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BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2017
FRICTION
Carte Blanche : While they are floating d
World premiere
STUDIO BERGEN
DATE / TIME Friday 26 and Saturday 27 May , Monday 29 May – Friday 02 June , Monday 05 and Tuesday 06 June at 20:00
DURATION 1:30
TICKET Standard : 320 Under 30 : 150 DN Fordel : 275
Festival Card : 30 % discount
Based on refugees ’ own accounts , Carte Blanche examines problems associated with asylum and human perceptions such as taste , sensuality and longing .
Refugees are often depicted as masses of people arriving in large groups . However , each individual asylum seeker makes a journey full of personal perceptions , choices , experiences , memories and privations . Even though the journey takes place in the company of others , many are also very much alone with the responsibility for themselves and their secrets . These are the individual transit stories that Carte Blanche dare to let themselves be captivated by in this world premiere .
The choreographer is Hooman Sharifi , director of Carte Blanche , Norway ’ s national company for contemporary dance , who himself came to Norway from Iran alone as a young asylum seeker in 1988 . He is particularly interested in the artistic expression that may arise when dance , theatre and visual art meet . Sharifi ’ s vocabulary of movement is physically
challenging , intense and powerful , examining the deeper emotions lurking behind power , political systems and violence .
Hooman Sharifi choreography , concept Rikke Baewert choreography assistant Helge Sten music
Caroline Eckly , Judith Arupa , Noam Eidelman Shatil , Olga Stetsyuk , Anne Lise Pettersen , Guro Rimeslåtten , Ole Martin Meland , Daniel Garcia Mariblanca , Yousef Sbeih , Adrian Bartczak , Dawid Lorenc , Einar-Anton Nikkerud , Jack Lorentzen , Mathias Stoltenberg dancers
A coproduction by the Bergen International Festival and Carte Blanche .
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