Thing Power is a dance performance for three dancers and a collection of objects and things. In this piece, bodies and inanimate materials are recognised as equal choreographic forces; working with a multitude of forms, medias and textures, the performance focuses on the sensual agency of human and non-human relationships. Things, sounds and performers, all participate in a dance to create and understand their inter-connections and orientations. How can the performers approach objects or things physically and continue this encounter into resonating, independent dances?

Thing Power, is a playing field where things and bodies are grouped in constellations, creating friction between them. The dancers use small found objects or larger sculptures as scores. They try their best to become things themselves, shaping their bodies to the various forms and textures of their objects. They present themselves as things with senses. Dancing in never ending categories, in mini-operas with the tempo of tiny things.

Orfee Schuijt was born and raised in France. Since 2012, she has been based in Oslo, while she has toured the world with several different companies. She is a graduate of the Academie voor Theater en Dans in Amsterdam and Stockholm University School of the Arts. A characteristic of Schuijt's work is the extensive use of multimedia expressions such as film and drawing as an integral part of choreography. She is interested in playing with perspectives and the meeting between living organisms, the organic and sensory, and the non-human and non-living. She has also worked on performances with Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki, Francesco Scavetta, Soile Voima, Jenny Hval and Eivind Seljeseth.

Thing Power was created in collaboration with set designer Eirik Blekesaune and composer Kim Myhr. Schuijt and Myhr have several joint projects behind them, among them the solo performance Who´s afraid of red, yellow and blue?