XwomXnseX: STEAM

Welcome to a guided sauna and listening experience focused on the female sex/uality, pleasure and change.

The all female artist collective invites women of all ages to a sauna ritual with soundscore of intimate stories during this year’s CODA festival.

Audience participates in a collective sauna in 4 rounds – each round accompanied by a soundtrack of stories about female sex/uality. The exciting, surprising and inspiring stories came from women of all ages from different countries.

A collective comprised of Canadian dance artist Meagan O’Shea and the sisters Liv Hanne and Anne Katrine Haugen, founders Haugen Productions in Tromsø, with composer Charo Calvo, are behind the initiative. Haugen Productions creates performances that combine documentary and fiction, aiming to bring everyday life into theater – and theater into everyday life.

‘STEAM’ is a continuation of the collective’s stage performance ‘XwomXnseX’, praised by the critics. ‘XwomXnseX’ focuses on the diverse relationships women have with sexuality and change. As part of their artistic research, the collective organized sauna sessions in Tromsø, inviting fellow females from different countries at various stages of life, to share their own stories of sensual surprises and discoveries.

Join in and absorb the heat of the sauna stories and let your sweaty body become part of a sensual, uplifting, and energetic women’s collective.

The ’STEAM’ concept premieres at this year’s CODA festival.

About the artists:

Liv Hanne Haugen

Liv Hanne Haugen (she/her) from Tromsø (NO), trained at a.o. London Contemporary Dance School and SNDO in Amsterdam. She lived and worked for different companies, a.o. Wim Vandekeybus in Brussels, and other places in Europe before returning back to her hometown of Tromsø, Norway in 2009. From a northern perspective, she creates dance art through collective projects and groups. She works interdisciplinarily and cross-genre, with current topics. Her expression includes singing as well as dance, and she is a vocalist in the band LIV.

Anne Katrine Haugen

Anne Katrine Haugen (she/her) is a danceartist, choreographer and producer based in Tromsø, Norway. She has her education from London and worked with the Dutch choreographer Angelika Oei from 91-98 and toured in Europe, Cananda and USA, and Stellaris DansTeater, Hammerfest, Norway from 98-03. Immersive, interactive, documentary, devised theatre, film, installation and dance describes her work.

Meagan O’Shea

Meagan O’Shea (she/they) is a queer, contemporary dance+ artist from the land called Canada, working across forms and borders. Meagan examines ideas from unexpected angles, treating process like a science experiment, using body and interaction with audience as test site. Current works include “Anatomalia”, an immersive ambulatory performance for 5 dancers plus local chorus and “dance like no one is watching”, in-situ, ensemble improv that animates, occupies or disrupts public space. Meagan is founder of Stand Up Dance, a company that seeks to give voice to non-dominant and silenced narratives.

Charo Calvo

Charo Calvo (she/her) is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer, and educator based in Brussels. After performing as a dancer with the renowned Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she studied electroacoustic composition with Annette Vande Gorne at the Brussels Conservatory (now ARTS2 Mons), graduating in 1999.

https://www.haugenproduksjoner.no/