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STICKY Productions (NO)

November 2023

STICKY Productions (Edginton/Lothe/Olsen/Parsons) is a collective of Queer, female, dance artists based in Norway. Their practice delves into the bodily and the sensitive, the playful and the peculiar. The Current work “OOZE” is an immersive dance performance for adult audiences into the peculiar world of invertebrates, specifically slugs. Using slugs as a metaphor for queerness, this slimy work explores sexuality and gender variance, dissecting the sticky in-betweens of binary categories. Beginning in the habitat of the slug, STICKY Productions follows its slippery journey, learning about its anatomy, sensory experience, courtship reproductive rituals and ecosystem significance.

STICKY Productions was selected as the artist group from Estonia for the Moving Identities residency programme 2023-2024.

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Olivia Edginton

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Olivia is a dancer, performer and choreographer based in Oslo. From 2017-22 she was a member of Candoco Dance Company and danced works by Jeanine Durning, Yasmeen Godder, Trisha Brown Company, Jerome Bel, Eun Me Ahn and Jo Bannon. Her work has taken her to independent and institutional stages internationally, most recently in Switzerland in 2022 with "River Being". Trained at Laban (BA 2012-15, MA 2015/16), she is dedicated to the practice of the dance body on stage and the exploration of performative experiences.

Ingvild Marstein Olsen

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Ingvild Marstein Olsen is a Norwegian dance artist based in Oslo, active in Norway and on the European dance scene. She works collaboratively between different cultural fields as a performer and choreographer. In 2022, she created the interdisciplinary work "River Being", which is currently touring throughout Europe. In 2019, she worked at Panta Rei Danseteater as a dancer, choreographer and coordinator. She has also performed in works by Katrine Kirsebom, Rahel Vonmoos, Alison Curtis-Jones and Deborah Lennie, among others - in galleries, in public spaces and on stage. Ingvild studied contemporary dance (BA) and dance performance (MA, Transitions Dance Company) at Laban.

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Maria Lothe

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Maria Lothe is a dance artist and activist based in Oslo. She works in various group constellations as a performer and as a choreographer in her own and collective projects. She is interested in the combination of movement, voice and object work, site-specific formats and processes in nature and culture. She has performed in Norway and the UK, most recently with the Body Cartography Project in "Resisting Extinction", with Karstein Solli in "Stemmer Overens" and with Kalfoss/Mikalsen in the community project "Lonely Riders". Maria studied choreography and improvisation at the Skolen for Samtidsdans in Oslo (2012) and contemporary dance at Trinity Laban in London (BA 2015). In 2023-24 she received the Norwegian government's working grant for young artists.

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Hannah Parsons

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Hannah Parsons is a queer dance artist, choreographer and performer based in London and Oslo, working across Europe. Her artistic interests lie in the interplay of voice, sound and movement. With the collective Unbaptised Infants (UK/ES), she recently created "RITUAL", which was performed in Spain and the Basque Country. Hannah is currently working as a performer with Simone Mousset in "Empire of a Faun Imaginary" (LUX/FR/UK) and with Elinor Lewis in "TIMBER". She has previously collaborated with Marina Abramović, Martin Creed, Joe Garbett and Seke Chimutengwende and has performed at institutions such as the Tate, Hayward Gallery, Serpentine, La Casa Encendida and Artium as well as theatres such as Sadler's Wells, Les Hivernales and Dansens Hus. Hannah studied Contemporary Dance (BA) at Laban and graduated in 2014.

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Host Artist Alba T Álvarez

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The artist and performing arts producer Alba T Álvarez accompanied the STICKY Productions residency as a host artist. She supported the residency process by providing feedback as an Outside Eye (people who are invited into the rehearsal process of projects and give feedback from an outside perspective without being actively involved as an artist) and connected the artists with the local scene in Dresden.