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Building Beginnings
(choreography)
2026 - 8.april, 9.april, 10.april, 20. april, 21. april at Deichman Schous plass, Oslo.
2025 - 29 april, 30.april, 4.mai, 6.mai, 7.mai at Gamle Munch, Oslo.
Building Beginnings is a dance performance that explores different strategies for building and rebuilding. Two performers use the soft sculptures to carry out actions that move between narrative logic and abstraction. At one moment, they construct a path to jump from “stone to stone”; at another, they gather all the pieces to create a tall tower. These soft building blocks transform both the landscape around them and the bodies we see. Small towers emerge as extensions of arms and legs. A singing figure gradually becomes a body with exaggeratedly long arms, while elsewhere, a small creature builds itself larger and larger as it moves through the space.
Performance and choreography:Catharina Vehre Gresslien & Katja Henriksen Schia
Sound: Çağrı Erdem
Length: max 45 minutes
Structure: performance and interactive exploration
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Prosjektet er støttet av: Oslo Kommune og FFUK
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Building Beginnings
(choreography)
2026 - 8.april, 9.april, 10.april, 20. april, 21. april at Deichman Schous plass, Oslo.
2025 - 29 april, 30.april, 4.mai, 6.mai, 7.mai at Gamle Munch, Oslo.
Building Beginnings is a dance performance that explores different strategies for building and rebuilding. Two performers use the soft sculptures to carry out actions that move between narrative logic and abstraction. At one moment, they construct a path to jump from “stone to stone”; at another, they gather all the pieces to create a tall tower. These soft building blocks transform both the landscape around them and the bodies we see. Small towers emerge as extensions of arms and legs. A singing figure gradually becomes a body with exaggeratedly long arms, while elsewhere, a small creature builds itself larger and larger as it moves through the space.
Performance and choreography:Catharina Vehre Gresslien & Katja Henriksen Schia
Sound: Çağrı Erdem
Length: max 45 minutes
Structure: performance and interactive exploration
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Prosjektet er støttet av: Oslo Kommune og FFUK
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Watching a small body fall asleep is a tiny drama of resistance, protest, and ultimate surrender. To facilitate that transition, parents create temporary sanctuaries — dimming the phone's light, draping a scarf over a stroller, pacing the edge of a supermarket aisle — shaping zones of calm in whatever public space they occupy. Sleepy Troll turns that solitary effort into a collective act: the rocking motion spreads through the group, allowing caregivers to share the space and recognize the quiet choreography that parenthood scripts into daily life.
The beginning of his piece was part of Katja’s ongoing master’s project, which centers on motherhood, care practices, accessibility, and imagined futures.
Across different formats, she explores how challenges can be transformed into artistic material.
Her master's project also includes:
Homeground (exhibited at Gamle Munch 2025) Antiloop (exhibited in the auditorium, Khio)
