Mamelukk dance company - Lifesavers
Photo: Marte Glanville
Raw and real about being a female halling dancer
The female body changes in a natural cycle every month, and through major transitions such as becoming a mother.
5 dancers explore how these transitions can be thematized in hallingtakt. Is it possible to express something that is most feminine in existence through a dance that has always been developed on men's premises? Through a creative process around menstruation, ovulation and pregnancy, the dancers have searched for new dance via torn abdominal muscles and hat kicks that have never been celebrated in any way. -We want to show a raw and honest picture of what it is like to be a female halling dancer, says Silje Onstad Hålien. And maybe there is a new type of traditional dance that comes out on the other side.
Life Mothers are made by Silje Onstad Hålien, Susanne Marko and Mamelukk dance company
Silje Onstad Hålien - dance
Solveig Hårdnes - dance
Margit Myhr - dance
Brigitte Halldis Blomlie - dance
Anita Vika Langødegård - dance
Astrid Garmo - fiddle
Solveig Wang - keyboards
Choreographer: Silje Onstad Hålien
Director: Susanne Marko
Composer: Selma French Bolstad
Costume design: Signe Vasshus
Lighting design: Daniel Kolstad Gimle
Photo: Vegard Breie
Livmødre is a co-production with Riksscenen and Sprang with support from the Arts Council of Norway, NOPA, Valdresmuséa, Innlandet and Folkemusikkveka.