GIGANT
Foto: Lars Opstad
Premiere 14+15th of October 2022, The Norwegian National Opera
CODA Oslo International Dance Festival
Gigant takes the audience on a journey into a world inspired by both sci-fi and mythology, a bestiary with trolls and jötunn, groke, golem and other enormous beings – powerful yet also with a sense of loneliness and sorrow about them. The six dancers traverse the stage like an Oskoreia, the myth of a roaring horde made ut ouf drunks and scammers riding the skies; too low to go to heaven, yet too good to end up in hell. The dancers use their body parts as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and give life to creatures far beyond our imagination – performed to a crackling soundscape that is evidence of tremendous forces at play.
Gigant
Choreographer Anna Einemo Frøysland, Berit Einemo Frøysland
Music Joey McNamara
Costume Designer Johanna Sutinen
Lighting Designer Paul Vidar Sævarang
Sound Designer Joseph McNamara
Co-Production CODA Oslo International Dance Festival
Participants Lou Ditaranto, Synne Erichsen, Jonathan Ibsen, Kamilla Moen, Sarjo Sankareh, Sigyn Åsa Sætereng
Foto: Lars Opstad
«Aasgaardsreien» from 1872 by Peter Nicolai Arbo.
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