Solos Tilt Grow 2023

Aurora Itland

The character in “The Island Within” is inspired by European wild men and their Pagan rituals, in which they dress up in dead natural material. The ritual is supposed to chase away the dead and celebrate fertility.

The Island Within

Dancer: Aurora Itland
Choreographer: Ina Christel Johannessen
Music: Pan Daijing
Costume (Wild Man): Aurora Itland & Ina Christel Johannessen

Oliver Sale

Perceiving binary as something static, lacking flexibility and movement ‘A Knowledge of Hope’ is an attempt to express the need to create space, fluidity and expression beyond those rigids parameters. It is a glimpse that shows the potential of the spaces in between.

A Knowledge of Hope

Dancer: Oliver Sale
Choreographer: Daniel Mariblanca
Music: White Cedar by The Mountain Goats (Performed live by Oliver Sale)

Ellinor Ødegård Staurbakk

“Elemental Traces” unveils the echoes of embodied histories and glimpses into the physical essence effecting our existence. As we share unique movement qualities in a process of creation, a tapestry of shared understanding emerges. Interwoven with harmonious music, expansive space, and the fluidity of time, this enchanting exploration offers fresh insights into embodiment whilst unfurling a dynamic musical journey.

Elemental Traces

Dancer: Ellinor Staurbakk
Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
Music: Isla Drew

Torril Kolsrud

A million little pieces deals with the conflicts that a new beginning might implicate. It deals with the painful birth of something new. Not necessarily a new life in the biological sense, but the birth of a new identity, a new self-consciousness that is grounded on struggle and takes its strength from the awareness of a battle being won. In the piece the body faces different stages on the way to his rebirth and renewal.
In-between-states that one has to face on the way to every decision.

Human, animal or plant: all living creatures are connected with and related to one another in an endless river of time. No development without a previous development. Every human is rooted in the endless story of evolution and is a unique creation of nature.

A Million Little Pieces

Dancer: Torill Kolsrud
Choreographer: Sita Ostheimer
Music: Levana (Rework) by Yehezkel Raz

Sindre Eriksson Vik

In a rushing stream of energies, Sindre is pushed into fragmented movements, pulling, slipping and creating bursts of “momentum travel”. In a driving embrace and mapping of his surroundings, he elaborates on his own logic of tension, resistance, throws and releases. A syncopated and fluctuating state full of potent energy.

Dancer: Sindre Eriksson Vik
Choreographer: Harald Beharie

Malika Berney

As the earth sees us all too busy hiding away from life, distraught and paralysed she can do nothing but cry” The solo is inspired by the state of emergency of our natural environment, which is suffering the terrible consequences of erratic human behaviour. The somewhat unconscious betrayal of an oblivious society. Detached from nature, we have abandoned what’s most precious about our reality: life. Living in denial of the natural picture we are a part of and, most essentially, the life we actually are. It is crucial to our species survival to find ourselves, reconnect with nature and become a compassionate society. Pergolesi’s musical composition Stabat Mater, based on the medieval poem of the same name, depicts a mournful Mary weeping at the feet of her crucified son.

The inconsolable heartbreak of a mother watching her child die becomes the metaphor of Mother. An expressionist solo about nature’s overwhelming experience of our contemporary society, acting out in full self-destructive mode.

Mother

Dancer: Malika Berney
Choreographer: Daniel Proietto
Music: Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi