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Riding Romance 1 – Swan Lake (2012)

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:43:19 +0000

Premiered February 2 2012 at Black Box Theatre in Oslo.

In the 19th century, ballets were seen as trading goods that could be rejuvenated and re-sold, as the choreographer Marius Petipa did with the poorly received ”Swan Lake” from 1877. Since then, several of the world’s most prominent choreographers have made their [...]

Riding Romance Trilogy

admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:22:02 +0000

From hysteria to romance

Henriette Pedersen’s Animal Magnetism, the final part of her trilogy performance focusing on hysteria from a variety of angles and in a range of eras, was premiered in December 2010. Henriette Pedersen now intends to embark on a new trilogy which takes romance as its starting-point. Like hysteria, [...]

Animal Magnetism Trilogy

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:56 +0000

If a man roars, he’s dynamic

If a woman roars, she’s hysterical

Hildegard Knef

Animal Magnetism is a tribute to all hysterics through 5000 years! Particularly those who were locked up in Salpêtrière around the last turn of the century. In [...]

Animal Magnetism 3 (2010)

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:43:38 +0000

Premiered December 9th 2010 at Black Box Theater, Oslo Text by Sidsel Pape

Introduction:

The trilogy “Animal Magnetism” by Henriette Pedersen is a tribute to all hysterics throughout human history. The first written sources describing hysteria are on papyrus from 1900 B.C. The syndrome is strongly tied to the female sex, [...]

Animal Magnetism 2 (2009)

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:26:54 +0000

The second part of the Animal Magnetism trilogy had its premiere at Black Box Teater on the 10th of December and are now out on a tour in Germany and Sweden.

In Animal Magnetism 2 we wish to portray the passion, aggression [...]

Animal Magnetism 1 (2009)

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:06:50 +0000

«Animal Magnetism 1» is the first part of a trilogy about hysteria.

«In every generation there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.» -Ian Hacking

Traditionally, hysteria has been closely associated with women, and originally [...]

The Problem has no name (2007)

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:01:58 +0000

A mysterious couple meet in a hotel room, place unknown, under dramatic circumstance, the question remaining who they are and what has happened. Inspired by Harold Pinters play “Ashes to Ashes” and the visual landscape of cinematographer David Lynch, the work balances between the disturbing and the pathetic.

Henriette Pedersen (choreographer [...]

Hamburger Allee (2006)

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:14:50 +0000

“Hamburger Allee”

Henriette Pedersen is always searching for all things underlying – the hidden, secreted, disguised and erotic – the clandestine reality we silently employ. With the performance concept “Utidig innsyn” (2000) she questions the autonomy and authenticity of the arts seen from the high chair of visual art – the [...]

Edna og Bob (2005)

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Dancing with the Ibsenian dough Choreographer Henriette Pedersen creates, in company with dancers Beata Kretovicova and Erlend Samnøen, an animated chamber play with their Ibsenian Edna and Bob, centred on a mass of dough and a drawer full of lady stockings… Based on Ibsen’s When we dead awaken. A dramatic monologue [...]

Small stick big bird (2004)

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:25:35 +0000

A burlesque journey through private desires, secrets, sexual identities and fears.

The story is told through voice, gestures, movement, costumes and props by four distinctly different characters. These four women show us their highly peculiar world – a world where they try to hide their awkward and idiosyncratic personalities for each [...]