STICKY Productions (NO) 2023-2024

STICKY Productions (Edginton/Lothe/Olsen/Parsons) is a collective of queer, female, dance artists based in Norway. Their practice delves into the bodily and the sensitive, the playful and the peculiar. Using the receptive and expressive body to investigate their subject matter, their performances play between literal and abstract to offer audiences proximity to imagination and opportunity to kinesthetically absorb stories. The artists share a drive to create environmentally conscious work that centres new or untold narratives. Between 2020-22, STICKY created their first work, Økohelter, a performance for children played at Dansens Hus, Sentralen, Bærum Kulturhus amongst others, and selected for the touring network Dansenett Norge Spring 2024. STICKY is in development of their new dance work OOZE, approaching nature from a Queer Perspective. Through an imaginary, sensory, and somatic journey into the world of slugs, we invite sexuality, sex, fluidity and transformation into the room.

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Who/what is Sticky Productions?

STICKY Productions is Liv Edginton, Maria Lothe, Ingvild Marstein Olsen, Hannah Parsons. We are a collective of Queer female dance artists, based in Oslo, Norway. 

Our work is immersive and sensorial, and we see our practice as a meeting between dance, ecology and Queerness. Using the receptive and expressive body to investigate the subject matter, our performances play between literal and abstract to offer audiences proximity to imagination and opportunity to kinesthetically absorb stories.

Photo Credit: NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO

What is your aim with Moving Identities?

Our aims for Moving Identities run along three strands: solidifying our practice as a collective, exploring international opportunities, and undertaking research for our new production, OOZE. For us, the three intertwine in a symbiotic manner, and we feel grateful and privileged to have space and time to be in process over an extended period. 

OOZE will be an immersive dance performance for adults that uses slugs as a slippery metaphor for Queerness. Historically, homosexuality and gender variance have been written out of biological science, labelled as abnormalities or anomalies, and we hope that the performance can bring a wider awareness to this, through playful embodiments of slugs and gastropods. 

Photo Credit: NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO

Which method(s) will you use to achieve this aim? 

Within Moving Identities our main line of work will revolve around studio practice, researching and developing OOZE. We bring in research from ecological studies, and work on strategies for embodying concepts and phenomena. As a collective, we have a wide range of methods from improvisation and somatic practices that we will explore together. 

Were excited to look at whats ahead for STICKY Productions, with time to work on strategy and dreams for the future through workshops and discussions. We also see international opportunities as a tool to widen our horizons. During Moving Identities, we are actively reaching out to the international market with our current and future productions to expand our current network through the partners and extended community.

Photo Credit: NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO

Why are you using these methods?

We first met during dance studies at Laban in London and have a wide foundation of shared references. Together, we also share a drive to create environmentally conscious work that centres new or untold narratives and feel that the wide range of methods we employ in our process nurture this perspective. 

We have a strong belief in collectivity as a driving force for our work, and that our individual contributions create an interesting tension in our working practice. 

Photo Credit: NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO

How does your current project relate to your previous/other works? Is it similar or different?

In 2022, we created Økohelter [Ecoheroes], an immersive dance production for children, that zooms in on the little creatures on the Norwegian forest floor, and has toured extensively across Norway since then. During the process of creating and performing it, we were interested in how we could engage our audiences through different modes of engagement. 

We found lots of playful ways to create sensory experiences and found that the adults that accompanied the children also had an interest. Based upon this we became curious about how we could create a playful experience for adults in the same way, that could liberate the childlike wonders that we found with Økohelter. 

With OOZE, we also feel our interests in dance, ecology and Queerness coming together to fuel the project. Like we mentioned earlier, its also exciting for us to create dance experiences that can shed light on how Queerness is present in nature, and that we can create work that celebrates this. 

What are you most excited about in this programme ahead of you?

We are grateful for the chance to have space and time to explore and research, and it is a real privilege to let the process unfold over a longer period of time. We are excited that we can invest time into the collective, and develop how we work together as a group. The time will be especially valuable for the development of OOZE, but will also feed into future productions and collaborations. 

Moving Identities will give us the chance to expand our horizons, to meet new people and engage with a larger dance community through our partners. So far, its been great to strengthen our relationship with Davvi in Hammerfest, where we have been for our first two-week residency in October, and we look forward to visiting Hellerau in Dresden, Germany, and later Udviklingsplatformen in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Interview with Sticky Productions at HELLERAU.

With project manager Janka Dold and host artist Alba T Álvarez.

