Verdensteatret
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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.[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 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...."[3]. 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.[4]
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://www.verdensteatret.com
- ^ http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/PS_122_to_Present_New_York_Premiere_of_Verdensteatrets_Louder_Starting_925_20080925