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HOW ROMANTIC
Concept and choreography Katerina Andreou
Artistic assistant Costas Kekis
Sound Design Katerina Andreou & Cristián Sotomayor
Musical arrangements Cristián Sotomayor
Light Design Yannick Fouassier
Costume Design Indrani Balgobin
Photos Øystein Haara
Video David Alræk
Creation for 14 dancers
Created on March 2025
HOW ROMANTIC is a deeply ironic commentary on how we experience struggles of life as a spectacle – both in their grand gestures and smallest details. We witness an intense marathon, echoing the dance marathons during the Great Depression in the US.
There are no winners or losers – only 14 seasoned dancers, in couples, alone, or as a herd of horses, negotiating their way through movement and sound in a relentless choreography. Through feats of strength, joy, and fatigue, they urge each other in an energetic mix of abandon and rigorous discipline. It’s a collision of order and chaos in a fevered search for something real.
HOW ROMANTIC creates space for reflection – on power and relations, intimacy, forced entertaining and maybe the role of love as the ultimate finishing line for any race, even when it feels unattainable.
Press talks about it
« The physical exertion of the performers on stage, combined with Sotomayor’s effective, hypnotic and exhausting music that makes the entire space vibrate, is in itself an extraordinary experience to witness—to be absorbed into and spat back out of. The result is an artistic triumph: a complex dance marathon. »
Mode Steinkjer, Dagsavisen
« As usual, Norway’s national company for contemporary dance brings anything but decorative dance to Oslo. How Romantic places enormous demands on the dancers as both athletes and performers. Carte Blanche articulates Andreou’s ideas with razor-sharp precision, demonstrating that they operate at the highest level. »
Maren Ørstavik, Aftenposten
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