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Third year students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2017.

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Oliver Gramenius, Liza Johanne Stockseth, Silje Moe Iversen, Ludvig Herstad, Kyra Althen Bergman

Assistant: Lisbeth Sandnes Espeland

Music: Emtyset, Setsu Fukushima, Ryosuke Taniguchi, Alva Noto

Texst/voiceover: texts by Maia Siverts (from ”Det ble en rotte”). Voiceover by the dancers

Sound/mix: Olav Andre Gravseth

Light: Martin Myrvold/ Olav Andre Gravseth

Costumes: Zofia Jacubiec (MA student in costumedesign)

Photo: Stephen Hutton

Second year students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2016

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen
Dancers: Aurora Louise Haugen Itland, Ida Rolstad, Albin Lindén, Ilya Glazkov, Mattias Courage, William Boo, Lisa Horten-Skilbrei, Ellen Kristjansdottir
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla (fra filmen «21 grams»), Marsen Jules, Subjected
Sound/ mix: Olav Andre Gravseth
Light: Martin Myrvold
Costumes: Line S. Maher og Grete Rustad
Photo: Stephen Hutton

Third year students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Ida Haugen, Jack Lorentzen, Oda Tømte, Anne Lise Rønne, Sara Kaspersen, Sune Leander Klausen, Richard DeLeyos

Music: Ben Frost, Danael Bjarnasson, Nils Frahm, Alva Noto

Sound/ mix: Olav Andre Gravseth

Light design: Martin Myrvold

Costumes: Thale Kvam Olsen

Photo: Yaniv Cohen

Third year students at National Academy of the Arts, 2013.

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Assistant: Olav Andre Gravseth

Dancers: Hanna Egenes Flemstrøm, Sara Helene Jenssen, Kristine Giske Oksavik, Mariama F. Kalley Slåttøy, Jens Martin Hartvedt

Arvesen

Music: Murcof, Byetone

Sound/ mix: Olav Andre Gravseth

Costumes: Line S. Maher

Light design: Sverre Randin

Photo: Antero Hein and Trine og Kim Designstudio/ v Kim Sølve

“i am bored

i want an earthquake to shake me

i want something cataclysmic to happen in a faraway place

i want to be indicted for a terrible crime that has occurred on pluto

i said i needed coffee and couldn’t breathe

i am expressing myself pretty good right now”

(Tao Lin)

«I am about to express myself» is an urban portrait of a man and a woman. In a processed reality, they confront what is said in the interstices; where the sour comment and loneliness lives. Where the conflict ends and peace begins, or where the game has long since stopped being fun. Is it easier to relate to something big, the world out there, than it is to interpret each other’s small signals in everyday life?

Dansens Hus Oslo, May 30-June 2, 2013

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Producer: Sigrun Drivdal Johnsen

Dancers: Irene Theisen og Eivind Linn

Set design: Dordi Strøm

Costume design/seam: Signe Vasshus

Lighting design/video: Tobias Leira

Sound: Truls Kvam og Robin Crafoord

Photo, catalogue/performance: Trine + Kim design studio/v Kim Sølve

Video documentation: Ivar Mykland

Supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere, Dansens Hus

Second year studensts at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2012

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Trude Amalie Leirpoll, Vasilisa Kalinina, Dag Rune Sjøli, Stefan Fredriksen, Øyunn Sofie Fencl,Jonathan Möller, Einar 

Anton Sørli Nikkerud, Jeffrey Young

Music: Biosphere, Plaster, Donato Dozzy & Neel, sound from the movie "Requiem for a dream"

Sound/mix: Olav Andre Løvmo Gravseth

Costumes: Masja Abrahamsen and Line S. Maher

Light design: Inger Johanne Byhring

Photo: Stephen Hutton

Tsjekhov´s "Three sisters" is the source of inspiration for Masja Abrahamsen in her new piece "Residens".

Here we also meet three women,and as in Tsjekhov´s piece the story is less prominent. The relations between

them and the atmosphere is emphasized through an underlying monotunous

tension and drama. Three personal stories floats together, visualised through reality, fiction

and surrealistic images. The aesthethic expression refears to the

1940´s and 1950´s Film Noir.

"Residens" performed at Dansens Hus Oslo, November 24-27 2011.

