herStay will in 2012 perform at StillScape Festival Hovedøen Oslo June 29th, and in Buenos Aires November 25th, amongst other.
Picture: Monica Emilie Herstad in her research for "Mirroring a plot of self-reliance", at StillScape Festival in Konglungen, Asker June 25th 2011

herStay is a Monica Emilie Herstad art project

herStay recent features internationally:

Oslo, Black Box Teater, Think Theater Confererence, February 19th, 2012
Organizer: University of Oslo, Theater Science Faculty
Panel debater: Monica Emilie Herstad (Artist), on Tendencies in cross-aesthetic performing arts.
In panel discussion with Siren Leirvåg (UiO), Victoria Meirik (Director), Lars Petter Hagen (Ultima).
RSVP within 10.02.12 to email tenkteater@gmail.com
Think Theater Theory Conference Oslo

herStay upcoming performance, spring series 2012:

"Mirroring a plot of self reliance", Oslo is a garden, tba

Tromsø, International Ibsen Conference, June 12th 2012

herStay at StillScape Festival in Oslo, at Hovedøen, June 29th, 30th, 2012
herStay at StillScape Festival June 29th - 30th at Hovedøen in Oslo 2012

herStay in Italy, June 27 June - July 5th 2012, tba

herStay at Tvergastein, Hardangervidden, August 23, 2012

herStay on tour, August - September 2012, tba

herStay in Buenos Aires November 20 - 30, 2012, Konex Theatre, Plaza del Mayo, Cordoba and Rosario, tba

herStay receives the Silver Prize August 7th
"Norwegian herStay, director Monica Emilie Herstad, is offered the Silver Prize at the international art festival Pohang Bada in South Korea August 7th 2011
The festival gives this year´s prizes to the best performances, hence to Norwegian Monica Emilie Herstad with her herStay performance Movers and shakers - Tangible channeling the existence of nature, beside the Korean Studio 365 with their performance Alice, who takes first prize.
herStay consists of 6 members, who are all greatful and happy to be invited to perform 4 evenings at the prestigious festival´s mainstage this festival week.
The International Theater Festival Pohang Bada offers 7 stages, with 32 different performances, within a diversity of genres, from all over the world.
The festival is initiated by the South Korean Cultural Ministry, herStay work is with gratitude co-financed by Royal Norwegian Ministry of Forreign Affairs, Norwegian Art Council, FFUK, International Ibsen Awards Stipend, the International Theater Festival Pohang Bada main sponsor is Posco.
herStay receiving Silver Prize 2011
herStay winning Silver Prize 2011
herSta y i n South Korea

herStay new performance 2011:
Remote review perspectives re-incarnated - reclaim the streets, premiere December 2011, tba

(...) "director Monica Emilie Herstad’s inter-textual play in the National School of Drama’s International Theater Festival in India; Mumbai and New Delhi.

(...) beautifully-costumed, rigorously-trained bodies moving in a way that conveyed more emotional-sensual meaning than words ever could."

Monica Emilie Herstad feature in TimeOut Mumbai

herStay future Schedule:

herStay in South Korea, Fringe Space,
International Theater Festival Pohang Bada 2011, August 1 - 7
Fringe Space, South Korea, International Theater Festival Pohang Bada

herStay workshop and audition in Oslo July 14 - 15 2011, for further information: please contact e-mail info@herStay.net, asap, RSVP within June 17th

herStay in Buenos Aires, November 2011

herStay in NY, tba

herStay early 2011:
Monica Emilie Herstad, herStay at Stillscape Festival, Asker, Norway, June 25th 2011, at 4pm:
StillScape festival
the garden

herStay in St.Petersburg, May 2011
BodyWord Festival May 15 - 22 2011 BodyWord Festival 2011 - for unusual forms of dance in relation to literature
15th of May, herStay performance MSTCEN at Osobnyak Theatre, at the opening of the festival
17th of May, Monica Emilie Herstad at Vaganova State Ballet Academy, presents her lecture on Body vs literature, 13.30 - 15.30
17th of May, Monica Emilie Herstad Master Class on Body vs literature, workshop at Kannon Dance Centre 16.00 - 18.00

herStay at Costa Rica, March 5 - 10, 2011, Centennial International Womens Day Festival Actua Mujer:
Teatro Melico 7th of March,
Teatro Compania Nacional Aduana 8th of March,
Teatro Munincipal, Alajueda Museum 9th of March
Festival to celebrate the centennial international womens day
Monica Emilie Herstad Master Class at Nacional Universidad Costa Rica
for dancers, MA and professionals at Escuela de Danza the 9th, and at Escuela de Escenico for actors BA, MA and professionals the 10th, where she also introduce her lecture on Body vs literature
March 5th, Monica Emilie Herstad teaches her workshop Body vs context, at Caribean Women Festival, Playa Chiquita, Gaia Cultural Centre, Limon.
March 6th, herStay performance at at Caribean Women Festival, Playa Chiquita, Tree House, Limon.
March 7th, herStay performance at the presidents dinner, Banco Popular, InterContinental, Costa Rica

