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and from their hair, unending forest - Adam Seid Tahir at Ravnedans 2026

A poetic and speculative landscape where mythology, memory, and fiction intertwine.

In this residency showing, Adam Seid Tahir invites the audience into an evolving universe shaped through sound, movement, imagination, and Afro-Nordic storytelling.

Working between choreography, technology, and immersive world-building, Adam Seid Tahir creates performative spaces where queer futurities, mythological beings, and dreamlike landscapes emerge together.

and from their hair, unending forest unfolds as a living research process; intimate, atmospheric, and continuously transforming.

📍 Galleri Kobbel, Kristiansand
📅 June 20, 2026
🕓 16:00
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

Choreography, Performance: Adam Seid Tahir
Sound Design: Tati au Miel
Lighting Design: Jonatan Winbo
Dramaturgy: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Producers: Johnson & Bergsmark
Co-produced by: Kampnagel International Summer Festival, MDT, Rosendal Teater, Norrlandsoperan
Supported by: The City of Stockholm, The Nordic Culture Fund, Inkonst, MARC, HAUT, Ravnedans

📸 Sharrat Cherry.
Illustration by Kenshiro Caravaggio Carena

and from their hair, unending forest - Adam Seid Tahir at Ravnedans 2026

A poetic and speculative landscape where mythology, memory, and fiction intertwine.

In this residency showing, Adam Seid Tahir invites the audience into an evolving universe shaped through sound, movement, imagination, and Afro-Nordic storytelling.

Working between choreography, technology, and immersive world-building, Adam Seid Tahir creates performative spaces where queer futurities, mythological beings, and dreamlike landscapes emerge together.

and from their hair, unending forest unfolds as a living research process; intimate, atmospheric, and continuously transforming.

📍 Galleri Kobbel, Kristiansand
📅 June 20, 2026
🕓 16:00
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

Choreography, Performance: Adam Seid Tahir
Sound Design: Tati au Miel
Lighting Design: Jonatan Winbo
Dramaturgy: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Producers: Johnson & Bergsmark
Co-produced by: Kampnagel International Summer Festival, MDT, Rosendal Teater, Norrlandsoperan
Supported by: The City of Stockholm, The Nordic Culture Fund, Inkonst, MARC, HAUT, Ravnedans

📸 Sharrat Cherry.
Illustration by Kenshiro Caravaggio Carena

Calling - Ofelia Jarl Ortega and The Field at Ravnedans 2026

In Calling, the choreographer Ofelia Jarl Ortega examines the power relations within the collective of The Field. The dynamics are revealed in all their complexity through choreographic games and playful scenarios. The performers offer themselves to each other to be used, downtrodden or deified, teased or even pleasured.

Blending choreography, rhythm, repetition, and physical endurance, Calling explores what happens when bodies move together toward something unknown, a need, a desire, a call.
A hypnotic and visceral encounter balancing between ritual, concert, dance performance, and shared

📍 Kilden, Kristiansand
📅 June 20, 2026
⏱️ 18:00
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

Konsept og koreografi: Ofelia Jarl Ortega
Medskapende utøvere, The Field: Lucia
Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Declan Whitaker
Komposisjon: Xafya 
Lysdesign: Christoffer Lloyd
Kostymer: Julian Zigerli
Produksjon: Matheus Vo-Ngoc
Dramaturgisk veiledning: Tanzhaus Zürich: Jessica Huber
Foto: Nadja Voorham

Co-produsent: Tanzhaus Zürich
En spesiell takk til: Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel, Marisa Godoy
Støttet av: City of Zurich Culture, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, Landis & Gyr Foundation, Migros Cultural Percentage, the City of Stockholm.

LOCAL Artists Showings at Ravnedans 2026

At Ravnedans Festival, we wish to support and uplift the local performing arts field in Kristiansand.

This initiative invites local artists to share works in progress in front of an audience, creating space for constructive feedback, open conversations, artistic reflection, and exchange around the creative process.
Each showing is followed by a public conversation moderated by choreographer Louis Schou-Hansen, where artists and audience members meet through dialogue, curiosity, and shared reflection.

This year’s local showings:

SPLIT SIGNAL — Maggi Asbjørnsen
An interactive performance experienced through headphones and physical presence in the room. Upon arrival, the audience chooses between two different soundtracks, creating parallel realities unfolding side by side. Split Signalexplores perception, participation, and the coexistence of multiple experiences within the same space.

RESONANCE — André Tribbensee
A work-in-progress presentation exploring vibration, presence, and the invisible connections between bodies, sound, and space. RESONANCE invites the audience into a sensory and evolving artistic landscape still in transformation.

