World premiere: 19th January 2020 at Dansens Hus in Oslo.

We go back to basics, back to the body.
The Body Essays are dance essays, or rather; danced essays. We want to sense our way into a placewhere we can explore the tension between the intimate and the cultural; to experience these overlaps, let them instigate curiosity, and a need to investigate further. The essays are gravitations – physicalinquiries – with which we aim to create a certain body poetics, based on our thirty years as collaborators and individual performers and creators. The performance might be accompanied by

Performance dates: 19th – 22nd January 2020
Venue: Dansens Hus, Oslo

Collapsing Distance (2018)

Collapsing Distance synthesizes a number of themes which have permeated Siri & Snelle’s productions since their founding in 1992. Feminine aggression and forbidden feelings explored earlier (e.g. The Closet, 2013, and Grums, 2014) will be revisited through a collective investigation with other artists.

PR from Tid for DANS festival

Varden avisa Telemarksavisa Litteraturgarasjen – kulturmagasin på nett & papir BLOGG – Tid for DANS – Dans i Grenland

Tid for Dans festival

I am Cosmos will perform at Tid for Dans festivalen hos dans i Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway.

22nd September 2016 – 19:00 – Ælvespeilet, Porsgrunn, Norway

Interviewed for NRK Kultur / Hovedscenen

Today we were interviewed at Danseinformasjonen in Oslo by Anne Kathrine Fallmyr from NRK Kultur / Hovedcenen (Norwegian TV) on the occasion of our 25th anniversary.

Koreograferer for Balletthøgskolens vårforestilling, 1.a klasse!

Vi tilbringer dagene i studio med KHiO-studenter fra Balletthøgskolen/1BA Samtidsdans & til uka er det premiere! Her blir det rift om plassene – lenke til billetter her

I am Cosmos premiere 15th March 2016

Premiere 15th-18th March 2016 at Dansens Hus in Oslo, Norway. In ‘I am Cosmos’, Siri & Snelle try to make themselves comfortable in the world – both in the everyday world around us, and in the vast endlessness of time and space. Is it possible to encircle and embrace the ambivalence and gulfs between what […]

GRUMS performing in Oslo & Hammerfest

GRUMS is performing this Autumn at Nynorskens hus in Oslo, Norway and at Dansefestival Barents i Hammerfest, Norway. 29th & 30th OCtober @19:00 – Nynorskens hus, Oslo,Norway 7th November @20:00 – Dansefestival Barents, Hammerfest, Norway GRUMS Far Away From the Buzz of Business GRUMS Guiding us to the edge of our sanity, Grums is a horror movie featuring an unusual creature: upper-class women […]

Presse: NRK Radio P2

Kulturhuset – NRK Radio P2 *01.06.2015

Dance information Norway – 10 questions to Siri & Snelle

Dance information Norway (press here) Everyday feminism, 10 questions for Siri and Snelle. With a long freelancing career behind them, Siri Jøntvedt and Snelle Ingrid Hall continue to insist that they have more to offer as performers. This week sees the premiere of their newest piece, about everydayheroes and falling short, choreographed for the male […]

GRUMS til Göteborg

3:e VÅNINGEN 9. & 10. Januar 2015, kl 19.00, billetter i døra. http://www.3vaningen.se GRUMS trekker mot fornuftens yttergrenser og assosierer til både skrekkfilmer og det dyriske. Samtidig transformeres den i retning av middelklassekvinnen i midtlivskrise, hun som retningsløst forsøker å finne mening i livet. GRUMS er bunnfallet, det som har tyngde, det som har sunket […]

I AM COSMOS (2016)

I am Cosmos, premiere 15th March 2016 at Dansens Hus in Oslo, Norway.

With their new eveninglength work I Am Cosmos, Siri & Snelle attempt to find their place in the world – within the immediate and everyday, as well as within the infinite reaches of space and time.

2 new productions 2016-2017

I am Cosmos, to be premiered 2016 Dansens Hus in Oslo, Norway.

Collapsing Distance, to be premiered in 2017.

BIRTHMARK “NOTES ON CRACKING” (2015)

Birthmark “Notes on Cracking” – commissioned by Carte Blanche.
Premiere 29th May 2015, Studio Bergen, Bergen International Festival in Norway.

What happens when the facade cracks?
Vanity and courage are the starting points for Siri Jøntvedt and Snell Hall’s piece for Carte Blanche.

Birthmark

Birthmark (del II), commissioned by Carte Blanche.
Premiere 29th May 2015, Studio Bergen, Bergen International Festival in Norway.

GRUMS to Porsgrunn

ÆLVESPEILET I PORSGRUNN 22. november 2014 at 16.15 GRUMS Guiding us to the edge of our sanity, Grums is a horror movie featuring an unusual creature: upper-class women in a mid-life crisis. They thrash about, question their lives. They are directionless. Grums is on the hunt for a more raw, unfiltered approach to performance. It is a pencil drawing […]

SAM MITCHELL

Sam Mithchell is currently in the second year in the M.F.A. program for Dance Theatre at UC San Diego. He has danced with Santa Barbara Dance Theatre, Malashock Dance, Patricia Rincon Dance Collective, Johanna Meyer and Sommer Ulricksonn as well as other numerous artists, poets and musicians. Sam, who is Yaqui Indian, was recently invited to […]

Snelle interviewing Siri

– OK, Siri. We’ll start with a quick bio – should we just get it over with? Fine; I was born and raised in Porsgrunn), and started dancing when I was 12. That’s when I decided to become a dancer – and that I did! – What was it about the dancing […]

Siri interviewing Snelle

– Well, then it’s your turn Snelle – I’m sure you have lots of stuff you want to get off your chest. First I have to say, though, that I think you are incredibly good at lots of different kinds of things. You start this whole interview with flattery? – No, it’s […]