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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