BLONDE HÅR — Andrea Maaseide 
A local showing balancing intimacy, identity, and performative exploration. Through movement and staged presence, BLONDE HÅR opens questions around image, perception, and embodiment within a raw and evolving artistic process.

Come witness artistic processes in motion and be part of the conversation 💫

📍 @kobbelkunstbyra + festival locations
📅 June 17–18, 2026
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

An initiative funded by Cultiva

LOCAL Artists Showings at Ravnedans 2026

At Ravnedans Festival, we wish to support and uplift the local performing arts field in Kristiansand.

This initiative invites local artists to share works in progress in front of an audience, creating space for constructive feedback, open conversations, artistic reflection, and exchange around the creative process.
Each showing is followed by a public conversation moderated by choreographer Louis Schou-Hansen, where artists and audience members meet through dialogue, curiosity, and shared reflection.

This year’s local showings:

SPLIT SIGNAL — Maggi Asbjørnsen
An interactive performance experienced through headphones and physical presence in the room. Upon arrival, the audience chooses between two different soundtracks, creating parallel realities unfolding side by side. Split Signalexplores perception, participation, and the coexistence of multiple experiences within the same space.

RESONANCE — André Tribbensee
A work-in-progress presentation exploring vibration, presence, and the invisible connections between bodies, sound, and space. RESONANCE invites the audience into a sensory and evolving artistic landscape still in transformation.

BLONDE HÅR — Andrea Maaseide 
A local showing balancing intimacy, identity, and performative exploration. Through movement and staged presence, BLONDE HÅR opens questions around image, perception, and embodiment within a raw and evolving artistic process.

Come witness artistic processes in motion and be part of the conversation 💫

📍 @kobbelkunstbyra + festival locations
📅 June 17–18, 2026
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

An initiative funded by Cultiva

LOCAL Artists Showings at Ravnedans 2026

At Ravnedans Festival, we wish to support and uplift the local performing arts field in Kristiansand.

This initiative invites local artists to share works in progress in front of an audience, creating space for constructive feedback, open conversations, artistic reflection, and exchange around the creative process.
Each showing is followed by a public conversation moderated by choreographer Louis Schou-Hansen, where artists and audience members meet through dialogue, curiosity, and shared reflection.

This year’s local showings:

SPLIT SIGNAL — Maggi Asbjørnsen
An interactive performance experienced through headphones and physical presence in the room. Upon arrival, the audience chooses between two different soundtracks, creating parallel realities unfolding side by side. Split Signalexplores perception, participation, and the coexistence of multiple experiences within the same space.

RESONANCE — André Tribbensee
A work-in-progress presentation exploring vibration, presence, and the invisible connections between bodies, sound, and space. RESONANCE invites the audience into a sensory and evolving artistic landscape still in transformation.

BLONDE HÅR — Andrea Maaseide 
A local showing balancing intimacy, identity, and performative exploration. Through movement and staged presence, BLONDE HÅR opens questions around image, perception, and embodiment within a raw and evolving artistic process.

Come witness artistic processes in motion and be part of the conversation 💫

📍 @kobbelkunstbyra + festival locations
📅 June 17–18, 2026
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

An initiative funded by Cultiva

LOCAL Artists Showings at Ravnedans 2026

At Ravnedans Festival, we wish to support and uplift the local performing arts field in Kristiansand.

This initiative invites local artists to share works in progress in front of an audience, creating space for constructive feedback, open conversations, artistic reflection, and exchange around the creative process.
Each showing is followed by a public conversation moderated by choreographer Louis Schou-Hansen, where artists and audience members meet through dialogue, curiosity, and shared reflection.

This year’s local showings:

SPLIT SIGNAL — Maggi Asbjørnsen
An interactive performance experienced through headphones and physical presence in the room. Upon arrival, the audience chooses between two different soundtracks, creating parallel realities unfolding side by side. Split Signalexplores perception, participation, and the coexistence of multiple experiences within the same space.

RESONANCE — André Tribbensee
A work-in-progress presentation exploring vibration, presence, and the invisible connections between bodies, sound, and space. RESONANCE invites the audience into a sensory and evolving artistic landscape still in transformation.

BLONDE HÅR — Andrea Maaseide 
A local showing balancing intimacy, identity, and performative exploration. Through movement and staged presence, BLONDE HÅR opens questions around image, perception, and embodiment within a raw and evolving artistic process.

