Verdensteatret is a hybrid performance art company based in Norway.
| Formation | 1986 |
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| Type | Theatre group |
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| Website | www.verdensteatret.com |
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[4] "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.[5] Concert for Greenland was performed at P.S. 122 (Performance Space 122) in New York.
Verdensteatret was awarded the Hedda Award Honorary Award in 2014.[6] They were awarded the Hedda Award for Best Audiovisual Design in 2015 for their production "Broen over gjørme" ("Bridge Over Mud").[7] They received the 2014-2015 Norwegian Critics' Association Award for "Broen over gjørme" ("Bridge Over Mud") as well.[8]
Production history
edit- Hannah (2017)[9]
- Broen over Gjørme (2014)
- 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
edit- ^ Kourlas, Gia. "The World Spins (Bicycle Wheels, Too)." The New York Times, February 27, 2011, p.C2.
- ^ Lonmo, Sølveig. "Dreamtime." Adresseavisen. November 12, 2008. Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "PS 122 to Present New York Premiere of Verdensteatret's 'Louder' Starting 9/25".
- ^ "Bessie Archive" (PDF). www.dance.nyc. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ company website
- ^ Heddaprisen (2017-04-03). "2014". Heddaprisen. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
- ^ Heddaprisen (2017-04-03). "2015". Heddaprisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2018-12-11.
- ^ "Teaterkritikerprisen". Kritikerlaget (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2018-12-11.
- ^ "Ultima". ultima.no. Retrieved 2018-12-11.