2024
Performances
(More tbc)
Homo Novus Festival, Latvia (Sep 2025)
Mediterranean Dance Center, Croatia (July 2025)
Spring Forward Festival, Airwaves Gorizia, Italy (25. April 2025)
OFF CINARS, Montréal, CAN (12. Nov 2024) excerpt
Oktoberdans | BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (22.-23. Oct 2024)
Dansens Hus, Oslo (6. - 9. June 2024)
Ice Wet | BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (12. Feb 2024) process showing & pitch
The work
A satire on the phenomenon of seduction, Blue Carousel is a bold duet created and performed by dance artists Lisa Colette Bysheim (Norway) and Katrine Patry (Quebec), scored with a live techno set by asiangirlsonly (Norway/Philippines).
Blue Carousel draws inspiration from the mating dance of paradise birds, deconstructing the rituals of seduction and power. Featuring live DJs, the piece fuses the intensity of techno music and club culture with choreography. Bysheim and Patry are particularly interested in using humour as a tool to dissolve ingrained ideas and expectations. By employing the ‘spectacle’ as a means to confront underlying themes of objectification, human behaviour, and social constructs, they engage with the complexities of power relations in ways that are both playful and provocative.
The performance invites audiences into a world where the familiar and the absurd collide. The dancers, embodying figures of seductive allure, engage in a visual spectacle—an ever-evolving play between subtlety and explosiveness.
The piece questions and subverts societal norms of seduction and the ways in which women’s bodies are framed and consumed. Their work is crafted to disrupt, question, and ultimately offer new perspectives on how power operates in both visible and subtle forms.
Blue Carousel is a part of the Aerowaves ‘Twenty25 Artist’ network!
Artistic Team
Concept: Bysheim & Patry
Choreography & Dance: Lisa Colette Bysheim & Katrine Patry
Substitute dancer: Edith Strand Askeland
Sound design & live DJ: asiangirlsonly
Light design: Eirik Lie Hegre
Dramaturgy: Janne-Camilla Lyster
Scenography: Sophia Gatzkan
Costume design: Golnaz Adham
Sound consultant: Mike McCormick
Photos: Tale Hendnes
Production: i.c.a.p (Lisa Reynolds & Elisabeth Gmeiner)
Co- producers
Dansens Hus (Oslo) , BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), & Carte Blanche (Bergen).
Funded by
Kulturdirektoratet, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Bergen kommune, Fond for utøvende kunstnere.
About
Lisa Colette Bysheim (1991) and Katrine Patry (1986) are particularly interested in using humour to dissolve preconceived ideas. Working with the ‘spectacle’ as a tool to explore underlying themes of objectification, human behaviour and socially constructed expectations, they aim to question and play with the nuances in power relations.