Link to RSVP: https://nettskjema.no/a/gathergroundinrelation
Ayesha Jordan and Norwegian Theatre Academy invite you to:
Gather (g)Round: In Relation
Date: May 21, 2022
Time: 12pm-8pm (12:00-20:00)
Address: Talbergveien 142, Skjeberg, Norway
Gather (g)Round: In Relation is the second iteration of an ongoing research project facilitated by Ayesha Jordan. Taking place on Talberg Nedre Farm in Skjeberg, Norway, we will spend the day together gardening, eating, walking, talking, conversing, dancing, and paying witness to the past, present and future. With special invited guests and collaborators of varying species we will hold space to imagine a new and cooperative future.
Please include in your RSVP if you will be traveling by car or public transit. There will be a free bus picking up attendees from Østfold University College/Norwegian Theatre Academy (Kråkerøy, Fredrikstad) and Fredrikstad train station.
Gather (g)Round, a multi-iterative project seeking to redefine concepts of community, ecosystems and gathering. A collective experience, Gather (g)Round incorporates twelve permaculture principles within its stages of development – observe and interact; catch and store energy; obtain a yield; apply self-regulation and feedback; use and value renewables; produce no waste; design from patterns to details; integrate don’t segregate; use small slow solutions; use and value diversity; use edges and value the marginal; and creatively use and respond to change – it breaks each of these down into immersive events spread over the course of several days or several weeks. My objective is to see how these principles can be applied to a creative process and explore how we can create regenerative artistic futures.
Link to RSVP: https://nettskjema.no/a/gathergroundinrelation
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During spring 2022, the graduating students from MA in Performance will present their final part of their master research work. NTA’s study plan for the MA in Performance research project is organized as a series of public events happening between fall and spring of the second year of the course, organized in two phases, rather than a single final MA production. This spring we will have five phase 2 performances and one phase 1 performance. They will be presented in different locations around Fredrikstad and Oslo, and you are welcome to experience all works for free. See www.hiof.no/nta for more information.
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Link to RSVP: https://nettskjema.no/a/gathergroundinrelation
Ayesha Jordan and Norwegian Theatre Academy invite you to:
Gather (g)Round: In Relation
Date: May 21, 2022
Time: 12pm-8pm (12:00-20:00)
Address: Talbergveien 142, Skjeberg, Norway
Gather (g)Round: In Relation is the second iteration of an ongoing research project facilitated by Ayesha Jordan. Taking place on Talberg Nedre Farm in Skjeberg, Norway, we will spend the day together gardening, eating, walking, talking, conversing, dancing, and paying witness to the past, present and future. With special invited guests and collaborators of varying species we will hold space to imagine a new and cooperative future.
Please include in your RSVP if you will be traveling by car or public transit. There will be a free bus picking up attendees from Østfold University College/Norwegian Theatre Academy (Kråkerøy, Fredrikstad) and Fredrikstad train station.
Gather (g)Round, a multi-iterative project seeking to redefine concepts of community, ecosystems and gathering. A collective experience, Gather (g)Round incorporates twelve permaculture principles within its stages of development – observe and interact; catch and store energy; obtain a yield; apply self-regulation and feedback; use and value renewables; produce no waste; design from patterns to details; integrate don’t segregate; use small slow solutions; use and value diversity; use edges and value the marginal; and creatively use and respond to change – it breaks each of these down into immersive events spread over the course of several days or several weeks. My objective is to see how these principles can be applied to a creative process and explore how we can create regenerative artistic futures.
Link to RSVP: https://nettskjema.no/a/gathergroundinrelation
www.gatherground.org
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During spring 2022, the graduating students from MA in Performance will present their final part of their master research work. NTA’s study plan for the MA in Performance research project is organized as a series of public events happening between fall and spring of the second year of the course, organized in two phases, rather than a single final MA production. This spring we will have five phase 2 performances and one phase 1 performance. They will be presented in different locations around Fredrikstad and Oslo, and you are welcome to experience all works for free. See www.hiof.no/nta for more information.
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BIOS
Ayesha Jordan
Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator currently based in Oslo, Norway. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy (Spring 2022) Her current research has been based in applied permaculture studies, regenerative community/ecosystem formation and adaptation, event curation, and how these can be explored through performance, or how they can inform performance methodologies.
Her work Shasta Geaux Pop: Blended Therapy, in collaboration with Justin Hicks and David Sainté, was presented as part of The Shed’s Up Close (NYC). She was a commissioned artist for their inaugural Open Call series. Shasta Geaux Pop was presented on The High Line (NYC), at Under the Radar Festival 2018, Right About Now Festival in Amsterdam, NL, and in Orange County, CA for the Off Center Festival at the Segerstrom Arts Center. In 2017 we were also at the La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls (WOW) Festival, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Under the Radar Festival (Jan 2017) and at The Bushwick Starr (Sept 2016).
