Upcoming
2025 ︎
P&P
Scenehuset, Oslo
P&P
Scenehuset, Oslo
New(est) idea, 2025
YELLOW
Dancer & choreographer:
Putli Hellesen
Costume & creative input:
Thea Setsaas Kjeldsberg
Supported by:
I AM UNDONE
PRAXIS Oslo
Koreografilaboratoriet (Dansens Hus)
Putli Hellesen
Costume & creative input:
Thea Setsaas Kjeldsberg
Supported by:
I AM UNDONE
PRAXIS Oslo
Koreografilaboratoriet (Dansens Hus)
Yellow is a solo performance which wrestles with reappropriating the term "yellow" as a woman of mixed ethnicity.
It explores the tension between internal and external perceptions, navigating the constant negotiation between belonging and alienation. It reveals the weight of exotification as well as the joy and resilience in transformation.
Yellow is a creature of conflict—an embodiment of contradiction.
Images: Ole Marius Støle
Pre- project, 2025
P&P
Dancer & choreographer:
Putli Hellesen
Co- creating dancer:
Panisara Wanlopbanhan
Supported by:
Arts Council Norway (forprosjekt)
Putli Hellesen
Co- creating dancer:
Panisara Wanlopbanhan
Supported by:
Arts Council Norway (forprosjekt)
P&P is research
into the doubleganger, the lookalike and the other.
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.
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.
Images:
Work, 2023
WAVE CHASERS
Dancers & collaborators:
Putli Hellesen
Natanya Helena Kjølås
Ole Marius Støle
Supported by:
Transistorfestivalen
Putli Hellesen
Natanya Helena Kjølås
Ole Marius Støle
Supported by:
Transistorfestivalen
Wave Chasers is a performative stunt which explores the sonic landscape of public spaces.
Geared up with sound recorders and headphones the performers enter a mode of hypersensitive listening. Through a bodily approach, they rediscover the city and shape it according to their desires.
Wave Chasers stems from a desire to change our relationship with the other, the stranger, the unknown, and the unheard.
Geared up with sound recorders and headphones the performers enter a mode of hypersensitive listening. Through a bodily approach, they rediscover the city and shape it according to their desires.
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 (gjestespill)
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 (gjestespill)
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.
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