All Tomorrow's Parties is a dance performance exploring how HIV and AIDS impacted Norwegian dance in the 1980s and '90s. Several Norwegian dancers contracted the virus, lived with HIV, and died of AIDS. But who were they? How did they dance? And most importantly – what would they have danced if they hadn't been lost?

With All Tomorrow's Parties, the artists aim to map out the void left by these individuals and fill it by staging dances that never took place – a fictional enactment of dances that were never danced.

The performance is followed by a discussion with Matthias Danbolt (Professor of Art History, University of Copenhagen), Ingvil Hellstrand (Professor of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Stavanger), and artists involved in the project.

This showing of All Tomorrow's Parties marks the conclusion of Brynjar Åbel Bandlien's three-year research project titled All Tomorrow’s Parties: Post-pandemic dancing, supported by HK-Dir’s programme for artistic development.

Credits:

• Idea: Brynjar Åbel Bandlien

• Dance: Lars Jacob Holm and Brynjar Åbel Bandlien

• Script: Dag Johan Haugerud

• Set, Costume and Lighting Design: Corentin JPM Leven

• Music: Borusiade, Leonard Bernstein, Marvin Hamlisch, and The Velvet Underground

• Photography: Helene Levand

• Event Curator: Sofie B. Ringstad

• Publication Design: Jonas Ersland

• Poster Design: Kjetil Brandsdal

Informants: Dag Johan Haugerud, Simen Sand, Morten Rudå, Geir Morstad, Randi Urdal, Lars Jacob Holm, Arne Fagerholt
Theoretical Framework: Ingvil Førland Hellstrand and Henriette Thune

Thanks to: RIMI/IMIR Scenekunst, Danseinformasjonen, Skeivt Arkiv, Stavanger Municipality, Rogaland County Municipality, University of Stavanger, and FRI Rogaland/Rogaland på Skeivå
Special thanks to: Ola Henning Bergseng

Duration:
1 hour and 30 minutes performance + 1 hour panel discussion

Organiser:
UiS – Faculty of Performing Arts