Many events have good talks, artists and entertainment, but each on its own. I help you see the event as a whole, so that art, theme and goal become one experience. That is where art, business and society meet.
You still have a mover on stage. The difference is that the whole day hangs together around what you want to achieve.
We find out what the participants should leave with.
Everyone on stage moves the room in the same direction.
What the day started gets to continue.
Sparring and coaching before you host or speak. We work on presence, transitions and how you take the room, so the whole programme carries the same energy.
Entertainment often becomes an interruption. With a little direction it can carry the message further. I help you connect the artists to what the day is about.
As a short piece, an interactive session or a full production.
Each production is built on Game of the Gap exercises, and trains a human quality with the audience as fellow players. The rules of play are the same for professionals and first-timers, so the same production can be scaled to the engagement.
Movement and sound together. The fastest way to a sense of community, with the room as the choir and the body as the conductor. With one musician, an ensemble or a full orchestra.
Dancing in sync with others increases bonding and raises the pain threshold. Singing together builds closeness faster in new groups.Tarr et al., Oxford, 2016 · Pearce et al., 2015
Each participant finds their own movement. Together they become one choreography, stronger because everyone is different.
New hires who got to show what was unique about them stayed longer in the job.Cable, Gino and Staats, 2013
On contact and presence. How close is close enough, and what happens when we truly see each other?
Eye contact activates the brain's social areas more strongly than looking at a picture of a face.Hirsch et al., Yale, 2017
Communication that lands. Words become movement, and movement gives the words power.
When communication succeeds, the listener's brain activity couples with the speaker's.Stephens, Silbert and Hasson, Princeton, 2010
Poems by imprisoned writers performed live, while the drink that carries their story is made on stage. The audience can taste the story afterwards.
Made with Norwegian PEN, which works for freedom of expression and persecuted writers.
Intuition and collective intelligence. Sensing what the group needs before anyone has said it.
A group's collective intelligence is linked more to the ability to read each other than to the intelligence of its members.Woolley et al., Science, 2010
Strategy in motion. How a leadership team quickly gathers around what matters most.
Groups where everyone gets equal speaking time solve tasks better together.Woolley et al., Science, 2010
Larger artistic productions, for cultural venues, anniversaries and events that want to make a mark.
I trained the musicians to meet the room, and stood on stage myself as dancer and host. Around 1,000 people per concert, staged four times since 2015.
A symphonic concert performance on tour in southern Norway while the Kilden concert hall was being built. Around 35,000 people experienced it.
With musician Tiina Granum and composer Christian Afreth Eriksen. How much of themselves does a person give up to be part of something?
The children are invited in as individuals into a large community, where they are taken seriously, get to be themselves and experience with their whole being.The Cultural Schoolbag Oslo, on The Philharmonic Moves 2024
I invite artists, actors, musicians and dancers in as an integral part of the performance. It is still my work and my direction, but it grows when more voices take part.
For specific engagements I choose movers from the ensemble. When the format calls for it, participants who have rehearsed hard can also stand on stage.
For artistsJoin the ensembleWhen the day is over, you choose what to keep working on.
