Jingle
Horse!

Alan Øyen is a multi-artist! 

He’s now returning to the Second Stage together with actors from his own company winter guests and dancers from the Norwegian National Ballet. What happens when a group of world-weary actors – all with a complicated relationship to Christmas – are told to create a Christmas performance together with overworked dancers? 

We finally have the chance to once again see the performance that went on to become a Christmas classic in its own right!   

Frightfully cosy 

Jingle Horse! is staged as a scene from a 50s TV show, inspired by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra’s ‘A Christmas Special’. We are witness to a series of stories, all related to Christmas. We experience joy, ghastliness, dance, Christmas songs, horror and ghosts, to name only a few. 

“A Christmas performance in the best sense of the word,” says Alan Lucien Øyen, “festive yet bombastic, playful yet sad.”  

Alternative Christmas 

The award-winning director, choreographer and scriptwriter is one of the most exciting voices in Norwegian and international performance art today. He creates dance and theatre performances in dozens of different countries and here in Norway, was the driving force behind the impressive The Hamlet Complex and Nothing Personal on the Main Stage – on two of the largest moving stage rigs ever built by the Oslo Opera House. 

Personally, he is a huge fan of both Christmas and The Nutcracker, but in Jingle Horse!, aims to share alternative Christmas stories, as usual in collaboration with actor and playwright Andrew Wale.