NEUES STÜCK II PREMIERS!

Alan and winter guests company members premier Neues Stück II with the renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch! After a week-run at the Opera House Wuppertal, Neues Stück II will begin its European tour at the Oslo Opera House where Alan and winter guests are Artists-in-Residence. 

Check out the press below! 

New York Times 

TANZweb

Westdeutsche Zeitung

Neues Stück II // Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch // Opera House Wuppertal // Wuppertal, Germany

June 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th

Neues Stück II // Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch // Oslo Opera House // Oslo, Norway

June 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th

The Hamlet Complex Begins!

winter guests just finished a day at the Oslo Opera House working with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra conducted by Matt Dunkley. Featuring new music written by Henrik Skra, this kicked off the preparation for their new production The Hamlet Complex premiering Sept 14th at the Oslo Opera House.

The Hamley Complex // Oslo Opera House, Oslo, NO

Sept 14th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 26th, 28th, 29th and October 1st

winter guests with ESC Youth Company

winter guests company members have begun the process of creating their co-production with ESC Ungdomskompani. This will be presented as part of Oktoberdans, the International Dance Festival in Bergen. We couldn’t be more impressed and honored to be working with such a talented group of young women!

Simulacrum in Japan!

winter guests just wrapped up a truly amazing week in Shizuoka Japan! 

We were deeply honored to bring Simulacrum back to its roots of inspiration and be able to be a part of the World Theater Festival Shizuoka 2018 at the breathtaking Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC), where just steps outside you are met with views of Mount Fuji! 

With packed audiences, including The Art Council of Japan, we were in awe of the generosity and hospitality of the SPAC and its director Mr. Satoshi Miyagi.

TIMELAPSE, REMOUNTED WITH ALAN PERFORMING, MARCH & APRIL.

Timelapse opened on October 25th, 2015 at the Oslo Opera House celebrating the passing of the “future date” from the 1985 film Back to the Future. A poetic piece examining the concept of time, looks both to the past and the future of dance, braiding together movement with text in a spectacular set-design by long time winter guests set-designer Åsmund Færavaag.

After a welcomed reception to standing ovations in 2015, we are thrilled to bring back this piece to the main stage of The Norwegian Opera and Ballet. In this years remount premiering March 15^th Alan will join this stellar group of dancers and perform the speaking role!

Timelapse // The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, Oslo, NO
March 15th, 17th, 21st, 23rd, April 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 12th

Call for Actors/Dancers!!!!

Alan Lucien Øyen and winter guests will be at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada from July 2nd - July 28th developing our next show, The Hamlet Complex.
They are looking for 3 actors and 12 dancers to take part in this month long residency located at this stunning campus for the arts in the Rocky Mountains. Selected participants have all costs of the program covered including meals and accommodation.

For more information and to apply: www.banffcentre.ca

Théâtre National de Chaillot presents another two works by Alan Lucien Øyen / winter guests!

After a very successful run of Simulacrum, Théâtre National de Chaillot now brings both And... Carolyn, and KODAK (Göteborgsoperan) to their beautiful venue this January.

Théâtre National de Chaillot, one of France’s five national theaters, and the first to focus on dance is one of the most prestigious and historically important venues in Paris.

16th January, 2018: And... Carolyn, (Norwegian National Ballet) based on sound excepts from Sam Mendes’ film American Beauty is presented as part of a curated Nordic event dedicated to dance and cinema. Two dancers from the Norwegian National Ballet opens the festival.

25th, 26th, 27th January 2018: KODAK (Göteborgsoperan), performed by ten dancers from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, a cinematic piece enveloped in mist through which the icons of American pop culture emerge.

Jingle Horse! – A Christmas Special returns to The Oslo Opera House!

“I can promise a Christmas performance in the best sense of the word, not only a festive atmosphere but also dignified, not only playful but with lots of melancholy.” – Øyen

In 2015 Jingle Horse! was winter guests’ first direct collaboration with The Norwegian Opera & Ballet.

What happens when a bunch of world-weary actors (all with a rather complicated relationship to the festive season) are asked to create a Christmas show in collaboration with a handful of overworked dancers from the Norwegian National Ballet?

In the ensuing chaos, dancers talk until they’re blue in the face, actors dance like their lives depended on it and (despite a marked lack of talent) everyone sings for Jesus… but hey, it’s Christmas!!!

6 Dec- 14 Dec 2017   More info / tickets.

 "The ensemble acting of winter guests is so strong it would carry any kind of text you could imagine.” DAGSAVISEN, (NO)

Sinnerman returns to the London Colisuem!

"Daniel Proietto danced like a demon in the spiralling exhuberance of Sinnerman (music Nina Simone) with choreography by Alan Lucien Øyen and a costume so sparkly it could have been a light show.'"- Debra Craine, The Times

As part of Men in Motion Daniel Proietto will perform “…Sinnerman, aferociously demanding solo by Alan Lucien Øyen” (Clement Crisp, Financial Times). Men in Motion pays homage to the great dancers and choreographers of the past and showcases some of the most exciting artists at work today.

22 Nov- 23 Nov 2017 www.londoncoliseum.org/men-in-motion

“So what would cause the 2014 public to gasp in surprise? Daniel Proietto’s glittering body stocking, that’s what. The shocked intake of breath was audible when he walked on stage, and an atmosphere of high anticipation crackled through London’s Coliseum.”- Steward Who, gaystarnews

Théâtre National de Chaillot, will present three works by Alan Lucien Øyen / winter guests in their 2017/2018 season!

