Juanitas brings you on a choreographic journey into contradictions. Here, imagination and reality, the hopeful and dystopic, the caring and risky, the vital and the apathetic are in constant motion, like an unapologetic thought that never settles.
Juanitas is on a mission to re-enchant the world, and wants us to see the labor in the process of making magic. The goal is to awaken people by revealing cracks and connections between reality and fantasy - time is precious. Juanitas invites the unexpected, the random and the sudden into the room with open arms. No performance is the same.
Mariblanca, Berstad and Helgebostad met in 2019 while working with Berstad and Helgebostad’s project KNOW HOWS. It was in this project that Juanita was discovered. In the pandemic Juanita visited elderly homes and a children's hospital and now she is finally visiting Black Box teater!
Bananaz – Association for Performing Arts brings together various performing artists and their practices. The association emphasizes collective working methods and sees artistic expression in the performing arts as a result of collective and contextual processes. Developing unique production models for each project lies at the heart of the association, as well as promoting the qualities that arise in encounters with the places and people where each project unfolds.
Thursday 23- Sunday 26 January with Daniel Mariblanca, Sebastian Biong, Mathias Aas Stoltenberg
Thursday 30 January - Sunday 2 February with Daniel Mariblanca, Ingeleiv Berstad, Mathias Aas Stoltenberg
+ Metamodernism - an introduction by Timotheus Vermeulen
Metamodernism often comes up in conversations about the development of today's art and cultural expression. The term is an attempt to put into words a tendency in art where sincerity, grand narratives, hope and truth are back on the agenda at the same time as the irony, deconstruction and relativism of postmodernism are still present. How does art respond to a time dominated by crises and dystopias?
Timotheus Vermeulen has been writing about the term from an early stage, and is now visiting Black Box teater to give us an introduction. Metamodernism has been an active idea in the work on the performance Juanitas (Berstad/Helgebostad/Mariblanca), which there is an opportunity to see after the introduction.
