Company B.Valiente

EXTRACTS FROM THE REVIEWS OF THE TRILOGY ”Breath" "Broken" and "Love” 2000-2003

NORWAY: Stavanger Aftenblad, Solveig Grøde Sandelson, Sandnes culture house 19.11.03 ”It is a very strong performance. Not only because of the extremly well controlled body language and the very rich choreography, but also because of its changes; changing in the light, the sound, the room, the music, the expression.”

NORWAY: Inger-Margrethe Lunde (Journalist/ Dance critic), Stenersen’s museum/ Oslo 21.11.03 ”LOVE (which is the third part of a trilogy) and the Company’s trilogy, has been an important contribution to the dance in Norway the last years. Company B. Valiente is one of the few groups, which has a explicit and incessant a strong existential direction of their productions.” ”KNUST” (Broken) - 2001

GERMANY: ”BALLET-TANZ” Magazine Aug-Sept. 2002, from a performance at the military base. ”Although the company’s ethos is against established systems and structure, they and the military seem to share a certain common ground. Both are interesting in action, stress hormones, mental capacity and courage. That is one of the reason the performance was such a success with the soldiers.” “Some soldiers catch the dancers who lean on them and the dancers even jump with the soldiers’ support. It is a strange and magical situation.”

FRANCE: La Depeche/Val de Reuil, residenciel dance house Chor. Dominique Boivin, 07.11.01 ”Last week the dance company Beau Gests invited Kompani B. Valiente, thereby drawing notice to themselves.” “In this immobile silence, where the death noise comes from the intense body movements, there is a common objective; to show our vulnerability, our own obstacles and blockages, remove the conventional intellect, and what we have learned. The Kompani B. Valiente production touches the very base of the human being.” ”PUST” (Breath) - 2000

GERMANY: ”BALLET-TANZ” Magazine (Europeans leading dance magazine) 2000 ”The most important dance performance in Norway in 2000.” NORWAY: Bergens Tidende, Marit Strømmen, Dance Theatre House 30 mars 2001 : ”Raw and brilliant, ... neither spectacular nor refined. High score for a down to earth presentation of bodily reactions.”

NORWAY: Morgenbladet, Anne Britt Gran: ”Together with psychiatry the prison and art board have institutionalised and tamed the antisocial, the crazy, the orginal and the marginal. Obviously. Is the church such an institution as well?” ”An unbelievable beautiful sequence depicts him moving in a slim ray of light ... the lean, naked upper body fighting against the borders of the ray of light, his arms slapping like destroyed bird wings, his face expressing a mixture of adult angst and childish vulnerability. The sequence is over and the prisoners start to applaud, some whistle and scream; the reaction is loud and wild. The room rips.”