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RETRO CAT unfolds in an oversized setting. Amid imaginative surroundings, we find the rear end of a giant cat. The cat butt acts as a magical portal. The cat’s tail sways back and forth. The portal pulsates.

The moon rises with the sun. Strange creatures inhabit the stage. They sing in an unrecognizable language, yet we still understand. The figures on the stage are ambiguous in nature. Are they humans or animals, fish or birds, or something entirely different?

RETRO CAT is a performance where set design, sound, light, and dancers merge into a lively and surreal experience. Contrasts and repetitions are explored. Tori Wrånes questions both the visible and the invisible. She playfully engages with parallel worlds and with new rules.

Artist and composer Tori Wrånes has created spectacular works worldwide. In RETRO CAT, Wrånes has put her signature on choreography, composition, set design, and costume design. Enter an extraordinary world filled with visual and auditory acrobatics, mystery, seriousness, and play!

The performance is a co-production between Carte Blanche and Bergen International Festival in collaboration with BIT Teatergarasjen.

Duration: 1 hr + aftertalk

Choreography Tori Wrånes Scenography Tori Wrånes Costume - & Mask design Tori Wrånes Light design Robert Roespel Sound design Gunnar Innvær Composition Tori Wrånes, Joar Renolen Head of Costumes Carte Blanche Indrani Balgobin Scenography production Carte Blanche Dancers Adrian Bartczak, Aleksandra Korniejenko, Aslak Aune Nygård, Brecht Bovijn, Dawid Lorenc, Gaspard Schmitt, Ihsaan de Banya, Irene Vesterhus Theisen, Iris Auguste, Mai Lisa Guinoo, Nadege Kubwayo, Noam Eidelman Shatil, Ole Martin Meland, Olga Mykolayivna Stetsyuk, Trine Lise Moe Co-produced with Carte Blanche og Festspillene i Bergen i samarbeid med BIT Teatergarasjen PR-photo Sjur Pollen Process og PR-photos Øystein Haara Video David Alræk

Tori Wrånes works with voice, sculpture, installation and people. Wrånes is a singer and visual artist and known for her dreamlike work scenarios in everything from small to gigantic productions. It can be above or below water. On a mountainside or in a ski resort.

Wrånes had her international breakthrough with the commissioned work YES NIX for the Performa 13 Biennale in New York, and has subsequently delivered commissioned works all over the world, including for the Sydney Biennale (Australia), the Lagos Biennale (Nigeria) and the Thailand Biennale (Thailand).

Her works include others shown at Sculpture Center NYC, Dhaka Art Foundation (Bangladesh) and Colombo Art Biennale (Sri Lanka), Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles to name a few.