Anføttes (head to feet) 2016
Played over 80 times.
Dancers:
Inge Martin Helgesen
Nils Ole Foshaug
Sigurd Johan Heide
Lars Frihetsli
Ådne Kolbjørnshus
Musician: Benjamin Mørk
Choreography: Kartellet
Visuals/lights/video art: Torbjørn Thrane Sandnes
Film: Martin Edelsteen
About Anføttes:
Traditional folk music and dance from Norway meets jazzy electronica. The melodies and the rhythm of the folk music is the same, while the instruments are digital. Anføttes explores the fusion of modern music with traditional dances and childhood games.
The dance company Kartellet has a distinctive and interactive style. They thrive on acrobatics, musicality, balance art and brute force. Benjamin Mørk is one of the most exciting and innovative musicians and composers in Norway today.
The festival Kalottspel produced Anføttes, in co-operation withArctic Arts Festival (Festspillene i Nord-Norge).
From the press:
«This equality of expression is a special feature of Kartellet that this reviewer appreciates. Here, choreographer Sigurd Johan Heide doesnt seem too crazy to let the art of movement dominate, but he gives room for different, partly contrasting expressions, so that both quirky, poetic and entertaining whole things occur. Not least, the video choices in Anføttes make the poetic and the strangeness get a good playroom this time too.» Margrete Kvalbein in Ballade.
DoPPler 2015
Played over 100 times and won the Norwegian Critics Assosiation Award for best dance performance in 2015/2016.
Dancers:
Inge Martin Helgesen
Sigurd Johan Heide or Eirik Fuglesteg Luksengard
Ådne Kolbjørnshus
Choreography: Sigurd Johan Heide/Kartellet
Composer: Ragnhild Furebotten
Musicians:
Ragnhild Furebotten – fiddle
Helge Andreas Norbakken – percussion
Visual design: Kartellet
Produsent: Henrik Lamark/Nordland Musikkfestuke
About DoPPler:
DoPPler is a collaboration between musician and composer Ragnhild Furebotten and dance company Kartellet.
The performance is an unpretentious and playful study in women’s and men’s minds. Mind that can be both erratic, violent, loving, bitter and caring. Moods that give consequences. Good and evil. Three male dancers from Kartellet will, through games, folk dance and acrobatics, balance on an egg of seriousness, banality and tenderness.
From the press:
«DoPPler can be regarded as a rare example of real interdisciplinary: Theater-based wisdom is combined with dance-tech fendal force and musical sensation, all in close collaboration with excellent musicians. In addition, the choreographer is able to express something as if it is masculine / feminine, serious / playful, and vulnerable and powerful in human interaction, contributing to this artistry as one of the most exciting choreographers of today.» From Norwegian Critics Award in 2016
Kartellet 2012
Played over 60 times during the last 8 years.
Dancers:
Inge Martin Helgesen
Lars Frihetsli
Sigurd Johan Heide
Ådne R. G. Kolbjørnshus
Eirik Fuglesteg Luksengard
Choreoraphy: Sigurd Johan Heide
Composer: Mariann Torset
Musicians:
Mariann Torset – harmonium
Julie Alapnes – fiddle
Visual design:
Anniken Romuld
Teaser:
Martin J. Edelsteen
Producer: Terje Foshaug/Folkemusikk Nord
Supported by Kulturrådet, FFUK and Folkemusikk Nord
About the performance Kartellet:
«Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a dance piece where in the first half the dancers danced, and in the second they showed the audience how to dance?» – Augusto Boal
Kartellet is a physical collaboration between five men with strong individuality. The performance are for us poetic images, an illusion. We hope that the audience will know the presence and gain a physical experience of musicality and dance. In other words: Kartellet wants to share dance with you.
Interactivity in the performing arts can both encourage, provoke and engage the audience. Kartellet is offering the audience a sensuous experience, and the performances are through public participation and presence, a little different from time to time. Kartellet makes the audience become a part of the deepest premises of folk dance and folk music terms: proximity, participation and playfulness. The performance has a limit of 30 people in the audience.
Mr Terje Foshaug was the producer and important in making this performance.
From the press:
«Kartellet was an experience. They have made something that, in simplicity, is so sophisticated that you may want to try again. A bit like being abducted by aliens and returned to earth after three blocks with a vague sense of experiencing something very special.» Anders Eriksson, former Director of Moldejazz
An dran drin drekt 2021
Played over 150 times
Dancers:
Sigurd Johan Heide
Eirik Fuglesteg Luksengard
Choreoraphy: Sigurd Johan Heide/Kartellet
Composer: Jo Einar Sterten Jansen
Musicians:
Jo Einar Sterten Jansen
Producer: Festspillene i Nord-Norge
Supported by Kulturrådet and Festspillene i Nord-Norge
About the performance An dran drin drekt:
Gjennom forestillingen byr Kartellet på rare triks, felespill på stylter, sprø folkedans og artige regler. Tittelen og regla er en rytmisk lek, og vi vil dele med verden at den rare, artige leken er gull verdt. «An dran drin drekt. Kontra både fem og seks. Bom bam dutri dam. Silkemaga, buldrikaka. Ditt om. Pøk utav.» “An dran drin drekt” består av blant annet sirlig fotballspill og tacklinger, felespill på stylter, rare triks, rim og regler fra Grytøya og Vesterålen og heftig folkedans fra den nordlige halvkule.
