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Heidi Rustgaard

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Choreographer & Curator
www.h2dance.com & www.festenefest.info
@h2dance___ @festenfest
@rosechoreographicschool

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OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Heidi is looking for up to 20 people who identify as dykes, aged 18–80, to take part in workshops and a sharing of Sitting with/as Dykes, a choreographic durational score going into production in 2027.

Sitting with/as Dykes is a poetic, embodied look at queerness, presence and perception, built on the simple act of sitting. Together we will try out a first draft of the score. It draws on durational forms, listening practices and Heidi's One-Note framework, which works with a single movement or musical note. We will explore how bodies relate to time, space, and each other through small, attentive gestures, and what it means to identify as, look like, move, and sit as a dyke, both alone and together.

You don't need dance or performance experience. The work is about being present, and it welcomes different bodies, histories, ages and ways of being a dyke. Trans, non-binary and gender-nonconforming dykes are warmly invited. Together we will form a temporary collective of difference and shared presence.

Rehearsals and the public sharing will be at Sadler's Wells East on the following dates (it is recommended that you attend all sessions):
- Monday 26 October, 6:30-9:30pm
- Tuesday 27 October, 6:30-9:30pm
- Thursday 29 October, 2-5pm (public sharing)

If you would like to sign up for this, please follow the link in our bio. by @heidirustgaard

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9 days ago

Thank you, @hostscena and @parken_kulturhus, for hosting the premiere of Slow Riffs: Five Stages of Yes. It was a joy to share the work with Ålesund's local audiences.

Upcoming performances this autumn: 
16 October – @fiercefestival Festival, Fierce Jam, Birmingham (UK) 
12 November – @kottinspektionen, Uppsala (SE)

Concept and choreography: @heidirustgaard
Performers UK:
Linn Nystadnes @deathcrushbaby, @ese_andthevooduupeople_ & Heidi Rustgaard Performers Sweden:
@idachs, Karen Røise Kielland, @monicabothner, Linn Nystadnes @deathcrushbaby & Heidi Rustgaard Sound design: @rossflightsound
Spatial design: @ulrikesteven / @what_if_projects
Lighting design: @phillip.isaksen
Dramaturg: @no_other_thrill
Producer: @annafroys
Sound technician: Oliver Amundsen 
Photo: @blikk.photography

Co-production: @rosechoreographicschool, Sadler's Wells, @festenfest & @fiercefestival (UK), @hostscena Ålesund, @regionalarenaforsamtidsdans Sandnes, @rosendalteater Trondheim (NO); @kottinspektionen Uppsala (SE) 

Funding:
@kulturradet & @fondforlydogbilde (NO); @rosechoreographicschool & @trinitylaban Laban Seed Funding (UK) & @norwayinuk taken in Parken kulturhus by @heidirustgaard

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15 days ago

Et tilbakeblikk på de siste dagene på Høstscena! 📸📸📸

Det er mer å se og oppleve både i dag og i morgen! 🍂😎

📸: @blikk.photography by @heidirustgaard

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19 days ago

Production week and preview done! So grateful to everyone who attended the preview, saw run-throughs, and gave feedback through the week. Feeling so lucky to have such an incredible team with me developing this sonic choreographic work.

Super excited to premiere Slow Riffs: Five Stages of Yes at Høstscena, Ålesund: 23.09.26

Followed by performances in:
Fierce Festival, FierceJam, Birmingham: 16.10.26
Köttinspektionen, Uppsala Museum: 12.11.26
RAS, Sandnes: 2027
Rosendal Teater: 2027

The project invited five guitarists to queer the electric and play only one note for the duration of the performance. Part concert and performative installation, the work unfolds as a spatial ambisonic sound environment.

Concept & choreography: Heidi Rustgaard
Created with and performed by: Ida Jakobsen, Monica Bothner, Linn Nystadnes, Karen Røise Kielland og Heidi Rustgaard
Sound design: Ross Flight
Scenography: Ulrike Steven / @what_if_projects
Lighting design: Phillip Isaksen
Dramaturg: Martin Hargreaves
Produser: Anna Einemo Frøysland
Soundtechnician: Oliver Amundsen

Co-production: @rosechoreographicschool @sadlerswells_east Wells & @festenfest Fest (UK), @hostscena Ålesund, @regionalarenaforsamtidsdans Sandnes, @rosendalteater Trondheim (NO), @kottinspektionen Uppsala (SE), @fiercefestival (UK)

Funded by: @kulturradet and @fondforlydogbilde (NO), @rosechoreographicschool, @trinitylaban Laban Seed Funding (UK)

#Choreography #QueerChoreography #SonicChoreography
#Performance taken in Rom for Dans by @heidirustgaard

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24 days ago

En liten forhåndsvisning før neste uke!

