Bysheim & Patry: BLUE CAROUSEL - performance 18.7.2025.
As part of the July performance programme at the Mediterranean Dance Centre, the dance performance Blue Carousel will be presented on Friday 18 July at 22:00 at Grimani Castle.
Created by choreographers Lisa Colette Bysheim and Katrine Patry, the piece has been selected as one of the Aerowaves Twenty25 priority works.
The performance in Svetvinčenat features Lisa Colette Bysheim and Edith Strand Askeland, with a live techno set by the sister DJ duo asiangirlsonly.
Bysheim & Patry: BLUE CAROUSEL, Norway
July 18th 2025., 10 pm, Castle Grimani, Svetvinčenat
CAST & CREDITS
Concept and choreography: Lisa Colette Bysheim & Katrine Patry
Performed by: Lisa Colette Bysheim & Edith Strand Askeland
Sound design & live DJ: asiangirlsonly (Thea & Miriam Michelsen)
Light design: Eirik Lie Hegre
Costume design: Golnaz Adham
Scenography: Sophia Gatzkan
Dramaturgy: Janne-Camilla Lyster
Sound consultant: Mike McCormick
Photography: Tale Hendnes
Production: i.c.a.p. (Lisa Reynolds & Elisabeth Gmeiner)
Co-producers: Dansens Hus Oslo, BIT Teatergarasjen, Carte Blanche – Norwegian National Company for Contemporary Dance
Funded by: Arts Council Norway, The Audio and Visual Fund, Fund for Performing Artists, Bergen City Council / Tour funded by: The Audio and Visual Fund, Performing Arts Hub Norway
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Blue Carousel is a satire on the phenomenon of seduction – a bold game of expectations and associations that collapses and evolves into a series of transformations. Inspired by the mating dances of paradise birds, the piece deconstructs rituals of seduction and power, blending the intensity of club culture with choreography.
The creators use humour and repetition as choreographic tools to comment on how the female body is observed, objectified and consumed. Through a series of performative situations, they play with fiction, twist expectations and build soft yet striking confrontations, while insistent movement pulses alongside the transformative techno beats of asiangirlsonly.
The performance merges the familiar and the absurd. The performers, embodying figures of seductive allure, create an ever-shifting spectacle where subtlety and explosiveness coexist. Blue Carousel questions social norms of seduction and how bodies – especially female bodies – are framed through the gaze. Rather than offering answers, it opens space for reflection and new perspectives on how power operates – in both visible and subtle forms.
BIO
Lisa Colette Bysheim and Katrine Patry have collaborated since 2018, developing a distinctive choreographic partnership grounded in a shared interest in seduction, power dynamics and human behaviour. At the heart of their collaboration is a fascination with the subtle mechanisms of "soft power" – particularly how power, objectification and consumption of the female body are embodied through movement. Through repetition and the raw energy of spectacle, their performances provoke audiences to reflect on societal structures.
Lisa Colette Bysheim (1991) is a Norwegian choreographer and performer. Her artistic practice is rooted in feminist methods and explores power relations, especially the nuances of soft, seductive power. She holds a master's degree in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2021), and her works have been presented at the Norwegian National Ballet, Dansens Hus Oslo, BIT Teatergarasjen, CODA Int. Dance Festival, Officine Forte Marghera, Dance Festival Malta and more. She has held residencies at Fondazione I Teatri (Reggio Emilia), Onassis AIR (Athens), SE.S.TA and TanzFabrik Berlin. From 2024–2026, she is the recipient of a three-year working grant from the Arts Council Norway.
lisacolettebysheim.com | Instagram: @lisa.cb
Katrine Patry (1986) is a dance artist from Quebec, currently based in Oslo. She has performed works by Jacques Poulin-Denis, Alan Lake, Harold Rhéaume, Catherine Tardif, Mélanie Demers, Dominique Porte, Louise Bédard and others. Her interest in human behaviour leads her into visual arts, architecture and body physiology.
katrinep.net | Instagram: @katrinepatry
Edith Strand Askeland is a professional dancer based in Oslo. She graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2020. Since then, she has performed works by Janne-Camilla Lyster, Lisa Colette Bysheim, Ingunn Bjørnsgaard, Ingri Fiksdal, Sasha Waltz, Hege Haagenrud and others. She has collaborated with Panta Rei Dance Theatre, Nagelhus Schia Productions and others, and was awarded the Performer’s Grant from FFUK in 2024.
@edithaskeland
asiangirlsonly is a sister DJ duo made up of Thea and Miriam Michelsen. Their sound blends fast techno with sub-genres such as breakbeats, acid and trance. Drawing on the energy of the underground rave scene, they bring a dynamic and feminine touch to their sets. They have performed at numerous events and club nights around the Oslo area.
asiangirlsonly.com | Instagram: @asiangirlsonly.mp3
TICKETS
Ticket: 20 EUR
Purchase via Entrio: https://bit.ly/bluecarousel
Reservations: rezervacije@mediteranskiplesnicentar.hr
Blue Carousel is part of the Aerowaves Twenty25 selection and is presented as part of the Aerowaves – dance across Europe platform.
This guest performance is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Lisa Colette Bysheim & Katrine Patry have received travel support from PAHN – Performing Arts Hub Norway via the support scheme funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Mediterranean Dance Centre.