↗︎ 71BODIES’ In First Person: ↗︎ The Dance is created, performed and produced by an all transgender cast, which makes it the first professional work of its kind in Norway. The audience will join nine transgender protagonists on a journey of erasing the boundaries between trans/not trans, performers/audience and stage/home, and experience the performance in first person. Playing with ideas of reality and fiction, consequences of choices, and what bodies are represented on stage, this multidisciplinary, collaborative performance proposes another way of producing beauty and generating desire. The Dance wishes to include, involve and acknowledge the society as a whole, and create a space where we have the courage to enter into the darkness and colour each others’ grey areas. In times of social distancing, we aim for intimacy.

With Barry de Bruin (NLD), Bart Bloem (ESP/SWE), Christer André Gudmundsdottir (NOR), Daniel Mariblanca (ESP/NOR), Isak Bradley (NOR), Joakim Eide (NOR), Koyote Millar (GBR/NOR), and Tonje Havstad (NOR). More info on the protagonists ↗︎ here. General info on the beauty of ↗︎ 71BODIES — click here.

*ANOTHER WAY OF PRODUCING BEAUTY AND GENERATING DESIRE*

In First Person: The Dance is premiering during the festival ↗︎ Oktoberdans in Bergen. This will be an intimate manifestation of the topics discussed in the streamed episodes of The House [Digital], during two weeks of August, and mirrors the discussions of The Festival, September. It is co-produced with ↗︎ BIT Teatergarasjen, ↗︎ Carte Blanche, Karmaklubb*, ↗︎ KRAFT, ↗︎ Kunsthall 3,14, ↗︎ What You See Festival, an international art event on gender and identity in the Netherlands, and ↗︎ Wrap. Strongly supported by ↗︎ Bergen Kjøtt with a wide range of partners, full list ↗︎ here.

Saturday, 24 October, 17:00 and 20:00 CET — SOLD OUT! BOTH.
Sunday, 25 October, 17:00 and 20:00 CET — SOLD OUT, TOO!
Place: Studio Bergen, ↗︎ Carte Blanche, Nøstegaten 119, Bergen, Norway.
Duration is approximately 2 hours. Ticket link ↗︎ here↗︎ .

Karmaklubb* is so honoured to take part in sharing this no less than extraordinary (!!!) performance as the culmination of In First Person in 2020. Sara K. Heilevang (NOR) will conceive an article based on ↗︎ 71BODIES’↗︎ ↗︎ In First Person↗︎ on behalf of Karmaklubb* to be published. Heilevang is an independent writer and essayist — no strings.

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In First Person is a multidisciplinary artistic project initiated and produced by Daniel Mariblanca (ESP/NOR) / 71BODIES (ESP/NOR) in collaboration with various artists, such as the filmmaker Ursula Kaufmann (ESP), Kjersti Alm Eriksen, Thomas Bruvik, and Florian Dorrhofer. Through exploring and connecting different art forms with research and academic perspectives, the project gives space and visibility to personal transgender experiences with the aim to elaborate and deepen discussions about gender identity, collective transgender history and social norms. The project is consisting of three singular pieces that function apart while simultaneously creating one coherent work: The House [Digital], The Festival (Litteraturhuset, Bergen, 17 September; Kunsthall 3,14 and KRAFT, Bergen, 18–19 September), and The Dance (Studio Bergen, 24–25 October). ↗︎ More info on In First Person here.