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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 modified11/03/2024
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightMaja Wilhite-Hannisdal
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1820158/1820159


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1820164 mladen-stilinovic-artist-at-work-800x800 Mladen Stilinovic All rights reserved
1820170 Monkeys Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau All rights reserved
1851447 Molasses collaps Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
1851449 Molasses collaps Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
1851820 2 MWH Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
1851826 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.05.27 Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
1851848 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.07.24 kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
1851851 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.12.29 Kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
1851854 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.10.17 kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
1851869 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.13.42 Kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
1851876 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.10.38 Kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
1851881 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.06.07 kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
1851895 suzuki Suzuki All rights reserved
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1851907 self portrait henri R All rights reserved
1851919 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.05.27 Kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
1851923 Skjermbilde 2022-12-06 kl. 11.10.17 Kommunal estetikk All rights reserved
2173569 wachet-auf-confirm-horse-groove Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal Public domain
2173613 the basics 1.mai 32 bit Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal Public domain
2174209 IMG_5847 Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
2174233 IMG_5851 Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
2174249 IMG_5854 Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
2174381 dehendrik Lechat willekens - for maja II DeHendrik LeChat Willekens All rights reserved
2174514 IMG_8937 Maja Wilhite-Hannisdal All rights reserved
2176933 PoCo Assignment Manifesto Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
2176935 Poco#2 MH Mysteries in the mundane PRESENTATION Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
2176937 Maja H, EC2, Interview Unn Faleide Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
2176950 Transcription of podcast MH 2023 Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
2190252 PoCo Assignment Manifesto RC 6.juni Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
2190254 Interview RC 6.juni Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
2190256 Poco#2 MH Mysteries in the mundane EDIT RC 6.juni Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
2190257 Transcription of podcast 6.juni Maja Hannisdal All rights reserved
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