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Digging into my Magnificent Trashbin, I’m searching for my Life (2018)

What is it in your life you talk about, what are you silent about and what is it that you just do not bring any attention to at all? Some of these questions are the starting point of Haugen Productions newest work, I’m Digging into my Magnificent Trashbin, searching for my life, that will be premiered under the Arctic Festival in Harstad (NO), June 2018. The project brings together five experienced performing-artists from different cultures and background, that all are willing to search deep into their own lives to find the stories that have pulled them into the shape of today.

Interaction and performers that are willing to take risks, ensure this to be a performance out of the usual.

Idea and concept: Anne Katrine Haugen

Performers: Gerd Kaisa Vorren, Jenny Maria Svensson, Jordi Cortés, Alexander S. L. Aarø and Anne Katrine Haugen
Installation and light: Lawrence Malstaf
Music: Erik Stifjell
Creative input and artistic assistance: Kristina Junttila
Additional artistic assistance: Jon Tombre, Liv Hanne Haugen

Production: Haugen Production
Production assistance: Dansearena nord

Supported by: Norwegian Cultural Fonds; Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for Lyd og Bilde Tromsø municipality, Fund for performing artists, Tromsø cultural school, Dansearena nord

Premiere: Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norway 23rd. June 2018. Jenny Svensson’s solo was shown during WikiGap in Tromsø 7th of April 2019. Anne Katrine’s solo was shown during Festival Normal, Umeå, Sweden in December 2018 and in Prague 2022 as part of HomeMade. The performance was also shown at Dansefestival Barents, Hammerfest 8th of Nov 2019.
  • “Good performance art should tear down and twist the audience’s perceptions. I certainly think that this performance is capable of doing that. And then, when the applause has ended, the world is slightly changed.”
    Knut Godø, Harstad Tidene