DOUBLE BILL:

LOTS OF PEOPLE
By INGVILD ISAKSEN / KOMPANIIISAKSEN (NO)

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SHADOWS OF TOMORROW

By INGRI FIKSDAL (NO)

OBS! Ticket for Sunday!
WHEN: 9th of July at 19.00
WHERE: Ravnedalen

LOTS OF PEOPLE
By Ingvild Isaksen

Choreography assistance:
Elisa Vassena

Performers:
Masako Matsushita, Alessandra Ruggeri, Julie Rasmussen, Hilde I Sandvold, Mikael Rønne, Ida Haugen, Ingvild Mæhle, Katja Henriksen Schia, Julie Moviken, Irene Vesterhus Theisen , Birgitte Lundtoft, Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas, Iselin Borgan, Vilde Sagstad Imeland, Dina Jaroussac Moen, Tuva Selmer-Olsen, Thea Færden Bringsværd m.fl

Song: Elin Røsok Richardsen

Thanks to Kari Anne Vadstensvik Bjerkestrand, Maren Fidje Bjørneseth, Deborah Gordon, Jorunn Kjersem Hildre, Emil Aas Stoltenberg, Eivind Seljeseth, Morten Arnfred.

Co.poduced by Ravnedans, støttet av Kulturrådet og Cultiva Express.

People have an inlaid feeling that they have the ability to predict the future, or if they see patterns they have a built in feeling that they’re meaningful, and a built in feeling that they can control things. - Leonard Mlodinow

The narrative in People stems from the interview That’s so random! featuring amongst others Dr.Leonard Mlodinow. The interview describes how people unconsciously want to give meaning to random behavior. In Lots of People the dancers experiment with a movement based take on this topic and through a delicate and peculiar use of composition and dramaturgy we are given a completely new view on Ravnedalen. The piece has a subtle sense of humour filled with many associative gaps.

People have finally grown to a full evening performance especially designed for Ravnedalen and involves several local artists from Kristiansand. The short version of People has been shown at more than 30 places around Europe, USA and Asia. Next up is Dansens Hus in Oslo on the 28th and 29th of april, come and have a taster!

PS. We invite the audience to see if they can find a pattern in the randomness, and the winner will get their very own copy of the book!

“We all create our own view of the world and then employ it to filter and process our perceptions, extracting meaning from the ocean of data that washes over us in daily life. ”

- Quote from the book

“The Drunkards Walk” by Leonard Mlodinow

ABOUT INGVILD ISAKSEN

Ingvild Isaksen is a freelance choreographer and performer based in Oslo, Norway. She has a BA(Hons) in Dance Theatre from Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music & Dance in London(2012) as well as an education in fine arts and design from the College of Oslo(2009).

In 2015 Ingvild received a three year working scholarship from the Norwegian Arts council to continue her work as a freelance artist.

Choreographically she likes to explore how to intervene with people's daily lives by making public spaces a stage for performances. She has toured her piece People in 30 different places around Europe and US, brought her interactive sound installation Make a Move to festivals in Norway, Italy and UK and is continually expanding her wall specific performance called Veggimellom.

Ingvild is currently collaborating with choreographer Masako Matsushita in the artistic duo A MasIng Productions for a full evening performance at Sånafest 2017, and is regularly a performer in the interdisciplinary Kompani F at Whitelight Theatre F in Oslo. She has previously performed with Matteo Fargion, Clare Daly, Kosugi Daisuke, Dromedar, Aisan Hoss and in one-off events with Punchdrunk, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Runa Skolseg and Mia Habib.

SHADOWS OF TOMORROW
By Ingri Fiksdal

I samarbeid med Kristiansand Kunsthall og Theisen/Pettersen har Ravnedans invitert Ingri Fiksdals videreføring av verket BAND til å gjestespille i Kristiansand. Shadows of Tomorrow gjenskapes for anledningen i to versjoner spesielt tilpasset verkstedhallen i Teateret og uterommet i Ravnedalen og publikum inviteres dermed inn i to helt ulike rom for å oppleve den visuelle musikken.

I Ravnedalen spilles forestillingen sammen med Ingvild Isaksens verk Lots of People.

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Shadows of Tomorrow is a reworking of Ingri Fiksdal’s production BAND from 2012. With Shadows of Tomorrow Fiksdal wants to create the immersive experience of a psychedelic concert, but only through moving bodies and light. There is no music to be heard. The work investigates the potential for kinesthetic transference between performers and audience, and the latent contamination in mass-movement.

The performance lends its title from a track on the Madvillainy album by Madvillian and MF Doom, who are key figures within the genre of psychedelic hip-hop. Psychedelic hip-hop is characterized by complex sample-based beats, often obscure material, and abstract lyrics filled with unconventional references. Shadows of Tomorrow is originally a Sun Ra poem, and the Madvillain track also samples the cosmic head-trip of a Sun Ra movie Space is the Place from 1974.

The performance Shadows of Tomorrow draws from psychedelic hip-hop in its choreographic material and composition. Multiple beats move through and between the bodies in space to create numerous rhythmical layers. The light design acts as an intensifier of the experience and creates additional movement and rhythm through the play with multi-colored shadows on all four walls of the performance space.

Foto: Ida Frømyr Borgen

Light design: Ingeborg Olerud

Performers (original cast): Pernille Holden, Sigrid Hirsch Kopperdal, Rosalind Goldberg, Marianne Skjeldal, Venke Sortland

Costume design: Ingri Fiksdal, Elena Becker and Signe Vasshus.

Producer: Nicole Schuchardt

Administrator: Eva Grainger

Photo: Ida Frømyr Borgen

Supported by: The Norwegian Arts Council, thanks to Skolen for Samtidsdans.