High north movement

The high North Movement is an ongoing methodology with the aim of getting people in the north, to move more. When you move the body you move the mind and in this way new thoughts and ideas can arise. And if there’s something we need at this point in history it’s that: new ideas, good for everyone, not only for a few … 

After having lived half my life in mid-Europe, I returned to Northern Norway and discovered that my home region had become a point of high interest. The government had launched the so-called high north focus point (Nordområdesatsingen). As a dance artist, I specialize in action and I therefore simply started my own movement: the High North Movement (Nordområde bevegelsen), as a parallel to the governments’. Since then I’ve moved thousands of northerners across the whole arctic, engaged in different projects and settings. 

With the High north movement, choreographer Liv Hanne Haugen has created a powerful piece of political performance art that highlights dilemmas in the northern hemisphere, which in recent years has been exposed to massive investments that ordinary people see nothing of. Our lives go on as before, but a lot is happening on a political level. Can we help to influence this? Created from a grassroots point of view, the show makes a point of seemingly odd politics, celebrating existing movements and sparking new ones.

Credits:

Idea, dance, text and movements: Liv Hanne Haugen

Music: Charo Calvo

Video installation: Arnold Johansen

Artistic advice: Trine Falch

Photo: Nicolas Tourrence, Jamie M. Bivard, A. S. Sveen

Performed at: 

As a regular act under Nordting (A. S. Sveen) between 2014-2021

Dramatikkens Hus/Oslo

Barents Spektakel/Kirkenes

The Fringe Festival/Edinburgh

Arctic Arts festival/Harstad

For the Norwegian governments High North group

Bergen Kommune

Troms Fylkeskommune

Europa bevegelsen 

Part of the research project Art Vapo/UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

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Supported by: 

Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere, Tromsø Kommune, Finnmark Fylkeskommune, the Norwegian Barents Secretariat

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Produced in collaboration with:

Dansearena nord, Dramatikkens Hus and Rådstua Teaterhus