The Walls/ Private Rooms
Private Rooms Premiere in Oslo, June 3 2005.
Location: Private apartment
Length: 7×3 minutes.
Idea / choreography
Emilia Adelöw.
Dancers
Sittibancha Bamphen, Ingeleiv Berstad, Leif-Ole Nygaard, Guro Rimeslåtten and Anne-Guri Tvedt.
Music / sound design
Petter Wiik.
Video installation
Bjørn Amundlien.
Scenography
Stig Skjelvik and Emilia Adelöw.
Costume design
Peter Løchstøer.
Supported by Fond for utøvende kunstnere and Fond for lyd og bilde.
The Walls consists of several dance performances by choreographer Emilia Adelöw presented in Oslo in 2005-2008. In year 2005 she converted an office location in central Oslo to a studio where shows were produced, transformed and displayed.
The performances had a presentation from where a basic idea where the theme, choreography and dramaturgy repeats itself in several different contexts.
The human body as carrier of communication, with underlying definitions and presentations of problems, is a pervading approach.
The performances had portrays different life situations where the private room and space is central. The body language has tension in a moody atmosphere. Stilistic expression in combination with precision and detail in the choreographic language. A poetic form of language with dynamic and a nerve, expressed through movement and dance, gives form to people in relations as well as individuals reactions to inner and outer influences.
Sound design: Live electronics in combination with originally composed music creating the soundscape for the performances.
We are talking about one hundred percent dance in Emilia Adelöws performance … an impressing presentation […] Jan A. Johansson, Dansstationen Malmö Sweden