Spend your winter holidays at Kloden theater
February 17, 2025
City break with children? Here is Kloden theater program for families with children!
I am! – Unge Viken Theatre
For children from 3 years old
Wednesday 19 February at 10:00 and 12:00
Thursday, February 20 at 10:00 and 12:00
Bill.: from NOK 20,-
"I am!" is a playful performance that celebrates identity and self-worth. The performance will encourage the young audience to use their expert skills as players, to become people who can handle a lot! We can take on many different roles and costumes, play to be more than we thought we were and dared to be - while always being ourselves. And we can be all of this without having a shining core inside us that shows the way. Only by groping, trying, playing can we be ourselves, always.
I can be just me.
Think of a hundred nice ways
Not finding, not searching
We are all beautiful riddles
Quite similar, completely unique
You are you
I am me
You are you and I am me.
– Lyrics by Mariko Miyata-Jancey, to a melody by Marte Røyeng –
The material for "I am!" was collected from kindergartens in Akershus and Oslo and together with researcher Johanne Ilje-Lien at the Institute for Kindergarten Teacher Education at OsloMet. An extra thank you to the children and adults at Etterstad kindergarten and Kjeller kindergarten.
Playwright and choreographer Mariko Miyata-Jancey has also written the children's book "Mieko Dances" which revolves around the same theme.
More information can be found here !
I AM UNDONE Vol. 6 – Family edition – LiLi Re
For children from about 6 years old
Sunday, February 23 at 1:00 PM
Free admission (to ensure a seat, you must pick up a ticket in advance)
Families are welcome to get a taste of four completely different performances that are still in development. I AM UNDONE is a playground for artists and audiences, where we open the doors to unfinished, unpolished and living projects that have never before seen the light of day!
The event is free to attend. To ensure you get a seat, you must pick up a ticket in advance (press "Free" in the green circle).
Kloden The café is open, selling freshly baked waffles!
Doors open at 12:30. Event starts at 1:00 PM.
Program and participating artists:
MARIKO MIYATA-JANCEY is a fearless and open Japanese-Norwegian multidisciplinary artist based just outside Oslo. Her projects range from children's books to experimental dance performances. Throughout her career, she has explored various aspects of human existence, such as identity, sexuality, motherhood and love. In her research for I Am Undone, she will work with physical play – to celebrate the power and importance of play and inspire audiences to play.
KATARINA SKÅR LISA is a choreographer, dancer and movement educator. Her goal with artistic research is to create space to witness, accommodate and reflect on close relationships between people, cultures and inner and outer landscapes. In I Am Undone she will merge an older work called Conversation with Stone with ideas for a new work Elliid Luottat – Dyrenes Spor. This will be the first time Conversation with Stone has been presented specifically for children as the main audience, and Katarina will explore how this work can communicate with a younger audience.
UTVIK/BARFOD is a performing arts duo consisting of choreographer Ida Cathrin Utvik (NO) and costume designer and scenographer Lærke Bang Barfod (DK). Their practice moves in a landscape between dance and installation art, and they are particularly concerned with materiality and the encounter between body and material. In their work, they aim to create rich, multisensory and inclusive performing arts for children and their adults, which also dare to touch on big themes. In the research project REvolution, together with musician and performer Nicolaj Wamberg (DK) and dance artists Oda Olivia Lindegård (NO) and Emma Jansen (NO), they examine humans from an evolutionary perspective, and speculate on what our bodies could possibly have looked like if evolution had taken a different path. “REvolution” points both to a rethinking of evolution, but also to revolution as a means when radical change is needed. For what happens if we do not change course in relation to our current way of living and consuming the earth’s resources?
INDRE is a performance project for children that expresses the relationship between dance, music and emotions. An artistic team consisting of two contemporary dancers, Ingvild Marstein Olsen and Liv Edginton, and two musicians, Jan Martin Gismervik (drums) and Guoste Tamulynaite (electronics). Indre is still in development, experimenting with contrasts, intensity and improvisation to create a multi-layered experience. Indre aims to evoke emotional nuances and kinesthetic empathy, and encourages children to come into contact with and experience abstract performances.
More information can be found here !