PREMIERE:
January 23, 2026, - Dansens Hus, Oslo
Sweet Spot is a stage performance for six performers, premiering 23. january 2026, Dansens Hus, Oslo. In Sweet Spot, a visceral world unfolds in an intimate and immersive space.
Sweet Spot is a tempting and seductive hellmouth filled with mischief and tender allure, a hellish pit dancing and kneading itself back and forth between intertwining epochs. Dwelling in the abyss, Sweet Spot conjures a distorted dance macabre in a hypnotic landscape gathering six ecstatic figures who sing, collapse and syncopate around each other.
Driven by a “dromomaniac” pull; an uncontrollable urge to keep moving, Sweet Spot spirals into a ceaseless whirlwind, an abundance of unhinged rhythms, folklore, groovy processions and sudden surges devouring the spectator and everything in its path.
Sweet Spot is the last part of a trilogy of works which includes the solo piece Batty Bwoy (2022) playing with the fictions surrounding the queer body and the group work Undersang (2024) that takes shape as a collective ritual in the forest. Together, these works plunge into how pleasure, excess, and monstrosity can become forces for empowerment and transformation while using the body as a site of ambivalence. Where identity and power are constantly negotiated and mutating, unraveling a porous and unstable surface opening up for rituals, new ways of togetherness and uncanny play.
For this work, they expand their continuous collaboration and research with visual artist Karoline Bakken Lund. Working together since 2017, they examine the poetic and physical possibilities of collapse, where objects, textures and bodies drift between support and obstruction, cultivating porous visual and social landscapes. In Sweet Spot they also collaborate for the first time with light designer Ingeborg Staxerud Olerud and composer and musician Ingvild Langgård.
DATES:
January 23 - 25, 2026, - Dansens Hus, Oslo
Side Step Festival - Zodiak, Helsinki (FI) 30 - 31. January 2026
RAS, Sandnes (NO) 05. February 2026
MDT, Stockholm(SE) 14 - 15. February 2026
BIT-Teatergarasjen , Bergen(NO) 27 - 28 . February 2026
Arsenic, Lausanne (CH) 4 - 6. March 2026
SPRING festival, Utrecht (NL) May 2025 (dates tbc)
Rosendal Teater, Trondheim , (NO) 27 - 28 . May 2026
more to be announced..
Concept & Choreography
Harald Beharie
Near collaborator/artistic research
Karoline Bakken Lund
Performers
Loan Ha, Carlisle Sienes, Harald Beharie, Amie Mbye Irene Theisen and Ester Thunander
Set-design/sculpture & Costume
Karoline Bakken Lund
Light design
Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud
Musician
Ester Thunander
Composer
Ingvild Langgård
Faciliatator/ Dramaturg
Deise Nunes
Intimacy Coordinator
Lexie Koren
Producer
Kristina Melbø Valvik
Distribution/touring
Damien Valette
Co-producers Dansens Hus, Oslo, Rosendal Teater (Trondheim) , RAS (Sandnes),
BIT Bergen Internasjonale Teater (Bergen), Arsenic, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), SPRING festival (Utrecht), Zodiak - Centre for New Dance, Helsinki (Helsinki), MDT (Stockholm)
Residency support
Fabbrica Europa (Firenze), Kaserne(Basel) and Kilden (Kristiansand)
Supported by:
Norwegian Art Council and Kristiansand Municipality