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Marie Male Kalstø, Henriette Hamli, Kristianne Mo

Set design: Dordi Strøm

Light design: Tobias Leira

Composers: Truls Kvam and Robin Crafoord (Trulz & Robin)

Costumes: Signe Vasshus 

Photo: Trine og Kim Designstudio/ v Kim Sølve

The performance is supported by Arts Council Norway, Audio and Visual Fund, Fund for Performing Artists, 
Dansens Hus Norway.

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Sergio Benvindo Junior, Martine Sofie Bergh, Gard Hjertaas Bjørnson, Ane Evjen Gjøvåg,

Filipa Peraltinha, Jacob Walleberg

Light design: Jon Kjemperud/Masja Abrahamsen

Sound/mix: Olav Andre Løvmo Gravseth

Costumes: Masja Abrahamsen

Artistic director Oslo Danse Ensemble: Merete Lingjærde

Dansens Hus 2011

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Second year students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2011

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Stine Karoline Eliassen, Maria Caroline Mushtaq Freyvoll, Merete Hersvik, Hedda Rivrud, Tony Tran, Anja Sunniva Valseth

Music: Murcof/LFO/Lucy/Pan Sonic

Sound/mix: Olav Andre Løvmo Gravseth

Costumes: Signe Vasshus

Light design: Tobias Leira

Photo: Stephen Hutton

Third year students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2010

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Hedvig Sønstebø Bang, Gard Hjertaas Bjørnson, Vilde Halle Ekeland, Victoria Krogsæter, Cassandra Loo, Anette Stokke,

Mathias Aas Stoltenberg

Music: Biosphere/Byetone/Alva Noto

Sound/mix: Olav Andre Løvmo Gravseth

Costumes: Signe Vasshus

Light design: Ingeborg S. Olerud

Photo: Stephen Hutton

Second year students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2009

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Phitthaya Phaefuang, Stine Hagen, Isabell Johansen, Daniel Stamnes, Emilie Thun, Erlend Rolvsjord (excerpt, Isabell

Johansen and Daniel Stamnes)

Music: Bluem

Costumes: Signe Vasshus

Light design: Kaja Glenne Lund

Photo: Stephen Hutton

«Numb» is one of the choreographies in a triple bill with choreographers Hege Haagenrud and Fiksdal/Lie.

In «Numb» we will get to know a man and a woman, in a relationship «in between». A «non» – condition. On the edges of movement and stillness. Between beginning and end. They bond and drives apart from the same destructive force, where their actions in the end will be a result of their fear of being trapped in something that wont give resistance. A condition they repeatedly return to.

Dansens Hus, Norway, november 19-22, 2009.

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Kristianne Mo and Magnus Eide Myhr

Producer: Kirre Arneberg

Costumes: Signe Vasshus

Light design: Kyrre Heldal Karlsen and Ingeborg Olerud

Sound: Olaf Stangeland

Photo: Trine og Kim Designstudio/ v Kim Sølve

Supported by: Arts Council Norway, the Fund for Performing Artists and Fond for Lyd og bilde, Dansens Hus Norway

Masja Abrahamsen precents with «Pepper`s ghost» her first full length performance, at Dansens Hus in Oslo August 27, 2009. Performances through August 30`th.

«Pepper`s ghost» is the term of a lighting tecnique used in theatre, to create an illusion of a person appearing or disappearing slowly; without being in the room. Here «Pepper`s ghost» is an image of the complex human mind. Different hidden aspects that enters to the surface or floats in the background, and then to disappear again. Moving in and out of the mind. Layers that perform alone, but also in communication with each other.

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Guro Rimeslåtten, Sigrid Hirsch Kopperdal, Nina Biong

Costumes: Signe Vasshus

Light design: Inger Johanne Byhring

Sound: Olaf Stangeland

Supported by: Arts Council Norway and the Fund for Performing Artists

Co-producer: Dansens Hus, Norway and deVIR/CAPa – Faro, Portugal

Second year students at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2007

Choreographer: Masja Abrahamsen

Dancers: Martine Sofie Bergh, Catherine Michelet, Kristine Moldesæther, Jon Ole Olstad, Christoffer Flinder Pedersen, Emma Rozgoni,

Atle Karsten Solberg

Music: Alva Noto/Apparat

Costumes: Ellen Ystehede

Light design: Marianne Th. Wedsett

Photo: Stephen Hutton