All Tomorrow’s Parties

All Tomorrow’s Parties is a dance performance that explores how HIV and AIDS affected Norwegian dance in the 1980s and 1990s. Several Norwegian dancers were infected with the virus, lived with HIV, and died of AIDS. But who were they? How did they dance? And most importantly—what would they have danced if they had not been lost?

With All Tomorrow’s Parties, the artists behind the project aim to map the void these dancers left behind and fill it by staging dances that never took place. All Tomorrow’s Parties is a fictional enactment of dances that were never danced.

The performance is followed by a post-show discussion with Matthias Danbolt (Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen), Ingvil Førland Hellstrand (Professor of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Stavanger), and the artists involved in the project. Light refreshments will be provided for free during the discussion.

This performance of All Tomorrow’s Parties marks the conclusion of Brynjar Åbel Bandlien’s three-year research project titled All Tomorrow’s Parties: Post-pandemic Dancing, supported by HK-Dir’s program for artistic research and development.

Production Team:
• Concept: Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
• Dance: Lars Jacob Holm and Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
• Script: Dag Johan Haugerud
• Scenography, Costume, and Lighting Design: Corentin JPM Leven
• Music: Borusiade, Leonard Bernstein, Marvin Hamlisch, and The Velvet Underground
• Photography: Helene Levand
• Event Curator: Sofie B. Ringstad
• Publication Design: Jonas Ersland
• Poster Design: Kjetil Brandsdal

Informants:
Dag Johan Haugerud, Simen Sand, Morten Rudå, Geir Morstad, Randi Urdal, Lars Jacob Holm, and Arne Fagerholt
Theoretical Framework:
Ingvil Førland Hellstrand and Henriette Thune
Acknowledgments:
Special thanks to RIMI/IMIR Scenekunst, Danseinformasjonen, Skeivt Arkiv, Stavanger Municipality, Rogaland County Municipality, University of Stavanger, and FRI Rogaland/Rogaland på Skeivå.
A special thank you to Ola Henning Bergseng.

Duration:
1 hour and 30 minutes performance 1 hour talk

Promoter:
UiS – Fakultet for utøvende kunstfag