“Be Like Water” will be performed at Tid for Dans Festival at Ælvespeilet Kulturhus in Porsgrunn, Norway November 21st at 5.30pm.

Created with the fear of the impending man-made apocalypse of climate change as a backdrop, choreographer Kari Hoaas has chosen to work within a poetic and impressionistic vein, exploring physical, emotional, ritual, scientific and social themes of that basic element of all life: water.

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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. – Bruce Lee

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Water is essential for all life forms, from the macro perspective of the planet to the micro perspective of single cellular life. Our bodies are seventy percent water. It is thus our most precious commodity.

Be Like Water proposes the idea that it is through our personal and individual human expressions, connections, concerns and conflicts, we best are able to communicate and express something about the universal.

The word “apocalypse” is Greek, created with the words apo: “to lift” and calypsis “veil”. The word can thus also be understood as an uncovering or revelation, as much as the more common popular association of destruction.

Credits:
Choreography, concept and direction: Kari Hoaas
Dancers: Kenneth Flak, Antero Hein, Külli Roosna, Anne Lise Pettersen Rønne, Åsne Storli, Anton Wretling
Lightdesign and technical director: Laurent Ravot
Video: Tord Eliassen
Sounddesign: Morten Pettersen
Costumedesign: Signe Vasshus
Costumemaker/seam: Antti Bjørn
Producer/manager: Annika Ostwald
Photocredit: Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen
Video trailer and documentation: Yaniv Cohen

Be like water” is co-produced by Bærum Culturehouse, Oslo, Norway and Culture 1. Kim S. Falck-JørgensenSkellefteå in Sweden. Created, in part, in residency at Vitlycke Centre for Performing Arts, Tanumshede, Sweden and Hallen, Nordanå, Culture Skellefteå, Sweden. Creation support provided by Arts Council Norway and the Norwegian Fund for Sound and Image. Touring funds provided by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.