dryades & oreiades

“DRYADES & OREIADES is an experience performance in close proximity with farming animals where we get to listen, see and feel them without definitions and verbal narrations. 

It’s not a performance – it’s really to experience – there with them on their premises – a chance to come and be close with other earthlings and experience the sense that we all share this planet. 

We inhabit the same ecosystems. How can we humans open our hearts to listen and for some brief moments just let go of the humancentric behavior, and consider what other earthlings are feeling. 

We want to be present in this moment, we want to rest in this moment, we want a break from art, from war, from industrial and scientific progress, from languages and from meanings. We just want to look, smell and touch and exist with other earthlings.”

DRYADES & OREIADES – Is a search in the transition from an anthropocentric to a posthuman approach in the hope that the effect will spread in other aspects of our consumer life. In this performance, dancers’ bodies have been re-designed with wooden sculptures to give them a new hybrid body identity. The main idea is “how can these hybrid beings coexist with other species (animals and birds) on equal terms? Unlike some people who consider themselves the owners of land and all life!”

 

During a two week workshop in 2025, they will work with near extinct Døla Pig, at the farm Stor-Grov in Sør-Fron. The workshop will be presented as a performance on the 26th anf 27th of July, and during the Okulus symposim in August.

 

Sculptors on dancers by: Anna widen

Sound /Music instruments sculptors: Jon Balke

Dancers: Ole Marius Stole, Ceceilie Lindman steen, Martine Bentsen, Sudesh Adhana