Dancing through grief

The Research Days are underway and until Sunday 29 September, researchers all over the country will present their research to most people. All events are free and open to everyone.

On Sunday 22 September, the Research Trail will be organized at Ullandhaug. Then several of the players in the area will open their doors to show you what they are up to and how they are researching new knowledge within a number of different professional fields. In connection with this event, there will be a dance performance with research fellow in contemporary dance Iselin Brogeland at the university library at 12.30pm and 2pm.

In the research project Dancing Through Grief, Iselin Brogeland invites herself as a performer, sometimes other performers, and the audience to expand emotional awareness of grief by creating and part-taking in the art. By using her body as a medium for communication, she is interested in exploring how the affect may be set in motion and circulate through a dancing body in a psychosocial space, where the artistry is based on a bodily approach that can embrace both the performer(s) and the audience’s life experiences of grieving/losing a loved one.

In this specific practice sharing, she opens up to experience what she calls grief invitations through art. It is a collection of physical and creative invitations that provide space to re-imagine our relationship with grief. You can take part, you can sit and watch, you can stand, jump, draw, swing your arms, write, spin around in a circle, feel your breath, hold, hug, distance yourself, be in the room together.