| Artists and groups - presentation
of performances
BO!NG (THOMAS
SANDBERG): Inter_Face
This musical multi-media solo performance
investigates the confrontation between the human and the technological
world. All video and audio material is created live on stage through a
diversity of electronic gadgets. (Music Drama, 2009, 60 min)
CANTABILE2:
Haiku
Director Nullo Facchini creates highly
visually charged landscapes which are often loaded with physical presence
and individuality. As a beautiful poem of images in movement HAIKU creates
an unrhythmical universe of sensual experiences. The naked and essential
body is shown through raw and detailed snapshots. (Performance, 2009, 75
min)
DANISH DANCE
THEATRE: CaDance
This major dance company goes from
strength to strength and with Tim Rushton’s individual style and close
collaboration with the dancers, they have bridged many boundaries of style
and technique. CaDance is a curious and underacted play between 6 men:
4 dancers and 2 musicians. (Dance, 2009, 10 min)
DANISH DANCE
THEATRE: Frost
Combining the seducing energy of
the dancers with a tantalizing use of new technologies, Danish choreographer
Tina Tarpgaard entices us into the world of ‘Frost’. Frost is a performance
including techniques of responsive video scenography, motion sensing and
time slicing. (Dance, 2009, 60 min)
GRANHØJ
DANS: (…It’s a Very Big Secret…)
This is Palle Granhøj’s third
performance portrait where he focuses on the fusion of man and artist.
This time it is dancer, singer and musician Anne Eisensee who is on stage
– a completely compelling personality. From a more abstract style
Palle Granhøj has now moved towards a more personal and concrete
language which always attracts huge acclaim amongst international audiences.
(Dance, 2009, 60 min)
HELLO!EARTH:
Tomorrow Everything Will be Different
Tested at the Metropolis Biennale
in Copenhagen last month and developed in Rio de Janeiro and Jerusalem
this piece is based on re-mapping your city. A “do-it-yourself performance
walk” where the daily reality becomes the “theatre setting” and allows
coincidences to interweave with intended actions. (Performance, Site Specific,
2009, 60 min)
HOLBÆK
THEATRE: Hostage – A Story Out of the Real
Bus ride staged as a hostage drama
focusing on a delicate but relevant issue: Men with other ethnic background
than Danish forced into arranged marriages. The borders between audience
and play, reality and fiction are completely broken down. (Theatre, Site
Specific, 2007, 90 min)
HOLLAND
HOUSE: Under Is (Under Ice)
Lead by prolific director Jacob F.
Schokking, who won last season’s “Danish Director of the Year” award, the
visually powerful style of Holland House frames German dramatist’s Falk
Richter’s extremely relevant critique of western neo-liberalism through
the story of Paul Niemand, a man in his mid-forties. They are calling his
name at the airport, but he doesn’t move. For once he’s not efficient.
Will this change his life? To the music / sounds of FM Einheit from the
iconic band Einstürzende Neubauten. (Theatre, 2009, 100 min)
HOTEL PRO
FORMA (house visit)
Hotel Pro Forma displaces the notion
of theatre into new territories that lie between art and non-art, theatre
and non-theatre, between the physical and the metaphysical expression.
Performances occupy a space between construction and sensation, consciousness
and intuition, concrete and abstract.
HUSETS TEATER:
Non-Stop
A hugely ambitious project by Simon
Boberg created over a period of one year, partly in New York. With a combination
of metaphysical science theory, actual theatre and poetic animation theatre
this space adventure, starring the lonesome Major Tom, seeks to answer
the mysteries of the universe – only to end up with even more unanswered
questions. (2008, 75 min, extract 35 min)
KITT JOHNSON
/ X-ACT: Mellemrum # 1
Kitt Johnson creates magical, focussed,
timeless and all consuming moments with her tiny bodymass . A site-specific
dance solo with live music to be performed in an underground parking lot
- between raw walls of concrete. With electro-acoustic manipulations blended
with the noise of the ventilation system this nowhere land comes alive.
(Dance, Site Specific, 2008, 20 min)
MUNGO PARK:
Sandholm
An honest picture of the people living
behind the walls of Denmark's largest asylum centre. With a rotating bunk
bed and a pile of t-shirts a simple story about dreams and frustrations
of fight for life is created. (Theatre, 2006, 120 min, extract 30 min)
MUTE COMP:
Grasping the Floor with the Back of my Head
The perfect opening event for p@rt.
An intense and baroque dance performance with live music by the magical
Nordic electronic band Valravn (nominated for 3 Danish Music Awards 2008).
