Resisting Extinction visits Hammerfest with two experiences. 
• “Weather walk” is a one-on-one performance journey. We will transform our small talk about the weather into big talk about the climate emergency. 
• Participatory "Grieving practices". Can and should we grieve our own potential extinction? 

To book your "Weather Walk" please contact Solveig Leinan-Hermo-Hermo on mobile + 47 95066744 or come see us at Scandic at the given times. The bookings are on a first come first serve basis, and there are limited spaces available.

Weather walks Saturday: 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 (30-45 min duration) Free event, Meeting point: Scandic Hotel, Sørøygata 15

Weather walks Sunday: 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 (30-45 min duration) Free event, Meeting point: Scandic Hotel, Sørøygata 15

Grieving Practice:
SATURDAY: Grieving practice: 15.45 (45 minutes) - Free event/Donations, no booking required. Venue: Museum of Reconstruction
SUNDAY: Grieving practice: 15.45 (45 minutes) - Free event/Donations, no booking required. Venue: Museum of Reconstruction

The performance is free, but any donations to DanseFestival Barents via VIPPS will be much appreciated Vipps # 117954 or search for DanseFestival Barents in the app, or via PayPal.

Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on a damaged earth. We are living in a time of crisis, both social and environmental. BodyCartography Project invites our audiences to practice engagement,  to meet unknown challenges by honing our skills to improvise, to feel, and to be receptive and trust that our bodies have the resources needed to negotiate, survive, and thrive. Recognizing our ecological grief as a legitimate response to ecological multi-species loss is an important next step in humanizing this crisis and its related impacts, and for expanding our understanding of what it means to be alive and to survive in this swiftly transforming moment.

Resisting Extinction will take the form of intimate performances and grieving rituals along the waterfront. It is suggested for audiences 12+. 

“During the experience I was confronted, invited to see, feel, listen and reflect. I became curious, I felt relief and I got scared. I faced myself and I turned my face to earth. I apologized to earth, for not taking better care of it, for not being it’s true friend and companion… I realized that first of all I have to change my intentions. I got stricken by the power of art.” Resisting Extinction audience at Bygdøy

“I loved the way the weather walks (with their sensorial components) make more concrete and personal issues that would be otherwise abstract and remote.” Christina Archetti, Professor in Political Communication and Journalism, University of Oslo

Concept Olive Bieringa Directors Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad Co-creating performers Maria Lothe, Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas, Ornilia Ubisse, Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn, Kristina Gjems, Otto Ramstad, Olive Bieringa, Nina Wollny, Uma Ramstad Performers in DanseFestival Barents Maria Lothe, Ornilia Ubisse, Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn, Otto Ramstad, Olive Bieringa Costume design Kristine Gjems Funders and partners Oslo Municipality, Kulturrådet, KORO – Public Art Norway, the Nordic residency at SITE in Farsta, Sweden, Klimahuset, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norskfolkemuseum, Bygdø Kongsgard, Oslo Kulturnatt, DansIT

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad collaborate as the BodyCartography Project for nearly 25 years . Their work has been performed at Oslo International Theater Festival, Kulturataten’s SAMMEN-om-GATA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lyon Opera Ballet, Dance Theatre Workshop, Performance Space 122 and American Realness, NYC, Walker Art Center,  Minneapolis, TBA/Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts,  Anti-Festival, Finland, Cinedans, Amsterdam and many other contexts internationally. Their work also lives in the permanent collection at Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand. They are fellowship recipients from Foundation for the Arts, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation and Bush Foundation. Learn more about BodyCartography at www.bodycartography.org

Maria Lothe is a dance artist, working as a mover, maker and producer in Norway and England. She has a two year degree from Skolen for samtidsdans (The School for New Dance) in Oslo and a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is also a certified yoga teacher in Ashtanga Yoga and Yin Yoga. As a performer, Maria has been working within dance, theatre and performance art, with companies/artists such as Martin Creed, What’s Coming out of the Box, BitterSuite Company, Livia Rita and the Bicycle Ballet Company, and performed in venues such as The Twist Museum, The Royal Opera House London, Rich Mix, Roundhouse, Royal Academy of the Arts, Whitechapel Gallery and has toured across the UK. She has also been a member of Backspace Collective. Both as a mover and a maker, Maria is amongst others interested in interdisciplinary collaborations, site specific work and sensory/interactive work. Her work often involves questions around climate change and our relationship to nature. Her work has been shown in venues such as The Place, Chisenhale Dance Space, Turner Contemporary, Ugly Duck, Røros Museet, Galleri TM51, Ælvespeilet, Norsk Skogmuseum and Musea i Nord-Østerdalen. Maria has recently been involved with Extinction Rebellion, where she facilitates movement classes for the performance group “Red Rebels”, as well as being an internal coordinator for the Artivism group. She is also a board member of SIB Dance Lab, PRAXIS Oslo and a former producer for DansINN. www.marialothe.com

Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn works as a freelance performing artist, currently for gender house festival, bora bora with artists Linn and Tone Lorentzen, her own production shifting modes with Sverigjes Konstforeningar, and for Runa Carlsen at OsloKunstforening. She finished her master in Performance at the Norwegian Theater Academy in 2020. She has also worked as a co-creative performer and maker for several artists such as Erikk Mckenzie, Mia Habib, Elle Sofe Henriksen, the organisation TekstLab and dans 5.

Ornilia Ubisse born and raised in Mozambique where she studied dance at the Escola Nacional de Danca and worked as a dancer and dance teacher. She has a BA in dance with specialization in modern and contemporary dance from the Norwegian Academy of Dance with an Erasmus in Austria, at Anton Bruckner Private University (2017). As a performer, Ubisse has been on tours, productions and collaborations with choreographers such as Editta Braun, Shanti Bramachari, Cecilie Steen, Mia Habib, Hallgrim Hansegård, Bawren Tavaziva, Francesco Scavetta, Tendai Makurumbandi, De Naive and Roza Moshtaghi. She has been on school tours and DKS with Nutopia, Frikar X and TekstLab with various productions. As a TekstLab Incubator participant, she has choreographed and performanced “Rua 57” and “Chaos in the Box”. Ubisse established Kronos Dance Company and has choreographed “Memories from Nowhere”, “Motherland” and is now working on the company’s third production – “Ecstasy”.