Oslo Inter­national Dance Festival
919 Oct, 2025
Oslo Inter­national Dance Festival
919 Oct, 2025
11/12 Oct
Performance
Gravity is gone, and we are still falling
The Norwegian Opera & Ballet
Hooman Sharifi (NO/IR)
Deathprod (NO)
Two heavyweight artists from different art forms meet on stage in an intense work about resistance, unrest, and presence.

A lonely body moves in the darkness. The light is almost absent, in a dimly glowing room, where shadows dance more than the body itself. Then sound breaks through. Not as music, but as a low-frequency rumble.

It is the driving, massive, and dark soundscape coexisting with the lonely body at the center; "Gravity is gone and we are still falling" is created through a dialogue between sound and movement that electrifies the space. What strategies are needed to meet, oppose, complement, and dialogue with each other? This is a performance about both confrontation and celebration. A living experiment in how two distinct artistic forces can amplify each other's impact and create something greater than they achieve alone.

"Gravity is gone and we are still falling" thematizes the uncertainty of our time—a worldview characterized by major changes and conflicts, where everything moves quickly. The floor beneath us cracks. The language we once felt sure of is changing, and the values we relied on are beginning to fade. These changes generate fear, and fear can manipulate us. What we thought was impossible is now spoken and done.

When we realize that fear has taken hold of us and we feel how we have been manipulated, what do we do? What choices do we have, and how do we fight back?

For Impure Company, performing arts are a space for dialogue and confrontation in both possible and impossible projects. It is a place for vulnerability and experimentation, for being constantly staged and evaluated, and a space where we meet, lonely yet in community. Sharifi’s movement language is often physically challenging, intense, and powerful, exploring the deeper feelings behind power, political systems, and violence.

Using the body as an expressive tool and Deathprods’ hypnotic sound universe as the only accomplice, Sharifi explores the necessity of expression and how fear can be transformed into presence, action, and new understanding.

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Accessibility
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Induction Loop

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Choreography, dance, and lighting design
Hooman Sharifi
Live music
Deathprod (Helge Sten)
Producer
Rikke Baewert, Morten Kippe
Sound design
Espen Høydalsvik
Light Technician
Ane Reiersen
Produced by
Impure Company
Supported by
Norwegian Arts Council
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