STRANGER IN A FAMILIAR LANDSCAPE (2026)

Premiering 20.05.2026 @ Festival Danser Partout – Chorège, National Choreographic Development Center (CDCN) of Falaise, at the National Choreographic Center (CCN) of Caen, France

Direction and voice: Deborah Lennie (AUS)
Dancers: Annie Hanauer (USA) & Ingvild Marstein Olsen (NO)
Sound creation: Patrice Grente
Film: Christophe Bisson
Lighting design: Jérôme Houlès
Costumes: Magali Murbach

What are the first sounds you hear when you wake up?
Can you see the sky from your bedroom?
The places of our lives leave their imprint on our bodies and on how we inhabit the world.
What happens, then, when we leave them?
And when we return, why can what was once so familiar seem so strange?

Through dance, music, and film, STRANGER IN A FAMILIAR LANDSCAPE explores this intimate connection between memory and space.
Between Australia, the United States, and Norway, three performers weave a story of wandering and belonging — one that could just as well be everyone’s.

More info: https://www.forwantofabetter.com/strangerinafamiliarlandscape