herStay
Stiftelsens formål er å produsere, utvikle og formidle kunstnersisk arbeid av Monica Emilie Herstad og drive virksomhet som samarbeid med beslektede kunstarter og uttrykk.
Brown University, US/ PS International Conference, Becoming Uncomfortable/ Troubling Dance, paper: "Feminism and Fashion?: The Choreography of Monica Emilie Herstad"
Herstad has developed her choreography into a form of self-analysis, a hyper-responsive mode motivated by decisions to move. (...) I think of her dance as a form of deep play, a term from Victor Turner, to describe an activity invested in spontaneity and profoundly meaningful to the participants. Within a frame of choreography, Herstad explores her unconscious and responds with clear choices. Like psychoanalytic practice, Herstad focuses awareness upon the immediate moment and repeatedly responds to the space, the sound, the audience, the video screen. (...) Rather than a dancers body representing an idea or metaphor, Herstads body in performance investigates that immediate time and space. (...) Consequently, there is no one answer to how her movements interrelate; the dance generates an analytic experience for the audience - without an answer, the meaning lies with the questioner and his/her formulation of questions and interpretations. This matter of interpretation, however, is shaped greatly by Herstads exploration of an idea of femininity and style
-Leah Garland, NYU
herStay in DANCE HISTORY:
Now, wherever I go I learn about butoh-influenced dance and theater; in Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, and most recently in Norway, the Butohinspired group of Monica Emilie Herstad. Susannah Akerlund carries on the tradition in Sweden and San Fransisco hosts an annual international butoh festival through d-net
-Professor Sondra Horton Fraleigh at New York State University, in excerpts from her book Dancing into Darkness, published at Pittsburgh University Press
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