There is no east, there may never be a sun.
– Laila Malik
Sun Eaters is a contemporary folk dance that emerges from the darkness of mythological oil and what lies hidden in ancient dances. Oil is a deadly pearl, a viscous poem hidden in a dark abyss. It is a master of camouflage, transforming from hard fossil into nylon tights, from volatile organic gases into microplastics. Both oil and folk dance survive by deceiving us: they charm us and draw us into their darkness.
Hindi and Seifee draw on what they call “petromagic folklore” from West Asia and western Norway to unleash the mad shepherds, the sick gods—the Sun Eaters. They draw inspiration from the Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani, who situates oil within a cultural and imaginary landscape, as well as from the Swedish author Aase Berg’s eco-gothic poetry, in which revenge and landscape form a dark alliance. How can we interpret oil as a cultural landscape?
The production was recently named one of the best performances of the year by the Norwegian Shakespeare Journal in 2025.
Performed at Weld, Stockholm 21+22. Oct 2026
CREDITS
Choreography: Jassem Hindi
Concept, set design, sound: Sina Seifee, Jassem Hindi
Dance created by: Charlott Utzig, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Harald Beharie
Performers: Paolo de Venecia Gile, Trine Lise Moe, Ida Haugen (Weld, Stockholm 2026)
Co-dancers: Harald Beharie, Charlott Utzig, Alexandra Tveit
Costumes: Amy of the costumes
Production: Lisa Bakk Bøen
External perspective and support: Anette Röde Hagnell, Dusica Drazic, Marie Ursin, Simon Portigal, Tor-Arne Ursin
Documentation and photography: Mira Adoumier
Co-production: RAS – Regional Arena for Contemporary Dance, Frascati Producties, Moderna
Dansteatern, wpZimmer, Beursschouwburg and Grenland Friteater.
With the support of: The Arts Council Norway.
Photo by Tale Hendnes/Dansens Hus
Hairy fløffs on a wild adventure.
Are they dust bunnies, hairy yetis, or perhaps creatures form another planet? In any case, these four fløffs know how to shake loose, as their colourful fringes float as they dance.
This dance performance by choreographer Yaniv Cohen is aimed at a younger audience. When the fløffs come to visit, any place is transformed into a magical space full of movement, colours and shapes. Cohen has previously been featured at the Festival with his dancing Flekker, and is back with the abstract fløffs, combining dance and theatre in a playful performance full of curiosity and love.
Photo: Yaniv Cohen
Choreographer/director: Kari Hoaas
Dancer: Ida Haugen
Film director: Alexander Kayiambakis
Music: "Amanecer Loretano" composed by Italo Arbulu performed by Flor Canelo and Fil Uno
Costume designer: Zofia Jakubiec
Photographer: Jens Ramborg
B-photo: Tordis Lovise Bersås
Camera Assistant: Mikkel Strøm
Project coordinator: Alma Suvalic
Post productions house: Hocus Focus
Supported by: DansiT - choreographic center Trondheim, the School for Arts, Design and Media and the Research Administration at Kristiania University College.
Shadowland I - the dance film by Kari Hoaas Productions is a poetic, choreographic investigation of the concept of continuum and the body moving through loss. By combining circular and spiral movements and choreography, with an intimate frame and focus, this film aims to draw the viewer close to the dancer, offering a visceral experience.
SCREENING AND AWARDS
Best Dance Film Short at Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Germany, Sep. 2022
Best Dance Film Short at Cine Paris Dance Festival, France, Sep. 2022
Semi Finalist at FIVC International Screendance Festival of Chile, Sep. 2022
Finalist at Immagina Film Festival, Naples, Italy, Oct. 2022
Official Selection Athens International Digital Film Festival, Greece, Dec. 2022
Official Selection Dance Camera West, Lost Angeles, USA, Jan. 2023
Official Selection Festival Video (An)Danza Internacional, Puerto Rico, March 2023
Official Selection Martha´s Vineyard Film Festival, USA, March 2023
Official Selection Austin Dance Festival Dance on Film, USA, March 2023
Official Selection Screendance Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2023
MeYaBe International Dance Festival, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo, April 2023
Best Dance Film Edit at Florence Dance On Screen Festival, Italy, May 2023
Official Selection American Dance Festivals´ Movies by Movers, Durham, USA, June 2023
Official Selection Music Dance Screening Film Festival Consonance, Tbilisi, Georgia June 2023
Official Selection International ScreenDance Festival, Iowa City, USA, August 2023
Official Selection Interfaccia Digitale Screendance Festival Pesaro, Italy, October 2023
Official Selection at Inspired Dance Film Festival, Australia, October 2023
Co-creating performers: Ida Haugen, Jens Trinidad and Vilde Tuv
Direction and choreography: Ellen Jerstad
Composers: Vilde Tuv and Sandra Kolstad
Dramaturg: Lina Killingdalen
Set and lighting design: Kyrre Heldal Karlsen
Costume and cushion design: Julia Wilde
Produced by: Unge Viken Teater
Smeltasang won the Hedda Award for Best Children’s Production 2025. Read more here.
