Ravnedans Conversation Club:
connected to the performances Soul’O/ Glitch Choir/ Undersang/Calling

Free, but requires registration.
Limited spots available 

Would you like to practice your capacity to put into words what you have experienced as an audience? After the four performances Soul’O, Glitch Choir, Undersang and Calling , you are invited to participate in Ravnedans Conversation Club. Here, a small group of audience members gather to talk about what they have been through, guided by performing arts critic Anette Therese Pettersen. 

Each audience member’s encounter with a performance is always unique, and we all bring our individual experiences, associations and perspectives when we look at art. Especially in meeting with the wordless art of dance, our experience can be extremely individual. Having a shared conversation about the experience can be a fun way to open up the artwork - it can show the diversity of understandings and effects a performance can have, and can help one see nuances, and reflect on why something resonated and something else did not.

The conversations will be facilitated by critic Anette Therese Pettersen, and will take place immediately after the performance. The group will go to a private room, eat snacks and have an informal conversation for about 1 hour.

As we want to create a safe framework for the conversation, the group is small and limited to 8 people only. If you sign up, it is therefore important that you participate or let us know if you are prevented from attending.

The initiative is supported by Cultiva and is a collaboration with Litteraturhuset in Kristiansand, and a prolongation of Anette Therese Pettersen's initiative Porøse Kunstmøter - We should be dreamers (translated: Porous art meetings)

About Anette Therese Pettersen
Anette Therese Pettersen is a performing arts critic, curator, editor, dramaturg and writer from Kristiansand, based in Oslo. She has a master's degree in theatre studies from the University of Oslo and a Ph.D. from the University of Agder. She is a dance and theatre critic for, among others, Morgenbladet, Scenekunst.no and Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift - and has previously written for Dagsavisen, Klassekampen and Fevennen. She has been active in Scenekunst Sør, written for Fevennen and in 2016-2019 curated a performing arts series in Kristiansand together with Irene Vesterhus Theisen, under the umbrella Theisen/Pettersen. She generally works a lot with projects that examine what criticism can be, and how we talk, write and think about performing arts, through projects such as Porøse kunstmøter.