Ulf-Arne Johannessen: To reach love
To reach love is a musical and visual storytelling performance about and with dancer, musician and woodcarver Ulf-Arne Johannessen. Alone on stage, he drives the story forward with video art, his own music and dance. Both the einradar and the woodcarver's tools - and the traditions associated with them - Ulf-Arne has inherited from relatives. At the same time as he carries on the traditions, he explodes them to the breaking point, just as he does with the halling dance with which he has won several NM titles.
The key word is 'desire'. Or rather 'need'. Ulf-Arne needs to embrace these traditions, and to break with them. And he has made them a way of life. Ulf-Arne's grandfather lived the opposite life. More than anything, he wanted to apply to the art and craft school in Oslo, but his parents talked him out of it, because working on the railways gave a better pension. After thousands of frustrated days in NSB, and in the home workshop every evening, he passes away and dies before retirement age.
On stage – Ulf-Arne Johannessen
Directed by – Aslak Moe