Name: Going Passionately Somewhere
Start: 2026-03-23T19:00:00+01:00
Location: UiS Fakultet for utøvende kunstfag

Going Passionately Somewhere
A staged concert on dreams, body, and presence by and with Héloïse Baldelli
A woman looks back on the journey that shaped her:
from childhood’s first encounter with the magic of music, through great dreams and broken ambitions, to a painful yet necessary confrontation with perfectionism, shame, and self-criticism.
Going Passionately Somewhere is a personal, interdisciplinary performance situated at the crossroads of concert, theatre, and movement. Through voice, text, and physical expression, it explores the tension between ambition and vulnerability, between perfectionism and presence.
The performance revolves around an existential question:
How can we hold on to longing and inner drive without losing ourselves in the pursuit of what we wish to become?
Here, the stage becomes a space for memory, resistance, dissolution, and reorientation. The body appears both as limitation and possibility, the voice as both expression and battleground. Gradually, another perspective emerges - one in which lightness, trust, and embodied awareness suggest an alternative path.
Developed as part of a doctoral project in artistic research, the work investigates artistic practice as a mode of inquiry and knowledge.
Going Passionately Somewhere is not a story about arriving, but about continuing to move.
Free entrance
Concept: Héloïse Baldelli
Text: Héloïse Baldelli and Hannah Nordlien Berg
Staging: Héloïse Baldelli and Berit Aarrestad
Choreography: Héloïse Baldelli and Brynjar Abel Bandlien
Mentor in extended vocal technique: Liv Runesdatter
Lights: Tomas Björn
Music: Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric
Performers:
Héloïse Baldelli – voice
Friederike Wildschütz – piano
Vivianna Mäkinen, Tiril Agathe Rønningsgrind, Oda Aleid Stensrud - dancers