Sand Flight (working title, 2025)
New creation 2025: Sand Flight deals with our changing relationship to the natural forces due to global warming. In the Bronze Ages in the Nordics, sun-worshipping was an important part of the culture, as observed through archaeological findings such as the Trundholm Sun Chariot (Solvognen) in Denmark. In recent history, urban planning and architecture has been celebrated for t...
Read more »The Stillness (Stillheten) (2024)
The dance performance for kids The Stillness is based on the Fantasy and Sci-fi genres, and takes place in an imaginary world. Three hybrid beings live here - a shell-clad mixture of humans and insects. The performance is a physical, visual and aural speculation on how future humans may have to adapt to a changing world. The Stillness is a performance for young audiences (10+). The Stillness i...
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SUPERMEDIUM (2024)
Supermedium, the latest work by Ingri Fiksdal in collaboration with Spanish choreographer Núria Guiu, is part of the CÈL·LULA 4 project produced by Mercat de les Flors. The piece is a large-format version inspired by MEDIUM, a solo that the two choreographers created in 2022. In the history of dance up to the present day, there are different approaches to the embodiment of the virtual or invisi...
Read more »The Syncopators (2022)
The Syncopators is a performance for public space that builds on the solo Fictions of the Flesh (2021) by Fiksdal/Floen/Slåttøy. It draws from the five performers’ physical jazz dance archives and combines them with speculative future fiction from literature and film to inspire new and more-than-human corporealities. The title springs from the word syncope, which denotes a deviation from a...
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MEDIUM (2022)
MEDIUM is a ghost performance in which Núria Guiu dances to the music of Stephen O'Malley/SUNN O))). The performance is about how the body is haunted by movements from personal, cultural and virtual archives. The ghost is partly a metaphor for movements from other times and dimensions that return and take up residence in our bodies, but it is also understood as the act of creating in itself, from...
Read more »Fictions of the Flesh (2021)
In Fictions of the Flesh, the character Syncopator embodies both past and future. She slides, floats and falls though space, like a Fata Morgana or tardigrade, monarch butterfly or the night train to Palmyra. She gives birth to a couple of tails behind some benches and sheds her fur between trees. She glides on railings and grows in pavement cracks. Slowly, her fingers become so heavy that she can...
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Palestinian Hospitality – performative intervention / audio guided tour
Palestinian Hospitality is a combined intervention, delegated performance and audio guide that draws inspiration from the exhibition Palestinian Artists organized by The Plastic Arts Section P.L.O and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, in 1981. Here 16 Palestinian artists were exhibited, among others Samia Halaby, Mona Saudi and Mustafa Al -Hallaj. In interviews, they emphasize how important the collaborati...
Read more »Rehearsing the Not Yet #3 / Recovering Architectural Speculation
Recovering Architectural Speculation: Futuring and (Science) Fiction Location Schous plass 7A, 0552 Oslo, Norway Doors open at 19:30, event starts at 20:00 Soup will be served This talk, with Joel Letkemann, will explore how architecture, always more committed to the world as it could be rather than the world as it really ...
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Rehearsing the Not Yet #2 / Imagining Liberation in Palestine: Artist talk with Dalia AlKury
Imagining Liberation in Palestine: Artist talk with Dalia AlKury The talk will be followed by a screening of the artist’s films "Levitations" (2024, 20 mins) and "Congratulations on Your Return" (2022, 6 mins). Location Schous plass 7A, 0552 Oslo, Norway Doors open at 19:30, event starts at 20:00 Soup will be served Dalia AlKury’s a...
Read more »Rehearsing the Not Yet (2023-2026) – a series of talks, seminars
Rehearsing the Not Yet is a collaboration between choreographer Ingri Fiksdal, Marie Nerland’s curatorial project, Volt, and dancer and choreographer Louis Schou-Hansen. Rehearsing the Not Yet looks to explore alternative histories as a means of envisioning and creating room for diverse modes of physical practice by asking: ‘What could have happended?’. Intended to unfold over the course of ...
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Spectral (2020)
Humans are symbiotic beings. We carry ten times as many bacteria inside us as our own cells, and some of us also host various parasites, fungi or viruses. Such, we can see ourselves as clusters of different life forms as much as individuals. We are always also in contact with various other things that work on us. Gravity, the ground we stand on, the air that passes through our lungs and the water ...
Read more »Deep Field (2018)
Deep Field will be a performance for five dancers. It centers around running, and its affective qualities, both on behalf of the performers and the spectactors. Jenny Hval and Lasse Marhaug will compose the music. Amongst runners, the much sought-after Runners´high denotes the affective state of euphoria where endorphins are released into the body. Endorphins act a lot like their medically eng...
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DIORAMA (2017)
With the Diorama performance series, Fiksdal stages particular views of natural and urban landscapes in different cities and contexts. The word "diorama" often refers to a three-dimentional model of a landscape, such as displayed in museums of natural history. Another use of the word is for the French diorama theatre, invented by Louis Daguerre in 1822, where the audience were sat watching big lan...
Read more »Shadows of Tomorrow (2016)
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 transferen...
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HORDE (2021)
HORDE is a new performance by choreographers Ingri Fiksdal and Solveig Styve Holte in collaboration with costume designers Elnaz and Mahtab Gargari, and composer Rohey Taalah. HORDE will premiere October 23rd and 24th 2021 as part of CODA Oslo International Dance festival and the opening of the new MUNCH in Bjørvika Oslo, and further be performed in both public space and museums. The making o...
Read more »The Lava Forest (2022)
Mysterious beings are growing out of the floor. Their backs are crooked, they have long tentacles and large heads. They wiggle and crawl, spin and fall. Are they visiting from another planet? The Lava Forest is a kinaesthetic performance where three dancers move in a large pile of colorful textiles. The audience is seated close by on four sides, surrounding the stage. The dancers take shape as ...
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Bodystories (2023)
A performance for babies and their caretakers in museum and gallery contexts. Bodystories is a sensory art experience for the little ones originally performed inside the exhibition Monumental at MUNCH. Here, the babies get to meet two dancers who twist and turn, fall and crawl. Sometimes they dance soft and slowly, at other times they're rushing around at full speed. The performan...
Read more »Sans og Samling (2017)
Sans og Samling takes inspiration from young childrens open state of being in the world. Children aged 0-3 years old are still in a phase of life where nothing has found its final form, and where fantasy and reality are still floating entities. In Sans og Samling they meet a universe that celebrates this state of being. Here, the surreal becomes logical, the absurd makes perfect ...
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Havet innafor (2022)
Performance at Kunstnerforbundet - 23rd of April 2022 Ingri Fiksdal was invited by visual artist Tone Myskia to create a new work for four dancers within the installation The Ocean Within. Four performances of the work were given on April 23rd 2022. The contributing dancers were Ornilia Persia Ubisse, Jonathan Ibsen, Mariama Fatou Kalley Slåttøy and Even Eileraas. About the exhibition at ...
Read more »Swarmy Swarm (2023)
Swarmy Swarm is a score-based performance created with P.A.R.T.S.-students for the Dansand! festival in Belgium. A large variety of different dance expressions exist coevally within a choreographic structure. The work draws from the various embodied archives of the performers and their manyfold dance backgrounds. Swarmy swarm travels through space as a large, buzzing cloud where a constant play wi...
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