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Push Pull Matters (2023/2024)
a dance performance project with tools, body and structure

Premier: August 24th-26th 2023, at Norges Fiskerimuseum, Bergen, Norway / Review
​Second premier: August 17th-18th, 2024, at Sulitjelma touristesenter & Girjegumpi, Northern Norway 
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Photo: David Engmo

​Push Pull Matters is a dance performance with objects such as ropes and sticks. The project departed from the fact that a woodworking plane are used by pulling in Japan, but by pushing in Norway (and most of other countries). The research on tools and relation between body and tools took place in Japan and Norway for over two years, and after creation in Norway, the project premiered at Norges Fiskerimuseum (Norwegian Fishery Museum) in Bergen, Norway, in August 2023.


The audience will witness dancers exploring the relations between body and object by dancing in unison with ropes, sticks and nets, and assembling and disassembling structures. Dancers from different cultural backgrounds dance with the structure and it is consequently processed, dismantled, and respectfully misused in an attempt to discover a new relations between body and objects.

 
 
Push Pull Matters (European Cabins of Culture ver., 2024)

- 17th August (Familiedag i Daja) @Sulitjelma turistsenter / FB event page

- 18th August @Grijegumpi / Bymuseem i Bodø / FB event page

Concept: Yohei Hamada
Creation and performance: Katarina Skår Lisa, Riina Kalmi and Yohei Hamada 
​Music: John Andrew Wilhite
Costume: Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh
Supported by Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for utøvende kunstnere and Davvi - senter for scenekunst

The shows are held as a part of European Cabins of Culture, by Bodø2024 

Video: Osker Mellemsether 

Push Pull Matters (World premier, 2023)

Direction, Choreography and Scenic construction: Yohei Hamada

Creation and performance: Katarina Skår Lisa, Riina Kalmi and Yohei Hamada 

Music: John Andrew Wilhite

Scenography and Costume design: Olga Regitze

Lighting design: Randiane Sandboe

 

Dramaturg: Cristian Stefanescu

Scenic advisor: John Audun Hauge

 

Scenic co-researcher: Masateru Miyazawa

Scenic assistant: Diego Belda
Artistic consultant: Danja Burchard

Research coordinator: Mia Julie Wiland

 

Producer: Yohei Hamada and Sølvi Katrine Andersen (Bergen Dansesenter)​

Co-produced by BIT Teatergarasjen and Carte Blanche - THE NORWEGIAN NATIONAL COMPANY OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE 

 

Co-operated by Norges Fiskerimuseum, Sppisøy Øvre, Bergen Dansesenter - kompetansesenter for dans i Vestland, WRAPVitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts and Davvi - Centre for Performing Arts

 

Supported by Norsk kulturfond, Fond for lyd og bilde, Nordisk Kulturfond, Vestland fylkeskommune, Bergen kommune, FFUK, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture and Arts Promotion Centre Finland 

Photos above by David Engmo

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Photos above by Sasha Azanova

Photos above by Marthe Nyvoll

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