blue carousel

2024

Performances

Oktoberdans | BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (22.-23. October 2024)

Dansens Hus, Oslo (6. - 9. June 2024)

Ice Wet | BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (12. Feb 2024) process showing & pitch

About the work

They attract and distract,

Absorbed in bold encounters.

Playfully blurring dynamic feminine undertones,

They morph.

Suggesting, defying, pushing boundaries and expectations.

A serious parade in all its absurdity.

Blue Carousel is a satire on seduction. A power play of expectations and associations, collapsing and climaxing into a series of transformations. Bysheim and Patry work with humour and repetition as a choreographic tool to comment on how the female body is viewed, objectified and categorised.

In a study of the seductive body, based on humour and bird mating dances, they indulge in all-consuming moments. Through a series of performative situations, they revel, twist and defy expectations through layers of fiction. They present soft and unforeseen confrontations, while insistent movements are woven together with transformative techno beats.

A playful and suggestive work that questions and challenges what is socially accepted vs the absurdity in the unexpected, while deconstructing the binaries of the masculine and feminine.

Artistic Team

Concept: Bysheim & Patry

Choreography & Dance: Lisa Colette Bysheim & Katrine Patry

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