Celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2023 and the opening of our new studio, we want to offer four residencies between October and December to different artists or artist groups. The residencies include one week, Monday to Friday from 12:00-17:00, of free workspace in PRAXIS Oslo’s 83 sqm studio space in Hausmania, ending with an open sharing on the last day.

Amie Mbye and Inés Belli will share their artistic work in relation to "Formless Formation".

There is free access to the sharing, but registration is required.

At Hausmania,

Free entry, RSVP required.

Meeting 14:45 at Hausmania's back gates (behind Vega Scene).

DESCRIPTION

Formless Formation is an ongoing collaboration between Amie Mbye and Inés Belli. After a cancelled premiere in 2022 we are now in the process of reframing the our reserach in order to present fragments of our work in a self-organized showing in December. In this project we have been exploring the reciprocal exchange in innovation between dance and electronic music. Electronic music has for decades expanded the sonic horizon and challenged ideas of what danceable music can be, and been a catalyst for the exploration of movements and physicalities on the dance floor. Likewise, the dance floor has served as inspiration and a driving force behind the push towards new sonic horizons. With the mutual development between music and dance as a starting point, we navigate dense soundscapes in search of other forms of physicality and movement patterns, attempting to expand the horizon of our movement and create aesthetic alternatives that collapse time and place.

BIO 

Inés Belli holds a BA in dance from Oslo National Academy of Arts and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University, London. Departing from an expanded understanding of choreography, her work is situated within the independent field of dance and choreography as and artist, researcher, curator, dramaturge and initiator of projects in different constellations. Recent artistic works include Formless Formation (2022/23) in collaboration with dance artist Amie Mbye,  Metasexy (2020/21) and Postmodern Cool (2019), along with other commissioned works from Oslo National Academy of Arts (NO), Panta Rei Dance Theatre (NO) and Weld Dance Company(SE).

Amie Mbye (b.1993) is a Norwegian-Gambian performing and creating dance artist based in Oslo who works between Oslo, Paris, Barcelona and Dakar.  She has a background within African Aesthetic Dances and club-street dance, and holds a BA within dance art and choreography from HFDK.  Amie finds herself working in different artistic contexts and constellations. She has participated in and co-created projects ranging from battles and dance jams to artistic productions for stages, presented both nationally and internationally.  Amie is the initiator and founder of B16 dance collective. The dance collective consists of 20 dancers between the ages of 16 and 32 who work widely with dance; performance, facilitating and organizing professional dance workshops, artistic talks, dance jams and art nights in Oslo.