Undersang is a is an outdoor work by Harald Beharie in collaboration with Karoline Bakken Lund, Veronica Bruce and Christian Beharie, which takes shape as a performance ritual in the forest. Undersang is a tapestry of opulent configurations soaked in a shimmer of queer ecologies and extravagant gestures. Here mythologies, national romantic ideals and science fiction converge, revealing a world of anvient powers.
Weaving Afro and Asian-Nordic diasporic narratives, Undersang plays with the notion of dissonance as an ambiguous feeling of empowerment, sparking questions about cultural fictions and what it means to belong. As a ground for refusal, reclamation of time and looking beyond the idea of ownership, the work seeks fertile ground for healing, for lament and joyous celebration.
Choreography
Harald Beharie
Scenography, sculptures
Karoline Bakken Lund and Veronica Bruce
Composer, sound
Christian Beharie
Performers
Loan Ha, Mariama Slåttøy, Carlisle Sienes, Jens Trinidad, Nosizwe Baqwa, Amie Mbye, Harald Beharie
Producer
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
Distribution
Damien Valette
Co-producers
Black Box Teater(Oslo)Dansens Hus (Oslo)
BIT (Bergen) Rosendal Teater (Trondheim) RAS (Sandnes) TOU (Stavanger)
PREMIERE:
30 May 2024, Oslo
The project received the Norwegian Critics prize for 2024.
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Photo: Julie Hrncirova
Dates:
Hangö Teatertreff, Hangö (FI)- June 2025 (date tbc)
Munch Museum, Oslo (NO)-(Indoor version - commision) 14 June 2025
Teaterformen, Hannover(DE)- June 2025 (date tbc)
More dates for 2025 coming soon..
BIT - teatergarasjen, Bergen 24 - 25 October 2024
Bodø Biennale, Bodø 7.September 2024
RAS & Tou Scene, Stavanger 21 - 22. august 2024
Rosendal Teater, Trondheim 8 - 9. June 2024
Dansens Hus & Black Box Teater 30. may - 02. June 2024 (PREMIERE)