Come witness artistic processes in motion and be part of the conversation 💫

📍 @kobbelkunstbyra + festival locations
📅 June 17–18, 2026
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

An initiative funded by Cultiva

LANGT UTE OG LENGST INNE - @bananazforeningforscenekunst at Ravnedans 2026

Langt Ute og Lengst Inne is a choreographed installation working with and challenging perception. In a dark room, what you see, what you think you see, and your own fantasies begin to merge.
You are guided down a path, into a room, and toward a bench where you are invited to lie undisturbed throughout the duration of the piece. Within the landscape you look into, dim light and a group of hands exist together. They do not reach for objects, nor do they comfort or harm.

An intimate and immersive experience balancing between dream, hallucination, and quiet observation.
A work that slows down time and invites the audience into a fragile space where imagination becomes part of the choreography.

📍 Bygg 56, Odderøyveien 80
📅 17.18.19. og 20. June 2026
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

Konsept og koreografi: Marie Bergby Handeland, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad og Ingeleiv Berstad
Arkitektur: Steinar Dyvik
Utøvere: Rina Rosenqvist, Jonathan Ibsen, Marie Bergby Handeland og Ingeleiv Berstad
Musikk/Lyddesign: Martin Langlie
Ytre øye/sparringspartner: Melanie Fieldseth
Gode hjelpere på lys og scenografi: Ingeborg Olerud, Gunhild Mathea Olaussen
Illustrasjoner: Amalie Vestergaard Olsen
Foto og video: Tale Hendnes
Produsent: Eva Grainger
Produksjonsassistent: Sunniva Fliflet
Produsert av Bananaz - Forening for Scenekunst

Studio showing RODEO - Hannah Parsons at Ravnedans 2026

The Lone cowboy rides in search. Heavy steps in the desert. Rolling tumbleweed. A loop pedal, a guitar, a voice building and bending itself. This is in unfinished, alive, solo version of RODEO. The full scale piece will be for a group of dancers, and has its premiere in June 2027 at Dansens Hus.

Blending concert, performance, and choreographic research, RODEO explores loneliness, mythologies of masculinity, longing, and the endless search for belonging.

📍 @kobbelkunstbyra
📆 16 June
⏱️ TBC
🎟️ TBC

Our Ravnedans team gathered not only to plan,
but to listen.

To the silence between ideas.
To the fire that still burns beneath this festival we carry together.

We took time to breathe, reflect, question and dream.
And somewhere in those long conversations, the future unfolded before us… wild, fearless and full of possibility.

Ravnedans was never meant to stand still.
We are here to dare.
To explore unknown paths.
To create moments that shake us awake and pull us closer together.

Our motivations burn brighter than ever.
For the art.
For the dance.
For the community.
For all of you.

The next chapter is calling… and we are ready to leap. 🖤

The whole team of Ravnedans 🍃

📹: @jean.baptiste27

OSLO QUEER LINE DANCE- Ravnedans & @oslo.queerlinedance at Ravnedans 2026

For the opening of Ravnedans 2026, we invite the entire city to a large-scale Line Dance event at Kunstsilo! Oslo Queer Line Dance has quickly become a vibrant and open dance community in Oslo. Now dancer Hannah Parsons and DJ Inga are finally bringing the concept to Kristiansand! Together they will guide you through the afternoon in a safe and welcoming environment, with simple instructions and rolling beats that will make your dancing feet move. Everyone is welcome, and no previous dance experience is needed.

An inclusive celebration of movement, community, music, and joy, where the dance floor becomes a meeting place for everyone.

📍 @kunstsilo , Kristiansand
📅 16 June 2026
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com
Bring your friends, your curiosity, and your dancing shoes 💫
Oslo Queer Line Dance
Grunnlagt av Inga Potter & Hannah Parsons
Foto Sarah Holte Video
Video: Tale Hendnes

UNDERSANG - @harald.beharie at Ravnedans 2026

Undersang is a queer ecology emerging through devotion, joy, and fiction as forms of resistance and reclamation of time. In encounter with nature, gestures and states are awakened to life; nostalgic, sensual, and primal. Within a mosaic of bodies and landscapes, voices rise forward, while cries and calls summon a hypnotic chorus. Through a collective and unpredictable energy, Undersang opens a terrain of physical and affective vibration in search of fertile ground for healing, grief, and celebration.
A powerful outdoor experience where bodies, sound, and landscape merge into a living ritual of connection and transformation.

