Dance

Antigone

2025135min

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.

Dance

Still Life

202470min

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.

Dance

Story story die

201990min

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.

Theatre

The American Moth

202190min

A cinematic, multilingual, hybrid performance blending live video, movement, and text - exploring the fragile intergenerational threads of memory, love, and loss.

Dance

Simulacrum

2016

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.

Theatre

Jingle Horse!

2015

A dysfunctional festive cabaret collides with classical ballet in a chaotic christmas special where good will meets bad singing and worse taste.

Dance

And...Carolyn

20089min

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.

Theatre

SuperAmateur

2017180min

A blown-up theatrical screen of American identity, truth, and spectacle — a two-act odyssey based on real encounters and invented fictions.

Theatre

Psychopatriot

201690min

A theatrical collage of testimony, fiction, and myth — America ep2 - Psychopatriot unravels how fear and desire shape the stories a nation tells about itself.

Theatre

Coelacanth

2013400min

An epic 5.5-hour theatrical event weaving fiction and rehearsal, life and stage, in a sprawling journey from bergen to brooklyn.

Theatre

Lilly & George

2012

An intimate reckoning with parenthood and memory — Lilly & George unpacks the choices our families made, and the lives we inherit.

Dance

Flawed

2011

A brutal duet dissecting misanthropy, miscommunication, and rage — Flawed is a dance of fury between two men, two bodies, and too much truth.

Dance

Avenida Corrientes

2010100min

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.

Theatre

Bird in Magic Rain

201190min

A dark, elegant two-act play on longing, loss, and the fictions we build from truth — three voices caught in one unraveling story.

Theatre

AMERICA - Visions of Love

2009180min

A courtroom of contradictions — this verbatim-based two-act play unpacks obsession, projection, and the illusions of a nation seen from the outside.

Theatre

What's not to Love?

2006180min

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.

Dance

Before Long

200870min

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.

Dance

Underdog

for Tanz Mainz

2025130min

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.

Opera

Peleas et Melisande

for Bergen National Opera

2025195min

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.

Dance

Cri de Cœur

for Paris Opera Ballet

2022140min

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.