Photo: Tale Hendnes

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Homo ludens is a site-spesific performance that was premiering at Steilene – an island in the Oslo-fjords in 2017, and played also at a boat association at Inderøy as a part of Kortreist Dansefestival 2019.

Homo ludens is an excursion and performance entwined. Homo ludens means the playful human being, and the performance is invented out of the fact that Homo ludens is an endangered species.

The audience is invited to the Ludian empire to become familiar with the species of Homo ludens. Here the audience can frolic themselves in activities that strengthen their Homo-ludensian being, get a boat trip in Ludian waters and take part in a real Ludian dinner party.  Through the stay our intention is that the audience will strengthen the Homo-ludensian in themselves, and that in this way the energy will be spread to humanity.

Review of Homo ludens at Scenekunst.no.
Podcast about ludensk origin with Lasse Passage, Kristine Karåla Øren og Maja Roel.

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Artistic team
Performer, imp and project manager: Maja Roel
Light- and alien (romvesen): Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson
Composer, live musician and hedonist: Lasse Passage
Chat maker, yogi and rabbagast: Kristine Karåla Øren
Coordinator: Ida Gudbrandsen
Grafisk design: Maria Astrup

With support from:
Norsk kulturråd, Fond for lyd og bilde and Nesodden kommune.

Co-production:
Kortreist dansefestival