HOOP is a hope circle 

A performative togetherness

A prayer to the gods of performance and an action to remind ourselves we are distant but together. 

HOOP er et samarbeid mellom koreograf Roza Moshtaghi og kunstnergruppa De Naive, og retter seg mot mennesker og steder i offentlige rom. Sammen skaper de et performativt samvær der repeterende bevegelser oppstår, for så å løse seg opp. I HOOP brukes rockeringer både som et visuelt virkemiddel og som en felles aktivitet mellom utøverne.

Hver gang HOOP besøker et nytt sted utformes det i samarbeid med nye utøvere. Fellesskapet i gruppa står sterkt, sammen utøver de et bevegelsesmateriale som akkumulerer og struktureres i møte med ulike omgivelser. HOOP for Bodø Biennale utøves med både lokale og tilreisende dansekunstnere. 

Stay where you are, HOOP is coming for you! 

Om objektet hula hoop
Native American Hoop Dance er en fortellerdans som inneholder hoops/rockeringer som rekvisitter. Sirkelen er et viktig symbol for mange kulturer over hele verden. I nyere vestlig historie rundt 1950 ble ¨hooping¨ introdusert som et leketøy eller et objekt anvendt for å komme i form og ble dermed en del av popkulturen og normalisert.

​BIO (engelsk)
ROZA MOSHTAGI is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Oslo. Her creations often are situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer/dancer and performer. Her works deal with the unexplained narratives of desire generated in the process of adapting or reacting to systems/structures. The ordinary, or rather what we have forced inside the uniform of the ordinary, is Roza's playground. She looks for possibilities to hypothesize "the hidden" by digging into the ordinary as a silent landscape.

DE NAIVE is a collaboration between Oslo based dance artists Harald Beharie, Julie Moviken and Charlott Utzig. In a hybrid interdisciplinary landscape De Naive works in a continuous site-oriented performative practice. From commissioned works for museums and galleries, performative actions, performances in public spaces and into cyberspace, the group's work manifests itself in multiple constellations and formats. De Naive is a state of being, oscillating between deconstruction and construction, optimism and doubt, apathy and affect. The group's practice has developed through a mode of "doing", both as a creative structure, strategy and bodily method. In the void between the pathetic and the useless, they search for the potential to expose the vulnerable and profound moments.