I will be sharing collective practices related to my project Undersang. Together we’ll explore making human sculptures, collapsing together, lifting together and imploding together.

Some questions we will be dealing with: How can we work with dissonance and opposing physical manifestations within our own bodies, and how does this reflect in a collective practice or tableau?

Can we allow ideas of the extravagant and sensual corporeality and references slip into the practices and embody the glamorous, chaotic, wild and sassy?

About the artist:

Harald Beharie (he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway.

Harald's choreographic practice are collaborative voyages, navigating through realms of ambiguity and phantasm, punctuated by themes of construction and deconstruction, hope and uncertainty, disinterest, and emotional intensity. They hold a special interest for the DIY and vulnerability of being in the unknown. In a quest to dissect established corporeal and bodily narratives, their work celebrates a spectrum of embodiment—ranging from the pathetic to the ecstatic, the collapsing to the exuberant, the faltering to the tenacious while fostering a deliberate naiveté and queer playfulness. Harald's focus is being with local people, local ideas, and developing ideas with and within the community

Photo: Tale Hendnes