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Dana Michel – MIKE<\/h1>\n\n18 Oct, 14:00 \u2014 17:00<\/span>\n\n
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Is it possible to be fully yourself in public?CODA Oslo Inter\u00adnational Dance Festival 9\u201419 Oct, 2025 <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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The performance lasts three hours. It is recommended to see it in its entirety. However audience may leave and re-enter. A ticket for the performance grants free entry to the museum’s exhibitions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performance work MIKE <\/em>revolves around work culture, power, and self-respect. Dana Michel challenges social norms from a curious rather than provocative perspective, gently bringing people who are often overlooked or excluded into the center of the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With humor and sensitivity, she questions the very ways we exist. Dana Michel is known for creating situations that evolve according to their own logic. She moves in a world of objects to which she gives new meanings and functions\u2014far removed from binary and linear thinking, production, and action. In an open space over three hours, MIKE<\/em> invites us into a unique universe where movement and stillness are woven together into an intense experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michel creates a living reflection of a workplace, right in the museum. Here, the audience encounters a figure who moves between rooms. Is it a museum guard? A technician? A stranded stranger in an empty building? They stop, observe, drink coffee from a thermos. And the audience follows them. Every step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems evident that our societies have been constructed based on models of efficiency of people who, generally speaking, are neither healthy nor sane. These same people make important decisions that shape our lives. It\u2019s terrifying. <\/em><\/strong>
– Dana Michel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In MIKE<\/em>, we are confronted with the question: Is it possible to live public lives that reflect our true selves? Through her intimate and open approach, Michel seeks to reveal the very thought process itself. The performance serves as a space for collective reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work balances between the political and the aesthetic, addressing themes such as class, institutional power, social control, and human vulnerability. It invites reflection on the roles we are assigned and how we might create more space\u2014both mentally and physically\u2014to be who we really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana Michel challenges our assumptions about work, institutional power, and class, giving the audience three hours to think. Prepare yourself for a rare performance experience that challenges body, mind, and presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credits: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created and performed by \/ Cr\u00e9ation et interpr\u00e9tation:<\/strong> Dana Michel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artistic activators \/ Activateur\u00b7ice\u00b7s artistiques:<\/strong> Viva Delorme, Ellen Furey, Peter James, Heidi Louis, Tracy Maurice, Roscoe Michel, Karlyn Percil, Yoan Sorin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenographic consultant – Technical direction \/ Consultant sc\u00e9nographie – Direction technique:<\/strong> Romain Guillet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound consultant \/ Consultant son:<\/strong> David Drury<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production:<\/strong> SCORP CORPS \u2013 Viva Delorme, Dana Michel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distribution:<\/strong> neon lobster \u2013 Giulia Messia & Katharina Wallisch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coproduction:<\/strong> ARSENIC \u2013 Centre d\u2019art sc\u00e9nique contemporain (Lausanne, Switzerland \/ Suisse), Centre national des Arts (Ottawa, Canada), Festival TransAm\u00e9riques (Montr\u00e9al, Canada), Julidans Amsterdam (Netherlands \/ Pays-Bas), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, Belgium \/ Bruxelles, Belgique) MDT (Stockholm, Sweden \/ Su\u00e8de) Montpellier Danse (France), Moving in November (Helsinki, Finland \/ Finlande), Wexner Center for the Arts of The Ohio State University in Columbus (United States of America \/ \u00c9tats-Unis d\u2019Am\u00e9rique)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative residencies \/ R\u00e9sidences de cr\u00e9ation:<\/strong> Alkantara (Lisbon \/ Lisbonne, Portugal), ANTI Festival (Kuopio, Finland \/ Finlande), Centre national des Arts (Ottawa, Canada), Kinosaki International Arts Center and Kyoto Experiment (Japon \/ Japan), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, Belgium \/ Bruxelles, Belgique), K\u00fcnstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt, Germany \/ Francfort, Allemagne), Montpellier Danse (France) r\u00e9sidence de cr\u00e9ation \u00e0 l\u2019Agora, cit\u00e9 internationale de la danse, avec le soutien de la Fondation BNP Paribas \/ creation residency at Agora, cit\u00e9 internationale de la danse, with support from BNP Paribas Foundation RIMI\/IMIR, SceneKunst (Stavanger, Norway \/ Norv\u00e8ge), Shedhalle (Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland \/ Suisse) with the kind support of Tanzhaus Z\u00fcrich and the Embassy of Canada to Switzerland \/ avec l\u2019aimable support de Tanzhaus Z\u00fcrich et de l\u2019Ambassade du Canada en Suisse,The Chocolate Factory (NYC, United States of America \/ \u00c9tats-Unis d\u2019Am\u00e9rique)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The creation of this work is being made possible thanks to the financial support of:<\/strong>
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, Minist\u00e8re des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie, Conseil des Arts de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it possible to be fully yourself in public?<\/p>\n

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