Bananaz -Forening for Scenekunst
Bananaz - Association for Performing Arts brings together various performing artists and their practices. The association emphasizes collective working methods and sees artistic expression in the performing arts as a result of collective and contextual processes. Developing unique production models for each project lies at the heart of the association, as well as promoting the qualities that arise in encounters with the places and people where each project unfolds.
Bananaz - Association for Performing Arts was established in 2019 and is currently run by choreographers/performers Kristin Helgebostad and Ingeleiv Berstad. The association has facilitated projects initiated by artists Marie Bergby Handeland, Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Helgebostad, Pernille Holden, Signe Becker, Eivind Seljeseth, Chrisander Brun, Laura Marie Rueslåtten and Tormod Carlsen. Ida Wigdel and Daniel Mariblanca have initiated two of our upcoming projects.
These performances have been presented in a wide range of different locations and venues. FAR OUT AND DEEP WITHIN was performed in a former barn in the Bøler neighborhood of Oslo; KNØ in an abandoned art gallery, GALAKSEHOPEN and REVENGE OF THE LAWN in theatre spaces, STINN BRAKKE in a former shop in the Grønland neighbourhood of Oslo, KVAD-RA-TUREN in a busy city centre, and GANGAR FRA SVARTDALEN in a nature park. In addition to the performances, Bananaz has developed and run an art space in Oslo (in the form of a bookshop, gallery, open studio and office) as well as taken part in the production of the book AV HISTORISK GRUNN.
Read about all of these projects and more under work.
Illustrations on the website are by Erlend Samnøen
Ingeleiv Berstad
Choreographer, performer and general manager of Bananaz - Forening for Scenekunst.
Ingeleiv Berstad is a choreographer and perfomer, working in an interaction between the theater space and projects that engage in other contexts or landscapes. Her work proposes new ways of sensing, being and connectiong. Long term collaborators are Kristin Helgebostad, Pernille Holden, Ida Wigdel, Chrisander Brun, Signe Becker, Marie Bergby Handeland and Eivind Seljeseth.
She holds an MA in choreography and a BA in contemporary dance from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Kristin Helgebostad
Choreographer, performer and general manager of Bananaz - Forening for Scenekunst.
Kristin Ryg Helgebostad welcomes a wide range of different performative and choreographic strategies into her practice, and works in several collaborations both as a performer and a choreographer. Long term collaborators include Ingeleiv Berstad, Laura Marie Rueslåtten, Eivind Seljeseth, Chrisander Brun, Ida Wigdel and Irene Theisen.
She holds an MA in choreography and a BA in contemporary dance from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Eva Grainger
Producer for Bananz - Forening for Scenekunst.
Eva Grainger holds a BA in contemporary dance from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and Economics and Cultural management from Oslo MET. She has been working as performing artist with several norwegian choreographers, in addition to teaching Flying Low and Passing Through. She has been working as a producer for a wide range of choreographers and companies in Norway since 2015. She is currently also working for the norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal.
Associated artists
Alma Bø
Melanie Fieldseth
Kristin Skiftun
Ingeborg Olerud
Rina Rosenqvist
Mathias Stoltenberg
Jens Jeffry Trinidad
Stine Janvin
Irene Theisen
Gunnhild Olaussen
Irene Theisen
Sunniva Fliflet
Heidi Dalene
Tormod Carlsen
Arturo Tovar
Terje Tjøme Mossige
Aina Villanger
Siri Katinka Valdez
Ifrah Osman
Julie Moviken
Sebastian Biong
Steinar Dyvik
Laura Marie Rueslåtten
Fredrik Høstaker
Emil Hortmann
Tibor Teskeredzic
Martin Langlie
Lisa Lie
Tora Troe
Erlend Samnøen
Amalie Vestergaard Olsen
Thale Kvam Olsen
Charlott Utzig
Marianne Kjærsund
Sigrid Kopperdal
Berglind Rafnsdottir
Elisabeth Nilsson
Terje Wessel Øverland
Anette Therese Pettersen
Ida Gudbrandsen
Norunn Standahl
Fridtjof Helle Brevig