Smeltasang is a sensory performance specially designed for children and young people with disabilities. It explores longing for togetherness — to be alike, to share, and to feel connected.
Anna: Eli Kristin Hanssveen
Anna (dancer): Ida Haugen
Brother (baritone): Sakarias Fredriksen Tranvåg
Mother: Aleksander Nohr
Father: Magnus Staveland
Brother (tenor): Eirik Grøtvedt
Conductor: César Cañon
Director: Hanne Tømta
Choreographer: Georgie Curreli-Rose
Choreography rehearsal director: Ida Haugen
Set designer: Nora Furuholmen
Costume designer: Nora Furuholmen
Lighting designer: Øyvind Wangensteen
Producer: Anne Kathrine Fallmyr
Stage manager: Karen Løken
Head of studies: Boris Schäfer
Musical rehearsal director: Michael Sherman
Supertitles operator: Charlotte Sager
A Journey Through the Seven Deadly Sins
Anna and her sister are from Louisiana. In order to support their family, they travel to seven American cities, hoping that after seven years they will have earned enough money to buy a house by the Mississippi River. Anna is determined to provide for her family without committing any of the seven deadly sins — a task that soon proves impossible. On their journey, they encounter them all: sloth, pride, anger, gluttony, lust, greed and envy.
Anna and her sister, who share the same name, represent two sides of the same person. One is practical and rational; the other is beautiful and emotional. One is sung by Eli Kristin Hanssveen of the Norwegian National Opera, while the other is danced by Ida Haugen.
The Norwegian Opera & Ballet, June 2024
Photo: Jørg Wiesner
https://www.operaen.no/forestillinger/arkiv/2024/de-syv-dodssynder-opera/
Dancers: Fredrik Petrov, Ida Haugen and Sara Enger Larsen
Set design: Colin Eccleston
Choreography and direction: Anne Kathrine Fallmyr, Tale Hendnes
Lighting design: Evelina Dembacke
Music: Fredrik Petrov
Sound design: Nikolai Høgset
Illustration: Robin Rengård
Photo and film: Tale Hendnes
Producer: Hanne Frostad Håkonsen
Production: Oslo Koreografiske
Co-production: Dansens Hus, with support from the Sparebankstiftelsen
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Spenn, Sentralen Ung, FFUK, Oslo kommune, Kloden Theatre
American-sounding “gibberish” and improvised singing
Through an enormous plastic television, the audience is presented with scenes ranging from the realistic to the absurd — featuring refreshing and surprising uses of the body and dance, facial expression and voice.
In an American-sounding nonsense language, the performers address the audience and each other. At times they also sing — improvised tones emerging in the moment, forming part of a varied and engaging electronic soundscape. While the performers’ actions continually trigger laughter and curiosity, the use of light and reflections adds further layers of atmosphere.
With Soft Machine, the creators seek to provoke reflection and offer new ways of viewing our restless, consumer-driven world. Even as many are concerned with climate and the environment, we continue to fill our carts with things we do not need. Has consumerism become a major environmental paradox?
The performance is suitable for audiences aged 3 and up.
Artistic leader and concept: Sondre Lerche
Band: Sondre Lerche, Dave Heilman, Chris Holm, Alexander von Mehren, Kato Ådland
Choir: Volve Vokal
Guest vocalist: Gabriela Garrubo
Dancer: Ida Haugen
Director: Mattis Herman Nyquist
Sound: Michael Bjørnaali
Light design: Per Marius Larsen
Visuals: Birk Nygaard
Producer: Amalie Linga Neteland
Photo: Carsten Endresen
Performed 24.01.2026
Press: https://www.musikknyheter.no/konserter/100996/Sondre-Lerche-i-Grieghallen.html
Concept, choreography: Jennie Bergsli
Dance: Ida Haugen, Lisen Ellard and Jennie Bergsli
Sound design: Alice Slyngstad, Jennie Bergsli
Premiere: Spriten kunsthall, Skien, June 2023
Residency: Spriten Kunsthall, CND – Centre National de la Danse (FR), NORA – nasjonal og regional arena for dans i Vestfold og Telemark, Höjden Studio (SE), SITE (SE)
Supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, Skien Kommune, FFUK, Konstnärsnämnden (SE)
Eddy is a dance performance — a gathering of sound and movement stirred together in the murk of Spriten Kunsthall. In the tower space, the work explores relationships and gaps between what is heard and what is seen as touch — material responses, afterimages and delays that overlap in distorted perceptions.
