Chamber
dance
New dance meets chamber music
Immerse yourself in the dance and music, when three new works are danced to the live music of Bach, Berio, Bartók and Adès. The productions are part of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival.
Is this a chamber music concert with dance, or a dance production set to chamber music? The answer is a little of both.
Whitney Jensen, Simone Grøtte and Samantha Lynch each create their own dance piece to chamber music. The music is played by a string quartet, and between the dances, they play purely musical pieces. The hour-long production becomes a dialogue between chamber music and dance, for an audience of only 60 on the Second Stage.
Exciting choreographies and musical tension
The American Whitney Jensen is a soloist with the Norwegian National Ballet and a new voice in choreography. She has previously created dance for NNB RAW. Now she has created a duet for male dancers to the baroque music of J.S. Bach.
In the Australian Samantha Lynch’s work, we jump several centuries forward in musical history, to the contemporary era and composer Thomas Adès. This dance piece is also for two male dancers. Lynch is behind this initiative, and for several years she has been running the dancers’ choreography workshop NNB RAW. She and Douwe Dekkers have created several works together. These include for: jake, which was selected for the International Draft Works at the Royal Ballet in London.
For the first time, you can experience the dance of Simone Grøtte at the Oslo Opera House. Her duet has been created for two female dancers to the music of Luciano Berio and Béla Bartók, two distinctive composers from the 20th century. Grøtte’s Sami background and the Arctic are often clearly present in her art, interwoven with the dance in a modern expression. In the critically acclaimed GLEMT/FORGOTTEN, she was inspired by individual and collective memories from the Second World War in Northern Norway.
This is a co-production of the Oslo Chamber Music Festival and Norwegian National Ballet.
- Wheelchair users must buy tickets by phone from the Oslo Opera House’s customer service centre: +47 21 42 21 21.
- We take infection control very seriously, and will be implementing appropriate procedures to protect the public and staff.