Release of the magazine: KOREOGRAFI (Choreography)

Solveig Styve Holte, Runa Borch Skolseg and Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness


Friday 11 November 2.00 p.m., Hammerfest Bibliotek (Library)

Choreography is a magazine initiated and edited by the Oslo-based choreographers Solveig Styve Holte, Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness and writer Runa Borch Skolseg. The magazine consists of texts written by Nordic artists within the field of dance and choreography. Each text is build around a specific issue requested by the editors, there are independent texts as well as conversations and interviews. All texts exist in both Scandinavian and English versions. With the magazine we wish to build a rich and complex understanding of what choreography is and can be. We have curated the texts we`ve been missing and the conversations we have dreamt of reading.

The contributors:
Evfa Lilja, Naja Lee Jensen, Thomas Talawa Prestø, Elle Sofe Henriksen, Marte Reithaug Sterud, Ròsa Òmarsdòttir, Per Roar, Josefine Wikström, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Solveig Styve Holte, Simo Kellokumpu, Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness,Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness, Sonya Lindfors, Veronica Robles Thorseth / Leo Preston, Mette Edvardsen, Mette Ingvartsen, Stina Nyberg and Venke Marie Sortland.

Graphic design by Helge Hjort Bentsen.
The magazine is supported by The Norwegian Arts Council and The Nordic Culture Fund.

The launch will be held by Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness in conversation with the contributor Elle Sofe Henriksen.

The magazine will be for sale for 100 NOK.

Titles:
Conditions for Listening - Evfa Lilja
Movement and non-movement - subjective reflections from a cross-disciplinary art practice - Naja Lee Jensen
Appropriate appropriation - Thomas Talawa Prestø, Elle Sofe Henriksen, Marte Reithaug Sterud
Secondhand Knowledge - Ròsa Òmarsdòttir
Victoria Cruziana - the live event as a performative reality and context - Per Roar
Dance your abstraction - Josefine Wikström
Branching - a topographic essay - Janne-Camilla Lyster, Solveig Styve Holte
Choreography as a reading practice - Simo Kellokumpu
The art of making space for chaos - Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness
Structural thinking as an artistic strategy - Sonya Lindfors, Veronica Robles Thorseth / Leo Preston
Double interview - Mette Edvardsen, Mette Ingvartsen
Sick Management -Stina Nyberg
Work structures as a critical practice - Venke Marie Sortland