Dreaming Cities - Oslo Edition 2025

Today, we humans have a unique opportunity to travel and take endless photos, but the question remains: Have we truly been there? Two dancers, a photographer and a lighting/set designer take you on a photographic journey through four European cities, exploring intimacy, relationships, vulnerability, and authenticity.

By & with:

Alicja Ziolko (NO) and Bennie Bartels (NL) - dance/choreography/text/idea
Claudio Corrivetti (IT) - photos/drawing/idea
Agnethe Tellefsen (NO) - lighting/set design
Sini Moilanen (FI) - production assistant

Produced by Alicja Ziolko Productions
Funded by Arts Council Norway/Kulturrådet

Dreaming Cities is an investigation of relationship, intimacy and presence. It wishes to inspire us to be aware in our bodies, in the spaces we inhabit in the world and to people around us.

Today, we humans have a unique opportunity to travel and take endless photos, but the question remains: Have we truly been there? Did we dare to show ourselves as authentically as possible? Can we become ‘travellers’ instead of ‘tourists’—engaging, bringing new life? Less consumers, more explorers, lovers, with a passion and intensity that fills us from within?

Two dancers and a photographer have traveled between Rome, Oslo, London, and Amsterdam. With roots in contemporary dance, Argentine tango and theater, they have engaged in a dialogue with the cities, exploring a playful interaction with their inhabitants and the unpredictable events of urban life.

In the performance the photographic material enters in live collaboration with the dancers, projections and objects. The photos creates a labyrinth of memories and stories that become a tapestry of lived experiences, where the past may not be distinguished from a possible future.

The performance space will be open in daytime as an exhibition with photos, projections, sounds and music for all visitors at Gamle Munch to enjoy.

Crew Dreaming Cities:
Alicja Ziolko and Bennie Bartels have been developing performances through interval-based collaboration since 1997. They share a mutual musical awareness, and their choreography/composition unfolds through structured, thematic, and playful improvisation. Always with the aim of telling stories, being in touch and being touched. Often in special locations and in collaboration with musicians, actors, other dancers, and the audience. They have collaborated with Claudio Corrivetti since 2008, with Agnethe Tellefsen for the very first time for this project.

Alicja Ziolko Productions:
Has created and produced numerous performances where communication through tango and philosophy is an important element element and where also the audience is involved physically, like in Tango or Love - episode 1/2, co-produced with Riksscenen 2015/2023 and Platon Platina 2018-20 at Sentralen Oslo, STOFF Stockholm, MACRO Museum for Contemporary Art Rome.

Performances:
4th May, Sunday, 18:00 (premiere)
6th May, Tuesday, 19:00
7th May, Wednesday, 15:00 & 19:00
8th May, Thursday, 19:00
9th May, Friday, 19:00
10th May, Saturday, 15:00 & 19:00
11th May, Sunday, 14:00

Exhibition open 11-17, except times of performance