sunniva vikør egenes (1987)
sunniva vikør egenes (1987) is a dancer. she is an adoptee from Korea who grew up in a place called øyslebø in a county that used to be called marnardal.
she started dancing at the age of 4 in Mandal and kristiansand. at 18 she left for london to study musical theatre at doreen bord college then later contemporary dance at trinity laban, where she finished her ba.
later she lived and worked in berlin and stockholm. in stockholm she also did her ma studies at the new performative practices program.
now she combines working for others as a dancer and performer as well as experimenting with creating her own works in dance, text and video.
she is currently based in oslo.
09. 10. 25
oslothese days i think a lot about the relations between place and practice, between the surround and the studio. going between smaller and bigger places and between projects in different contexts, i have always been fascinated with how my habits, tastes and inclinations can change quite radically.
i love being a dancer in someone else’s work. i love the team work, and it reminds me a lot of doing team sports when i was young. i love how the process becomes its own universe with its own language and dynamics. it feels like alchemic, weatherlike, technical and intensely social in a way that can be confrontational. it feels like when i manage to do it well it has mostly to do with staying open and tend to the moments i share with people. it also feels like there are so many ways of getting better, meaning that there’s so much to do and that I probably have way too many ideas.
i feel at a point where i want to try lots of different things and be more unafraid of looking like i don’t know what i am doing. this want to do things i don’t know how to feels energising too.
marnardal station
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i have become more and more interested in working with other dancers as someone leading the room and proposing starting points. to create a world of markers for the dancer to play with. i realised that i might know some things that has to do with how i like to dance, and i am just really curious how the stuff that excites me would blend and mix with a dancer’s particular history.
dancer dancing doing dances
i am just so puzzled by ideas of family, home, belonging and culture. making familial (re)- connections and visiting what is also my own culture although estranged, seems to be feeding back into thoughts and interests in dance, place and material.
