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SUMMER PROGRAMME WITH JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI:

Made
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en mann og en kvinne i blått lys på scenen Made in Oslo: foto fra "Kvart" / Photo: Arvydo Gudo

Summer at the Oslo Opera House with dance performances for the entire family!

A performance that includes both dance about table tennis and the miserable life. This summer, you can see condensed versions of the blockbusters A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football and Made in Oslo at a reduced ticket price.

The Jo Strømgren Kompani is serving a three-course ‘meal’ with three riveting and distinctly different choreographies. Made in Oslo is a new performance with extracts from three works made in Oslo and that illustrate what Norwegian dance has to offer:  Salve Regina, A Dance Tribute to Ping Pong and Kvart.

A different take on the miserable life

Life can be wretched.  Where and how do we seek out comfort and relief? Salve Regina features an unmistakably Strømgren-style parody of human shortcomings, power games and moral ambivalence.

 It’s beautiful, subtle and occasionally ominous ...

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 A humorous look at table tennis

A Dance Tribute to Ping Pong is an independent follow-up to A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football  – and is all about – table tennis! An Asian guru leader leads his followers through the minefield of modern life and shows them the way to happiness in the afterlife.  Along the way, the audience is treated to both entertaining dance and comic situations. 

Award-winning and stunning contemporary dance

Kvart is movement on a square woollen blanket that explores a type of dance not often shown on stage, namely dancers dancing for each other. 

See also the Summer Programme with the Jo Strømgren Kompani: A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football

About the summer programme Hide Show more

This year, Jo Strømgren Kompani (JSK) is presenting a unique summer programme at the Oslo Opera House that is designed for the entire family, with condensed dance performances at a reduced ticket price. The programme includes three daily performances (except for Mondays) over a four-week period of A Dance Tribute to Football and Made in Oslo. Both have been performed across the world for a broad audience and have proven to be a great introduction for children and young people to performing art and perhaps even art in general. JSK wants the summer programme to give as many people as possible the opportunity to experience art of the highest quality.

About Jo Strømgren Hide Show more

Jo Strømgren has distinguished himself both nationally and internationally as a choreographer, director, set designer, playwright and former dancer. Since 2013, he has been associated with the Norwegian National Ballet as the choreographer in residence, while at the same time working with his own company, the Jo Strømgren Kompani (JSK).  

JSK has toured in over 60 countries with its uniquely characteristic combination of dance and theatre, combining distinct and often highly physical humour with darker, political undertones. 

 

 

  • Summer programme for the entire family
  • Condensed performance: 45 minutes
  • Some use of theatrical smoke

Artistic team and cast

  • Chorography, costume- and set design
    Jo Strømgren
  • Music
    Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Jørgen Knudsen PIN: Charles Aznavour, Dean Martin, Nino Nardini, Clara Rockmore & Nadia Reisenberg, Metro-Tytöt, Zarah Leander, Umberto Giordano & Luigi Illica, Johann Strauss, Jacob Gade, Frederic Chopin, Lars Årdal, Jo Strømgren
  • Lighting design
    Stephen Rolfe
  • Sound design
    Lars Årdal, Audun Melbye
  • Costume design
    Bregje van Balen, Johanna Sutinen
  • Dancers
    Anna B. Andresen, Nora Svendsgaard, Malika Berney, Angela Demate, Jakub Medrzycki, Egil Alnaes, Jason Kittelberger, Iannes Bruylant