EPICLOGUE

EPICLOGUE presents beginnings, tales, histories and forms new myths. Through the idea of invulnerability, Epiclogue carves out space for the queer body to be strong, visible, and dominant. The performance examines what it requires—or perhaps costs—to take up space that is granted to others. EPICLOGUE challenges restrictive mindsets sorrounding the queer body and responds to what it means to exist as queer in a cis-heteronormative society.

The projects ambition is to render queer bodies visible in ways we ourselves haven't seen before. By rejecting the role of the vulnerable, we fantasize about a speculative reality where familiar norms no longer exist. We search for possibilities in the meeting point between what is and what could have been.

In EPICLOGUE, intimate encounters emerge, where bodies find courage and will through love, care, and trust in one another. We navigate through a universe in which we lay claim to uncharted ground, a physical and emotional landscape where bodies unite and envelop one another in boundless invincibility.

Choreography: Køteren og Terrieren / Jonathan Ibsen og Bjørk-Mynte Paulse

Performers: Jonathan Ibsen & Bjørk-Mynte Paulse

Scenographer, costume-designer and light-designer: Chrisander Brun

Composer: Fredrik Petrov

Dramaturg: Sodja Lotker

Producer: Adam Manthey Steen

International sales: StepTurnMove / Wim Casier

Co-producers: Bærum Kulturhus, DansIT & BIT teatergarasjen

Other collaborators: MARC, Dansens Hus med koreografilaberitoriet, Godsbanen med Åbne Scene, Stamsund Teaterfestival, Illlu-science and Art.

Thanks to: MDT Stockholm

Supported and funded by: The Norwegian Arts Council, The Danish Arts Foundation, Fritt Ord, Oslo kommune, FFUK, Augustinus Fonden, Nordic Culture Fond & PAHN 

Premiere: 17th of january 2025 at Bærum Kulturhus (NO)

Photos by: Tale Hendnes