Some of her acting credits include the Broadway production of Eclipsed at The John Golden Theatre and returned to her role of "The Girl" at The Curran in San Francisco, March 2017. Jordan also performed in both Failure Sandwich and Ludic Proxy, by Aya Ogawa, Home by Geoff Sobelle, Stairway to Stardom and Harold I Hate You, by Cakeface (HERE, Ars Nova & Triskelion), and Platonov: Or the Disinherited by Jay Scheib (The Kitchen). In 2015 she created Come See My Double D's at JACK (NY). She has performed abroad in Amsterdam, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and Japan. Other projects created and developed by Ayesha include Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Inter 1-to-1, and video project Living Room Dance Breaks.
Amalie Sasha Schanke
Sasha is a dancer, artist and student. She has previously studied hip hop at Circle dance academy for 3 years and 1 year at Juste debout school in Paris where she focused on hip hop and popping freestyle.
Today she studies acting at the Nordic Black Theater with a goal of exploring the various artistic aspects of herself.
Sasha is a member of the dance company SEAA.CO and dance group B16 and is active as a freelancer.
Sasha has an interest and competence in African traditions, rituals and spirituality, and is an important factor for her artistic work.
Idil Mohamod
Oslo-based DJ Nefertiti has made the city dance to kwaito, amapiano, kuduro for a decade. Norwegian-Somali Idil took the DJ name Nefertiti in 2009, when she decided to bring Arabic and African genres, such as afrohouse, kwaito, highlife and kizomba, amapiano to Oslo's dance floor. She experienced that the Oslo stage, which was rich in a lot of other music, lacked arenas where African and Arabic music could be danced to. It was very well received and she has since had her own club nights at, among others, The Villa, Internasjonalen, Turkish Delight and Jæger. In recent years, the music she plays has become more common to hear at clubs in Oslo - people know more about it and want to hear more. DJ Nefertiti is quick to point to increased accessibility as the reason for this, but a large part of the credit goes to unique communicators, who spread the message, night after night.
Assata Library
ASSATA er et avkoloniserende og kuratert bibliotek som samler verk fra revolusjonære forfattere fra hele verden. Gjennom studie, fellesskap og dialog skal vi sentrere stemmer som historisk har blitt ekskludert.
ASSATA is a decolonizing and curated library that collects works by revolutionary authors from around the world. Through study, community and dialogue, we will center voices that have historically been excluded. https://assata.no/
Credits:
Ayesha Jordan- Facilitator/Artist
Amalie Sasha Schanke- Dance Artist
Idil Mohamod (DJ Nefertiti)- DJ
Tavonna Nira Strømsenbakken- Guest Speaker
Assata Library Founders - Piniel DeMisse, Neslihan Ramzi, Garima Singh, Sigrid Tviberg
Dag Thalberg- Guest Speaker and Farmer
Soil, Plant People, Tree People, Microbes, Rock People- Creative team
Jelsen Lee Innocent- Husband Extraordinaire
Ariana Ahamba- Contributing Artist
Luanda Carneiro Jacoel- Contributing Artist
Cecilio Orozco Martinez- Costume Design
Tutors- Karmenlara Ely and Nydia Swaby
Special Thanks: I would like to give special thanks to all of those assisting with this research project and the many steps and processes leading up to it. I would first like to thank Karmenlara Ely & Dag Thalberg for allowing me the opportunity to experiment on your farm for the last year and a half and offering your physical labor and material support. I also wish to thank your children for allowing me to take up time you could have been spending with them. I wish to thank my family Jelsen and Malcolm Innocent for supporting me on this long ongoing journey. My mother & father, Joan & Frederick Jordan for instilling a love of nature in me through your actions and ways of being. My sister and niece, Zimeka & Zara Thornton for constantly supporting and inspiring me. All my classmates for indulging me and participating in my experiments, well as all the contributions you made to bring this to life. Lisa Birkenbach for assisting me in constructing the garden. The NTA staff, Sunniva and Monika for the many extra efforts you put in to ensuring our success. Saul for being not only emotional support, but spiritual as well. Ulf & Tim for the technical needs. Anne Berit and Christian for being the operating machines that you are. And to those who offered recommendations, advice or any other kind of support: The Superchicks, Jassem Hindi, Vjolla Emiri, Anne Beate Hovind, Chimaobi Ahamba. If I forgot anyone please know you are included in this list and that it was truly an oversight. Thank you all with immense love and gratitude.