Eik Leknesund Elnes

“Disrupted Urgency: a spring spent” - var en akkumulasjon av en lengre kreativ prosess utført i samarbeid med Lucas Farias Gusmao, gitt form og uttrykk på Teaterhøgskolen i Malmø d. 29 September gjennom sommerkurset “konceptuelt scenkonstarbete”. Siden Januar 2020 inngikk Lucas og jeg i en kreativ prosess hvor vi brukte somatiske innganger, fysiske improvisasjoner og noteskrivning til å starte dialoger om kropp, makt, blikk og systemisk undertrykkelse. Ved sommerkurset åpnet vi praksisen opp igjen og kastet oss inn i et dyptgående og spennende arbeide - med de nye impulser og perspektiver som kurset ga. Verket hadde flere tematiske fundament, vi snakket sammen om maktstrukturer i samfunnet, klima kollaps, queer traume og hvordan språk, blikk og kropp former rom og hvordan vi beveger oss rundt hverandre. Verket gikk igjennom flere skissestadier hvor den gikk fra et kollektivt rituale, til en durational performance og til sist formet som en 10 minutter lang danseforestilling. Ideen var å utforme et metodisk formspråk og performance-modell som kunne anvendes i Queer-spaces til å fasilitere samtaler om kropp, legning, undertrykkelse og traume. Nøkkelord som gikk igjen var: connection/disconnection, the gaze, freedom, identity, costume, gatekeeping, language as a tool of power, disruption, empowerment, a queer movement language, dialogue, ritual, organic/inorganic, trauma, structure, shamanism, heteronormativity, racism, normcritical movement practices.

Images from the dress rehearsal of the site specific intermedial durational performance piece “Beyond the Inner Ear” created at the Theatre Academy of Malmo december 2019. The piece explores the fluidity and fragility of memory and the withering of mind and body - through livefeeding video and 35mm slide projections body and image is disrupted and fragmented across space. The piece was performed in the wardrobe section of the theatre building of the academy - every door in the space opening to a minor installation.

Pictures from the piece “Stoet” performed at HAUT’s festival Y Choreography October 2019 at SORT HVID scene Copenhagen. Choreography: Eik Leknesund Elnes in collaboration with dancers Carmen Medina and Anton Hedevang. https://hautscene.dk/y_choreography/

Pictures from the piece “Stoet” performed at HAUT’s festival Y Choreography October 2019 at SORT HVID scene Copenhagen. Choreography: Eik Leknesund Elnes in collaboration with dancers Carmen Medina and Anton Hedevang. https://hautscene.dk/y_choreography/

Accumulation of the course “Documentary Storytelling” at the Theatre Academy in Malmø.  Sitespecific staging of an interview about shame and nudity.

Social Sculpture @ Gylleboverket 

Event description   日本語は英文の後に続きます。 From one country to another they go. From a safe home to a safe haven they come. Crossing imaginary lines, climbing real walls, they move. On planes, on boats, by trail, on foot, they journey. An ensemble of immigrants and outsiders brings you a show about traveling. Using bodies in motion, projection mapping, soundscapes, and humour, the Yokohama Theatre Group weaves together its newest original show, Ryokou. A theatrical exploration of how and why people move from place to place, and the issues surrounding migration of any type, Ryokou is a visual experience that anyone of any age can enjoy. No English or Japanese required. Featuring Angelo Austin, Amanda Pilmer Roberts, Eik​ ​Leknesund​ ​Elnes, and Andrew Woolner with support from Ameerahsyaza Ramlan, Arthur Buchholz, and Sebastián Roncallo Ramirez (the last two appear in our trailer, though they sadly won't be here for the show itself) and College JDS グローバルスクール. ずっと行きたかった国へ、旅行する。 新しい何かを求めて、旅行する。 ある場所から次へ、旅行する。 出発点は世界中それぞれ、到着点は日本となった私たちYokohama Theatre Group が贈る、ビジュアル舞台劇「旅行」。今年は美しいプロジェクションマッピングや音風景を使った、体を張ったパフォーマンスとなっております。 全年齢対象、英語日本語能力必要なしの公演です。是非会場でお待ちしております。

Moments from “Fragments of Land” Fragments of Land Inuuteq Kleeman (Greenland, guitar and effects) Eik Leknesund Elnes (Norway, Dance and text) Fragments of Land is an improvised performance where themes of isolation, borders and fragmentation is explored through the sound of electric guitar, movement and text. Arms weave in silent symmetry, we create patterns, points and lines, rhythms, high and low - we fall into what is known. Can we provoke eachother to create new pathways and break our own habits?

Moment from “Fragments of Land” Fragments of Land Inuuteq Kleeman (Greenland, guitar and effects) Eik Leknesund Elnes (Norway, Dance and text) Fragments of Land is an improvised performance where themes of isolation, borders and fragmentation is explored through the sound of electric guitar, movement and text. Arms weave in silent symmetry, we create patterns, points and lines, rhythms, high and low - we fall into what is known. Can we provoke eachother to create new pathways and break our own habits?

Moment from “Fragments of Land” Fragments of Land Inuuteq Kleeman (Greenland, guitar and effects) Eik Leknesund Elnes (Norway, Dance and text) Fragments of Land is an improvised performance where themes of isolation, borders and fragmentation is explored through the sound of electric guitar, movement and text. Arms weave in silent symmetry, we create patterns, points and lines, rhythms, high and low - we fall into what is known. Can we provoke eachother to create new pathways and break our own habits?

Moment from “Fragments of Land” Fragments of Land Inuuteq Kleeman (Greenland, guitar and effects) Eik Leknesund Elnes (Norway, Dance and text) Fragments of Land is an improvised performance where themes of isolation, borders and fragmentation is explored through the sound of electric guitar, movement and text. Arms weave in silent symmetry, we create patterns, points and lines, rhythms, high and low - we fall into what is known. Can we provoke eachother to create new pathways and break our own habits?

Photos from performance at Noisy Beehive: Lesson no. 1 for electric guitar 21st of April, Copenhagen Denmark “ Fragments of Land Inuuteq Kleeman (Greenland, guitar and effects) Eik Leknesund Elnes (Norway, Dance and text) Fragments of Land is an improvised performance where themes of isolation, borders and fragmentation is explored through the sound of electric guitar, movement and text. Arms weave in silent symmetry, we create patterns, points and lines, rhythms, high and low - we fall into what is known. Can we provoke eachother to create new pathways and break our own habits? “