📍Baneheia, Kristiansand
📅 June 2026
🎟️ More infos: Ravnedans.com

Video: Josh Lake

Koreografi: Harald Beharie
Skulpturer: Karoline Bakken Lund og Veronica Bruce
Komposisjon, lyd Christian Beharie
Utøvere Loan Ha, Mariama Slåttøy, Carlisle Sienes, Jens Trinidad, Nosizwe Baqwa, Amie Mbye og Harald Beharie
Fasilitator / Dramaturg Deise Nunes Ytre øye Hooman Sharifi
Produsent Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
Turnéprodusent Kristina Melbø Valvik
Distribusjon Damien Valette
Co-produsenter: Black Box Teater(Oslo)Dansens Hus (Oslo) BIT (Bergen) Rosendal Teater (Trondheim) RAS (Sandnes) TOU (Stavanger)

SOUL’O — @livhannehaugen at Ravnedans 2026

Hun løfter opp elementene
Knytter de til hendene sine
Samler styrke
(Enheduanna)

Inspired by the writings of Enheduanna, poet, priestess, and one of the world’s earliest known authors; Soul’Oexplores power, desire, vulnerability, and the human ability to rise again and again.
Through self-composed songs, movement, and an immersive soundscape, Liv Hanne Haugen creates a physical and emotional solo balancing strength and fragility.
A work that resonates through the body as much as through the mind.

📍 @kilden
📅 June 17, 2026
🕖 19:00
After the performance, join the aftertalk with the choreographer
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

Idé, tekst, sang og dans: Liv Hanne Haugen
Komposisjoner, gitar og pedaler (live): Alain Kawczak
Komposisjoner, elektronikk (live): Louisa Palmi
Lys: Anniell Olsen, Øystein Heitmann (første versjon)
Veiledning regi: Mari Vatne Kjeldstadli
Veiledning koreografi og stemme: Silje Solheim Johnsen, Siri Jøntvedt, Anne Katrine
Haugen, Anneli Drecker, Therese Øvstebø Markhus
Veiledning kostyme: Rune Hennum Nilssen
Foto: Tale Hendnes
Produksjon: Liv Hanne Haugen AS
Soul’O er støttet av Kulturrådet,

Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere, Dansens Hus, Davvi - senter for scenekunst

GLITCH CHOIR - @devaschubert at Ravnedans 2026

A “glitch” describes a disturbance in the transmission of digital information, such as a distorted image or a stuttering video. It creates a rupture in the perception of reality. Can grief also be understood as a glitch in that sense?
The performance Glitch Choir translates the moment of digital disturbance into the analog space through voice and body in order to recompose a lament. Historically, public mourning practices were long carried out by so-called “Klageweiber.” These women were commissioned to give emotional expression to the grief of others for the deceased. At the same time, the act of lamentation became a vehicle through which their voices could be heard, that otherwise had little presence in the public sphere.

Presented in collaboration with local participants as part of the festival program in Kristiansand.

📍 @kristiansandkunsthall
📅 June 19, 2026
⏰ 19:30
🎟️ More info: Ravnedans.com

Trailer : Johannes Hölker

Concept, choreography : Deva Schubert
Performance in Collaboration with: Chihiro Araki
Local Choir: (TBC)
Local Choir leader: Maja Marum Andersen
Dramaturgy: Lotta Beckers
Research: Jette Büchsenschütz
Styling: Magdalena Emmerig
Original costume: Ama Tomberli

TRAGEDY - @louis.schou at Ravnedans 2026

Shaped as an immersive performance exhibition, Tragedy is an all-consuming space draped entirely in black, where two miserable fictional characters enact a slow, endlessly looping nightmare. This dreamscape takes the shape of an entrapment, a labyrinth without walls, a site where Western cultural tropes from the baroque until now take shape as disordered compulsions: lap dances, star-crossed lovers, cowboy fantasies, dying swans, court des ballets, still lives, and Hollywood sex. Tragedy is a non-emotional burial ground for an undying history—a form of time in decay.

A dense, surreal, and visually striking experience,inviting you to step inside the loop.

📍 @grac_norway
📅 20 June
⏰ 20:00 - 22:30 (Duratinal performance)
🎟️ More info: ravnedans.com

Trailer: Chris Helberg
Filmed at @podium_oslo

Koreografi, lyd, kostymer: Louis Schou-Hansen
Medskapende utøvere: Thjerza Balaj & Elise Nohr Nystad
Tekstilarbeid: Karoline Bakken Lund
Ytre øye: Alexandra Tveit
Foto: Chai Saeidi
Trailer og dokumentasjon: Chris Helberg
Støttet av: Norsk Kulturråd & Fond for utøvende kunstnere
Co-produsent: PODIUM Oslo

TRACKS by @viktor_frojd at Ravnedans 2026

📍 @kobbelkunstbyra
📅 June 19
🕕 18:00

🎟️ Get your ticket on our website ravnedans.com

📸 : Rebecca Gustavson