PANSER
Panser is a gathering and collision between four queer dance artists. The performance challenges the heterosexual man and looks at how he delimits and dictates our leeway and room for action as queer individuals. The heterosexual man is always to be considered a unit of measurement regarding our queerness.
Panser invites the audience into a dense and unpredictable pressure. They find themselves in a terrain where we try to peel off our forced shame and morality. With this temper and armored state we seek to confront our spectators with their expectations and fantasies of the male figure.
We are not seeking understanding or acceptance, in the same way that we do not want to please or satisfy.
The audience is allowed into a territory that we have claimed, where our bodies are not subject to an alienating and restrictive logic.
Panser premiered 19th of March 2023 at RAS and has performed at Multiplié dance festival in Trondheim and Black Box Teater in Oslo.
Concept & Choreography: Jonathan Ibsen & Fredrik Petrov
Created in collaboration with: Tora Midtbø, Even Eileraas
Performers/Dancers: Tora Midtbø, Even Eileraas, Jonathan Ibsen & Fredrik Petrov
light-designer: Karl Oskar Sørdal
Composer: Fredrik Petrov
Co-producers: RAS, TOU Scene, Black Box Teater
Other collaborators: HIMHERANDIT, Unge Viken Teater
Supported and funded by: The Norwegian Arts Council, Oslo Kommune, FFUK, Fritt Ord
Premiere: 19th of march 2023 at RAS (NO)
Photos: Karl Oskar Sørdal