Underneath
2018—OKTOBERDANS, USF VERFTET BERGEN, NORWAY
2018—SCENEHUSET OSLO, NORWAY
2019—SANDNES KULTURHUS, NORWAY
2020—KILDEN KRISTIANSAND, NORWAY
2021—MULTIPLIÉ DANCE FESTIVAL / DANCE FESTIVAL BARENTS, TRONDHEIM, NORWAY
What links us together? Roskva Yasmin Andersen / KOLLEKTIVNI examine a fine-knit fabric of relational, social, organic and synthetic connections in a universe where all actions cause ripple effects. This dance piece unfolds underneath a plastic tarp, the dancers moving through various stages and conditions.Safe and unsafe, strong and vulnerable, calm and chaotic, the bodies and the plastic tarp move together in an explicitly physical expression of connectedness. The dancers move the tarp and it plays along. Mankind leaves a mark, there are no clear boundaries for objects or thoughts. Everything makes up a giant fold.
Taking this thought further through Gilles Deleuze’s book The Fold (1992), the plastic tarp becomes the fold that washes away boundaries between us; connecting us to each other, connecting nature and culture. The fold also symbolizes how the world works in a continuum where everything continues to change, and how we as humans are constantly able to evolve through different states and arrive to new experiences. In order to do this, we are dependent on each other and our surroundings.
We are connected in constant change, endlessly folding in and out. As expressed by Deleuze, the concrete and the abstract, inside and outside – it's all the same. Like the concept of the fold, or this piece where the plastic tarp provides an outside for the dancers' movements on the inside. The plastic fold comes to live like an ocean in constant movement. A variation of meanings and spaces emerge, allowing the audience to form their own associations and narratives together with the dancers and the billowing plastic.
Choreography
Roskva Yasmin Andersen.
Dancers
Synne Elve Enoksen
Lisa Colette Bysheim
Cesilie Kverneland
Rina Rosenqvist
Ingeborg Bjerke Styve
Amy Pender
Brita Grov
Light design
Dominique Pollet
Music
Mads Solberg
Supported by
City of Bergen
Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere
Norwegian Art Council
Co-production
BIT Teatergarasjen
Regionale Arena for Samtidsdans
Bergen Dansesenter—Regionale Kompetansesenter for Dans
Photography
Maja Hannisdal
CREDITS