It becomes imaginative and dystopian when Alan Lucien Øyen again fuses dance and theater into striking stage images. Cinematic is a word that is often used to describe Øyen's art, and this time it is the Oscar-winning film composer Alexandre Desplat who composes the music and Solrey who conducts the Opera Orchestra.
In Alan Øyen fashion, it changes from large tableaus until we are suddenly close to a realistic world, where hidden spaces and human destinies come to light. Those we meet are struggling to relate to the present.
- The requirements for being human are becoming stricter: We must "do", we must "be", and it must go quickly, be fantastic and preferably an inspiration for everyone else. The dystopias of the future are about to become reality, says Øyen.
On stage, the National Ballet's dancers and actors are in a solid wooden landscape , with scenographer Åsmund Færavaag's clear signature.
The visions of Øyen and his team always challenge us on what is possible to do with scenery, stage and lighting in a performance. Nothing Personal is no exception: the entire machinery of the opera house is in motion when the parallel stories of alienation, artificial intelligence, loss and outsiderness play out on the Main Stage.
Choreography and direction: Alan Lucien Øyen
Choreographic co-creation: Daniel Proietto
Text: Andrew Wale/Alan Lucien Øyen
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Scenography: Åsmund Færavaag
Costumes: Ingrid Nylander
Lighting and video design: Martin Flack
Sound design: Mathias Grønsdal
Musical management: Solrey
Contributor: The National Ballet, the Opera Orchestra, Kate Pendry, Daniel Proietto, Anton Skrzypiciel, Andrew Wale, Yvonne Øyen, children from the Ballet School, Nathaniel Liodden from the Children's Choir
Children's choir leader: Noble Stray-Pedersen
Singing teacher: Marianne W. Lewis
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