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JONATHAN IBSEN & FREDRIK PETROV - PANSER

Panser is a gathering and collision between four queer individuals. The work attacks the heterosexual man as markedly exemplary and how he delimits our spaces of play as queer.

The performance challenges the aesthetics of the heterosexual male ideal and the associated social culture. The work speculates on a reality where we are not subject to the alienating and restrictive logic that accompanies this ideal. We therefore create a space on our terms, closer to a simmering pressure where we try to peel off our shame and morality. With this temperament, can we confront the spectators with their own expectations of our gendered bodies?

Panser plays in the gap between pain and comfort, the cool and the warm, seeking to convey a depth of queerness and community rather than asking for acceptance and understanding.

Concept & choreography: Jonathan Ibsen, Fredrik Petrov
in close collaboration with Even Eileraas & Tormod Skår Midtbø.
Performers Even Eileraas, Tormod Skår Midtbø, Jonathan Ibsen, Fredrik Petrov
Light designer: Karl Oskar Sørdal
Composer: Fredrik Petrov
Co-producers: RAS, TOU, Black Box Teater 

RAS - Regional arena for samtidsdans sunday 19. mars 2023.
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Multiplié Dansefestival, 22. - 23. mars 2023.
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Black Box Teater, 3.-5th of May 2024.

Funded by: Norsk Kulturråd - Fri scenekunst dans og komposisjon og produksjon av musikk, FFUK, Oslo Kommune, Fritt Ord, Unge Viken Teater, HIMHERANDIT