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YELLOW by Putli Hellesen
TBA, Oslo

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SIYA by Carl Aquilizan
Scenehuset, Oslo

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P&P by Putli Hellesen
Scenehuset, Oslo

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SIYA by Carl Aquilizan
Dansens Hus, Oslo
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New(est) idea, 2025

YELLOW

Dancer & choreographer:
Putli Hellesen

Costume:
Thea Setsaas Kjeldsberg

YELLOW is a creature of conflict.
YELLOW is neither primitive nor civilized.
YELLOW is danger, lurking ahead.
YELLOW is both vague and radical at the same time.
YELLOW is baggage, exotification and impurity.
YELLOW is sun kissed beaches, hope and joy.
YELLOW is one desperate thing.

YELLOW is a solo performance which wrestles with the idea of reappropriating the term yellow. It explores the tension between internal and external perceptions, the push and pull of belonging and alienation.

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Pre- project, 2025

P&P

Dancer & choreographer:
Putli Hellesen

Co- creating dancer:
Panisara Wanlopbanhan

Supported by:
Arts Council Norway

Me and Panisara have on numerous occasions been mistaken for one another by our peers in the dance field. We are both Asian female dancers, we graduated around the same time and both of our first names start with the letter “P”.

Working together in this project, the idea is to use our “alikeness” to our advantage: blurring the lines between oneself and another, between fiction and reality, between the original and the copy.

P&P is research into the doubleganger, the lookalike and the other.

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Work, 2023

WAVE CHASERS

Dancers & collaborators:
Putli Hellesen
Natanya Helena Kjølås
Ole Marius Støle

Supported by:
Transistorfestivalen

Wave Chasers is a performative stunt that kicked off during the summer of 2023 in Oslo, Norway. The stunt explores the sonic landscape of public spaces.

Geared up with sound recorders and headphones the performers - Putli Hellesen, Natanya Helena Kjølås & Ole Marius Støle - enter a mode of hypersensitive listening. Through a bodily approach, they rediscover the city and shape it according to their desires.

Through a playful, humorous, clever, and fearless approach, the wave chasers take over urban spaces. They run, chase, and play tricks – using their bodies to mirror, emphasize, and highlight what they find around them. They fantasize about the idea of what a city space can truly contain, moving through a landscape where the real and the fictional feed into each other. Together, they race through the city streets, looking for the next moment that could change everything!

Wave Chasers stems from a desire to change our relationship with the other, the stranger, the unknown, and the unheard.

Video: Transistorfestivalen

Work, 2021

UNFINISHED BUSYNESS

Dancer & choreographer:
Putli Hellesen

Costume design:
Lærke Bang Barfod (MA Costume design KHiO)

Light & visual design:
Martin Myrvold

Sound design:
Petter Olav Støylen Wiik & Ole Marius Støle

External supervisors:
Kristin Ryg Helgebostad & Solveig Styve Holte

Internal supervisors:
Torunn Robstad & Bojana Cvejic

Supported by:
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Arts Council Norway

Unfinished Busyness is my graduating solo performance in MA Dance from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

It is a performance that wants to talk about a number of things as opposed to one thing, a rambling monologue sparked by an interest in demystifying the artist’s process. It aims to reveal the building up to the performance event, unveiling the things and thoughts the dancer goes through up until the point they actually “do the dance”.

In Unfinished Busyness I eccentrically tell the story of how it is to be a newly educated female dancer, it is part personal conversation between friends and part performed lecture - it is a confession of likes and taste, just as much as it is a result of choreographed opinions and fabrications.

Video: Antero Hein

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