Artistic leader and concept: Sondre Lerche
Band: Sondre Lerche, Dave Heilman, Chris Holm, Alexander von Mehren, Kato Ådland
Choir: Volve Vokal
Guest vocalist: Gabriela Garrubo
Dance: Ida Haugen
w/ Oslo Strings
Director: Mattis Herman Nyquist
Sound: Michael Bjørnaali
Light design: Per Marius Larsen
Visuals: Birk Nygaard
Producer: Amalie Linga Neteland
w/Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Live Nation, Standing Ovation
Den Norske Opera & Ballett, 12.01.25 at 17.00 and 20.00
Photo: Stian Werme
Press:
https://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/2025/01/12/en-forbloffende-kveld-med-sondre-lerche-i-operaen/
https://tidensand.no/operafantomet?fbclid=IwY2xjawH8dmJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHT1G-dixdgKv4jq54_3bBG0U9wqKkDDBfAYfOPE26U4bdkJQWv14WQ2TKA_aem_WvgKRLRNdegmS9CqtViCcw
https://www.popklikk.no/musikk/konsert/en-helt-ekstraordinaer-forestilling/
Choreography : Kari Hoaas
Dancers: Ida Haugen, Christine Kjellberg, Mattias Rønningen, and Kari Hoaas
Light and Stage Design & Touring Technician: Gard Gitlestad
Composer and musician: Fil Uno
Sound Design: Erling Bergby
Costume Design: Zofia Jakubiec
Producer in New York : Brendan McCall
Publicist: Jonathan Slaff & Associates
Premiere LaMaMa, Ellen Stewart Theatre, New York, 2023. Opening of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.
Norwegian choreographer Kari Hoaas’ latest project, Shadowland, responds to an increasingly unstable post-pandemic world. It is a poetic investigation of continuity and of the body moving through loss. Visually and conceptually inspired by the work of Norwegian visual artist Jan Groth, Shadowland is built around a series of solo dance practices, seeking an expression that is both abstract and poetic while emphasizing the affective and energetic power of movement.
The distinct solos Hoaas has created with each dancer appear in shifting constellations, forming choreographic bricolages and larger kinetic events. The resulting performance unfolds as a web of assemblages and changing formats. Shadowland is performed by three dancers together with choreographer Hoaas.
Shadowland was created with support from Arts Council Norway, the Fund for Sound and Image Norway, Performing Arts Hub Norway, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Norwegian Consulate General in New York. The work was developed in part through residencies at DansiT – Regional Centre for Dance in Trondheim and Davvi – Regional Centre for Dance in Northern Norway.
Review in Dance Enthusiast by Henning Rübsam 30.04.23:
https://www.dance-enthusiast.com/features/impressions-reviews/view/Kari-Hoass-Shadowland-La-MaMa-Moves-Festival-
Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Dance: Guro Nagelhus Schia, Vebjørn Sundby, Catharina Vehre Gresslien, Jon Filip Fahlstrøm, Klara Mårtensson, Matias Rønningen, Ida Haugen, Daniel Sarr, Shintaro Oue, Navala Chaudhari, Jens Trinidad, Hanne Elisabeth Svenning, Stian Bergdølmo, Vilja Kwasny
Music composition: Szymon Brzoska
Music: Barbara Drążkowska, Linda Jankowska, Emanuel Salvador, Emilia Goch-Salvador, Izabela Buchowska
Sound: Terje Wessel Øverland, Morten Pettersen, Dave Rogge
Scenography: Alexander Dodge
Original light design: Jim French
Assisting light design: Kyrre Heldal Karlsen, Kimarius Abrahamsen
Costume design: Frederick Denis
Wardrobe: Lisa Asplund (NSP), Lydia Frantz (Eastman)
Voice & text coach: Ivar Sverrisson
Rehearsal director: Kristin Hjort Inao (NSP), Oscar Ramos (Eastman), Jason Kittelberger (Eastman)
Producer: Sarah da Fonseca (NSP), Gert Van Overloop (Eastman)
Photo: Antero Hein
Orbo Novo is co-produced by Eastman (Antwerp), Bærum Kulturhus (Bærum), Festiviteten (Haugesund) & Den Norske Opera & Ballett (Oslo).
