CODA x NOWNESS
CODA in collaboration with a world-leading platform for digital storytelling
NOWNESS is an award-winning, global video platform that has curated the best in architecture, design, fashion, art, travel, and lifestyle for nearly a decade. CODA, the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and NOWNESS are now teaming up to present the very best of dance art.
– NOWNESS has for a long time set the standard for digital storytelling. It is such an honor to have the opportunity to present some of our greatest talents in the dance field, says the festival director in CODA Stine Nilsen.
The movie, which is being launched for almost 1.5 million followers on the platform, is directed by Emilie Norenberg. She has also directed “vouging with Beethoven”, which has previously been shown on Nowness. Noreberg has made a name of herself internationally for her direction of a number of short films and music videos for artists such as Röyksopp and Westerman.
Watch it here: https://www.nowness.com/picks/there-is-no-recipe-for-dancing
Diversity on screen is something I care deeply about – in order to feel less alone, you really need to see your experience mirrored somewhere. Society unfortunately has quite a narrow relationship to the dancing body, but there is no recipe for dancing, just as there’s no rules to how you should live your life.
Her latest work is inspired by last year’s CODA success un-be-known, which was presented for the first time during the festival, in collaboration with Den Norske Opera & Ballett. The performance was later highlighted by the largest brodcasters in Norway.
The performance un-be-known ir originally created by the Australian choreographer Marc Brew, whom in the age of 20 years old, ended up in a wheelchair after a car accident. Today he is considered one of the world’s leading choreographers in the development of inclusive dance works.
Together with choreographer and dancer in Den Norske Opera & Ballet, Georgie Rose, he has created a work for nine dancers with and without disabilities that combines fierce physicality with tenderness. The result is honest, unsentimental, and deeply human dance art.
The film is based on the original choreography, but adapted to the video format.