Prøverommet at University of Bergen Library for Arts and Humanities

NORSK HER: http://bit-teatergarasjen.no/program/arrangementer/proeverommet-at-uib-library/

This edition of Prøverommet is free and open for everybody to attend, but you still need to reserve a ticket. Welcome!

The event takes place within the exhibition ‘BIT Teatergarasjen 40 Years’, which is open for the whole semester. The exhibition marks the 40 years of the organisation and coincides with relocation of its archive to the Special Collections at the University of Bergen, in addition to the ongoing research being carried out within Theatre Studies.

Ana Matey

Ana's proposal for Prøverommet is born out of a dialogue with the territory of Bergen, with special interest in the mountains. A creative research around the act of walking and the different ways to *recorrer, understanding that during this process something is revealed. The performance is movement-based. *walk / travel / journey

Bio: Nomadic multidisciplinary artist currently doing a residency project at USF Verftet. Ana understands art as the ideal place to establish new relationships and questioning about our way of living and relating, proposing works where the meditative and trance are the protagonist.  anamatey.com

Olaf Knarvik

I want to test whether an analog slide show of archival images can convey something that goes beyond pure information. The images are accompanied by text fragments taken from the newspaper archive. The projection, and the atmosphere it creates, will be in focus. The reading will be in Norwegian.

The photos shown were taken by a young, adventurous woman from Bergen who went on a road trip with a friend behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe in the summer of 1960, and on a circumnavigation 2 years later. Her travel letters give the impression of a zeitgeist that is already foreign and perhaps exotic in itself, like a lost culture. 

Bio: I have worked as a photo archivist at The Picture Collection at the University of Bergen Library since 2017, and have a background as an artist and photographer. Participated in Prøverommet, among others, in the summer of 1999 with a slide show of his own photographs. uib.no

Katja Nyqvist

“Many a single word also is itself a concentrated poem, having stores of poetical thought and imagery laid up in it. Examine it, and it will be found to rest on some deep analogy of things natural and things spiritual.” - Richard Chevenix Trench 

‘In Circles’ is a choreographic project exploring the associative play of movement and words across dictionaries, physical bodies and the spaces in-between. How can words move us physically, emotionally and metaphorically? And how can words, in turn, be choreographed? At Prøverommet, I will share and test different research materials, written and embodied, and invite audiences through a journey of circularity. The performance is movement-based and involves English and Norwegian dictionaries.

Prelude: find a moment of stillness, perhaps close your eyes and sense the world turning around you – or rather, with you.

Katja Nyqvist is a Finnish-born dance artist and educator based in Bergen. Katja performs, collaborates and creates for stage, gallery and public spaces, and has worked with choreographers including Marit Loe Bjørnstad, Rosemary Lee, JN Harrington and Thomas Hauert and groups such as Free Range Orchestra (UK), Sheeps (UK) and ImproLaBergen (NO). Katja is curious about language, movement, imagery and dancing in urban and rural settings. katjanyqvist.com

Creative idea and direction: Katja Nyqvist
Dancers: June Lysjø, Ine Terese Hogstad & Katja Nyqvist
Music: Oren Ambarchi, Stars Aligned, Web Spun
Creative guidance: Susanna Recchia & Richard Misek
Supported by Bergen Dansesenter

Studentteateret Immaturus

‘I hope that flowers will grow from my dead body’ is a text written by screenwriting student Johanne Løvaas. The play was originally written as a short film. In the play we meet two soldiers: Volodya and Andrej. They drift down a river. It's war.

The play takes into account the psychological and physical consequences of war and the individualization of soldiers. The play asks the question: "what are we actually fighting for?". The theatrical reading will be in Norwegian.

The performers Vilde Røgeberg Larsen, Isabel Furhovde and Natalie Rodrigues are members of Studentteateret Immaturus, Norway's largest student theatre and the only student organisation in Bergen dedicated to theatre and performing arts. Its main goal is to facilitate the joy of creation and artistic expression. It give students in Bergen the opportunity to develop within a wide range of performing arts-related activities. Immaturus is an organization that is open to everyone regardless of experience and together they organize weekly events and groups in addition to performances of various sizes. immaturus.no

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More information here: http://bit-teatergarasjen.no/program/arrangementer/proeverommet-at-uib-library/