Heine Røsdal Avdal is a Norwegian dancer and choreographer working from Brussels, Belgium.
Education
Heine Avdal studied dance, choreography and video at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo and P.A.R.T.S.. During his studies at P.A.R.T.S, he choreographed solos and duos that were presented at P.A.R.T.S., Scenehuset and Dixon Place. He worked for different companies in Norway. In 1996-97 he assisted Mikhail Baryshnikov with his solo work at the company White Oak Dance Project in New York.
Between 1997 and 2001 Heine Avdal was part of Damaged Goods, the dance company of the American choreographer Meg Stuart. He was a dancer in Splayed Mind Out, Appetite, Sand Table and Highway 101.
Since 2000 Heine Avdal has created his own productions. He often does this in collaboration with Yukiko Shinozaki, another former member of Damaged Goods. With his work, he investigates how conventions influence the experience of and moving in public / private space. His projects are often poetic and humorous interventions in unusual, semi-public environments. Based on existing expectations and perceptions about certain spaces, he is looking, through small interventions and shifts, for unexpected perspectives on a space. In addition, he explores how technology is used or can be used, not only to perceive but also to understand both the human body and the daily environment in a new way. His most frequently performed productions are nothing for something , Field Works-office , Field Works-hotel , you are here , Some notes are , Box with hole s and terminal .
fieldworks
Originally, Heine Avdals created his own artistic work under the wings of deepblue, a production structure he shared with Yukiko Shinozaki and sound artist Christoph De Boeck. Since 2012, he does this under the wings of fieldworks vzw, an organization that focuses on the creation, production, distribution and promotion of Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki's work. Their extensive range of productions already toured in a wide range of countries in Europe and Asia, but also in the United States, Cuba and Lebanon.
Collaboration with others
In 2002-2003, Heine Avdal, together with Mette Edvardsen, Liv Hanne Haugen and Lawrence Malstaf, also created the performance/installation Sauna in Exile .
