Bio
Harald Beharie is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy and dissolution. They hold a special interest for the DIY and the vulnerability of being in the unknown. Beharie is interested in how the body can function as a motor for dramaturgy, a force in itself that transforms through practice.
Haralds work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics prize for the performances Shine Utopians with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022). In 2023 Batty Bwoy also won the Hedda prize for “best dance production” and in 2024 the project Undersang won the Norwegian Critics prize. Harald’s work has been presented in museums, galleries, festivals and events in Norway and elsewhere in Europe.
