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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Hamlet Complex

for The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet

2018170min

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bon Voyage, Bob

for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

2018180min

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.

Som Lauvet i Vallombrosa

for Det Norske Teatret

2017210min

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.

Oblivion

for Gothenburg Opera's Dance Company

202258min

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.

SuperAmateur

2017180min

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

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.

If We Shadows Have Offended

for The Gothenburg Opera's Dance Company

201560min

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.

Kodak

for Gothenburg Opera's Dance Company

201660min

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.

Coelacanth

2013400min

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

Lilly & George

2012

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

Rusalka

for Opera Vlaanderen

2019210min

A haunting debut in opera — Rusalka for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen fused singers and dancers into a dreamlike tale of love, loss, and transformation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Snow Sister

for Det Norske Teatret

202290min

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.

Beautiful Failure

for Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

202480min

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.

If this is a man

for Nationaltheatret

202395min

A stark monologue of memory and survival — If This Is a Man brought Primo Levi’s haunting testimony to the stage with searing clarity.