I worked as a performer in Mia Habib's piece 'A Song to...'
A song to… by Mia Habib is the choreography of a mass movement in both senses of the word: the Norwegian choreographer brings 16 professional dancers and up to 30 non-professionals onto the stage, choreographing their naked bodies as pure materiality. In a critical engagement with mass protests, concepts of monumental art as a political instrument and research into swarm intelligence, Mia Habib stages the multiplicity of the bodies as a critical mass: representation, overpowering and mass dynamics, but also singularity and isolation. In this setting, the audience is presented with ambivalent mass dynamics and bodies which purposefully refuse singular interpretations, which the choreography draws on. Running and falling, moving in circles and sculptural tableaus, the bodies – which are permanently transforming and taking on new forms which are at turns animalistic, artificial, sacral or object-like – receive new ascriptions of meaning. The nudity performs the supposed naturalness of bodies, and exposes the naked truth of what it means to be human, where the question of whether we are looking at a human, an object or an animal loses all importance. Text: Mia Habib
”A song to…” performances:
Theaterszene Europa- Studiobühne Köln, May 26th, 2018
Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform, Copenhagen, Dec 3rd, 2016.
Dance House Oslo/ ULTIMA festivalen: Sep 19th to 21st, 2015.
Choreographer / Mia Habib
Produced by / Mia Habib Productions
Dramaturgy /Jassem Hindi
Lighting design / Ingeborg Olerud
Sound / audio mix / Jassem Hindi
Choreography assistant / Jon Filip Fahlstrøm
Co-creative process and performance by / Cecilie Lindemann Steen, Ingunn Rimestad, Hanna Mjåvatn, Ida Gudbrandsen, Loan Ha, Hedda Rivrud, Kira Senkpiel, Harald Beharie, Przybyslaw Paz, Linn Christine Ragnarsson, Fie Dam Mygind, Asaf Aharonson, Shantelle Jackson, Povilas Bastys, Jules Beckman, Oskar Landström, Mattias Carlberg, Kaare p, Mats Ödman, Troels Laurell, Rune Pedersen, Bjørn Michaelis, Jodie Judy Lu / Lu, Ying-Chu, Gabriele Schink, Michael Rapp, Carsten Hall, Arnt Robert Leganger, Justina Brazaite, Bo Petersen, Bjarne Bødker, Marjukka Savolainen, Niels Ole Hauerberg, Lisanne Goodhue, Jostein Strand, Dagomara Danza, Erik Lobelius, Kenya Foss Parsons, Aaron Scheer, Franc Seilerl, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen, Corrado Di Lorenzo
Producer / Eva Grainger
Pre-production / Morten Kippe
International Producer / Sales & Marketing / Karene Lyngholm
Choreography and production assistant / Karen Høybakk Mikalsen
Video Installation / Kaia Hugin. Photo / Yaniv Cohen
Premiere / Dansens Hus Oslo, Norway Sep 19th 2015
Supported by / Arts Council Norway, Fund for Sound and Vision, FFUK and Nordic Culture Fund.
Co-produced by / Dansens Hus Oslo, BIT Teatergarasjen Theater Freiburg, ULTIMA festival, Carte Blanche and Bærum Kulturhus.
Partners / Dance Arena Nord, SITE Sweden, Vigeland Museum, Emanuel Vigeland Museum, Kedja 2015, Dans i Nord-Trøndelag, Fjelldansen.
Produced by / Mia Habib Productions
Dramaturgy /Jassem Hindi
Lighting design / Ingeborg Olerud
Sound / audio mix / Jassem Hindi
Choreography assistant / Jon Filip Fahlstrøm
Co-creative process and performance by / Cecilie Lindemann Steen, Ingunn Rimestad, Hanna Mjåvatn, Ida Gudbrandsen, Loan Ha, Hedda Rivrud, Kira Senkpiel, Harald Beharie, Przybyslaw Paz, Linn Christine Ragnarsson, Fie Dam Mygind, Asaf Aharonson, Shantelle Jackson, Povilas Bastys, Jules Beckman, Oskar Landström, Mattias Carlberg, Kaare p, Mats Ödman, Troels Laurell, Rune Pedersen, Bjørn Michaelis, Jodie Judy Lu / Lu, Ying-Chu, Gabriele Schink, Michael Rapp, Carsten Hall, Arnt Robert Leganger, Justina Brazaite, Bo Petersen, Bjarne Bødker, Marjukka Savolainen, Niels Ole Hauerberg, Lisanne Goodhue, Jostein Strand, Dagomara Danza, Erik Lobelius, Kenya Foss Parsons, Aaron Scheer, Franc Seilerl, Torbjørn Kolbeinsen, Corrado Di Lorenzo
Producer / Eva Grainger
Pre-production / Morten Kippe
International Producer / Sales & Marketing / Karene Lyngholm
Choreography and production assistant / Karen Høybakk Mikalsen
Video Installation / Kaia Hugin. Photo / Yaniv Cohen
Premiere / Dansens Hus Oslo, Norway Sep 19th 2015
Supported by / Arts Council Norway, Fund for Sound and Vision, FFUK and Nordic Culture Fund.
Co-produced by / Dansens Hus Oslo, BIT Teatergarasjen Theater Freiburg, ULTIMA festival, Carte Blanche and Bærum Kulturhus.
Partners / Dance Arena Nord, SITE Sweden, Vigeland Museum, Emanuel Vigeland Museum, Kedja 2015, Dans i Nord-Trøndelag, Fjelldansen.
Duration / 90 minutes
Photography / miahabib.com
