Hooman Sharifi, Impure Company
Skal have en titel

This performance doesn’t have a title, but will get one in the end, when you as an audience can invent one according to your experience. The performance pushes your imagination and makes you wonder and explore how you percieve others, what you dream of, and how you experience the world around you.

What happens to our experiences when we watch from a new angle? What difference will it make if we experience something on close hand or from far away? You can test that yourselves during the performance, as you may sit under or next to – and close by or further away. You can swop your seating as we go along. It will play a role in the end, when you get to reflect on what you experienced – and give a name to the performance.

Hoomann Sharifi (NO/IR) has a background as a hiphop dancer. As a choreographer he has created performances for children and grown-ups in places as different as on big stages and in private kitchens. Educated at Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo he established Impure Company (2000) that makes societal engagement and politics visible in the art. 2014 – 2018, Sharifi was artistic director at Carte Blanche dance company in Norway. Ellesiv Vestreim Selseng (DK/NO) is born in Norway and educated as a dancer at Den Danske Scenekunstskole in Denmark. For many years, she has been working as a freelance artist within performance and dance. She is co-founder of the dancers’ collective Fanclub, a work base since 2011. Is studying a MA in History of the Arts at Københavns Universitet. Marie Paldrup aka Marie Gumdrop (DK) is a dancer with her feet deeply planted in hiphop culture, and with a huge love for Freestyle. She is educated in New York, Denmark and Bresil, and can be found at different venues and leading her own projects. Michael Do (DK) is a dancer with many years of experience within the break dance culture. He has numerous shows and workshops in his backpack, and with his dance group Floor Gangz, he has won national and international competitions. Furthermore, he works as a coach for the group Specific Kidz. Emina Mustagrudic (DK) has specialized in hiphop. She is educated in Paris. She has worked her way up to being a name on the Scandinavian underground scene, and has recently entered the commercial scene.

Artist

Hooman Sharifi, Impure Company

Title

Skal have en titel

Age

Grades 0. to 3.

Practical info.

Space: 'Bust a Move' is performed in a gymnastic hall or large space approximately 10 x 13 metres with a clean and plain wooden floor. The space cannot be a passage room, and must be heated to 20/21 degrees.

Numbers: Per performance max. 50 pupils and two adults participating. It must be the same adults throughout the whole session.
There are four dancers visiting you.

Clothing: Please wear clothes that you can move in.

Sound: There must be a functioning set of sound equipment in the space.

Duration: 90 minutes per performance.

Type

For Municipalities, For schools

Credits

Choreographer: Hooman Sharifi, Dancers: Ellesiv Selseng, Emina Mustagrudic, Marie Paldrup and Michael Do, Music: Ali Akbar Moradi and Kayhan Kalhor, Photographer: Søren Meisner.