Orbo Novo was originally made and produced by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (New York).
Invited by artistic director Benoit Swan Pouffer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui created Orbo Novo ('the New World') for NY based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. The performance translates his feelings of freedom, confinement, connection and loneliness in NYC, his confrontation with America, the 'New World' and its incredible energy. It also underlines the common ancestors and the common heritage between Europeans and Americans. - https://www.nsproductions.no/orbo-novo-more-info
Trailer - here.
Concept, choreography and direction: Anne Kathrine Fallmyr, Tale Hendnes/Oslo Koreografiske
Dancers: Fredrik Petrov, Ida Haugen
Scenography: Colin Eccleston
Lighting design: Evelina Dembacke
Supported by: Norsk Kulturråd / Arts Council Norway, Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, Dansens Hus, Sentralen Ung.
Premiere at Dansens Hus, 2018
Photo: Tale Hendnes
We Are Symphony is a multidimensional performance journey for children aged 0–3 and adults. The audience is invited into a visual universe where the space itself is set in motion and transformed.
Illuminated rings hang several metres above the audience and move together with the dancers. The costumes contain integrated lighting, and the music engages and surprises both young and old.
The audience can experience the performance from multiple angles and perspectives, and is therefore able to influence the work. The piece conveys abstract narratives through relationships and aesthetically absurd tableaux.
Oslo Koreografiske is an artistic collective that collaboratively choreographs light, sound, scenography and people.
Choreography: Marcos Morau
Dramaturgy: Pablo Gisbert
Set design: Enric Planas
Costume design: David Delfín
Sound design: Luis Miguel Cobo
Lighting design: Albert Faura
Dancers: Timothy Bartlett, Sara Enrich Bertran, Jennifer Dubreuil Houthemann, Caroline Eckly, Ida Haugen, Christine Kjellberg, Jack Lorentzen, Hugo Marmelada, Ole Martin Meland, Mathias Stoltenberg, Núria Navarra Vilasaló
Artistic consultant: Roberto Fratini
Choreography assistants: Lorena Nogal, Inma Asenio
Edvard is inspired by the life and work of Edvard Munch, as Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau creates a full-length production for Carte Blanche.
Drawing on Munch’s life, character and artworks, Morau seeks new images and meanings. He explores how Munch’s illness and the early loss of his mother and sister shaped him as a person and artist, and how these experiences influenced his artistic expression. Central to the work is the tension between order and passion, discipline and illness.
Edvard (2015) was a dance production by Carte Blanche in collaboration with La Veronal / Marcos Morau and Tanz Bremen. The work was presented at Studio Bergen and at The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, and toured internationally, including performances at the Tanz Bremen Festival (Germany) and Małopolski Ogród Sztuki in Kraków (Poland).
Photo: Carte Blanche/Helge Hansen
Concept, idea and direction: Ellen Martha Jerstad
Performers: Ida Haugen, Marlene Bonnesen, Vincent Vernerie
Co-choreographer: Ida Haugen
Composers: Vilde Tuv og Sandra Kolstad
Dramaturge: Lina Killingdalen
Scenographer/design: Kyrre Heldal Karlsen
Costume, make-up and design pillows: Julia Wilde
Outside eye: Roza Moshtaghi
Produced by Unge Viken Teater
Target group: 0-2 years with adults
Premiere March 2024
Photo: Tale Hendnes
Review in Periskop by Hedda Fredly 12.03.24:
https://periskop.no/baby-rave-med-hjerterom/
Choreography: Guro Nagelhus Schia & Vebjørn Sundby
Dancers: Ane Tveit, Bertine Viksmo, Camilla Risnes Lerheim, Elene Barsten, Ida Haugen, Julianne Suttie, Nora Guldsten Robinson, Thais Hvid
Costume design: Ellen Ystehede, Lillian Baur
Lighting design: Martin Myrvold
Sound artists: Timon Botez & Olga Wojciechowska
DanseFOT / Nagelhus Schia Productions 2019, Bærum kulturhus
More info: https://www.dansefot-talent.no/forestilling_2019/#