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Mosedans // Moss dancing

MOSEDANS // MOSS DANCING

"A character rises from the moss. Guided by heavy beats and an enchanting song, she moves intuitively to this ethereal music landscape. As a creative side project from the main feast, this dance video enhances the thematic of light and darkness, growth and decline, power and vulnerability of the track".

Background story:

Ann Kathrin joined autumn 2023 Ragnarok Film and Gabbarein on a three-day adventure in Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Dancing in a smoky forest, a windy and rainy beach, up a mountain, into a cave and dancing in a waterfall. The making of the Ra Raising Sun Music video was a trip to remember.

Comment from Ann Kathrin:

There are always a lot of videoclips that don't make it to the music video. Since a lot of content needs to be compressed in a short time frame.

I looked though at my dancing clips and wished more of that movement- material could get some screen time and so this video was created. "Mosedans" is made of uncoloured B-roll material from the forest part of the production. Clips that is not in the music video. I thank "Our Silent Canvas Productions" for letting me play with this material. #recycling #reusevideomateriaI.

Jan 2025: Thank you so much to the jury of Multiplie Dance Festival in Trondheim for choosing Mosedans of 305 entries! It was a great pleasure to watch the creation on the big movie screen, and watch all the other great videos too.

Credits:

Music by Gabbarein: Christopher Bono and Cecilie Hafstad
Track: “Ra Rising Sun”
Dancer: Ann Kathrin Røsvik Granhus
Camera: Arne Vidar Stoltenberg
Editing: Ann Kathrin Røsvik Granhus
Filming Location: Klæbu, Trøndelag, Norway.
All rights reserved: I, Ann Kathrin Granhus have the rights to use the music and videoclips in this film. Given to me by: Our Silent Canvas Productions.

Director Gabbarein Music Video: Ole Fredrik "Offe" Wannebo, Ragnarok Film

  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Dance film, Nordic, Forest, pagant, dance, movement
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 8, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Norway
  • Country of Filming:
    Norway
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography

Ann Kathrin Røsvik Granhus

Is a dance artist from and based in Trøndelag. She Holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from the Amsterdam National Academy of the Arts and PPU from the University of Stavanger. She has in 2014 10 years in the field as a danceartist.

As a co-creative performer for others, she has worked internationally and nationally with Jos Baker (BE), Don.Gnu Physical Theater (DK), Follow the Vikings Project (GB), Yggdrasil Teater (NO), Sindri Runudde, (SE) and Yasen Vasilev (BG). As a teacher, she has taught and choreographed for children and young people in many styles at various cultural schools in Rogaland and Trøndelag, Norway.

Ann Kathrin is very interested in an acrobatic approach to moving and dancing, contact improvisation, challenging what the body can do. At the same time she is having a dance theater focus she likes to take her artistic self into different directions and get them together. Ann Kathrin is active with her own creative projects where she can freely develop her interest. She has been creating her whole career as a dancer. Post pandemic she created several preproductions, and four productions in four years 21-24.

In addition to live performances, Ann Kathrin is active in using and expressing dance in other media such as film and photography. She has over 40 photoshoots behind her in the course of 10 years. June 23, she created together with photographer Rune Aasen, a two hour lecture/foto event based on the dance-pictures from the project "dance pictures in the local area".

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Director Statement

I have had an interest in dance on film since my BA and has created many dance videos over the years. I have filmed and been filmed a lot during my dancing carriere.

“Mosedans” is though the first creation where I have gotten hold of such professional filmed video files to edit. I see how this enchantes the whole production and expression. It makes me eager to dive further into the posibilites for dance in the videoformat, and to keep applying for funding for my first own dance video project.