Harald Beharie: Sweet Spot

Sweet Spot is the last part of a trilogy of works which includes the solo piece Batty Bwoy (2022) playing with the fictions surrounding the queer body and the group work Undersang (2024) that takes shape as a collective ritual in the forest. Together, these works plunge into how pleasure, excess, and monstrosity can become forces for empowerment and transformation while using the body as a site of ambivalence. Where identity and power are constantly negotiated and mutating, unraveling a porous and unstable surface opening up for rituals, new ways of togetherness and uncanny play.
 

Harald Beharie (he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. 

Beharie’s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution

They hold a special interest for the DIY and the vulnerability of being in the unknown.

Beharie is interested in how the body can function as a motor for dramaturgy, a force in itself that transforms through practice. 

Haralds work has received nominations for the Norwegian Critics prize for the performances Shine Utopians with Louis Schou (2020) and the solo work Batty Bwoy (2022). In 2023 Batty Bwoy also won the Hedda prize for “best dance production” and in 2024 the project Undersang won the Norwegian Critics prize 23/24.