The festival Hidden Connections – Visible Ecologies is an attempt to create the festival that we ourselves would have loved to be part of. Created with care and listening, with space to think together, re-evaluate old truths, use our senses and share ideas about new ways of coexisting and understanding the world we are part of, as well as our own time – with all its challenges.
When beginning our journey with the CoSA-project in 2017 exploring genius loci - spirit of the place, was our point of departure. Visiting and creating performative responses in places as various as Hill of the Muses in Athens, at magnetic Monte Verità in Switzerland, the old Sami offering stone Áhkánjárstábba in Kvalsund, Steilneset Memorial and its surrounding landscape in Vardø, the Museum of the St.Petersburg Avantgarde in St. Petersburg and its surrounding garden, so many relations have emerged, so much has happened to our world, just over these past years. The festival is honoring and celebrating these relationships with fellow artists, scholars, landscape, beings of the more-than-human world that has grown through these years and which we invite to shape the festival with us.
As curators of this festival, we are inspired by both new and ancient understandings of life and matter and collective wisdom across species. As dance- and performance artists we are interested in bodies, relationships, and togetherness. With this as a backdrop, the festival becomes a place where we together can cultivate the collective, engage our senses and explore challenges and changes that our time is calling for.
We are inviting for five days with different topics under the same umbrella, with reflection, listening and wondering towards a new future, with workshops or Activation sessions, performances and conversations across different fields. The different days carry the headlines Conversation with Place, Conversation with Spirits, Conversation with Healing, Conversation with the more-than-human and at last – Conversation with the Universe!
On the last festival day, we will host legendary Anna Halprin´s collective ritual for peace, Planetary Dance, open to all, no matter background, age, and abilities, in close collaboration with Halprin´s apprentice through years; performance artist, shaman and percussionist Dohee Lee. Planetary Dance is big and has been shared in more than 52 countries worldwide and was also presented at the 2017 Venice Biennale. This is a collective experience that empowers, gives hope, and creates community. As Anna Halprin said it herself; “Every step becomes a call for peace. When enough people move together in a common pulse with a common purpose, an amazing force takes over – a power that can renew, inspire, and heal.” The day will end with Lilach Livnes Spirit Club – leading into a party and we hereby invite you to take part – in all of it!
Warmly Welcome!
LATERNA
/ Inger-Reidun Olsen and Marianne Skjeldal
Program Hidden Connections – Visible Ecologies
The festival offers free entrance to several events. For the ones that are ticketed click on the links in the program:
Tuesday 21 June: Conversation with Place
17.30–18.15 / Foyer / Free entrance
Performance: LATERNA and Margrethe Pettersen, Tree Talks – Lønnetreet.
18.30–19.00 / Foyer / Free entrance
WELCOME by LATERNA: Presentation of the Festival Program, drinks and plant food.
19.00–20.30 / Foyer / Free entrance
Conversation with Place: With philosopher Martin Lee Mueller and artists Annike Flo and Ayesha Jordan. Guided by moderator Ingrid Vranken.
21.00–22.15 / Main Stage / Buy tickets here
Performance: Ivana Müller, Forces of Nature
22.30–23.30 / Foyer / Buy tickets here
Performance: Julia Adzuki / The Ministry for Environmental Grief, Ashes to Ashes
Wednesday 22 June: Conversation with Spirits
Ongoing / Foyer / Free entrance
Exhibition: Sjustjärnan by Lisa Jeannin, Resonant bodies by Julia Adzuki and Conversation Between Bodies #11 - Dance of Fire by Daniel Slåttnes and Sara Rönnbäck
16.00–17.30 / Small Stage / Free entrance
Activation Session: Robert Steijn, Praying while dancing
17.30 / Foyer / Free entrance
Dinner
18.00–18.30 / Foyer / Free entrance
Opening of sculpture, performance text, Sara Rönnbäck and Daniel Slåttnes Conversation Between Bodies #11 – Dance of Fire
19.00–20.15 / Foyer / Free entrance
Conversation with Spirits with curator and writer Milena Høgsberg, artists Liv Kristin Holmberg, Robert Steijn and Lilach Pnina Livne. Guided by moderator Ingrid Vranken.
21.00–22.15 / Main Stage / Buy tickets here
Performance: Ivana Müller, Forces of Nature
Evening into night / Paulus Church / Free entrance / one-on-one
Performance: Liv Kristin Holmberg, Les Ténèbres - In the Dark Hour*
Thursday 23 June: Conversation with Healing
16.00–18.00 / Foyer / Free entrance
Activation Session: Keith Hennessy, Dancing magic and politics
18.00 / Foyer / Free entrance
Dinner
19.00–20.30 / Foyer / Free entrance
Conversation with Healing with shaman and healer Eirik Myrhaug Partapuoli, artists Kristina Gjems, Luanda Carneiro Jacoel and Keith Hennessy.
Guided by moderator Karmenlara Ely.
21.00–22.00 / Small Stage / Buy tickets here
Performance Robert Steijn, When the moon kisses the sun - a Snake Dance
22.30 / Foyer / Free entrance
Lisa Jeannin - Journeying with a plant’s soul to the Moon and back - a Gong journey
Evening into night, Paulus Church / Free entrance / one-on-one
Performance Liv Kristin Holmberg Les Ténèbres - In the Dark Hour*
Midnight / Paulus church / Open performance (no reservations needed)
Performance Liv Kristin Holmberg Les Ténèbres - In the Dark Hour
Friday 24 June: Conversation with the more-than-human
12.00–13.30 / Foyer / Free entrance
Seedbomb-workshop: For all ages with artists and gardeners Fernanda Branco and Ingeborg S. Olerud
13.30: Lunch: Bring your own lunch! / Free entrance
14.00–17.30 / Foyer and Small Stage / Free entrance
Activation Session: Dohee Lee / LATERNA Rituals and Dances that Matter.
Warm-up and preparations for tomorrow's Planetary Dance
18.00 / Foyer / Free entrance
Dinner
19.00–20.30 / Foyer / Free entrance
Conversation with-the-more-than-human: With Philosophers Martin Lee Mueller and Arne-Johan Vetlesen, artists Julia Adzuki and Fernanda Branco.
Guided by moderator Karmenlara Ely.
21.00 / Main Stage / Buy tickets here
Performance: Keith Hennessy Back (all I wanna do is dance and fuck and swim with you)
22.30 / Small stage / Free entrance
Liv Kristin Holmberg Gravøl - Post funeral Gathering. Soup and conversation. Reflection and common wondering over the work Les Ténèbres - In the Dark Hour
Saturday 25 June: Conversation with the Universe
Planetary Dance Ritual – Open to ALL! / Free entrance
14.00: Meetingpoint at Black Box teater, walking to the outdoor site together
15.00: Ritual begins
16.00 Ritual ends
20.00 / Main Stage, Foyer / Free entrance
Lilach Pnina Livne Spirit Club
Leading into Closing PARTY in the Foyer – ALL are welcome!
Ticket information and free entrance
The festival offers free entrance to several events. The following shows are ticketed:
Ivana Müller: Forces of Nature
Julia Adzuki: Ashes to Ashes / The Ministry of Environmental Grief
Robert Steijn: When the moon kisses the sun - A Snake Dance
Keith Hennessy: Back (all I wanna do is dance and fuck and swim with you)
Tickets are available online here
Full price: NOK 250 / Moderation price: NOK 150 / Under 25 years old: NOK 100
*The performance Les Ténèbres - In the Dark Hour is a one-on-one performance with a limited number of places available.
To book your ticket please send an sms including your name and preferred date to mobile no: +47 971 95 857.
