Led by Monica Emilie Herstad, the Norwegian dance group herStay will be presented at Brown University, Rhode Island on March 31. In December, 2003, Monica Emilie Herstad had a solo performance called INvisible planet in New York.
herStay is a Norwegian dance performance unit, which through critics is described as representing a new direction within performance language.
herStay is the distinguished and productive performance unit that are defined to belong within the genre where the art gallery and the event is of just as great importance as the theater or dance stage itself.
herStay performances are of an ambient kind. It uses dance, meditation, text fragments, art videos, and DJ´s live performed electronica music, as equal dramaturgic elements. herStay artistic message consists of director Monica Emilie Herstad’s intelligent, personal, subtle comments on the societies that surround us.
There will be a lecture on Monica Emilie Herstad´s choreographies.
Round table, panel discussing: Troubling Dance
When: March 31
Where: Brown University, at the PSi 2005 international conference "Becoming Uncomfortable."
Info: Send an e-mail to info@herstay.net. Please visit the links to the right for further information.