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The Basics resource archive (last edited: 2024)

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The Basics resource archive is a container for inspirations, materials, half baked thoughts and ideas connected to Norwegian dance artist and videographer Maja Hannisdal’s MA work The Basics, created in the context of the program New Performative Practices at Stockholm University of the Arts department of dance, 2023. The Basics is an on-going exploration of the potential sustainability, ethics, resistance, and beauty of leading a mediocre life. With a specific starting point in the municipal aesthetics of Norwegian social democracy, this exploration aims to reveal new ways of addressing success, failure, value and care, specifically in the practice of artistic and organisational dancemaking, but also for anyone who is grappling with their own mediocrity. All the resources found on this page form a rough terrain from which the dance piece The Basics has been developed. The dance piece was shown at Weld, Stockholm in May 2023, and was choreographed and performed by Maja Hannisdal together with dancers Laressa Dickey, Alexis Steeves, Valentina Parravicini, and Tove Skeidsvoll. The work was shown with original music by DeHendrik LeChat Willekens based on Portsmouth Sinfonia’s “Also spracht zarathustra” and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Wachet auf” from his cantata 140. The scenography is by Maja Hannisdal and is inspired by municipal open office landscapes. The costumes were curated from the basic section of Kappahl, and worn together with identical brown wigs and sensible shoes. The cake was served by Sarah Bellugi Klima, and light design was by Ronald Salas. The video documentation of the presentations at Weld was filmed by Maria Ferreira Silva and edited by Maja Hannisdal. The whole piece can be seen on this page, as well as various rehearsals. The Basics was supervised by Ilse Ghekiere and Jonathan Burrows. Some of the materials in this resource archive are original created by Maja Hannisdal, others are made by visitors of the project, and some are scattered sparks of inspiration belonging to others. Special thanks to Sara Kaaman and Morten Hannisdal for their contributions. Feel free to roam around in the resource archive with no particular order to things.
typeresearch exposition
date19/11/2022
last modified22/05/2024
statusin progress
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copyrightMaja Wilhite-Hannisdal
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1820158/1820159


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