Watch interview here

Video credit: Christoph Haubold

<p><strong><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW75668985 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW75668985 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">Who/what is Sticky Productions?</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">STICKY Productions is Liv Edginton, Maria Lothe, Ingvild Marstein Olsen, Hannah Parsons. We are a collective of Queer female dance artists, based in Oslo, Norway.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Our work is immersive and sensorial, and we see our practice as a meeting between dance, ecology and Queerness. Using the receptive and expressive body to investigate the subject matter, our performances play between literal and abstract to offer audiences proximity to imagination and opportunity to kinesthetically absorb stories.</span></p>
<p>Photo Credit: <span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW247443065 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW247443065 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">What is your aim with Moving Identities?</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Our aims for Moving Identities run along three strands: solidifying our practice as a collective, exploring international opportunities, and undertaking research for our new production, OOZE. For us, the three intertwine in a symbiotic manner, and we feel grateful and privileged to have space and time to be in process over an extended period.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">OOZE will be an immersive dance performance for adults that uses slugs as a slippery metaphor for Queerness. Historically, homosexuality and gender variance have been written out of biological science, labelled as abnormalities or anomalies, and we hope that the performance can bring a wider awareness to this, through playful embodiments of slugs and gastropods.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p>Photo Credit: <span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW231756160 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW231756160 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">Which method(s) will you use to achieve this aim?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW231756160 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Within Moving Identities our main line of work will revolve around studio practice, researching and developing OOZE. We bring in research from ecological studies, and work on strategies for embodying concepts and phenomena. As a collective, we have a wide range of methods from improvisation and somatic practices that we will explore together.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">We</span><span data-contrast="none">’</span><span data-contrast="none">re excited to look at what</span><span data-contrast="none">’</span><span data-contrast="none">s ahead for STICKY Productions, with time to work on strategy and dreams for the future through workshops and discussions. We also see international opportunities as a tool to widen our horizons. During Moving Identities, we are actively reaching out to the international market with our current and future productions to expand our current network through the partners and extended community.</span></p>
<p>Photo Credit: <span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW76682379 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW76682379 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">Why are you using these methods?</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">We first met during dance studies at Laban in London and have a wide foundation of shared references. Together, we also share a drive to create environmentally conscious work that centres new or untold narratives and feel that the wide range of methods we employ in our process nurture this perspective.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">We have a strong belief in collectivity as a driving force for our work, and that our individual contributions create an interesting tension in our working practice.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p>Photo Credit: <span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW215943643 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">NYVOLL FILM OG FOTO</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW83788145 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">How does your current project relate to your previous/other works? Is it similar or different?</span></strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">In 2022, we created </span><span data-contrast="none">Ø</span><span data-contrast="none">kohelter [Ecoheroes], an immersive dance production for children, that zooms in on the little creatures on the Norwegian forest floor, and has toured extensively across Norway since then. During the process of creating and performing it, we were interested in how we could engage our audiences through different modes of engagement.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">We found lots of playful ways to create sensory experiences and found that the adults that accompanied the children also had an interest. Based upon this we became curious about how we could create a playful experience for adults in the same way, that could liberate the childlike wonders that we found with </span><span data-contrast="none">Økohelter.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">With OOZE, we also feel our interests in dance, ecology and Queerness coming together to fuel the project. Like we mentioned earlier, it</span><span data-contrast="none">’</span><span data-contrast="none">s also exciting for us to create dance experiences that can shed light on how Queerness is present in nature, and that we can create work that celebrates this.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><strong><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22911366 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{&quot;ObjectId&quot;:&quot;fee12c5d-c64b-4d12-a3c0-02b0e1a36e9e|8&quot;,&quot;ClassId&quot;:1073872969,&quot;Properties&quot;:[469775450,&quot;Default&quot;,201340122,&quot;2&quot;,134233614,&quot;true&quot;,469778129,&quot;Default&quot;,335572020,&quot;1&quot;,469777841,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469777842,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777843,&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,469777844,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,469769226,&quot;Helvetica Neue,Arial Unicode MS&quot;,335551500,&quot;0&quot;,268442635,&quot;24&quot;,335559740,&quot;288&quot;,201341983,&quot;0&quot;,335559738,&quot;160&quot;]}">What are you most excited about in this </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW22911366 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default">programme</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22911366 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW22911366 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default">ahead</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22911366 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Default"> of you?</span></strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">We are grateful for the chance to have space and time to explore and research, and it is a real privilege to let the process unfold over a longer period of time. We are excited that we can invest time into the collective, and develop how we work together as a group. The time will be especially valuable for the development of OOZE, but will also feed into future productions and collaborations.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Moving Identities will give us the chance to expand our horizons, to meet new people and engage with a larger dance community through our partners. So far, it</span><span data-contrast="none">’</span><span data-contrast="none">s been great to strengthen our relationship with Davvi in Hammerfest, where we have been for our first two-week residency in October, and we look forward to visiting Hellerau in Dresden, Germany, and later Udviklingsplatformen in Copenhagen, Denmark.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:448}"> </span></p>
<p>Interview with Sticky Productions at HELLERAU.</p>
<p>With project manager Janka Dold and host artist Alba T Álvarez.</p>
<p>Watch interview <a href="https://youtu.be/mlOaWIRmi3U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></p>
<p>Video credit: <span>Christoph Haubold</span></p>

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