Author Archives: Kari Hoaas

Dansefestival Barents writer Claudia Galhós text November 9th, 2013

About shadows, dreams and reality – by  Claudia Galhós “In “On the desperate edge of now” the five male characters, even if not defined with a clear identity and personality, flow between the all potentiality of contemporary dance where each person … Continue reading

Review “Finnmark Dagblad”, November 8th, 2013

CALM AND RAW “Kari Hoaas´ performance at Dancefestival Barents was worth a visit and more. The piece “On the desperate edge of now” gives the audience everything from quite melancholy to muscular explosivness. Both in expression and execution. Hoaas uses … Continue reading

“Inside Out” – Opening National Museum of Architecture Oslo, 2008

A  site-spesific dance work commissioned for the official opening of the new Pavillion of the Architect Museum of the Norwegain National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. The Pavillion is by reknown Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn. The National Museum commissioned … Continue reading

Review “Bergens tidene”, October 2003

Review “Village Voice”, June 3rd 2003

Village Voice   “New Stuff” (P.S.122, May) offered an intriguing mix of younger choreographers—this batch coincidentally all female. In Paradise?, as a moderately convincing Charlie’s Angel, Kari Hoaas (the program’s curator) invoked snippets of saucy gestures—pouty lips, tousled hair, an Elvis pelvis—in an … Continue reading

Preview “Gøteborgs-posten”, May 20th 2009

Gøteborgs-posten

One – PREMIERE 27 & 28 November 2013

One is an eveninglenght solo danceperformance for and by Kari Hoaas. One is an extreme physical collage of hundreds of well known images and representations of women and the female body. By showing and then disstorting what is easily recongnizable, the … Continue reading

Residency at Tou Scene, august 2013

Kari is in a two week choreographers residency august 12-23, 2013 at Tou Scene in Stavanger working on development of her solo show “One”. Open rehearsal: wednesday august 21 at 20.00 at Tou Scene. Development funds provided by Arts Council … Continue reading

Solo performance at Seminarium #1, june 2013

Kari will perform a solo dance-lecture as part of Seminarium #1 at Avant Garden Theater in Trondheim, Norway on june 12 and 13 2013. Kari is using this performance as an opportunity for researching movement ideas for her new solo project … Continue reading

TRAILER “On the desperate edge of now”