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Liquid Body
Siri Jøntvedt I Ingar Zach
Showings and tickets
Showings and tickets
Friday, 20/09
Saturday, 21/09
Liquid Body is a new project from dance artist Siri Jøntvedt and composer/percussionist Ingar Zach. It combines dance and live music, and is based on Zach's award-winning album Musica Liquida (2022). Together, Jøntvedt and Zach explore movement and sound in the unique surroundings of the dark, dramatic, acoustically resonant Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum.
The acoustic qualities of the space plays a key role in the performance and becomes almost a third body. Opened in 1958, the mausoleum is one of Oslo’s best kept secrets. Consisting of a darkened, barrel-vaulted room, and covered in Emanuel Vigeland’s disturbing frescoes, it has a massive reverberation time. Reacting to this enclosed space, the performers build up a series of repetitive movements, rituals and gestures. The overall experience of Liquid Body is of endurance, concentration over time and physical exhaustion.
Related event
24 August: Siri Jøntvedt will host a workshop where she explains some of the process behind the creation of Liquid Body. The session involves listening, interpretation, timing and duration in relation to music. Read more here.
Siri Jøntvedt and Ingar Zach at the Vigelandsmausoleum. Photo: Simen R. Ulvestad.
Choreography and dance
- Siri Jøntvedt
Music
- Ingar Zach
Costume design
- Solveig Bygdnes
Sound engineering
- Stig Gunnar Ringen
Dramaturgy
- Darko Dragičevic
Producer
- Margrethe Rylander
Photo
- Simen R. Ulvestad
In collaboration with
- Dansens Hus
Supported by
- Kulturrådet
