Rainbow’s End

Duration 19′

Calendar

Thursday 12/11/2009 from 19:00 to 19:20

Rainbows End originated from the idea/desire to address to an audience in the form of a letter to an intimate friend. An attempt to express the closeness and poetry we allow ourselves when addressing someone intimate in writing. Furthermore, Rainbows End is intended as a comment, if not a question, to gay life as it is under the rainbow flag as a gay symbol. Are the colors changing? Is gay still synonymous with happy or is the history too overwhelming? Is being gay today to be part of a chain of reoccurrence where the past is repeated, or is the rainbow season ending? But how can one find the end of the rainbow? And what happens when it turns out that the rainbow is a circle?

text/performing/choreography/video/sound/light: Alan Lucien Øyen
producer: Winter Guests
music: Alicia vive from the movie Hable con ella, Katie Cruel by Karen Dalton, Moon River by Henry Mancini (from the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s).

About the artists

Alan Lucien Øyen graduated as a dancer from the State School for Dance in Oslo, Norway in 2001. The same year Alan was granted one year apprenticeship with Carte Blanche – The Norwegian National Company for Contemporary Dance. He was soon contracted as a full time dancer with Carte Blanche and worked there until 2005, when he left to join Pretty Ugly Dance Company in Cologne, Germany. Alan also worked as a freelance artist with many choreographers, doing from performance related audience interactive pieces to theatre work. In addition to working as a performer he has been doing concept development, dramaturgy, and writing for, or in collaboration with the following choreographers: Robin Orlin, Henriette Pedersen, Amanda Miller, Karen Foss, Hooman Sharifi And James Anthony Rizzi. Øyen has won three first prizes for his work with choreography: Certamen Burgos – New York, 2008 in Spain, Dansolution, 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark and the 2007 choreography competition at Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland. Øyen left Amanda Millers Company in 2006 to establish his own company, Winter Guests. He has completed nine pieces, including two commissions for Carte Blanche in 2008: I Wait for You… and Before Long. Øyen also created a performance for the Norwegian National Ballet, premiered September 1st 2009. Recently he has moved into the world of theatre, working mainly with actors on stage for America – Visions of Love, a performance about American Culture premiered under the CODA – Oslo Contemporary Dance Festival, in October 2009.