Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts

ISKRA production is a theater company based in Tromsø, Northern Norway, officially established in 2024 by two exile artists Prokhor Gusev and Gulnara Iskakova. Artists of ISKRA production are trying to make their theater in new circumstances, in a new cultural field, in a new country, trying to create a space for dialogue to explore identities, roots and a new way of making theater when the world is on fire. ISKRA Production often collaborates with freelance artists to present diverse perspectives. For the “Moving Identities” project, they are partnering with Sámi-Norwegian composer Gøril Nilsen on “I Am a Witness of Your Existence,” which examines the identity of witnesses as a social and cultural phenomenon. 

We are a group of recent creation, we seek teamwork based on the affinity of our individual work and previous alliances in diverse teams, as well as our common ideology that can be summarized in the search for social justice, the work from mutual comprehensions, rigusority and black feminisms. The name comes from the recurrent use, among us, of the word “sister”. We feel twinned by life, by the struggles and by the way we look at life… we are optimists who think that the biggest revolution is working from and with tenderness and love, and that the way we want to work as a group of Afro-descendant women. 

The Age of Love is a multidisciplinary performance collective that was born in the summer of 2021. Samuel Valor Reyes founded this collective in search for underrepresented diverse talents rooted in Limburg, Belgium. These diverse talents were discovered in various ways to even getting inspired by interesting bodies and identities on the streets. The Age of Love quickly became an inclusive community focused on brave spaces. The philosophy of brave spaces allowed the performers to always start from a place of empowerment. In the summer of 2022 The Age of Love debuted their performance ‘The Age of Love’, transforming their philosophy in a performative setting. ‘The Age of Love’ talks about being reborn and finding community and support in different identities coming together. It shows the possibility of finding love through our differences and similarities with the idea of ‘black or white, straight or queer: it’s all disco.  

DRIVER is a choreographic project developed by Lara Vejrup Ostan (SLO/DK) in collaboration with Yeong Ran Suh (KOR).

DRIVER materializes and discusses speed as a sensuous, individual, but also common and socio-political experience. It questions who has the agency and ability to influence speed and who has to abide by the speed of others, or alternatively, fall behind. In DRIVER we delve into a universe of truck drivers; escapist wanderlust, tenacious asphalt-romance and idealized loneliness. We speculate about truck drivers – as solitary heroes, perhaps shaped by external forces, as well as a place for us to imagine a different world. The project will (amongst other things) become a choreographic performance, created with and by dancers Johanna Eva Forsehag (SE), Ruth Rebekka Hansen (DK), sound designer Moritz Nahold (AT), light designer Thora Eriksen, scenographer Max Schwidlinski (DE), dramaturg / truck driver Bush Hartshorn (SCT) and co-produced by Dansehallerne (DK).

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.

(previously known as C A L L S)

We are Caroline, Amelie, Lisa, Laura, and Steph, a loose crew of performers, dancers, artists, strippers, musicians, stage and costume designers, media artists, and researchers. We don’t all embody all of these categories, but we all sail through several of them. As individuals we are seasoned practitioners with our own practices but together we form a formidable crew that is as interested in chartering the unknown as we are in keeping the ship clean, i.e. holding space for each other and following the spiral all the way down. The enmeshment and collaboration between us is complex and sticky, and this group is not so much of a fixed collective as a container for chaotic growth. We are interested in alternative narratives as antidotes to neoliberal hegemony, gender as a vehicle against the state, representations of femme anger, decolonising the gaze, and the poetics of the cosmos found in the synecdoche of the human body.