Japan Times has chosen Simulacrum as one of their top five best new productions in 2018!
Simulacrum is described as “a gem of aesthetic staging”, with Shoji Kojima and Daniel Proietto “contrasting and complementing each other exquisitely”!
We are so proud and honored of this recognition. Bringing Simulacrum “home” to Japan was an important moment and certainly one of the highlights of 2018.
Jingle Horse! - A Christmas Special is back for its third year at the Oslo Opera House! winter guests teams up with dancers from the Norwegian National Ballet to bring you an evening of all the joys and tribulations of Christmas - a perfect way to kick off the holiday season playing December 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th!
Dream on, baby - winter guests production with ESC ungdomskompani premieres this Saturday, October 20th, 2018 at 7:30pm at Røkeriet USF as part of BIT Oktoberdans!
Exploring the fine line between childhood and adulthood...between dreams and reality - Don't miss seeing these amazing talented young women!
Alan and winter guests company members have been hitting the ground running preparing for the September 14th premier of The Hamlet Complex at the main stage of Oslo Opera House. Five winter guests actors join the dancers of the Norwegian National Ballet along with members of the Children's Choir and the Ballet School on Åsmund Færavaag's spectacular set to tackle the themes of Shakespeare's most produced play. Complete with new music written by Henrik Skram and performed by the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, this epic piece gives fresh perspective to a legendary tale.
Running through October 1st at Oslo Opera House
Alan and winter guests company members premier Neues Stück II with the renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch! After runs at the Opera House in Wuppertal and Oslo, Neues Stück II continue its European tour to legendary Volksbühne, Berlin and the festival Tanz im August.
Check out the press below!
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 // Volksbühne // Berlin, Germany
August 31st, September 1st, 2nd.
We have arrived at the Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity in Canada! Surrounded by spectacular views, The Hamlex Complex residency has begun with 12 amazing dancers and 6 members of the winter guests team!
Come see the work June 26, 27, 28 at 7:30pm at the Eric Harvey Theatre
Congratulations to Alan who was given the Wilhelmsens Opera og Ballettpris Award! He is very honored and humbled and winter guests could not be more proud! The award itself was presented on the 5th of October at the Oslo Opera House with a Gala in honor of the award winners. With the award comes a 400.000 Kroner scholarship.
Check out the moment they surprised him here!
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 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 15th 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
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.
"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, 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 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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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)