Théâtre National de Chaillot, one of France’s five national theaters, and the first to focus on dance is one of the most prestigious and historically important venues in Paris.  Alan Lucien Øyen  / winter guests is thrilled to present three of their most acclaimed pieces in one season:

7th, 8th November, 2017: Simulacrum, a meeting of Flamenco and Kabuki across cultures and ages. 

16th January, 2018: …and Carolyn, based on sound excepts from Sam Mendes’ film American Beauty is presented as part of a curated Nordic event dedicated to dance and cinema.

25th, 26th, 27th January 2018: KODAK (Göteborgsoperan), performed by ten dancers from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, a cinematic piece enveloped in mist through which the icons of American pop culture emerge.

Alan with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch!

Alan will be one of the first two artists to create a new full-length piece for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. 

The work will première in Wuppertal on June 2nd 2018 as part of Adolphe Binder's first season as Artistic Director.

"It's an absolute privilege to be allowed to create together with the inspirational artists that are the legacy of Pina Bausch. I'm entirely humbled by this incredible honor."

- Alan Lucien Øyen

Opening the Bergen International Festival!

For the second year running winter guests was responsible for the Opening Ceremony of the Bergen International festival. This years event was written and hosted by Andrew Wale together with Suzie Davies, and directed by Alan Øyen.

The event was very well received and particular credit was given to the conceptual choice of using last years criticism towards the festival as satire during this years Opening ceremony. The Bergen Newspapers called it "a turnaround with surgical precision".

Simulacrum in Texas!

Simulacrum is opening this years edition of the
CounterCurrent festival in Houston, TX! 

Shows run April 18 - 20th at The Mitchell Center for the Arts.

Heres a peak at the trailer: https://youtu.be/OtyJWIkJF6k
#CounterCurrent17 #futureperfectproductions.

New York Theatre Workshop!

In August 2016 Alan Lucien Øyen and Andrew Wale will spend a week at New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency to continue working on AMERICA - Ep. 2 Psychopatriot.

Award-winning New York Theatre Workshop is both a laboratory for theatrical exploration and producer of plays that expand the boundaries of theatrical form and address the critical issues of our times.

New York Theatre Workshop

Residency at The Clarice

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland has invited winter guests /Alan Lucien Øyen for a month-long creation residency during summer 2016 to complete ”Simulacrum”.

The Clarice has provided winter guests with excellent premises, and a great opportunity to produce and show new work in the States, and to make new contacts in the field.

The Clarice

The Watermill Center

Winter guests / Alan Lucien Øyen has been selected to participate at a one-month residency program summer 2016 at Robert Wilson´s Watermill Center to work on the new text for the upcoming theatre work AMERICA –Ep. 2 -Psychopatriot. As a part of their residency at Watermill, Alan Lucien Øyen and Andrew Wale will present a staged reading of AMERICA Ep.2 – Psychopatriot.

The Watermill Centre

New York Networking

We're excited to be back in NYC and be part of Satellite Meeting organised by the Performing Arts Hub Norway and FuturePerfect. The 5-days delegate meeting is from January 11 till 17, involving meetings, tour of venues, workshops and performances.

We will be talking with U.S partners specifically about our upcoming project Simulacrum.

Nick Knight films Sinnerman!

We are extremely honoured and proud that Legendary fashion photographer Nick Knight wanted to make a fashion film out of Sinnerman.

Knight first saw Sinnerman when it was presented Ivan Putrov’s Gala "Men in Motion" the London Coliseum last year.

Nick wanted to create the film as a celebration of the majesty of the male dancer - a sublime example of the possibilities of the body and the impact of the moving image.

Check out SHOWstudio.com to see the film

Holiday Special at the Opera House!

Our Holiday Special Jingle Horse! - A Christmas Special Received great review after a successfull run and full houses at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet!

Seasongs Greetings

and

Happpy Holidays!

Hedda Nominations for Big Fish!

COELACANT earned  Andrew Wale and Alan Lucien Øyen a Hedda Award for best play script 2014!

The Hedda Award is the most distinguised award for theatre in Norway, and our five and a half hour long epic also earned us nominations in the categories Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Play! We are extatic and proud.

Success at the London Coliseum!

Some excerpts from some of our rave reviews after the premiere of our last work "Sinnerman" at London Coliseum:

Roars for Proietto, camouflaged in sequins, glittering in the dark like the world’s population of fireflies, and roaring tremendously through Sinnerman, a ferociously demanding solo by Alan Lucien Øyen.

Clement Crisp, Financial Times

more reviews: London Dance, Harpers Bazar, London Evening Standard

Big Story - Big Fish...

Presented over 5 and a half hours, with 12 musicians on stage and a strong international cast of dancers and actors, COELACANTH, is our biggest and most ambitious project ever.

Offering moving performances, exquisite dance, live music and a visually stunning set design, the play is a wild and humorous, but also unique, insight into the life behind the scenes of the theater.

Performing at at the New Norwegian Opera House in Oslo,

October 2013.

BASE FUNDING for winter guests!

On March 27, 2012 winter guests received base funding from the Norwegian Arts Council.

As of 2012 the company will receive annual funding aimed towards developing winter guests as a production platform for the creation of innovate and exciting performances. This means not only a strong increase in annual funding, but enables us to fly by the seat of our pants, as the funds are not earmarked specific projects.

We feel proud and humbled with these news. And very, very excited!

Link to the Norwegian Arts Council.

Bird in Magic Rain With Tears at The Kennedy Centre

Bird in Magic Rain with Tears is invited to perfor at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC as part of their Nordic Cool Program.

in the press:

The play is braided together in a montage of acting and live video - a mix reminiscent of Robert Le Pages works, but here in an unmistakable 2011-version with you-tube as a best friend. […] Would Ibsen have been writing like this today? - Informationen, (DK)