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Wakati means ‘time’ in Swahili. In this work, together with musician Stephan Meidell Shelmith Øseth explores her own cultural background and the prejudices one carries along and enconters when moving between cultures. By using her experience of immigrating from Kenya to Norway, Shelmith examines expectations, ideas and limits that come along with being an immigrant and multicultural person in Norway.
The work sheds light on how identity changes and develops within a cultural context and between different cultures. Going beyond the personal Øseth shows how individual experiences are intertwined with social change and broader historical events. Art can offer a means of understanding the past and imagining the future.
Foto: Joshua Jacob Bobadilla
Choreography and dance: Shelmith Øseth
On stage: Stephan Meidell and Shelmith Øseth
Musician and composer: Stephan Meidell
Dramaturgy and outside eye: Vibeke Flesland Havre
Costume: Olga Regitze Dyrløv
Technician and Light designer: Jan Holden
Producer: Ine Terese Hogstad
Co-produced by: Carte Blanche, BIT Teatergarasjen, Fargespill, Bergen Dansesenter.
Funded by: Bergen kommune, Kulturrådet and The Audio and Visual Fund.
Shelmith Øseth is a dancer based in Bergen and Oslo. Her movements are characterised by experience from contemporary dance and various traditional African dance techniques such as indlamu and pantsula from South Africa, and mostly from Isukuti, a dance that is derived from the Kenyan tribe Luhya. She got her education at the dance line in Langhaugen high school in Bergen and later at New Education For Contemporary Dance in Härnösands in Sweden. The focus on social and political aspects with the pure expression of dance is what matters to her.
Guitarist Stephan Meidell is a musical adventurer who engages with sounds from electronic, acoustic and electromechanical instruments and machines, and then recontextualizes them in new and surprising ways. He owes much to contemporary minimalist traditions, early electronic music explorations, 60s modal jazz, and experimental techno. He has released numerous albums and has written commissions for dance, theatre, and audiovisual collaborations.
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