Norway Now: New York 2024

BACK FOR ITS 12th YEAR,  The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York & Performing Arts Hub Norway INVITES YOU TO NORWAY NOW 2024, HAPPENING BOTH IN PERSON AND VIRTUALLY!

On January 14th come hear from our amazing 2024 delegation! A condensed session, 8 artists will present exciting new works in theater, dance, puppetry, video, multidisciplinary, installation and performance art. Join us for an early morning coffee and a light lunch!

PROGRAM

January 14th / 10:00am-12:00pm EST

In-Person:

Scandinavian House

58 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

In-Person / Register here

Zoom / Register here

AGENDA:

• 10:00 am Remarks from The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York & Performing Arts Hub Norway

• 10:05 am Pitches

• 11:15 am Light Lunch and Conversation 

*If you are unable to join on January 14th, we will be recording the event and uploading it to PAHN’s Vimeo directly after the event.

2024 NORWEGIAN DELEGATION

• Elle Sofe Company  (dance)

• Corentin JPM LEVEN (dance/ theater)

• Nagelhus Schia Productions (dance)

• Bianca Hisse & Laura Cemin (dance / performance / installation)

• ONLY SLIME (experimental opera / music theater / interdisciplinary performance)

• BodyCartography Project (dance / performance / land-based work)

• Wakka Wakka – (figure theater)

• Plexus Polaire / Yngvild Aspeli (figure theater)

INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER PARTICIPANTS

Carte Blanche was established in 1989 in Bergen, Norway and is owned and funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, Vestland County Council, and the City of Bergen. From our home base, Studio Bergen, we create 2-3 new creations each season, working with both Norwegian and international guest choreographers with strong artistic visions. The ensemble consists of 14 dancers from all over the world.

We tour in Norway and internationally throughout the year. With a repertoire of several productions, we can tour with different pieces at the same time. 

Carte Blanche’s ambition is to share our point of view and take part in the important cultural diversity and exchange in the international dance field.

Contact: Gulli Sekse, Touring Director.

Alan Lucien Øyen is one of the most exciting artists on the international dance scene today, whose work has been performed by companies around the world such as Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Netherlands Dance Theatre and the National Theatre of Norway.

In 22/23 Øyen had the rare privilege of opening the season for Paris Opera Ballet with a full-length work. As a theatre director, writer, and choreographer, he can best be described as a unique storyteller always in pursuit of sincere and human expression. With a highly cinematic and dramatic drive, Øyen ambitiously combines music, movement, opera, theatre and dance - often based on real life experiences, sourcing material from the performers and the rehearsal process in the shaping of the final narrative. Øyen is house choreographer with the Norwegian Opera House. His own company – winter guests tours and co-produces theatre and dance internationally, with partners such as NTCH Taipei, The Kennedy Centre Washington and International Theatre Amsterdam. 

Story, Story, Die

Remouted for a 2024 tour of Taipei and Switzerland, Story, Story, Die is a physical tour de force work for seven dancers, dealing with the increasing anxiety in today's society brought forward by the impossible demands for success and perfection. This piece looks at the nature of modern social interaction and how we constantly rearrange everyday life into stories in an attempt to craft a desirable narrative.

Still Life

Still Life is a duet exploring humanity's relationship with nature in an era marked by digitalization, isolation, and identity crises. With renowned performers Mirai Moriyama and Daniel Proietto, the performances utilizes contemporary dance, Butoh, and theater all enhanced by a subdued, analog stage design. Still Lifeis a personal yet universally relevant project exploring how we can restore the connection to ourselves, and in turn the living world around us. Commissioned by the Venice Biennale, Still Life premiers May 2024.

Contact: Alan Lucien Øyen, Artistic director & Choreographer.

Findlay//Sandsmark is a performance company working across the disciplines of dance, theater, live music and video art in a collaborative and collective effort. Over the past few years they have created several productions in the borderland between performing arts and installation, bending connections and correlations over disciplines to create live art which resonates from a physical and emotional plane.

Their work has been presented in regular collaboration with Black Box teater, BIT Teatergarasjen and Rosendal Teater, and internationally at PS 122 Coil Festival and Abrons Arts Center in New York, On the Boards, Seattle, Wexner Center in Columbus, and Charlotte Street, Kansas City. They are also behind RIMI/IMIR SceneKunst in Stavanger where they have a full-time production studio in an old boat factory / grocery store as well as co-facilitating and curating the platform.

Contact: Iver Findlay
Info@findlay-sandsmark.com

Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform is an event presenting both emerging and established names of Nordic contemporary dance and choreography to presenters, programmers, and other professionals from all over the world.

