Author: Thorbjørn Gabrielsen
Director: Thorbjørn Gabrielsen
Composer: Nasra Ali Omar (www.nasra.no)
Video: Sissel Helgesen
Light design: Anita Bjørkli
Sound design: Runar Bruteig Olsen
Tine & Uma
Sissel Helgesen
Øystein Sanne
Runar Bruteig Olsen
Anita Bjørkli
Thorbjørn Gabrielsen

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Calming signals -The Dog Show

This performance is a collaboration between Teater NOR and Tine & Uma. We meet on stage with completely different capabilities, knowledge and goals.

Tine and Uma are consequences of an accident in a Stamsund neighbourhood, when the Nordhaug family’s English setter bitch ran away and was impregnated by Kjartan’s Gordon setter Lasse. Thus, they are predators who have grown up with humans in the Norwegian society. They have grown up in a performing arts environment, and been introduced to the stage and the audience at a very early age.

As always, Teater NOR wants to develop an art project of the highest quality, confronting ourselves and the audience with the discomfort of our culture, show our shortcomings towards each other in our close reality, the collaps of the humanistic project, show how we are prisoners in the labyrinth of the large structures - we want to be wise, put things into perspective and transcend boundaries.

Tine and Uma on the other hand, have more of a relational understanding of what goes on in the space. They focus on ambiance, presence and good company. They want to create an unarmed and safe meeting, a form of communication that is harmonic, and in their eyes on "a civilised level". They do not wish to provoke.

In spite of the clearly contradictory goals of this collaboration, we have a few things in common. Within safe perimiters we are all able to reach beyond the common - both we and the dogs wish to appear good and accomplished, and we all appreciate positive response.

To different sets of wills meet in this space. The experimental levels of the performance lay in exploring what kind of artistic potential exists here, and if there is something to learn from each other.