Kick off in LA
Photo by Julian Hibbard, New Jersey Turnpike, Sep 2011
Fiskum has started the process working with the new project “Triptych 0811″. Kicking off in LA in the end of February 2012, with music sessions by composer Ali Helnwein, which will be featuring legendary guitarist Ronni le Tekrø. Fiskum is researching dance movements and targeting walking down the red carpet at the Oscars -the 84th Academy Awards, as a point of investigation on the theme: dream- reality and ambition!
RESIDENCE AT EMPAC, New York
“Triptych 0811″, has received an invitation for a residence et EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. The residence will conclude the new production and is scheduled between the 4th and 18th of September 2012. EMPAC was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.” It offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof.
TRIPTYCH 0811
The new project “Triptych 0811″ has been funded by Arts Council Norway, and is scheduled to start in 2012. Participants include Magnus Myhr, Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson, Ella Christina Fiskum, Ali Helnwein, Pia Elton, Kay Grigar, among others.
Munch at Hjertefred
A short extract from the performance “Av Hjerteblod- With lyrics by Edvard Munch” will be performed outdoor at the beneficial Hjertefred in Sandvika on Sunday the 6th og November (Allehelgensdag). The Performance start at ca 18:00.
New York and Los Angeles -Traveling grant
Fiskum has gratefully received a traveling grant from Fund for Performing Artists. She will go to New York and Los Angeles in September 2011, to further her knowledge in dance, movement and art.
She will be initiating the new project “TRIPTYCH 0811″, a.o. with a photo shoot by
Julian Hibbard. Further she will work towards the site specific performance-installation
“In Heaven In Hell: High Line” planned in New York City in 2012.
National Day of Mourning
It is with regret that we have to cancel the performance “Fishing for Love –live edition” on Sunday the 21st of August at Drammen River Festival, due to decisions made by the Parliament and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who announced this day as The National Day of Mourning – for the tragic incidents in Oslo and Utøya, Norway.
Fishing for Love- live edition
“Fishing for Love” in Harstad, 18th of June 2011. Photo: Øivind Arvola
The performance at Festspillende in Nord-Norge got covered by NRK (Norwegian Broad Casting) Dagsrevyen 18 of June 2011.See the clip from NRK
Next performances are in Tønsberg at Vestfold Festspillende 25 of June, and at Risør Kammermusikkfest the 29th of June. These performances “Fishing for Love – live edition” is featuring the musicians Kammerkameleonene (Kari Rønnekleiv and and Ole Henrik Moe), and Georg Buljo playing live together with composer Leon Muraglia.
The project is supported by Fond for Performing Artists and Arts Council Norway. Is is sponsored by Tommy Sharif and Univern.
Fishing for love summer 2011
The collaboration project “Fishing For Love” with XPROARTS will open the festival Festspillende in Nord-Norge tour on 18th of June in Harstad, Norway, then tour to Vestfold Festpillende on the 25th of June, and Risør Kammermusikkfest on the 29th of June. Summer of 2011. In Vestfold Festpillende we will premiere ”Fishing for Love” – live version with the string quintet Kammerkameleonene who will be playing live. The performance is funded by Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere, and the rehearsal space is sponsored by Tommy Sharif.
exhibition in New York City
Ella Fiskum Danz at Dillon Gallery, NYC, from the Murder in Dreamland series in collaboration with photographer Anwar Saab. Photo: Christian Ostensen. Artworks on right side: Asami Yoshiga
The solo piece entitled “In Heaven in Hell” will be presented on December 1st at the Dillon Gallery in New York City. The event also features Fiskum’s first solo exhibition of photo images from her concept collective collage projects (Murder in Dreamland), taken by Anwar Saab in collaboration with a.o. Catharina Vehre Gresslien, Laura Christina Brøvig Vallenes, and Elisabeth Nøkland Johansen.
In Heaven in Hell to New York
The piece entitled “In Heaven in Hell” is part three of a solo triptych performance. An excerpt of the work will be shown at the Dillon Gallery in New York City on December 1st, 2010. The solo builds on the existential themes of its predecessors: “Seduced by Unreality” and “Untitled Star”, which play on the borderline between dream and reality, and the power of the created (media) image versus the real person. Part three explores the shortcuts between exhilarated happiness and total despair as the result of a choice: out of respect for one’s self; following tradition; or in reaction to a desperate situation.
Generously supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York City, and Arts Council Norway.
Akerselva before – now -onward
Performance in connection with a conference with the Norwegian Minister of Culture Anniken Hvitfelt about the future of a new planned center at Akerselva (the main river of Oslo City) that will provide labor and industrial history, culture, contemporary art and new research.
Monday 15th of November 2010, at 11:30 PM.
Site –specific solo performance by the river at Mølla (Hønse Lovisa), Oslo, Norway.
Door to Peace
Ella Christina Fiskum and Sudesh Adhana have been commissioned to make the opening for the Peace Concert FRED and SHANTI on 2nd of Oct 2010, in Eidskog at Børrud Fabric, Skotterud. The event is marking the birthday of Gandhi, and will be in the presence of the grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, the celebrated writer Sumitra Kulkarni Gandhi.
Dre at Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Bjørvika, and Tolosa Spain.
Sudesh Adhana from DRE at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi, India, Jan 2010. Photo by Vipul Sangoi.
Ella Christina Fiskum is the producer for Damini House of Cultures production of DRE, by choreographer Sudesh Adhana in collaboration with Aditi Mangaldas and Dadi Pudumjee. The production had a preview show in New Delhi in Jan 2010, and is going to have a residency and preview show in at Topic International Puppet Center in Tolosa, Spain, in Sep-Oct 2010. DRE will be premiered at The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Bjørvika 12th and 13th of Oct 2010.
In Heaven in Hell
Norwegian Arts Council has granted support to developing the project “In Heaven in Hell” (working title ) which will be the third solo by Ella Fiskum Danz. The rehearsals will start in New York in November in 2010. The solo is scheduled in 2011.
Fishing for Love
Picture above: Sudesh Adhana in tissue. Ella Christina Fiskum on the net, photo by Guro Løseth.
“Fishing for Love” -a dance and sound installation on the fjord, is a new collaboration project between Ella Fiskum Danz and XPROARTS. It will be performed as part of the Sound of Oslo Festival in connection with Euro Vision Song Contest 2010. Date: 22nd of May at 15:00, and 16:00. 23rd of May at 15:00, and 16:00. Place: Tjuvholmen, Bryggegangen 2-6. (Vis á vis Bølgen og Moi), Oslo, Norway. The performance is 30 minutes long and is performed outside. Read more under projects: Fishing for Love.
The Muse
Picture from the press conference: Liv Ullmann, Erik Schøyen, Ella C Fiskum, and Gry Molvær.
Fiskum is to perform the Solo “The Muse” for the Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Galla performance at Olavshallen in Trondheim on 13th of March 2010. Artists in the event include Liv Ullmann, Arve Tellefsen, Håkon Bleken, Mari Boine and more.
Møte i verdensrommet
Picture from the video by Fiskum in collaboration with Bødtker
New project initiated by harpist Ellen Sejersted Bødtker, in connection with the Munch anniversary in 2013. Fiskum will be responsible for the choreography, dance and video. Other participants include composer Ole Henrik Moe, and Lars Lillo Stenberg.