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Hans Petter Melø Dahl

b.oslo 21/02/1964 singer/songwriter/performer/actor/theatremaker/grafic-designer-and-art-director-DIY'er.

From 1987 to 1995, Hans Petter Dahl worked with the Norwegian anarcho-stage-company Baktruppen. In 1995,together with Anna Sophia Bonnema, he founded Love & Orgasm, a performance group in Amsterdam. Since then they created too many pieces including the love show “Tantra & Western” (1995), “What have you done with my Poem? – Sing-Dance #1” (1996), “Made in Heaven – Sing-Dance #2” (1997), “Attention – Sing-Dance #3” (1998) and the multidisciplinary performance “Post coïtum omne aninal triste est” (1999), with a different improvising dancer every night. For these projects they worked with artists from several disciplines such as Liza May Post(NL) (visual artist), Øyvind Berg(NO) (writer), Tom Jansen(NL) (actor) and improvising dancers including David Zambrano(VEN), Laurie Booth(GB), Eva Maria Keller(DE) and Michael Schumacher(USA). As a duo they created the performances “Nieuw Werk” (2001) and “Shoes and Bags” (2003). The latter was made on the occasion of the opening of their virtual concept-house, MaisonDahlBonnema. In 2005, they made “Not The Real Thing” together with Robert Steijn(NL), as a performing dramaturg). For MaisonDahlBonnema’s pop-opera trilogy 'Tokyo, Paris, New York” – a pop opera trilogy', consisting of 'The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny – a pop opera' (2007), 'Ricky and Ronny and Hundred Stars – A Sado- Country Opera' (2010) and 'Analysis – The Whole Song' (2011), Hans Petter Dahl composed the music. The Moon (2016) and 'Yoga for Theatres' were the last two productions from MaisonDahlBonnema. For all performances from MaisonDahlBonnema, Hans Petter Dahl develops the concept and the material together with Anna Sophia Bonnema. They also perform in their own shows. Working with Needcompany(B): It was in Needcompany’s “King Lear” (2000) that he first worked with Needcpmpany. Since then he has also appeared in “Images of Affection” (2002), “Goldfish Game” (feature movie 2002), “Isabella’s room” (2004), “The Lobster Shop” (2006), “The Deer House” (2008), “Caligula” (Burgtheater, Wien 2012), “Marketplace 76” (2012), many versions of Needlapb ( 2001 – 2014), “The House of Our Fathers”, “Just for Bozen | Bolzano”, “The Time Between Two Mistakes”, (for the opening of Steirischer Herbst Graz 2014) and “The Blind Poet” (2015). In “No Comment” (2003) he was one of the four composers. Except for his own work, he also composed music for different Needlapbs, “Images of Affection”, and “Isabella’s room”, “The Lobster Shop”, “The Deer House” and “Marketplace 76”. With all these performance Hans Petter Melø Dahl has toured the world extensively. For the Children Musical “Frieda and Mandarine” (2016) at the Chinese National Theatre, HPMD composed the music and songs in mandarine language. Since 2018 and 2019 Hans Petter Melø Dahl plays ‘Thomas Jerome Newton’ in the Bowie/Walsh-musical “Lazarus” in Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.HPMD is convinced that it necessary to sing the world,accepting it as a gift.