Kom og opplev riff inspirert av postpunk-, queer- og riot-band med Slow Riffs / Five stages of yes, med konsept og koreografi av Heidi Rustgaard.

🗓️ onsdag 23.9
📍 Parken Kulturhus, foajeen
⏰ kl. 20.30

Husk å kjøpe billetter 🎟️ taken in Ålesund, Norway by @heidirustgaard

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24 days ago

WORK IN PROGRESS! 🎸

Love being in the studio with these incredible people.

Thanks to Grusomhetens Teater for having us — so good to start building the set and lighting this early in the process.

📍 Preview in Oslo, 19 September at Rom for Dans (invite only — message me if you’d like to attend) 📍 Premiere at Høstscena Ålesund, 23 September, Parken Kulturhus, 20:30

SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES takes Heidi’s one-note concept as its starting point — a sonic-choreographic work sitting between concert and installation. Through the sustained repetition of a single note, the work condenses its dramaturgy into an extended state of collective vibration, exploring sound as both physical and affective material.

Concept, choreography & performance: Heidi Rustgaard Created and performed by: Ida Jakobsen, Karen Røise Kielland, Monica Bothner, Linn Nystadnes.
 Sound design: Ross Flight | Sound technician: Oliver Amundsen | Scenography & costumes: Ulrike Steven/what-if:projects | Lighting: Philip Isaksen | Dramaturgy: Martin Hargreaves | Producer: Anna Einemo Frøysland

Co-production: Rose Choreographic School, Sadler’s Wells, Fest en Fest, Fierce Festival (UK), Høstscena Ålesund, RAS Sandnes, Rosendal Teater (NO), Köttinspektionen Uppsala (SE)
 Funded by: Kulturrådet, Fond for Lyd og Bilde (NO), Rose Choreographic School, Trinity Laban Seed Funding (UK)

📸 1–2 Heidi Rustgaard | 📸 3–5 Monica Bothner

@idachs
#karenroisekielland
@monicabothner
@deathcrushbaby
@no_other_thrill
@rossflightsound
@ulrikesteven
@what_if_projects
@phillip.isaksen
@annafroys
@Grusomhetens teater
@hostscena
@rosechoreographicschool
@trinitylaban
@kulturradet
@fondforlydogbilde

#queering
#choreography
#dance
#performance taken in Grusomhetens Teater by @heidirustgaard

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2 months ago

Når én tone blir til et helt lydlandskap 🎸

I SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES blir lyd, kropp og bevegelse til én samlet opplevelse. Fem utøvere omringer publikum med elektriske gitarer, alle stemt til den samme tonen. Gjennom repetisjon og minimale bevegelser vokser det frem et lydlandskap som utfordrer forestillinger om både gitaren og konserten.

Verket befinner seg i grenselandet mellom konsert, koreografi og installasjon, der lyd ikke bare høres, men også kjennes.

Parken kulturhus, Onsdag 23. september kl. 20.30
Billetter finner du via lenken i bio. by @heidirustgaard

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2 months ago

Had a wonderful week in Oslo with @heidirustgaard developing her new piece Slow Riffs. 5 guitars running through @ableton for processing and FX and @envelopsound for spatialisation. by @heidirustgaard

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4 months ago

It was a joy to perform a first draft of SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES together with @ese_andthevooduupeople_ and @_laura_burns at Fest en Fest 2026.

SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES is a transdisciplinary sonic–choreographic work developed from Heidi’s one-note concept. Positioned between concert and performative installation, it unfolds as a spatial sound environment that continuously slows down—an immersive landscape of sculptural bodies and resonant sound that audiences can navigate. The piece reimagines the electric guitar as a gendered cultural artefact, queering its use by limiting its sonic material to a single note.

By tuning every string to one note, the work subverts “guitar hero” tropes and masculine-coded ideas of mastery. Sound becomes a space of intimacy, care, and refusal rather than dominance or spectacle. Through the sustained repetition of a single note, the piece distils classical dramaturgy into an extended inhabitation of a shared, destabilising state of vibration.
The choreography is minimal, sculptural, and concept-driven.

Movement emerges from the body’s relationship to the guitar. Recurring gestures—stroking, rubbing, gliding, and strumming—produce resistance, vibration, and presence, blurring the boundaries between instrumental play and embodied pleasure while exploring sound as both physical and affective material.

