Stine Janvin: Mouthpiece
Project
29 September – 30 November 2022
In collaboration with RAS, Kunsthall Stavanger invites you to a performance by KNØ, winners of this year's Hedda Award for Best Dance Performance.
KNØ is a work crew consisting of 6 dancers and 3 large canvas paintings that meet in a collective bodily work. KNØ is based on an idea that people’s ways of existing are primarily maintained by doing activities such as collecting, carrying, keeping, and sharing. They work with an interest in touching, and explore desires and needs that develop through it.
Through simple yet complex interactions KNØ works on interweaving and interdependence between bodies and bodies of work. With backs and knees that withstand different loads, they push and are pushed, fold and get folded, carry and are carried. A soft struggle that points towards working with art and working with care.
Doors open at 18:00 and the performance starts at 18:30. Duration: 60 minutes.
CREDITS
Concept/choreography: Ingeleiv Berstad and Pernille Holden
Concept/costume/set-design: Signe Becker
Composer: Stine Janvin
Co-creating performers: Terje Tjøme Mossige, Rina Rosenqvist, Mathias Stoltenberg, Jens Trinidad, Pernille Holden, Ingeleiv Berstad.
Dramaturge: Melanie Fieldseth
Sound design: Christian Obermayer
The paintings are painted by Toril Skipnes, Anita Gundersen, Camilla Lilleengen og Frode Holgersen
Photo: Alette Schei Rørvik and Tale Hedenes
Video: Maja Wilhite Hannisdal
Producer: Eva Grainger
Production assistant: Sunniva Fliflet
Produced by: Bananaz – forening for Scenekunst
Supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, ffuk and Dansens Hus - Oslo
Ingeleiv Berstad
Ingeleiv Berstad is a choreographer and performer who mainly works within the free performing
arts field. For the last 10 years, she has been working in an interaction between the theater space
and projects that engage in other contexts or landscapes. She explores various forms of collective
production and is one of the initiators behind the Bananaz Association for the Performing Arts. She
holds an MA in choreography and a BA in contemporary dance from Oslo National Academy of the
Arts.
Pernille Holden
Pernille Holden is a performance – and creative dancer within the free field, based in Oslo. Her
artistic practice unfolds through various collaborations where collectivity, musicality, the body’s
materiality, and potential are central. Her work materializes in various formats and contexts. She is
educated at Spin-Off Forstudium in Dance and the School of Contemporary Dance in Oslo.
Signe Becker
Signe Becker is a scenographer and visual artist who works in a broad and interdisciplinary landscape. Her art projects include collective theater and dance productions as well as spatial installations, performances, and sculptures. She holds a bachelor’s degree in scenography from the Academy of Performing Arts in Fredrikstad (2006) and a master’s degree in visual communication from the Oslo Academy of the Arts (2008), and is currently completing her PhD at the Oslo Academy of the Arts with the project “Made Life - Staged objects and staged self».
Stine Janvin
Stine Janvin is a vocalist, performer and sound artist interested in the flexibility of the voice as an instrument and how it can be shaped and extended by focusing on it’s anatomic features and acoustic potential. Through her projects, created for music theatres, clubs and galleries, Janvin explores the physical aspects of sound, the technical versus the sentimental qualities of the voice, and dualities of the natural/artificial, organic/synthetic, and minimal/dramatic.
Photo: Tale Hendnes.
Photo: Tale Hendnes.
Photo: Tale Hendnes.