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With INN/TRYKK, the northern Norwegian dancer Karianne Andreassen has created a performance about diving in an icy sea.Through both dance and text, she will recreate the feeling of being underwater - and share it with the audience.
"I think there is value in experiencing the sea anew, where humans are no longer the dominant species, but the alien, new and unknown," says Karianne Andreassen, who began freediving in the Arctic in 2020.
In the depths, she has often felt that the life in the sea is observing her as much as she is observing it - a thought that is both terrifying and exciting.
Up and down the water column - in text and dance
In INN/TRYKK, she alternates between observing the sea to "being" an animal, an ecosystem, an underwater organism observing the audience, in movements she has researched underwater.
The performance also contains text, in which Andreassen speaks with and not to the audience. In the text, she drags us in and out of the sea, up and down in the water column. From drawing up the really big perspectives, she then zooms in on the tiny details the sea offers.
This is how Andreassen conveys the saturated impressions the deep offers - of waves, different temperatures, rays of light, halibut, crabs and krill.
This alternation makes INN/TRYKK a sensory experience of being underwater, from which we can both learn - and be deeply fascinated by.
All life starts in the ocean
"When I freedive, I often have reverberations of impressions, and I want to share this associative and sensory experience with the public," says Andreassen.
Therefore, she also involves the audience sensuously - if you hold your ears, for example, you can recreate the pressure and sounds you hear underwater. Also: How long can you hold your breath?
INN/TRYKK is Andreassen's second work about man's fascination with and relationship with the all-important sea. The performance premiered at the Nordlysfestival 2023.
Duration: approx. 40 minutes (no interval). The show is suitable for everyone aged 13 and over.
Karianne Andreassen is from Tromsø. She has a BA in theater dance from the London Studio Center and since 2015 has worked nationally and internationally with, among others, Panta Rei Danseteater, Mathilde Caeyers, Katma, Yaniv Cohen, Simone Grøtte and Janis Claxton Dance.
She has participated in everything from all-night dance performances, theatre, site-specific performance, singing and short films to her own dance productions. She has also participated in two ventures via Talent Norway (UREDD and TILT Grow) and sits on the board of the Forum for Northern Norwegian Dance Artists (FNND).
