How does the body carry memories that are not our own?Can we sense the traces of stories and experiences that came before us?
Rose Water is a dance performance that explores how memories, heritage, and identity live on in the body. Through movement, vibration, and visual landscapes, Ida Haugen seeks a connection with the unconscious, the invisible, and the spiritual – a bodily opening toward what often remains beyond language.
The work is based on a personal project: Haugen’s mother came to Norway as a Vietnamese boat refugee. In a desire to understand and approach this part of her background, Haugen has spent several years interpreting and experiencing what she has inherited – both consciously and unconsciously. The journey has included travels to Vietnam, where she has searched for family and connections. Rose Water is the result of a multi-year artistic process and emerges from close collaboration with a multidisciplinary artistic team.
With Rose Water, Haugen creates a space for belonging, transformation, and embodied knowledge – across time, space, and generations.
● Ida Haugen is an Oslo-based dance artist. She explores the physical, sensorial, and conceptual dimensions of dance, both as a performer and as a creative artist.
She has participated in a wide range of artistic collaborations, including with Kari Hoaas Productions (Be Like Water, Shadowland, HEAT), Ellen Jerstad and Roza Moshtaghi (KinShips), Oslo Koreografiske, Nagelhus Schia Productions (Orbo Novo / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui), Jennie Bergsli (EDDY), and Unge Viken Teater / Ellen Jerstad (including the Hedda Award-winning Smeltasang), as well as being an apprentice with Carte Blanche. In addition, she has collaborated with organizations such as Rom for Dans and the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet (De Syv Dødssynder).
As a choreographer, she created the full-length work Hot Moon for five dancers in collaboration with musician Vilde Tuv (Dansens Hus/NORA), and the youth production Big Dreams (DanseFOT/NSP) at Bærum Kulturhus. She has also worked with Sondre Lerche (including performances at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet) and choreographed for 1313 Selah during Oslo Runway, presented at MUNCH.
She holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), graduating in 2014.
