Festival Highlights Part 2
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The In2IT Festival 2026 gave us a week full of performances, workshops, meetings and moments we still feel in our bodies.
In the previous post, we shared some of the festival's highlights.
Here comes part 2 – more moments from the stage, studios and meeting places that made this year's festival something very special.
Performances and artistic highlights
Do you need to understand dance to experience dance? Not necessarily. Sometimes the experience stays with you long after the performance is over.
Dance has a unique ability to strike a nerve in us – a moment where the sense of time and space almost stands still. The physical translation can grip us more strongly than we can fully explain in words.
Lucid Absurdities is such a performance. One that quietly creeps under the skin and stays.
Lucid Absurdities by Tarantism. Photo: Arne Beck
During the festival, the audience was able to experience several works that explored the body's expression in various ways, from the subtle and poetic to the raw and explosive.
Vasiliki Papapostolou aka Tarantism performed his solo performance Panopticon March 4th in the Opera Hall. Photo: Odd Inge Teige.
The Swedish company Majeko presented the performance Chasing Butterflies. Photo: Odd Inge Teige.
Artist talks
After the performances, we invited the audience to artist talks, where the audience had the opportunity to delve deeper into the artistic processes behind the works and ask questions directly to the artists.
The conversations opened up for reflection on choices, methods and intentions, and gave the audience an insight into the thoughts behind the movements on stage. At the same time, they became a valuable reminder of how important it is to share experiences and to allow space for reflection in the encounter with art.
Artistic director Tendai Makurumbandi meeting this year's artists. Photo: Odd Inge Teige.
Audience and festival atmosphere
For the third year in a row, the In2IT festival organized Children's Day in collaboration with SpareBank 1 Nordmøre and NEAS. With free activities, performances and a dance workshop, we invited children and families to a day filled with movement, play and artistic experiences.
The festival became not only a place for artistic encounters, but also a place where we could take care of each other through small actions, attention, and community.
Thank you to all artists, collaborators, volunteers and the audience who helped make the In2IT festival a space for both art, reflection and care.
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