Good Good Very Good

Good Good Very Good (1996) by Baktruppen is a tribute to alcohol, the Sami people and the Chinese. Good Good Very Good is a performance by Baktruppen about local and global identities, and about how minority cultures are influenced by dominating cultures, sometimes to a point of absorption.

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(Objekt ID 10356)
Object type Production
Premiere Navember 23, 1996
Produced by Baktruppen
Coproducers , , MaisonDahlBonnema , BIT Teatergarasjen
Audience Adults
Keywords Performance, Post-dramatic theatre, Theatre, Multidisciplinary, Ambient theatre, Dance
Running period Navember 23, 1996  —  Navember 5, 1998
Website Baktruppen

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Good Good Very Good by Baktruppen sums up the idea of ambient theatre. The production took place in a room with a bar, where alcohol was set on fire and then served.

According to Baktruppen the title’s Good refers to: music for alcoholics, the warm up of theBAR for Mike Kelly and Extended organ, UKS/Oslo Rockfestival, Stratos, Oslo. Was developed the spring of 1997 to the CD Come on everybody.

The second Good refers to: 10 years in 4 days. theBAR writes stories about Baktruppen, BOK-96, Oslo.

Very refers to: antipodal dance about the Sami and the Chinese, Gallery Otto Plonk, Bergen.

The last Good refers to: The unpaid bills of Erik Balke are sold in the gallery Struts, Oslo.

Good Good Very Good was co-produced with TAT Frankfurt, STUC Leuven, L&Oamsterdam and BIT.

Good Good Very Good by Baktruppen was supported by EU Caleidoskope program and the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs/MFA.

Sources:

Baktruppen, 03.01.2011, http://www.baktruppen.org/

Knut Ove Arntzen and Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, ed. (2009). Performance art by Baktruppen. First part. Oslo: The publishing house Kontur forlag

Contributors (10)
Name Role
Erik Balke – Co-creator
Øyvind Berg – Co-creator
Anna Sophia Bonnema – Co-creator
Hans Petter Melø Dahl – Co-creator (( L&O))
Trine Falch – Co-creator
Ingvild Holm – Co-creator
Jørgen Knudsen – Co-creator
Gurå Mathiesen – Co-creator
Bo Krister Wallström – Co-creator
Worm Winther – Co-creator
Festivals (2)
Sâmi Kultur Festivála April 9, 1998
Fellessentralen Art Event February 19, 1998