Wee’s new creation “Hardly ever” explores the notion of truth and lies in theatre and everyday experience, in a peculiar blend of politics, poetics and humor. The work focuses on the transformative capacity of the performers, playing with creating expectations and allowing the unexpected. Verbal statements are compiled and confronted with physical answers and the performers are constantly re-negotiating their creation, allowing the spectator to engage in their own associative process. “Do you believe in what I say or in what I show?” The body of the performer, and his/her actions, are understood as a fiction upon which endless multiplicity of possible physical identities become visible. The space that surrounds the performers provides a platform for undefined expression, an experimental playground where the dancers lay out memories, listing questions and mapping the space. A visionary cartography that unlocks and formulate meanings, creating bridges between here and there, connecting forms with meanings that we did not know were previously connected.
Wee was established by Francesco Scavetta and Gry Kipperberg in Oslo in 1999 and have since the beginning marked itself for its original style and an extensive international activity. Wee has produced 19 performances and toured in 35 countries in Europe, Middle East, Asia, North and South America. The projects have been produced with the support of Norwegian Culture Council and other public bodies, in cooperation with national and international organizations. Wee’s work has received numerous awards, most recently for Best dance performance in Croatia 2013/14 for “Surprised body project –Zagreb”.