depictions of the landscape around the research village, made in collaboration with a snow/avalanche researcher studying the changing conditions. Due to climate warming, Svalbard is experiencing an increase in rain-induced avalanches. The images of the avalanche that occurred during Serné’s stay at the research village resemble nightscapes or extraterrestrial landscapes. The similarity to stitches and threads made her want to translate these images into pixel-based patterns that can be read by a digital loom. Performer: Eira Søyseth
Join Wet Country, a club concept where you learn line dancing in a relaxed and fun atmosphere. Whether you have danced before or not, you are most welcome to join. For Prøverommet Wet Country will have a performance in addition to teaching line dancing.
Photo: Runa Andersen
A talking and moving choir consisting of satyr-like, goat-legged creatures. The choir is reciting a rhythmical text while they move around on stilts. Inspired by the satyr play of ancient Greece, which served as a comic relief after hours of tragedies unfolding on stage, Hysteric Choir seeks to serve as a sorely needed playful relief in times of instability, polarisation and war. While at the same time thematizing how we strive to control our bodies, our behaviour, and humanity’s everlasting search for immortality.
Prøverommet has been running at BIT Teatergarasjen for over 25 years, popping up at various venues throughout the seasons since 2008. It’s a space to try out new artistic material in front of an audience using any medium: dance, theatre, poetry, visual art, music… almost 2500 projects have been presented so far!
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