With self-hatred as a jumping-off point, “Flawed” looks at the contemptuous and critical dialogue which has become an everyday part of how we relate to each other. Using dance, drag, violent text and video as their armoury of weapons, Alan Øyen and, former Batcheva dancer, Léo Lérus explore the terrifying brutalities and unnerving subtleties of racism, sexism… any-ism, and the fury that's inherent within all of us. FLAWED is an expressive and aggressive form of performance where the keywords arecritique and quarrel. The use of text is imperative and dialogue-driven - a bitter and unpleasant commentary - a showcase for the uglyface of misanthropy. FLAWED will ...

With text and dance by Alan Lucien Øyen and 16mm film shot by Norwegian filmmaker Ulirk Imtiaz Rolfsen, “Before Long” centres on the end of a relationship between two people. The end, or perhaps the moment we realise the end - the beginning of the end. In "Before Long" the auditorium is turned sideways and the audience follows the two performers on a shallow stage in-front of a super-wide-screen canvas. The film and text are reflections on the subjects of loss and endings.

Four short award winning works created for gala festival events. “…and Carolyn” “…and Carolyn” was created for the garland and award winning dancers Camilla Spidsøe Cohen and Daniel Proietto in February 2008. This short choreography was conceived on the audio-score from the movie 'American Beauty', with music composed by Thomas Newman and texts by Alan Ball. In creating “…and Carolyn” on a cinematic score - with all sounds intact - the choreography becomes an abstract extension of the missing images from the film. We are left with the essence of cinematic emotionality to the soundscape of Alan Ball’s existential monologue. “…and Carolyn” has won two 1st....

Double bill of solo performances dealing with over exposure to information, taking inspiration from Jean Baudrillard’s essay "Ecran Total" "Excerpts of citation without context" was Øyen's debut as choreographer in 2004 in the form of a personal and eccentric text/dance solo, which he created for himself. His delivery of the spoken word in a high speed stream of consciousness is accompanied by a myriad of flickering video images in a piece which sets out to deal with our over-exposure to information and the problems of accessibility. In 2005 the piece was coupled with another dance solo, "Screened Out", choreographed for award-winning ...