dorken

Dørken is the continuation of dancer and choreographer Jennie Bergsli (NO/SE) and artist Alice Slyngstad’s (NO) collaboration. The work departs from interdisciplinary performance practices that explore an expanded vocal range as choreography.As co-performers and choreographers Jennie and Alice combine their artistic experiences of visual art and dance, and seek new modes of intimacy between voice, body, technology and identity. The work investigates the subtleties of the nervous system and the vibrations that can be unleashed between performative bodies and their audiences. They look at the social and somatic negotiations that take part in shaping the voice and attempt to synthesize alternatives. Dørken is an audiovisual performance which tunes the attention towards textures in breath, guttural waste and ambiguity. The title oscillates between referring to the deck of a vibrating machine room in a large ship and that feeling of lightness which precedes fainting, the feeling before you dive into Dørken.

JENNIE BERGSLI
born in Skien, Norway, is a dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm. Her work departs from experimental dance practices, processing material and sonorous perceptions, and fictions of intimacy. Jennie creates collectively through various constellations ‐ often in interdisciplinary works through performance, dance, sound and installations. Her works have been presented at Black Box Theater ﴾NO﴿, Spriten Kunsthall(NO), Dansmässan ﴾SE﴿, Les Urbaines ﴾CH﴿, Kunstnernes Hus ﴾NO). As a dancer she recently performed in Listening Dance by Lisen Ellard ﴾SE﴿, Breath in The Wild by Shiraz Amar (IL) and DUNKEL by Olivia Riviere & Lisen Pousette ﴾DK/SE﴿. Jennie holds a bachelor’s in dance and performance from Stockholm UniArts since 2019.

ALICE SLYNGSTAD
grew up in Sykkylven, Norway, and lives and works in Oslo. Slyngstad’s works comprise text, sound, performance and installation. Navigating intimate and vulnerable relational materials in autotheoretical writing practices, they explore spaces, gaps and relations between language, the inherently queer body and social or technological infrastructures. Their work has recently been on show in solo and group exhibitions at Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art in Middelburg (NL), Palmera in Bergen (NO), and UKS in Oslo (NO). Their performances have been presented at various institutions including the Bodø Biennale (NO), the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam (NL), the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo (NO), and at Les Urbaines in Lausanne (CH). Slyngstad studied at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.