Undersang is a tapestry of opulent configurations soaked in a shimmer of queer ecologies and extravagant gestures. Here mythologies, national romantic ideals and science fiction converge, revealing a world of ancient powers.

Weaving Afro and Asian-Nordic diasporic narratives, Undersang plays with the notion of dissonance as an ambiguous feeling of empowerment, sparking questions about cultural fictions and what it means to belong. As a ground for refusal, reclamation of time and looking beyond the idea of ownership, the work seeks fertile ground for healing, for lament and joyous celebration.

Note! Location:

The performance will not be held at Rosendal Teater but in the forest, about a 20-minute walk from Byåsen Butikksenter.

Meeting points:

As an audience member, you can choose between two different meeting points. You can either meet a theatre host at the Kongens gate K1 bus stop or at Byåsen Butikksenter.

Kongens gate K1 bus stop (near Prinsen Hotel and Egon):

Saturday:

• Meeting time: 21:40
• Bus departure: 21:45 (Bus 11)
• The theatre host will be present from 21:30

Sunday:

• Meeting time: 13:20
• Bus departure: 13:25 (Bus 11)
• The theatre host will be present from 13:15

Contact the theatre host upon arrival. They will be easily identifiable.

Byåsen Butikksenter:

Saturday:

• Meeting time: 21:55
• We leave at: 22:00

Sunday:

• Meeting time: 13:35
• We leave at: 13:40

Meet at the corner facing Theisendammen. Theatre hosts will greet you here, and we will walk together to the performance site. The walk takes about 20-25 minutes.

Return buses:

Saturday: The last bus from Byåsen Butikksenter leaves at 00:03.

Sunday: Return buses depart three minutes past every half hour.

Accessibility:

Unfortunately, the performance is not suitable for wheelchair users or those who have difficulty walking in rough terrain. The first part of the route is on a prepared path, while the final part is on narrow trails.

Lower age limit 12 years.

Practical information:

• Dress according to the weather and wear good shoes.
• We encourage the audience to move through the forest with zero footprint, meaning we leave no trace or changes in the terrain.

About the artist:
Harald Beharie (he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo. While applying various formats and contexts, his practice looks into alternative modes of being, dancing, and existing together while questioning notions of normativity. Harald is interested in the unpolished, the DIY, and the vulnerability of being in the unknowing. His choreographic practice unfolds in various constellations, with other artists using dance as a medium for creating elusive spaces of ambivalence and fantasy, oscillating between deconstruction and construction, optimism and doubt, apathy, and affect. Some of the leading interests in his work at the moment are dissecting known physical narratives and opening for a conscious naivety and playfulness while indulging in the practice of the pathetic, collapsing, joyful, failing, and persistent body. Harald’s focus is being with local people, local ideas, and developing ideas with and within the community.

Harald’s work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics Association prize for the performances Shine Utopians with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022). Batty Bwoy also won the Hedda prize for “best dance production” 2023.

Haralds work has been be presented in museums, galleries, festivals, and contexts including: Impulstanz, MDT, Stockholm, Santarcangelo Festival, Gessnerallee, Zurich, Donau Festival, SPRING Utrecht, Zodiak -Helsinki, Les Urbaines , Salmon Festival, Barcelona, Centrale Fies, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Oktoberdans BIT-teatergarasjen, Bergen, Dansens Hus Oslo, Munch Museum, Oslo, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, RAS, Sandnes, Galleri Entrée, Bergen, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Øyafestivalen, Oslo and Trondheim Kunstmuseum.