OUR COLABORATIVE PRACTICE
This page provides an overview of how our collaboration unfolds across several interconnected projects and continues to develop over time. Material created for one performance may later evolve into a hybrid concert, while elements of that concert may in turn become part of an entirely new performance. Although the projects take different forms, they are closely related and continuously influence one another. We therefore understand them as parts of a single long-term artistic process that unfolds in different formats. The projects are Kattebjørn, Utdanning (Education), and Auditorium. The project proposed for PQ can be seen as an amalgamation between these three.
KATTEBJØRN
2-mand theatre band
2-mand theatre band
AUDITORIUM
In Auditorium, the audience is invited into a lecture-like setting in auditorium A-421 at Høgskolen i Østfold in Fredrikstad, Norway. In the performance, Anna and Solveig explore the staging of ambiguity as a way of releasing the potential of the empty space.
The audience is welcomed by a person dressed as a lecturer, who turns out to be a kind of hybrid between a teacher and the actual person herself. The performance begins as an ordinary lecture about emptiness, about the city we are in, and about scenography. The audience may experience boredom; they may drift in and out of the situation and begin to feel the discomfort of sitting in the chairs, in the room, and in the situation itself.
At the moment when the audience has sat in this discomfort just a little too long, the performance begins to move into a slightly strange, humorous, and dreamlike landscape that loosens the boring and monotonous atmosphere. In one sequence the audience is left alone in the room. The lights begin to dance, the curtains move, and the space becomes alive — a kind of spatial choreography.
The performance explores what exists, and what does not exist, within the auditorium space. It examines the relationship between the private and the public, and the dream of what the space could be.
The performance also investigates how an atmospheric mood can be established by a single person (the performer/lecturer), and how that person can shift and control this atmosphere.
This production was part of §112 Fredrikstad by Østfold International Theatre.
performed and co-created by
Anna Utermøhl Lund and Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir
foto/foto-performer
Julie Hrnčířová
artistic support and consultations
Stacey Sacks, Ingvild Holm, Karen Kipphoff, Serge von Arx, Jakob Oreddson, Karoline Amalie Severinsen, Óluva Heidiardóttir Tvørfoss, Adam Manthey Steen.
produced by
Norwegian Theatre Academy, Høgskolen i Østfold, Østfold International Theatre
The audience is welcomed by a person dressed as a lecturer, who turns out to be a kind of hybrid between a teacher and the actual person herself. The performance begins as an ordinary lecture about emptiness, about the city we are in, and about scenography. The audience may experience boredom; they may drift in and out of the situation and begin to feel the discomfort of sitting in the chairs, in the room, and in the situation itself.
At the moment when the audience has sat in this discomfort just a little too long, the performance begins to move into a slightly strange, humorous, and dreamlike landscape that loosens the boring and monotonous atmosphere. In one sequence the audience is left alone in the room. The lights begin to dance, the curtains move, and the space becomes alive — a kind of spatial choreography.
The performance explores what exists, and what does not exist, within the auditorium space. It examines the relationship between the private and the public, and the dream of what the space could be.
The performance also investigates how an atmospheric mood can be established by a single person (the performer/lecturer), and how that person can shift and control this atmosphere.
This production was part of §112 Fredrikstad by Østfold International Theatre.
performed and co-created by
Anna Utermøhl Lund and Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir
foto/foto-performer
Julie Hrnčířová
artistic support and consultations
Stacey Sacks, Ingvild Holm, Karen Kipphoff, Serge von Arx, Jakob Oreddson, Karoline Amalie Severinsen, Óluva Heidiardóttir Tvørfoss, Adam Manthey Steen.
produced by
Norwegian Theatre Academy, Høgskolen i Østfold, Østfold International Theatre
UTDANNING
Education
Sånafest 2025
26–28 June, Hølen School, Hølen, Norway
Utdanning (Education) is an enigmatic performance that plays with fiction and reality, exploring how institutional spaces such as the classroom leave traces and memories in our bodies.
The audience is invited into a teaching-like situation in an ordinary classroom at Hølen primary School. The specific room and context become the starting point for an encounter between reality, fiction, power, and imagination. Here we reflect on how institutional spaces like classrooms and school buildings shape bodily memories that we carry with us into our experience of the world.
In contrast to Auditorium, this project works with the particular experience of sitting in a primary school classroom. While the auditorium space is strict, restrained, and often monotonous, the classroom is equally defined by noise, movement, and overwhelming liveliness. The spatial tension we explore emerges from this contrast: between the tedious and prolonged, and the intense and saturated.
Within this environment we explore the longing for the world outside the window, the power dynamics between teacher and pupil, and imagination as something that appears and disappears within the room.
Absence is also explored as something that arises within the audience. Imaginative images and sensations appear like small companions in the space.
What does it mean that someone else determines your time?
In what ways does imagination live within this room?
Created and performed by
Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir and Anna Utermöhl Lund
Producer
Sånafest / Madeleine Decollogny Myrer Orvik
Outside eyes
Ingvild Holm and Phillipp Schulte
26–28 June, Hølen School, Hølen, Norway
Utdanning (Education) is an enigmatic performance that plays with fiction and reality, exploring how institutional spaces such as the classroom leave traces and memories in our bodies.
The audience is invited into a teaching-like situation in an ordinary classroom at Hølen primary School. The specific room and context become the starting point for an encounter between reality, fiction, power, and imagination. Here we reflect on how institutional spaces like classrooms and school buildings shape bodily memories that we carry with us into our experience of the world.
In contrast to Auditorium, this project works with the particular experience of sitting in a primary school classroom. While the auditorium space is strict, restrained, and often monotonous, the classroom is equally defined by noise, movement, and overwhelming liveliness. The spatial tension we explore emerges from this contrast: between the tedious and prolonged, and the intense and saturated.
Within this environment we explore the longing for the world outside the window, the power dynamics between teacher and pupil, and imagination as something that appears and disappears within the room.
Absence is also explored as something that arises within the audience. Imaginative images and sensations appear like small companions in the space.
What does it mean that someone else determines your time?
In what ways does imagination live within this room?
Created and performed by
Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir and Anna Utermöhl Lund
Producer
Sånafest / Madeleine Decollogny Myrer Orvik
Outside eyes
Ingvild Holm and Phillipp Schulte
Photo
Lukasz Bielawski
Lukasz Bielawski
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