THEATRE AND DANCE PROJECTS
Collaboration with Ulf Nilseng
Ulf Nilseng and I have been collaborating since 2018. We have co-created 5 critically acclaimed performances, all of which take queer life, queer aesthetics and the queer body as both raw material and expressive outlet.
Peer Gynt (H. Ibsen) - 2018, The Croatian National Theatre
Sound design and digital instrument design, utilising motion sensor technology.
Den siste kongsfesten (The King's Fair) - M. Krleza
Director: Ivica Buljan - The Norwegian Theatre, 2018
Sound design and digital instrument design, utilising motion sensor technology
PAN (Knut Hamsun) - 2018, Rogaland Teater
Hyperrealist sound design in 72 channel surround combined with digital instrument design utilising movement sensor technology connected to both actors and scenography.
WHY NOT BEFORE - HELØE/ULVESTAD
Nanjing, Oslo, Tromsø, Berlin
Music, sound design and stage direction. Text by Liv Heløe.
A boy suddenly gets out of the bed he has been in for the last year. He books a plane ticket and leaves everything he knows.
Sound theatre performance for one actor and live diffusion of sound.
Why not before premiered in Hålogaland Teater (The Arctic Theater) in january 2018, and has since been performed in Oslo, Norway (Vega Scene), in the international theatre festival Moving Worlds in Nanjing, China and in Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Germany. The text has been translated into English, Chinese and German, and was showcased as part of Frankfurt Buchmesse 2019. The production has received financial support by The Norwegian Arts Council and Notam.
Drammen Obscura (L. Heløe) - Brageteatret 2016
A philosophical, but unpretentious text by Liv Heløe about photography - these brief moments frozen in time. Three actors, two dancers, a violinist, a video artist, a scenographer and myself shaping, filling and surrounding the stage with movement, and in the end literally turning the whole room into a giant camera obscura. This was probably one of the most experimental plays to ever descend on Drammen.
The play was directed by Jon Tombre. I had the pleasure of writing the music and making the sound design.
