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Short stories


Students from the Oslo Academy of the Arts and the Norwegian Academy of Music have snuck behind the curtain and behind the scenes of the museum's exhibitions. What can happen when the museum is examined through body and movement, clothing and design, composition and sound?

Short Stories consists of five performative events that are activated in various locations in the museum, between the exhibitions, behind barricades and in the exhibitions' scenes.

Contributors
The scenic events are developed by art students in choreography, design (clothes and costumes), contemporary dance, music and composition.
Paper Machine

Welcome to a guided tour through the Paper Machine, where we insist on the truth of the machine.

Mathilde Caeyers (Choreographer)

Laura Lihua Nilsen (Dancer)

Keya Hedlin (Composer)

Ragna Hatland (Costume)

Time Intestines

And then again today's the day and those were the days and now these are the days and now the clock points histrionically to noon. Some new kind of north. And so which way do we go? What are days for? To wake us up, to put between the endless nights. - Laurie Anderson

Beljana Metje (Choreographer)

Bartlomiej Widerski (Dancer)

Tord Hagbarth Bremnes (Composer)

Julie Weider (Costume)

Herman Holter Solhjell (Costume)

Scream Saver

We entangle bones, spin oars, and shake the last moment.

Inspired by the exhibition Life and Death at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology we grow into the museum's skeleton and take root in a limbo space, not yet something, not yet nothing, (un)becoming something more. Locked together in a soundscape, two dancers bury themselves and each other anew in an ever-enclosing spiral.

The presence of a body that once was, once could, once Maren, now Maren, is with us in a metaphysical embodiment. With us in her spirals, with us in the landscape.

Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei.

Martin Bergo Selsjord (Choreographer)

Jenny Krog (Dancer)

Elias Elvegaard (Dancer)

Thorvald Bugge Helle (Composer)

Martha Antonia Hartmann (Costume)

Håvard Gismerøy Ekker (Costume)

Vacuum

Meet us in the sensory tunnel between life and death and the train exhibition, where the dancers will capture our senses and stretch time.

Sofia Farrah (Choreographer)

Live Karlsen (Dancer)

Abraham Geoffrey Winsnes (Dancer)

Nora Klungresæter (Composer)

Ingrid Korsvold (Costume)

Trine Sundby Hansen (Costume)

Passage

Apple or floor tiles or key cards or dust or looking back or triangles or changing shoe sizes or eating lunch or turning the water wheel or turning midnight.

Petter Singstad Skurdal (Choreographer)

Elida Solberg Bakke (Dancer)

Iris Engerness (Choreography assistant)

Hjalmar K. Henning Bjerner (Composer)

Leila Tóth (Costume)

Professional supervisors

Ida Falck Øien, Associate Professor in Fashion and Costume Design (MA Design, KHIO)

Elena Rykova, associate professor of composition (Norwegian Academy of Music, NMH)

Janne-Camilla Lyster, Associate Professor in Choreography (MA Choreography, KHIO)

Anne-Linn Akselsen, professor of contemporary dance (BA Contemporary Dance, KHIO)

Therese Skauge, professor of dance (BA Contemporary Dance, KHIO)

Project manager: Per Roar Thorsnes, professor of choreography (MA Choreography, KHIO)


Feb 13.

1:00 and 2:00 PM


Feb. 14 and 16–19.

11:00, 12:00 and 14:00 PM


The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology


Norway's National Museum of Technology, Industry, Science and Medicine. Here you will find exciting exhibitions and activities a short distance from central Oslo.

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