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Image: Landscape in Bodø, Norway

Performing Arts Relay Lab

Artists from Denmark, Norway and Canada come together for the Performing Arts Relay artistic laboratory in Bodø, Nov 12-15, 2024

The partners of the Performing Arts Relay lab collaboration have invited 6 artists from the performing arts field in Denmark, Norway and Canada to work and explore together in a 4-day artistic laboratory.

The artists have proposed their ideas for an experiment, a question or a field of investigation on the theme Language//Landscape – and will explore their ideas in a process of practice and exchange, with each other and with local participants from Bodø.

Performing Arts Relay 2024-2026 is a series of 3 artistic research labs, each hosted by one of the Relay partners in Bodø, Toronto and Aarhus. In each lab, 6 artists come together to explore, exchange and reflect, and to qualify their artistic practice. The artistic work in the labs is free of the demands of production – but that does not mean that it is undefined. The hosting partners facilitate and frame the lab work with questions, themes, individual and collaborative tasks, to promote the artists’ awareness of their methods and artistic practices.

The focus of the labs is the variety of the 3 countries’ languages and (inner and outer) geographies, including the Arctic regions, as reflected in the work of the participating artists. The thematic starting point of the work is Language//Landscape, a broad theme that can be interpreted in multiple ways by the participating artists, as they explore their own and each other’s work practice. Exploring paths that reflect the Language of Landscapes and the Landscape of Languages.

The Relay Bodø artists:

  • Dordi Strøm, scenographer, costume designer and writer (NO).
  • Eva Svaneblom, dance artist (NO).
  • Lucy Coren, theatre maker (CAN).
  • Rinchen Dolma, director, dramaturge, performer (CAN).
  • Nicola Visser, dance artist (DK).
  • Jori Snell, physical performer and visual artist (DK).

The Relay partners:

The Performing Arts Relay partners have collaborated since 2016. We share a passion for artistic research and lab work for performing arts professionals. We believe that artistic research is a necessity, not a luxury, and essential for artists to continue to grow and develop, all through their career. As project partners we are dedicated to providing solid framework for lab work to take place, and we feel that the labs we create together, combining practice and reflection in a professionally facilitated and structured frame, are an important contribution to expanding the horizons, knowledge and skills of the participating artists as well as our own.