Verdensteatret

Verdensteatret
Formation 1986
Type Theatre group
Location
  • Norway
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

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. Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/PS_122_to_Present_New_York_Premiere_of_Verdensteatrets_Louder_Starting_925_20080925
  4. ↑ company website
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