Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN), with support from The Royal Norwegian Consulate in New York, is happy to present NORWAY NOW VIRTUAL 2022

Now in its tenth edition, Norway Now – Performing Arts from the Northern Latitudes serves as one of the most important opportunities for North American presenters to discover a wide range of independent Norwegian artists creating rigorous new works in dance, physical theater, puppetry, video, multidisciplinary and performance art.

Please download our program for more information on the events and a detailed presentation of all participating artists and their work.

JANUARY 1 5 TH, 2022

LIVE Broadcast from Tromsø International Film Festival to Syndicated (Brooklyn, NY), 1:00PM EST
(Here one must be physically present at the listening stations in either NYC, Baghdad, Kurdistan or Moscow.)

  • In collaboration with the award-winning Norwegian Theater Transiteatret-Bergen by Tore Vagn Lid, we present «03:08:38 States of Emergency». The performance will take place at the International Film Festival in Tromsø, and will now be live broad casted to The Syndicated in New York 15th of January at 13.00:

    "I had not thought that a minute-by-minute theater performance from the terrorist attack on July 22, 2011 would be one of the most meaningful things I have seen in theater in a long time."

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    "03:08:38 – State of Emergency" is a kind of live movie recording. A reconstruction of the terrorist attack in Oslo on the afternoon of July 22, 2011, presented in real time and built on authentic radio broadcasts and audio recordings from that day. Second by second, a team of sketch artist, filmmakers and musicians work on our understanding of this devastating afternoon.

    The performance in Tromsø will be a live experiment at the interface between film art and performing arts - which will be broadcast simultaneously from Haalogaland Theater / TIFF in Norway to "listening posts" in New York, Moskov and Baghdad.
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    Three hours, eight minutes and thirty-eight seconds was the time it took a young man to blow up a Norwegian government building and then execute young Social Democratic politicians at a summer camp. How did the world react? What was said outside Norway? How did different societies, different people react - not afterwards - but during such a state of emergency, where no one yet knew for sure about the scope, cause and motivation, where speculation went in all directions. And what can such a state of emergency reveal about a society's political reflexes, and about ourselves as politically acting individuals - then as now?

JANUARY 1 6 TH, 2022

Adjust – Reconnect – Rebuild // VIRTUAL SATELLITE MEETING 10:30am-11:45 am EST

NB! In agreement with our colleagues and friends at the local festival & venues, it is with heavy hearts that we announce the Norway Now 2022 January 16th satellite meeting and collaboration will turn virtual.

Showreel from 2021:

LIMBO av Roza Moshtaghi, photo by: Josh Lake

Performing Arts Hub Norway is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs