UPDATE 8 July:
There will be no artist talk today. Feel free to drop by for casual conversations instead. Enjoy the sun and the company!

Amie Mbye. Foto: Rayan Amu

Artist: Amie Mbye
in conversation with Runa Borch Skolseg

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.

Amie Mbye (b. 1993) is a Norwegian-Gambian dance artist and choreographer based in Oslo and works between Oslo, Barcelona and Dakar. She holds a BA from the School of Dance in Oslo, where she graduated in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in dance and choreographic thinking.

Amie is active as a performing and creative dance artist in various artistic contexts and constellations. From 2009-2017, Amie was a permanent employee of the company Tabanka Dance Ensemble and has since been active in the street dance environment and worked as a performer and co-creator of dances for artists such as Ingri Fiksdal (NO), Solveig Holtet (NO), Aida Colmenero Diaz (ES), Sandra Mujinga (NO), Alesandra Seutin (BE), Harald Beharie (NO), Louis Schou Hansen (DK), Ludvig Daae (NO), Inés Belli (NO) and others.

Her artistic practice includes various formats such as performances, dance-gatherings (dance jams, open practices, cyphers etc.), dj-ing, teaching, curating and facilitating workshops and discursive spaces. Amie's artistry is founded on a practice of sharing, on creating belonging and space for different voices in the professional field, for example through the art collective B16 and the dance company SEAA.Company.

Runa Borch Skolseg is a playwright, author and critic. She holds an MA from Oslo National Academy of Arts (KHiO) and runs Dionysian Corporation alongside costume deisgner Fredrik Floen. She has worked for Mette Edvardsen, Verk produksjoner, Ingvild Holm amongst others, and was associated artist at Black Box Theatre as part of the interdisciplinary collective Carrie. She is resident playwright at Dramatikkens Hus in 2022-2023 and publishes the novel Renessansefeminin Horror at Kolon Forlag in autumn 2023.