New production spring 2012

zero visibility corp. and Ina Christel Johannessen will use the former duet THIEF - AFTER Clip 0 (zero) as a starting point for a new creation with Line Tørmoen and Pia Elton Hammer.
The premiere will be at RAS, Regional Arena for Contemporary Dance, Sandnes kulturhus, 12th April 2012.

We meet two women, in a landscape that is both external and internal. The women’s situation unfolds through a duet where they are sometimes portrayed as two sides of one personality rather than two separate characters.
They somehow form and are formed by nature around them. In this partly unsettled confrontation between (wo)man and nature, certain questions arise: Who is a threat to whom? Who steals from whom?  Is the atmosphere of destiny a warning sign that we are at the beginning or the end of existence as we know it? Without proclaiming this an environmental performance, the drama does create the feeling that something bigger and more important than the psychological is in play here. It is possible that this even intensifies the notion of the two women as one.

The sound patterns also play an important part in Ina Christel Johannessen’s work. The music is original or specially composed by the duo elegi/svarte greiner. The music, like the set design, creates a dynamic between the abstract and the concrete. We hear poetic horizontal music and the concrete sounds of steps and rockslide.
Ina Christel Johannessen and her co-artists challenge the audience with their performance and dance expression. Our traditional notion of opposites: open-closed, wide-narrow, concrete-abstract, life-death is deconstructed in a play where we, the spectators, are invited into a landscape of possible meanings and negotiated interpretations.

Choreographer: Ina Christel Johannessen
Dancers/performers: Line Tørmoen and Pia Elton Hammer
Set design, costumes: graa hverdag as / Kristin Torp
Light design: Kyrre Heldal Karlsen
Music / composition: elegi and svarte greiner
Sound: Morten Pettersen

Produced by: zero visibility corp.
Co-production: Dansens Hus, Oslo, Norway

zero visibility corp. are supported by Arts Council Norway