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Dans – en fest! Saturday

 

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The final day of Dans – en fest! 2026 offers everything from a workshop with one of Carte Blanche’s versatile dancers for advanced participants, to an open contact improvisation session for both movers and musicians, a book launch, and a cozy communal lunch prepared by the dancers of Carte Blanche. Throughout the day, you can experience performances in development aimed at both children and adults, and the festival concludes with a toast to three days of exploration!

Dans – en fest! is a collaboration between Bergen Internasjonale Teater, Carte Blanche – Norway’s national company for contemporary dance, and Bergen Dansesenter.

Workshop med Noam Eidelman Shatil (Advanced level)

Studio Bergen –  Rehearsal studio
11:00-12:00

The workshop offers a space for experienced movers to explore improvisation as a practice of attention – listening to space, time, and the shifting landscapes between bodies. Through instant composition and spatial research, participants will refine clarity in their choices and deepen their awareness of how movement interacts with environment and group dynamics. The work balances precision and freedom, inviting curiosity, risk, and responsiveness as we compose and re-compose the present moment together. It offers a room to meet, share and learn from one another.

© Øystein Haara

Communal lunch

Studio Bergen
12:00-14:00

You may have seen the dancers of Carte Blanche on stage many times, but have you ever been served lunch by them? Now’s your chance. The multitalented artists are preparing a dance lunch on the festival’s final day, bringing everyone together around the table for a boost of energy.

Contact improvjam (Open level)

with Bergen Kontaktimpro & Carte Blanche

Studio Bergen – Rehearsal studio
13:00-14:00

The characteristic of jam is freedom. Throwing yourself into something unknown opens up the unexpected and exciting. It is a risk, fallible but full of nerve. The jam becomes what we create together in the moment. The unpredictable.

Fløyelshjertet

by Papirvinger / Ine Terese Hogstad
with Kyuja Bae & Elisabeth Breen Berge

Bergen Dansesenter – Studio Kaien
14:00-14:30

Fløyelshjertet is the prelude to a performance where having a visual impairment is not a disadvantage but a superpower, and is performed by two dancers, a narrator, a musician, and sound and lighting technicians. It is about being seen and is based on The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery B. Williams, a book about a cuddly rabbit that was so loved that it came to life.

Miriam Levi

Notice & Continue

by Karen Eide Bøen
with Synne Erichsen & Karen Eide Bøen

Bergen Dansesenter – Studio Kaien
15:00-15:30

An ongoing physical examination of attention based on photographic studies of movement. The dancer creates and registers her movements, then repeats them in a feedback loop. The project grew out of a curiosity about drones and jellyfish. They are quite similar in size and move in similar ways, but represent opposites: past and future, near unconsciousness and surveillance, ocean and sky.

Cake & Critique (Book launch)

Studio Bergen
16:00-17:00

Levende Kritikk, initiated by Anna Watson and Ragnhild Freng Dale, presents its publication documenting trends within the independent theatre and dance scene in Bergen and Western Norway. The publication is based on a collaboration Levende Kritikk had with Bergen Internasjonale Teater, Cornerstone, Bergen Dramatikkfestival, and Bergen Dansesenter. Over several years in the early 2020s, they collected texts, scripts, as well as performing arts criticism and written material from choreographers and playwrights to form a picture of what is happening in the performing arts field on this side of the mountains.

Anima Choir

by Yohei Hamada & Daniela Bergschneider
with Yohei Hamada

Studio Bergen
18:00-18:30

Anima Choir is a landscape-sensitive performance. Together with Nordic-based dance artists from various cultural backgrounds, Hamada will create a ritualistic “dance choir” in which Bergschneider’s porcelain and textile sculptures are activated, or animated. The project explores methods of coexistence within a shared Arctic landscape and will be realised across the Barents region with several dancers. The premiere is scheduled for September 2026 during the Bodø Biennale.

Månefrø – Cosmos Underfoot

by & with Anette Aga & Eik Leknesund Elnes

Studio Bergen
19:00-19:30

Inspired by the crawling, budding and rippling, a dance of awakening life under the leaves when insects wake up in spring. A meditative atmosphere in an open stage space, where the audience can move freely, come and go, sit or lie down. It is a slow, evocative and at times dark and mythical exploration of the surreal in the real world.

© Aida Rokoilj

Becoming Sideways

by & with June Lysjø & Marie Bru Eide

Studio Bergen
20:00-20:30

Becoming Sideways is a dance work in progress. Lysjø and Eide revisit past performance material, exploring how time, experience, and place influence artistic work. The project is a celebration of process – of what is in motion and what takes shape in the moment. The dance artists explore presence and ways of being together, moving between playfulness and seriousness.

©Lysjø og Eide

WRAP-UP Dans – en fest!

Studio Bergen
20:30-21:00

Three days of experimentation, exploration, questions, conversations, and courageous performers are celebrated with a toast and thanks to everyone who has taken part in the festival!