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Verdensteatret is a hybrid performance art company based in Norway.

In 1986 Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen 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 audiovisual concerts.^[2] For example, their 2008 show Louder combined robotics, videography, music and shadow play to create a dreamlike journey through the Mekong Delta.^[3] For "Concert for Greenland" in 2006, the group won a Bessie Award in the category Performance, Installation, and New Media. The official jury statement for this award read "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...."^[4]. "Concert for Greenland" was located at P.S. 122 (Performance Space 122) in New York.

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

^ Kourlas, Gia. "The World Spins (Bicycle Wheels, Too)." The New York Times, February 27, 2011, p.C2.
^ Lonmo, Sølveig. "Dreamtime." Adresseavisen. November 12, 2008.
^ http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/PS_122_to_Present_New_York_Premiere_of_Verdensteatrets_Louder_Starting_925_20080925
^ http://www.verdensteatret.com

External links

Verdensteatret homepage

[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] ttp://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/PS_122_to_Present_New_York_Premiere_of_Verdensteatrets_Louder_Starting_925_20080925

[4] ttp://www.verdensteatret.com

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 '''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.<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 audiovisual concerts.<ref>Lonmo, Sølveig. "Dreamtime." ''Adresseavisen.'' November 12, 2008.</ref>
+In 1986 Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen 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 audiovisual concerts.<ref>Lonmo, Sølveig. "Dreamtime." ''Adresseavisen.'' November 12, 2008.</ref>  For example, their 2008 show ''Louder'' combined robotics, videography, music and shadow play to create a dreamlike journey through the [[Mekong Delta]].<ref>http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/PS_122_to_Present_New_York_Premiere_of_Verdensteatrets_Louder_Starting_925_20080925</ref>  For "Concert for Greenland" in 2006, the group won a [[Bessie Award]] in the category Performance, Installation, and [[New Media]]. The official jury statement for this award read "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>.  "Concert for Greenland" was located at [[P.S. 122]] (Performance Space 122) in New York.
-For their 2006 show "Concert for Greenland," the group won a [[Bessie Award]] in the category Performance, Installation, and New Media. The official jury statement for this award read "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>.  The show was located at
-[[P.S. 122]] (Performance Space 122) in New York.  In another example, Verdensteatret's 2008 show ''Louder'' combined robotics, videography, music and shadow play to create a dreamlike journey through the Mekong delta.<ref>http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/PS_122_to_Present_New_York_Premiere_of_Verdensteatrets_Louder_Starting_925_20080925</ref>
 ==Production History==