Four dancers are trying to survive hell on earth, while four brilliant
musicians on 22 instruments create a mysterious soundscape. (Dance / Performance
/ Music Theatre, 2008, 90 min)
NEANDER
/ KRISTJÁN INGIMARSSON: Creature
This hugely gifted Icelandic multi
talented performer Kristján Ingimarsson with his no holds barred
style has created a theatre montage about the human being as creative and
self-fashioning individuals. Seven musical scenes with visually stunning
costumes by Anja Vagn Kragh, a former designer for Christian Dior and Stella
McCartney. (Theatre, 2008, 75 min, extract 20 min)
NEXT ZONE:
Symphony in Slang
In a surprisingly new choreographic
language, where the body is constantly twisted into extremes, break dance
and hip hop fuses with Tex Avery’s humorous and wild cartoon universe.
(Dance, 2007, 35 min, extract 15 min)
NINNA STEEN:
Faustus
A visual mind experiment where real
characters and 3D illusions interact in a web of half, split and false
identities. With Mr. Ordinary contra Faustus, who is played by a compelling
Stuart Lynch, at the centre, evil itself discusses the disillusion and
self-deception of man. Thought provoking performance with the stringency
of a lecture and the decadence of a cabaret. (Dance / Performance, 2008,
90 min)
PAOLO NANI
/ KOSMOCOMICO: The Shocking Puppet Show
Another tour de force from the irrepressible
Paolo Nani whose ability to create chaotic and hugely humorous situations
releases another visual theatrical performance. This piece mixes velvet,
retro, circus, fireworks and kitsch. The many characters are dolls in different
sizes together with actors - and music, which is very much alive. (2009,
55 min, extract 20 min)
PUBLIC EYE
/ SARA GEBRAN: La Santa Lucha VS Royal Rumble
Sara Gebran is a passionate artist,
who creates uniquely engaged, provoking and relevant performances. This
one is inspired by the mythological, political and social aspects of Mexican
‘Lucha Libre’ (free-fight-wrestling). This mix of lecture and performance
lets two dancers meet and fight invited guests in search of a local hero.
Anything can happen! (Interactive Performance, 2008, 60 min, extract 40
min)
RECOIL PERFORMANCE
GROUP: Body Navigation
Choreographer Tina Tarpgaard’s pioneering
work with media and dance has lead to many exciting works. Two dancers
and their digital reproduction is the scenographic frame of this humorous
and emotional portrait of human relations. Based on rules and structured
in a game-like manner, the installation makes way for a playful dialogue
between man, woman and the digital “footprints” they leave behind. (Dance
/ Performance, 2008, 30 min)
TEATERKUNST:
Facebus
The FACEBUS is a free mobile community,
party, place to meet - a new community to find new profiles and link people
in the night like a living Facebook. Passers-by are asked to log-in and
share profiles, questions, dreams and concerns with a number of artists,
who will fill the bus with videos, music, interviews, discussions, dance
challenges, games and much more. (Site Specific Performance in a bus, 2009,
60 min)
THEATRE RIO
ROSE: Battle Field
A beautifully crafted, sensitive
and poignant choreographed theatrical collage in fragmented yet recognizable
sequences from this company which constantly tours internationally. Battle
Field portrays conflicts and love on several levels – private, public and
global. Nominated as best “small” production of the year. (2007, 55 min)
[WEGO]: Completely
Simultaneously
This one really has brought in herds
of young audiences to the theatre. Highly energetic and completely laid
back with a streak of self conscious humour. Three dancers and four musicians
interweave dance and music while toying with concert and dance floor rituals.
Dancers act like human instruments, and the musicians can’t stand still!
(Dance / music drama, 60 min)
[WEGO]: An
Assisted Solo #3
A humorous duet revolving around
the function of ‘assisting’. The dancer and the guitarist are constantly
fighting about control of the stage. Who is assisting who? (Dance / music
drama, 40 min, extract 20 min)
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS
We have put together an exciting
and stimulating compilation of Danish contemporary circus: Mille Lundt
(Somewhere / Nowhere), Teatro GLIMT / Camilla
Sarrazin (Two Faces), Samuel Gustavsson (Night for
One), TinCanCompany(Fish),
Teatro
GLIMT /Lars Gregersen (Sisyphus
Ascending) and Company Jean/Jens Sigsgaard (Hangtime)
- (130 min).
PERFORMANCE
A short presentation of artists accompanied
by music, video and special effects: Live Art Installations,
Public
Eye/Sara Gebran, Stuart Lynch and Erik
Pold (100 min)
NEW DANISH DRAMA / PLAYWRIGHTS
We will present a number of Danish
playwrights and directors, who have written excellent and remarkable dialogue
and texts for the stage. Programme to be announced (100 min) |