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'''Verdensteatret''' is a hybrid performance art company based in [[Norway]].
'''Verdensteatret''' is a hybrid performance art company based in [[Norway]]. Founded in 1986 by Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen, it is a collective of artists from different fields who come together to stage pieces which are a combination of performance, installation, sound and animation.<ref>Kourlas, Gia. "The World Spins (Bicycle Wheels, Too)." The New York Times, February 27, 2011, p.C2.</ref>

Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen in 1986 founded Verdensteatret, a collective of artists from different fields who collaborate to stage pieces which are a combination of performance, installation, shadow-play, sound and animation.<ref>Kourlas, Gia. "The World Spins (Bicycle Wheels, Too)." ''The New York Times'', February 27, 2011, p.C2.</ref> Using mostly found and repurposed material (they use the word "flotsam") like driftwood, wire, bicycle parts and bones, they use both computers and live actors to create visual landscapes.<ref>Lonmo, Sølveig. "Dreamtime." ''Adresseavisen.'' November 12, 2008.</ref>

The group won a [[Bessie Award]] in 2006 for ''Concert for Greenland.'' The official jury statement was that the award was "for building exquisite links between seemingly incompatible technologies and materials-robots, video, piano, driftwood, and computers; for sharing their succinctly visualized yet beautifully ambivalent relationship to hidden landscapes; and for offering a poetically and emotionally evocative soundscape of a far-off place...."<ref>http://www.verdensteatret.com</ref>


==Production History==
==Production History==
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Revision as of 03:05, 16 March 2011

Verdensteatret is a hybrid performance art company based in Norway.

Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen in 1986 founded Verdensteatret, a collective of artists from different fields who collaborate to stage pieces which are a combination of performance, installation, shadow-play, sound and animation.[1] Using mostly found and repurposed material (they use the word "flotsam") like driftwood, wire, bicycle parts and bones, they use both computers and live actors to create visual landscapes.[2]

The group won a Bessie Award in 2006 for Concert for Greenland. The official jury statement was that the award was "for building exquisite links between seemingly incompatible technologies and materials-robots, video, piano, driftwood, and computers; for sharing their succinctly visualized yet beautifully ambivalent relationship to hidden landscapes; and for offering a poetically and emotionally evocative soundscape of a far-off place...."[3]

Production History

  • And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing (2010)
  • Louder (2008)
  • Fortellerorkestret (2005/06)
  • Concert for Greenland (2003/05)
  • Tsalal (2001/02)
  • Régla (2000/01)
  • Faust/Massnamhe (1998)
  • Philoktetes (1996/97)
  • Orfeo (1995)

References

  1. ^ Kourlas, Gia. "The World Spins (Bicycle Wheels, Too)." The New York Times, February 27, 2011, p.C2.
  2. ^ Lonmo, Sølveig. "Dreamtime." Adresseavisen. November 12, 2008.
  3. ^ http://www.verdensteatret.com