SAY SOMETHING premiered in 2011 as a performance for adults in collaboration with four professional dancers. In 2014, we adapted the performance into a work for children and families performed by a children’s choir. With Kipinät-choir, H2DANCE presents a version with a mixed choir of women and children, a 30-minute song and movement piece inspired by Janet Cardiff’s installation, The Forty-Part Motet.

The piece explores group behaviour, conformity, and freedom of expression and was developed in collaboration with composer Sylvia Hallett.

PERFORMERS: Valoisa-choir

CONCEPT, DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Hanna Gillgren ja Heidi Rustgaard

COMPOSITION AND MUSICAL DIRECTION: Sylvia Hallett
MUSICAL DIRECTION IN JYVÄSKYLÄ: Kaisa Halmemies

FUNDED BY: Arts Council England, Norwegian Arts Council, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Swedish Arts Council, SPENN, Kunstløftet, DanceDigital, Buskerud Fylkeskommune, Säffle Kommun, Dans i Värmland og Arts and Grants Kensington and Chelsea.

SAY SOMETHING WAS DEVELOPED IN RESIDENCE AT Choreodrome ja Something Happening for Kids/The Place London, Hextable Dance, Laban Theatre, London Studio Centre ja Goldsmiths University of London Iso-Britanniassa. SEANSE Volda, Scenerommet Vestfossen, Union Scene Drammen Norjassa, Medborgarhuset Säffle Ruotsissa ja Devir CAPA Faro Portugalissa.

PHOTOS BY: Det Norske Jentekor