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Push Pull Matters

Performed in the attic of the Norwegian Fishing Museum, Norges Fiskerimuseum, Bergen 2023.

Performed in the landscape and cabins of Sulitjelma Tourist Center, European Cabins of Culture, Bodo2024 2024.

Performed in Joar Nango's Sámi amphitheater Girjegumpi, from the Venice Biennale to the Nordland Museum, Bådåddjo/Buvvda Museum during the Sápmi Triennial 2024.

Push Pull Matters is a performance about standardized ways of moving the body throughout different cultures and time periods, focusing on the relationships between bodies and tools. The audience will see dancers exploring the movements by assembling and disassembling wearable structures; extended bodies made of rope, fishing nets, and wooden sticks. Dancers from different cultural backgrounds dance with the structure and it is consequently processed, dismantled, and respectfully misused in an attempt to discover a new standard.

Credits 

Choreography and scenic construction Yohei Hamada

Creation and performance Katarina Skår LisaRiina Kalmi and Yohei Hamada 

Scenography & costume design Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh
Sound design John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal

Lighting design Randiane Sandboe

Dramaturg Cristian Stefanescu

Scenic advisor John Audun Hauge

Scenic co-researcher Masateru Miyazawa

Scenic assistant Diego Belda

Artistic consultant Danja Burchard

Research coordinator Mia Julie Wiland

Producer Yohei Hamada and Sølvi Katrine Andersen(Bergen Dansesenter)

Photo Sasha Azanova og David Engmo​

Co-produced by BIT Teatergarasjen and Carte Blanche - THE NORWEGIAN NATIONAL COMPANY OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE 

Co-operated by Norges FiskerimuseumBergen Dansesenter - kompetansesenter for dans i VestlandWRAPVitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts and Davvi - Centre for Performing Arts

Supported by Norsk kulturfond, Fond for lyd og bilde, Nordisk Kulturfond, Vestland fylkeskommune, Bergen kommune, FFUK, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture and Arts Promotion Centre Finland 

REVIEWS

 

"I Yohei Hamadas performance Push Pull Matters blir dansernes kropper samt høvler, stokker og fiskegarn en inngang til å tenke omkring forholdet mellom menneske, verktøy og et samfunn i bevegelse."

https://www.kunsthandverk.no/aktuelt/bevegelser-pa-et-bryggeloft/174312

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