Kan du komme ned og hente meg? 2014
(Can you come down and fetch me?)
Played 22 times.
Dancers:
Inge Martin Helgesen
Sigurd Johan Heide
Choreography: Sigurd Johan Heide/Kartellet
Composer and music: Ole-Morten Indigo Lekang
Visual design: Kartellet
Teaser: Eilif Bremer Landsend
Producer: Nina Fjeldet/Riksscenen
Supported by Riksscenen, FFUK, Norsk Kulturråd and Folkemusikk Nord
About Kan du komme ned og hente meg:
The audience is sitting in the middle of three expressive men, and experience a dance performance that is close, both in the distance and in the theme. The two dancers, Inge Martin Helgesen and Sigurd Johan Heide have a nostalgic but distorted expression, and exploit their bodily knowledge to balance the game of play and seriousness. Musician Ole Morten Indigo Lekang treats drums and piano, and has processed the musical material to our state: A state of male physicality, seriousness and games. Violent games.
The whole show is built around watching his life pass by before his eyes: remember both the good and the bad.
From the press:
«Among many bad attempts to make performing arts of folk dance, Kartellet and the choreographer Heide manage to transform the distinctive cyclic of the dance style into an experience of artistic moments. Dance and music are good craftsmanship, liberating free of audience-free virtuosism. It is the playful, serious friendship between the men which is shown, a male humanity.» Sidsel Pape in Folkemusikk
Village Party 2024
Played 6 times.
Kunstnerisk ledelse: Sigurd Johan Heide & Simon Mayer
Musikalsk ledelse: Johanna-Adele Jûssi
Medvirkende:
Ole Nilssen: Dans, trekkspill. vokal
Matteo Haitzmann: Fele, vokal
Johanna-Adele Jûssi: Fele, skjeer
Hannah Shakti Bühler: Tamborello, vokal, dans
Tone Ingvaldsen: Dans, vokal Simon Mayer: Fele, vokal Sigurd Johan Heide: Dans, vokal
Gjester: Viktor Bomstad (Bodø 17.nov), Martin Lien (Bodø 18 nov.), Siri Strige /Anette Johansen (Bodø 19. nov), Phitthaya Phaefuang (Oslo), Volksfest (Salzkammergut)
Josephine van Rheenen & Guy Corneille (Bodø/Oslo)
Ytre øyne: Jørgen Knutsen
Mentoring: Karoline Maria Wibmer
Teknikk: Espen Nordheim
Teknisk ledelse: Jeroen Smith
Kostymer: Nina Erdahl
Produksjon: Lisa Anetsmann / Art in Motion, Jo Einar Jansen / Kartellet.
Supported by Kulturrådet, Bodø2024, Kalottspel, Riksscenen, Tartu2024 and Salzkammergut2024.
About Village Party:
Kartellet from Norway, Johanna Adele Jussi from Estonia and Art i Motion from Austria have started a new collaboration to play and go deep into the crazyness of village partys in Europe. In “Village Party” we on one hand create the exchange between the different regions of Europe and on the other hand we create our own fantasy village party with its very unique absurd rules, folkdances, performance art, music and rituals. We reactivate a place where folk dance and traditions go back to their possible origin – to the states of being moved in flow and trancem and to the state that art is something humans, both audience and performers, do together. Village Party is a mixture between the past and the future. The future of folk-art.
From the press:
«Village Party» was named as one of the performances of the year by «Norsk Shakespeartidskrift in 2024.»
Kan du komme ned og hente meg igjen? 2019
(Can you come down and fetch me again?)
Played 25 times.
Dancers:
Inge Martin Helgesen
Sigurd Johan Heide
Choreography: Sigurd Johan Heide/Kartellet
Composer and music: Benjamin Mørk
Visual design: Kartellet
Teaser: Eilif Bremer Landsend
Photo: Knut Åserud
Design: Petter Bratland/Rampestrek
Producer: Nina Fjeldet/Riksscenen
About Kan du komme ned og hente meg igjen:
The audience is sitting in the middle of three expressive men, and experience a dance performance that is close, both in the distance and in the theme. The two dancers, Inge Martin Helgesen and Sigurd Johan Heide have a nostalgic but distorted expression, and exploit their bodily knowledge to balance the game of play and seriousness. Musician Benjamin Mørk treats mechanical piano, and has processed the musical material to our state: A state of male physicality, seriousness and games. Violent games.
