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'''Verdensteatret''' is a hybrid performance art company based in [[Norway]]. |
'''Verdensteatret''' is a hybrid performance art company based in [[Norway]]. |
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In 1986 Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen founded Verdensteatret, a collective of artists from different fields who collaborate to stage pieces which combine 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> In 2006 ''Concert for [[Greenland]]'' won a [[Bessie Award]] in the category Performance, Installation, and [[New Media]] "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...," according to the jury statement.<ref>http://www.verdensteatret.com</ref>. ''Concert for Greenland'' was performed at [[P.S. 122]] (Performance Space 122) in New York. |
In 1986 Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen founded Verdensteatret, a collective of artists from different fields who collaborate to stage pieces which combine performance, installation, shadow-play, sound and animation.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/arts/dance/28verdensteatret.html 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>[http://www.verdensteatret.com/crit_dreamtime.html 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> In 2006 ''Concert for [[Greenland]]'' won a [[Bessie Award]] in the category Performance, Installation, and [[New Media]] "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...," according to the jury statement.<ref>[http://www.verdensteatret.com company website]</ref>. ''Concert for Greenland'' was performed at [[P.S. 122]] (Performance Space 122) in New York. |
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==Production History== |
==Production History== |
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| Website | www.verdensteatret.com |
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 combine 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] In 2006 Concert for Greenland won a Bessie Award in the category Performance, Installation, and New Media "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...," according to the jury statement.[4]. Concert for Greenland was performed 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
- ^ company website