Entanglement – The Wild, the Unknown and Each other

LATERNA invites you to a workshop inspired by mycelium as a metaphor for the investigative physical work, where networks of connections, relationships, and community emerge and become visible. Marianne Skjeldal and Inger-Reidun Olsen share their methods and approaches to creative and performing work through movement practices, meditation practices, plant alchemy, care, and mystical practices from various traditions with deep listening and practices for sharing thoughts and dialogue within a community.

– What does it mean to be in touch with oneself – and the world around? How do we encounter “the unknown”?

Our main tool for all investigation is the body and mind in harmony; dancing, creating, and sensing, deeply listening to oneself – and to others, to ancestors, mimicking the strategies of the mycelium network, creating connections, nurturing, and transforming. The body as an anchor, a place, a meeting point, and an expression channel, and the mind that travels to other dimensions through meditation, imagination, and lucid dreams. Together, we explore the magical power that finds new strategies in the presence of other bodies, opening up for everything to happen!

From what arises between us, we develop a web of new connections, both physically, visually, sensually, and imaginatively.

You are warmly welcome to two days of exploration, deep listening, wonder, and community!

ABOUT LATERNA

LATERNA (NO) is made up of Inger-Reidun Olsen and Marianne Skjeldal, both choreographers, dance – and performance artists working in various formats within performance art and choreography dealing with bodies and actions in dialogue with history, place, materials and sound.

LATERNA is exploring dialogical listening as a method to facilitate spaces where interconnections can emerge, as a ‘listening with’. They are researching a participatory performance practice as a choreographed being-with-others, cultivating a perception of ecological sense, in the interest of arriving at new ideas and ethics together with place, with plants and others.

The performative works of LATERNA exist in the borderland between dance, social choreography, performance art, and ritual, and are grounded in an artistic ecology where the work is developed in a context and growing over time through regular practice and methodological investigations. Through their choreographic work, LATERNA trace history, bring collectives together and create responses by shaping new forms of communities with place, people and the more-than-human world.

LATERNA were associated artists at Black Box teater, Oslo (2019-2021) with several ongoing activities. In June 2022 LATERNA curated and hosted the 5-days festival Hidden Connections – Visible Ecologies at BBt. In 2023 they published their first book Utopian Gardens.
www.laternalaterna.org

Inger-Reidun Olsen (iRo)

Inger-Reidun Olsen (iRo) is a dancer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. She holds a MFA in Performance from the Norwegian Theater Academy, Østfold University College (2018-20), a BA in Choreography from Academy of Dance, National Academy of Arts in Oslo (2000-03), and a two year degree from School of New Dance (1996-98), now Høyskolen for Dansekunst.

iRos performative works exist in various formats and spaces and are developed from
personal experiences and sensations in dialogue with place, history, non-human materials,
sound, text, and other people. The work unfolds through specific methodology involving the
body, movement, self-development practices, reflection, and critical thinking. The core
method is rooted in a listening practice which allows relationships to selected places,
materials and people unfold over time into materialized artistic expressions, strategies, and
collaborations. iRo is a certified self-development teacher and life coach. Her background
within this field has a large impact in her methodological and artistic work.
www.iroart.com

Marianne Skjeldal

Marianne Skjeldal (b. 1979) is a dancer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. She holds an MFA degree from DOCH, Stockholm University of the Arts with specialization in Choreography and Performance Practices and a two-year degree from School of New Dance, now Høyskolen for Dansekunst (HFDK).

Through various formats, Marianne is producing work at the intersection of choreography and performance art through relational work, examining place, different forms of presence, listening, ways of being intimate, as well as methods for transformation. Her background as a massage therapist and somatic yoga practitioner and teacher is informing her artistic work and vice versa. Her works are mostly linked to a specific site, to nature, landscapes, and found materials, combining movement with sound, text and voice. Her research is rooted in a listening practice based on giving time – to be affected, sense, reflect, respond, and by doing so allowing relations – also to the more-than-human world – to unfold. Marianne is also part of various collaborative work as a dancer, choreographer, performer, mentor, and curator.
www.marianneskjeldal.com