The whole show is built around watching his life pass by before his eyes: remember both the good and the bad.
From the press:
Forestillingens sykliske og repetitive oppbygning der dans og musikk veksler mellom voldsom lek og rolige partier der Heide og Helgesen danser vals med hverandre, hadde neppe fungert så godt om det ikke var nettopp for de tre utøvernes overskudd, timing og finslipte, nyanserte samspill.
Judith Dybendal på Scenekunst.no mai 2019
Rækved 2024
(Driftwood))
Played 4 times.
Dancers:
Inge Martin Helgesen
Sigurd Johan Heide
Bjørnar Heidmdal
Jon Bugge Mariussen
Lars Frihetsli
Musicians:
Arctic Chamber Orchestra
Choreography: Sigurd Johan Heide/Kartellet
Composer and arrangements: Bernt Simen Lund
Musical lead: Sander Tingstad
Photo: Knut Åserud
Producer: Arctic Philharmonic
Supported by Bodø2024 and Festspillene i Nord-Norge
About Rækved:
A performance with Kartellet and the Arktisk Filharmoni
A unique meeting between the dancers from Kartellet and folk tunes from Northern Norway, played by strings from the Arktisk Filharmoni.
In the performance Rækved, five dancers and a string orchestra try to understand each other through playfulness and seriousness. Through the choreography we will meet traditional folk dancing from Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, as well as elements from rituals and sports games. The music is based on folk music from the north, in a modern way, mixed with musical games and “groove”. The title Rækved means everything which drifts ashore, of which we can use to make something new. In this setting, meaning parts from different folk traditions made into new expressions.
From the press:
Anmeldelse: «Rækved» med Kartellet og Arktisk Filharmoni – Anmeldelser og anbefalinger
Anmeldelse, Festspillene i Nord-Norge 2024 | En inderlig hyllest til mennesket
Lyden av Kartellet 2016
(The sound of Kartellet)
Played 10 times.
Musicians:
Julie Normann Alapnes (fiddle)
Mariann Torset (harmonium)
Photo: Knut Åserud
Producer: Terje Foshaug/ Folkemusikk Nord
Supported by Folkemusikk Nord
About Lyden av Kartellet:
Bygdefest 2022
Played 35 times.
Dancers:
Inge Martin Helgesen
Sigurd Johan Heide
Musician: Ragnhild Furebotten Orchestra
Choreography: Kartellet
Producer: Jo Einar Sterten Jansen / Folkemusikk Nord / Scene Nord
Supported by Scene Nord
About Bygdefest:
In the old days, people went to village parties (Bygdefest). There young and old met, those who loved to dance, those who preferred to be wall decorations, those who were thirsty and those who wanted to fight. Anything could happen at a village party, and if it did, there was always some support to be had from an aunt, a grandfather or someone in the party committee.
The Community Houses are the perfect setting for Bygdefesty, and this production starts as many parties did – as a concert. Then the music pauses, you buy more coffee and snacks, before the dancers in Kartellet come on the floor. Further into the evening, it is entirely up to the audience how it develops. We hope that people will join us on the floor and join in the dance.
The orchestra is led by Ragnhild Furebotten, and among the fellow musicians we find Bjørn Andor Drage with whom Ragnhild has common traditions for the village festivals in Saltdalen. The cartel, which turns 10 years old this year, has based most of its performances on the village festival’s dance and surprises, and when they offer dancing, no one quite knows
From the press:
Bygdefestene – musikk med slåssing og klining – Musikklivet – NRK Radio
Lausdans i uniform 2016
Played 1 time.
Dancers:
Ådne Kolbjørnshus
Sigurd Johan Heide
Musician: Royal Army Orchestra
Choreography: Kartellet
Producer/idea/Scrips: Anders Eriksson
Light design: Tor Ditlevsen
Fiddle: Erlend Viken
About Lausdans i uniform:
Dans som kunstform og mannfolk som danser med mannfolk har egentlig lite med tradisjonell ballett å gjøre. Dans har nemlig vært et militært anliggende i mange, mange år. En ferdighet med aner tilbake til norrøn tid.
Et topptrimmet militærkorps, to av landets sprekeste folkedansere og en ung spellemann med sans for offpist-kjøring på ski. Det er hovedingrediensene når Festspillene i Nord-Norge og Forsvarets musikkorps Nord-Norge (FMKN) byr på en fartsfylt scenisk fortelling om hva norsk musikk er. For musikk og dans er to sider av samme sak. Vi skal ikke påberope oss historisk korrekthet, og vi skal ta oss kunstneriske friheter. Men på lik linje med Forsvarets første musikkinspektør og finnmarkingen Ole Olsen lar vi oss fascinere av en nær norsk musikkhistorie med sitt mangfold av mer eller mindre troverdige kilder, gode historier og uomtvistelige fakta.