herStay, review on the performance MSTCEN 2010:
"A few weeks ago I saw this dance performance at Rom for Dance. It seduced with its seemingly simple movements, a very precise use of space and light, selected well-placed external climaxes, music's driving force, its intensity, minimalistic stage design and beautiful costumes. After, as I went out in the Oslo-night, a kind of positively troubled mind and slowly a clearer picture of a fragmented Ibsen interpretation emerged. The performance is called Movers and Shakers - Tangible channeling the existence of nature, of the company herStay."
- Stefanie Plappert

herStay creates vibrant performance experiences in different contexts, associated with innovation and a new artistic expression, beyond the confines of traditional performance art.

The performances weave to an international movement research, to pounding electronic beat, excellent video work, and magnificent light. The professional artists involved, properly educated, specializes in the fusion of performance, film, theatrical and dance forms, taking influences from the world around to produce engaging performances emerging into the audience minds. herStay present and future:
herStay independent art represents essentially the approach of defending pacifism, the environment, democracy and human rights as immanent values, through the performances, images, and art events, that are continuously performed through out the world, at a diverse performance scene, such as at different inter-local festivals, theatres, movie theatres, galleries, concerts, club-scenes, in essays, at websites, etc.

herStay is founded in 1999, in Oslo, and is working internationally oriented.

herStay is pro emphasizing the focus on body vs nature dichotomy, weather, body weather, climate and environmental issues, the dignifying gender equality practice, and further democratic questioning and processes, as immanent values in the society, expressed through the arts.

herStay acclaimed performances like Monica Emilie Herstad´s herStay performance Movers and shakers - Tangible channeling the existence of nature, and the still touring success performance Past is simulation - The ladies of the sea vs Nora, and other stories of the society (2006), NoNameDance (2007), Forever/ [shào ài]/ EWIG/ Toujours (2008), etc., are touring worldwide, to places such as South Korea, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, Costa Rica, Oslo, Bergen, NY, Asker, New Delhi, Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and further.

herStay as a title, suggests a niche demographic, a time span, her time, space, and place, where from the universe, different societies is being observed.

Recent herStay audience, critics and hosts´ important feedback:
Monica Emilie Herstad´s performance Movers and shakers - Tangible channeling the existence of nature:
"And yet it is this performance that opens for real hope for the future: a young woman (danced by different women with multifarious characters and stage presence) manages here to develop a separate will, which opposes itself to Rosmer/ man and story. Without words, under the surface, with all the power the body can generate."
--Stefanie Plappert, theater scientist, PhD, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, in Scenekunst September 16th, 2010

herStay inc publishing:

ISBN 978 82 92707 72 2
Monica Emilie Herstad: «Past is simulation - on body vs literature, herStay Ibsen performances since 2004» (2011)

ISBN 978 82 92707 050
Monica Emilie Herstad - Selected publications 2001 - 2010 (2010)

herStay inc publishing ISBN 82 92707 01 8
K a r m a y o g a s a s t r a
- avhandling om forenende aktivitet (2010)

herStay records
release 2010, Recrecords
ISBN 978 82 92707 34 0
herStay: Movers and shakers - Tangible channeling the existence of nature
Composition: Hicham Bouddén, Composition dramaturgy: Monica Emilie Herstad

For herStay literature and music: order at e-mail: info@herStay.net

Further herStay features internationally:
Monica Emilie Herstad feature in Le Monde Diplomatique:
Monica Emilie Herstad in Le Monde Diplomatique September 2010
-Truls Lie

Monica Emilie Herstad feature in TimeOut:
herStay in TimeOut India Theater Festival Golden Jubilée
-Suhani Singh

"Success of the Strange"
"Monica Emilie Herstad experiences to be accepted and embraced by a large scale audience even if her art is concidered niche." Success of the strange
- Grundere: Sær Suksess, Musikk & Kultur, Mfo/ LO, March 2009

Award Winning Monica Emilie Herstad:
September 1st: Monica Emilie Herstad, herStay, is receiving the International Ibsen Award Stipend for her production Movers and shakers - Tangible channeling the existence of nature, inspired by Ibsen´s Rosmersholm, with working title Twirl, at the Banquet Prize Ceremony in September 2008, when the Ibsen Award Winner Peter Brook also receives his prize

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