Be Like Water – the distant episodes is a series of digital dancehaiku´s created in response to the isolation and uncertainty we are all facing as humans in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

As danceartists we can no longer share our work through live performance and touring. We offer this series of digital mini dancepoems. They are short contemplations on time and place; on listening and seeing, noticing the interplay of light, shadow, movement and sound, and what is.

Be Like Water – the distant episodes #1 POND
Premiere May 30th, 2020

Credits:
Dancer: Katja Henriksen Schia
Photo and video: Marius Hauge
Costume: Signe Vasshus
Music: Fennecz
Concept and choreography: Kari Hoaas

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Be Like Water – the distant episodes #2 FALL
Premiere June 6th, 2020

Credits:
Dancer: Andrea Winsnes
Photo and video: Marius Hauge
Costume: Signe Vasshus
Music: Björk
Concept and choreography: Kari Hoaas

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Be Like Water – the distant episodes #3 BRANCH
Premiere June 14th, 2020

Credits:
Dancer: Gerd Kaisa Vorren
Photo and video: Marius Hauge
Costume: Signe Vasshus
Music: Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto
Concept and choreography: Kari Hoaas

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Be Like Water – the distant episodes #4 LEAVES
Premiere June 21st, 2020

Credits:
Dancer: Magí Serra
Music: Kayhan Kalhor
Video and photo: Ignasi Castañé
Direction choreography: Kari Hoaas

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Be Like Water – the distant episodes #5 TREE
Premiere June 28th, 2020

 

Credits:
Dancer: Andrea Winsnes
Music: Laurent Cosani
Video and photo: Marius Hauge
Costume: Signe Vasshus
Choreography: Kari Hoaas

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Be Like Water – the distant episodes is based on choreography from the original work Be Like Water (2015) created for the proscenium stage by choreographer Kari Hoaas.

Be Like Water is the first dancework by Kari in an ongoing cycle of works about our relationship to nature. Created in an impressionistic and poetic vein, Kari used Bruce Lee´s famous quote as a starting point for the choreography, investigating different ways of moving through our changing world, negotiating obstacles, taking risks and finding opportunities for transformation.