Photo: Achy Ouafik

Artist in conversation: Ulf Nilseng
in conversation with Anette Therese Pettersen

All festival goers get a 10% discount at Spiregården!

Every day we will facilitate a conversation with an artist at the festival. The conversations take place at the wonderful backyard of Spiregården, and is free and open to anyone!

Organised in collaboration with Scenekunst Sør.

Ulf Nilseng is a distinctive and important voice in the Norwegian dance scene. As a choreographer, performer, and gender anarchist, he has for many years created art that can be characterized as Queer. With ULF, he continues to explore the body, dance, and ideas about freedom.

Anette Therese Pettersen is a theatre, performance and dance researcher and critic in Morgenbladet, Scenekunst.no and Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift. Currently a PhD research fellow at the University of Agder in Norway / Kulturtanken. Co-founder of projects on criticism, such as Performing Criticism Globally,  Critics in Conversation and Dansekritikerrørsla (Dance critic movement).