HARALD BEHARIE
Photo: Magnus Nordstrand
Harald Beharie(he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway.
Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through.
At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense, understand, and organize reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution
They hold a special interest for the DIY and the vulnerability of being in the unknown.
Beharie is interested in how the body can function as a motor for dramaturgy, a force in itself that transforms through practice.
In his works Batty Bwoy and Undersang, pleasure, excess, and monstrosity can become forces for empowerment and transformation while using the body as a site of ambivalence.
Haralds work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics prize for the performances " Shine Utopians" with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022). In 2023 Batty Bwoy also won the Hedda prize for “best dance production” and in 2024 the project “Undersang” won the Norwegian Critics prize 23/24.
Haralds work has been presented in museums, galleries, festivals and contexts including:
Impulstanz, Santarcangelo Festival, Gessnerallee , Sophiensæle, Les Urbaines, SPRING festival, Serravles, Kampnagel, Centrale Fies, Donau Festival, MDT, ADC- pavillion, Zodiak , Salmon Festival, Kanti Gildi Saal, Batie Festival, Fierce Festival, Inkonst, Theaterformen, Kiasmaa, Fabricca Europa, Dansehallerne, Bora -Bora, FTA, STUK, Actoral Festival, Theaterfestival Basel, Skopje Pride, Euroscene, Gymnase CDCN, Hangö Teatertreff, Black Box Teater, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Nasjonalmuseet, Oktoberdans, Bodø Biennale, BIT-teatergarasjen, Vitlycke, Dansens Hus, Oslo, Munch Museum, Oslo, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Galleri Entrée, Bergen, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Ravnedans, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Øyafestivalen, Oslo and Trondheim Kunstmuseum.
Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through.
At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense, understand, and organize reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution
They hold a special interest for the DIY and the vulnerability of being in the unknown.
Beharie is interested in how the body can function as a motor for dramaturgy, a force in itself that transforms through practice.
In his works Batty Bwoy and Undersang, pleasure, excess, and monstrosity can become forces for empowerment and transformation while using the body as a site of ambivalence.
Haralds work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics prize for the performances " Shine Utopians" with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022). In 2023 Batty Bwoy also won the Hedda prize for “best dance production” and in 2024 the project “Undersang” won the Norwegian Critics prize 23/24.
Haralds work has been presented in museums, galleries, festivals and contexts including:
Impulstanz, Santarcangelo Festival, Gessnerallee , Sophiensæle, Les Urbaines, SPRING festival, Serravles, Kampnagel, Centrale Fies, Donau Festival, MDT, ADC- pavillion, Zodiak , Salmon Festival, Kanti Gildi Saal, Batie Festival, Fierce Festival, Inkonst, Theaterformen, Kiasmaa, Fabricca Europa, Dansehallerne, Bora -Bora, FTA, STUK, Actoral Festival, Theaterfestival Basel, Skopje Pride, Euroscene, Gymnase CDCN, Hangö Teatertreff, Black Box Teater, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Nasjonalmuseet, Oktoberdans, Bodø Biennale, BIT-teatergarasjen, Vitlycke, Dansens Hus, Oslo, Munch Museum, Oslo, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Galleri Entrée, Bergen, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Ravnedans, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Øyafestivalen, Oslo and Trondheim Kunstmuseum.