A radical reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy, merging the physical poetry of Tanztheater with spoken word and original text. The production rediscovers the ideas within the play through a deeply human, visceral performance that speaks to the unresolved dilemmas of our time.
A nature-infused duet with Mirai Moriyama and Daniel Proietto, exploring our fractured bond with the natural world through butoh, minimalist movement, and elemental stagecraft.
for Tanz Mainz
A charged exploration of power, visibility, and belonging — Alan Lucien Øyen’s Underdog, created for the 23 dancers of Tanz Mainz, blurs the lines between movement and text in a breathtaking stage experiment.
A raw and unflinching dance work that exposes the lies we live by and the fragile love we chase — performed by a cast of extraordinary international dancers.
A cinematic, multilingual, hybrid performance blending live video, movement, and text - exploring the fragile intergenerational threads of memory, love, and loss.
for The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet
A groundbreaking fusion of dance, theatre, and film — The Hamlet Complex shattered Shakespeare’s tragedy into themes for our time, creating a monumental Gesamtkunstwerk for the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet.
for Paris Opera Ballet
A full-length ballet that fuses dance, theatre and cinema into a haunting meditation on love, loss and mortality. Premiered at Palais Garnier in September 2022, the work placed intimacy and fragility at the heart of the grand stage.
for Bergen National Opera
Alan Lucien Øyen’s debut with Bergen National Opera transforms Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande into a deeply human drama, a poetic journey through longing, trauma, and the mysteries that lie between people.
Simulacrum weaves together the true histories of two extraordinary dancers – to create a semi-fictionalized narrative that runs through what is essentially a dream play. It is a visceral, multi-disciplinary performance incorporating the familial formality of Kabuki; the prideful energy of Flamenco, and the instinctive physical language of Contemporary dance.
A dysfunctional festive cabaret collides with classical ballet in a chaotic christmas special where good will meets bad singing and worse taste.
Created in 2008 for Camilla Spidsøe Cohen and Daniel Proietto, And… Carolyn is a duet choreographed by Alan Lucien Øyen, set entirely to the original audio track from the film American Beauty - featuring Thomas Newman’s haunting score and Alan Ball’s existential monologue.
for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
A monumental new creation for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch — Bon Voyage, Bob — weaves theatre, dance, and text into a meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile absurdity of life.
for Det Norske Teatret
A symphony of words — Som lauvet i Vallombrosa brought Lars Norén’s layered family drama to Det Norske Teatret in a production of finely tuned ensemble acting and emotional depth.
for Gothenburg Opera's Dance Company
A dreamlike meditation on time, memory, and numbness — Oblivion confronts the restless speed of our age with haunting theatrical imagery and the body as storyteller.
A blown-up theatrical screen of American identity, truth, and spectacle — a two-act odyssey based on real encounters and invented fictions.
A theatrical collage of testimony, fiction, and myth — America ep2 - Psychopatriot unravels how fear and desire shape the stories a nation tells about itself.
for The Gothenburg Opera's Dance Company
A visceral dance-theatre work about childhood, loss, and responsibility. Created for the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani - If We Shadows Have Offended explores the Peter Pan complex and the fantasies we create to escape growing up.
for Gothenburg Opera's Dance Company
A dreamlike sequel to If We Shadows Have Offended — Kodak dives into the illusions that shape our lives, blending dance, theatre, and iconic images from popular culture.
An epic 5.5-hour theatrical event weaving fiction and rehearsal, life and stage, in a sprawling journey from bergen to brooklyn.
An intimate reckoning with parenthood and memory — Lilly & George unpacks the choices our families made, and the lives we inherit.
for Opera Vlaanderen
A haunting debut in opera — Rusalka for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen fused singers and dancers into a dreamlike tale of love, loss, and transformation.
A brutal duet dissecting misanthropy, miscommunication, and rage — Flawed is a dance of fury between two men, two bodies, and too much truth.
A love story told through rehearsal, rupture and return — two artists reunite in Buenos Aires to confront their past, their work, and the cost of creation.
A dark, elegant two-act play on longing, loss, and the fictions we build from truth — three voices caught in one unraveling story.
A courtroom of contradictions — this verbatim-based two-act play unpacks obsession, projection, and the illusions of a nation seen from the outside.
A vaudeville of love, rivalry, and reinvention — What’s Not to Love? collides cinema, television, and theatre into a sharp meta-play on ambition and the roles we perform.
A quiet, cinematic farewell about loss and endings, staged on a shallow runway before a super-wide screen where film and text drift between memory and the present.
for Det Norske Teatret
A magical story of grief, friendship, and wonder — The Snow Sister brings Maja Lunde’s beloved advent book and Lisa Aisato’s illustrations to life in a sweeping theatrical production for the Christmas season.
for Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
A cinematic exploration of memory and identity — Beautiful Failure at Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern unfolded as a living film on stage, blending text, movement, and design into a dreamlike meditation on our past.
for Nationaltheatret
A stark monologue of memory and survival — If This Is a Man brought Primo Levi’s haunting testimony to the stage with searing clarity.