The work will have its full premiere at Høstscena Ålesund in September 2026, followed by performances at Köttinspektionen Uppsala (SE), RAS Sandnes, and Rosendal Teater (NO) in 2026/27.

Concept & Choreography: Heidi Rustgaard Sound Design: @rossflightsound  Costume & Set Design: @ulrikesteven @what_if_projects  Dramaturg: @no_other_thrill
Funded by: Norwegian Arts Council, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Trinity Laban Seed Funding, and Rose Choreographic School Co-production: Høstscena Ålesund, RAS Sandnes, Rosendal Teater (NO), and Köttinspektionen Uppsala (SE) & Fest en Fest (UK)

📸: @documentedbyhenrit

@kulturradet
@fondforlydogbilde
@hostscena
@regionalarenaforsamtidsdans
@kottinspektionen
@rosendalteater
@rosechoreographicschool
@festenfest
@trinitylaban taken in APT Gallery & Studios London by @heidirustgaard

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6 months ago

Before Fest en Fest 2026, I had the pleasure of working with the brilliant MA Dance students at KHiO (Oslo National Academy of the Arts).

Over three weeks, we worked with my one-note concepts—focusing on a single musical note and a single movement. Beginning with simple actions like sitting and singing one note, we gradually expanded the material into plural forms, attending to the multiplicity that exists within the singular.

Throughout the process, we explored non-normative temporalities and the ways different rhythms and materials encounter one another. Drawing on queer theory—particularly Elizabeth Freeman’s idea of queer time as a resistance to chrononormativity—we introduced open processes with varied speeds, durations, and relational possibilities, working against binaries and highlighting what lies in between.

We concluded with a sharing of performance scores that keep the choreography open, flexible, and responsive, shaped by time, space, and relationships in the moment of performing, and remaining in an ongoing process of becoming.

Thank you to Lea Sine Andersen, Eleni Kanavou, Debi Helmi Irene Orkvokki Kuisma, Maia Means, and Ole Marius Støle for your openness, curiosity, and commitment, and for the thoughtful way you unfolded the score in the moment of doing. And thanks to Torunn Helene Robstad for the invitation, I had an amazing time working with you all.

@el.kanav  @p3arlpansy  @theoneandonlysnulf  @leasande  @maiameans  @torunnhelenerobstad
@khio
@khio_dans taken in Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo by @heidirustgaard

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6 months ago

Fest en Fest 2026 Introduces: Heidi Rustgaard

PERFORMANCE
SUN 29 MARCH, 6PM
APT Gallery

SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES

SLOW RIFFS / FIVE STAGES OF YES is a transdisciplinary sonic choreographic
work working from Heidi’s one-note concept. Positioned between concert and
performative installation, it unfolds as a spatial sound environment that continuously
slows down—an immersive landscape of sculptural bodies and resonant sound that
the audience can navigate.

The piece reimagines the electric guitar as a gendered cultural artefact, queering its use by limiting its sonic material to a single note. By tuning every string to one note, the work subverts “guitar hero” tropes and masculine-coded notions of mastery. Sound becomes a space of intimacy, care, and refusal rather than dominance or spectacle. Through the sustained repetition of a single note, the piece distils classical dramaturgy into an extended inhabitation of a collective, destabilising state of vibration.

The choreography is minimal, sculptural, and concept-driven. Movement emerges from the body’s relationship to the guitar. Recurring gestures, such as stroking, rubbing, gliding, and strumming, produce resistance, vibration, and presence and blur the boundaries between instrumental play and embodied pleasure, exploring sound as both physical and affective material.

For more info and tickets: www.festenfest.info

@heidirustgaard
@h2dance___
@_laura_burns
@ese_andthevooduupeople_
@rossflightsound
@michaelkitchinn
@h2hanna
@stephhdances

#choreography #festival #LGBTQIA+ #dance by @heidirustgaard

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7 months ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night at to celebrate the launch of Fest en Fest, taking place 21–29 March, Brighton, London & Colchester.

The programme is now live and tickets are available to book!

Find all the details at www.festenfest.info (link in bio).

A special thank you to @_independentdance and @siobhandaviesstudios for supporting the program launch and to everyone who came along to celebrate with us.

We can’t wait to see you at the festival!

#expandedchoreography
#dance
#performance

@siobhandaviesstudios
@_independentdance
@h2hanna
@michaelkitchinn
@heidirustgaard
@festenfest
@aptstudiosgallery
@vsslstudio
@rosechoreographicschool
@southeastdance
@colchartscentre taken in Siobhan Davies Studios by @heidirustgaard

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8 months ago