MaisonDahlBonnema is the name adopted by the duo Hans Petter Dahl and Anna Sophia Bonnema. These two performing artists have since 1999 played an important part in Jan Lauwers & Needcompany’s stage productions. Hans Petter Dahl had previously been a co-founder of and for many years a performer with the Norwegian cult group BAK-TRUPPEN. In 1995 Dahl and Bonnema set up Love & Orgasm. Since then they have created ten performances as a duo or with other
artists, at the meeting point of composed music, visual arts, literature and theatre.
Dahl and Bonnema are constantly redefining themselves: from Love & Orgasm through L&O Amsterdam to MaisonDahlBonnema, which opened in 2003 as a virtual concept establishment that launches new collections of ideas in the form of clothes,music, video and writing. Their performances display a radical preference for the autonomous juxtaposition of the various means of stage production. The audience itself has more than once also become part of the overall setting. Dahl and Bonnema work out everything
themselves: the writing, the music, the design, the acting itself.