Ice Hot platforms are excellent networking events in a uniquely warm and cosy atmosphere. The aim of Ice Hot Nordic Dance partners is to increase international touring and other working opportunities of Nordic artists, and to help our communities to share ideas and connections.

As the Nordic countries share a lot of economic, social and cultural structures as well as values, we find it fruitful to collaborate on a Nordic level in order to strengthen the dance ecosystem in our countries. Ice Hot Nordic Dance also aims to be a forerunner in sustainable dance promotion and in organizing sustainable platform events. 

Ice Hot platforms attract many professionals from all continents. Hundreds of international guests and Nordic artists and managers come to see more than 20 live performances and 15 More More More pitch presentations, as well as take part in several seminars during the platform days.

Ice Hot Nordic Dance is a collaboration network of partner organizations in five Nordic countries: Dance Info Finland, Dansehallerne (Denmark), Dansens Hus Oslo (Norway), Dansens Hus Stockholm (Sweden) and Performing Arts Iceland.

Dates: February 14. - 18th 2024.

Contact: Kirre Arneberg, project manager.

HOST:

Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN) is a state-subsidized network organization and competence centre for the professional performing arts sector in Norway. The office is in Oslo.

The purpose of PAHN is to be a national competence centre, promoting professional performing arts at a national and international level, with emphasis on independent performing arts. Through close contact with the Norwegian art field, and the international field of performing arts, Performing Arts Hub Norway creates new networks and opportunities for mobility, while opening and developing new international markets for Norwegian performing arts. This is done through long-term strategies, close local partnerships and flexible support programmes for artists and the field.

QUESTIONS? CONTACT

Kirsti Buchanan Ulvestad // Anders Rohlan Småhaug // Lisa Reynolds
Email: kirsti@pahn.no // anders@pahn.no // lisareynoldsrs@gmail.com
tel: +47 92080587 // +47 98055685 // +1 (206) 856-2992

SCHEDULE Norway Now NYC  2024 

1/12 Friday – RECEPTION: 

• 6 – 8pm: Reception at the Norwegian Consul General, address: 310 East 53rd Str. 
  Apt: 23 C, NYC. 
  NB! By invitation only.

1/13 Saturday: 

• 12 – 1.30pm: Delegation Info meeting. Lobby at SOHotel, 341 Broome str. 

• 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Open Rehearsal, Alan Lucien Øyen/winterguests
  Open rehearsal of Story, Story, Die currently being remounted in NYC for its 2024 tour of Taipei and Switzerland.
  Location: Gibney Studios, 280 Broadway, New York, NY

  RSVP here! (limited capacity).  

1/14 Sunday – NORWAY NOW PITCH SESSION / SOCIAL GATHERING: 

• 8am-9:30am: Norway Now tech. rehearsal at Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave. 

• 09.30am – 10:00am: Registration & Coffee 

• 10:am – 11:15am: Pitch Session  

• 11:15 – 12:00: Lunch/ Mingling 

• 5:00pm –7:00pm: Social gathering w/invited international guests: 
  Holiday Cocktail Lounge, 75 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003 

  RSVP here!
  

1/15 Monday 

• 10:15am-1:00pm: Workshop at The Norwegian Consulate General  

  WORK VISA info - including Q&A by Matt Covey, followed by a light lunch. 

  Address: 1, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 35th Floor. NYC 10017 

ABOUT NORWAY NOW

Norway Now is a concept for promoting Norwegian performing arts internationally. The concept was developed by Performing Arts Hub Norway.

Performing Arts Hub Norway works strategically and long-term on promoting Norwegian performing arts abroad. Throughout several years, we have developed a collaboration and promotion model called Norway Now. Within this work, we always collaborate with a local partner, with networks and knowledge of production and performance conditions in different regions of the world. The work started in New York/USA, with our American partner Future Perfect Productions, and the concept was developed in collaboration with this partner. We now have several international partnerships.

The work builds on presence at international trade fairs and gatherings for the field, to which Performing Arts Hub Norway travels with delegations of Norwegian artists and producers. There, the artists get the opportunity to present their work for international colleagues.

Exchange and reciprocity make up the foundation for all of Performing Arts Hub Norway's projects.  Maintaining a close dialogue with local partners is essential, and reciprocity is always an aim, also when we work on promotion, marketing, and sales.

You may find more information on our international work beneath the banners: Open Calls, Expert visits and International platforms.

Norway Now i USA

Norway Now Sverige

Samarbeid med Assitej Norge og Scenekunstbruket.

Norway Now i Canada

Norway Now i Japan

Samarbeid med TPAM

Internasjonal aktivitet gjennomføres med midler fra Utenriksdepartementet, Kulturdepartementet (kultur og næring f.o.m. 2017) samt fra Utenriksstasjonene i de respektive land.

LIMBO av Roza Moshtaghi, foto: Josh Lake