Kartellet har fått solid støtte fra Norsk Kulturråd, fagutvalget for dans til høstens store produksjon «Village Party». Forestillingen er i samarbeid med det østerrikse dansekompaniet «Art in Motion» ledet av Simon Mayer, og blir blant annet en del av Bodø2024.
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.