Residents - A Construction Kit

Residents - A Construction Kit (2002, at times also referred to as The Builders) was a dance production by Odd Johan Fritzøe. It had its world premiere at Black Box Teater during Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 2002.

Odd Johan Fritzøe choreographed it.

Residents - A Construction Kit was performed a total of 265 times within the counties of Hedmark, Buskerud, Oslo, Akershus, Sogn og Fjordane, Sør-Trøndelag, Nord-Trøndelag and Oppland, plus in Falun, Sweden, and Reykjavik, Iceland. The production was revived in 2014, for a tour with Dans i Nord-Trøndelag, in the county of Nord-Trøndelag. A complete list of performances can be found at Odd Johan Fritzøe's webpage.

In The Builders by Odd Johan Fritzøe, two dancers travelled a world filled with strange and unknown characters and sounds. Many fairytales deal with leaving home and travelling into the unknown. The performance played with letters and movement. Letters shaped words and rhyme. Movement became rhythm and dance.

Information

(Objekt ID 2208)
Object type Production
Premiere October 11, 2002
Produced by Odd Johan Fritzøe
Coproducers Brageteatret, Dans i Trøndelag. Regionalt kompetansesenter for dans
Based on The Builders by Cecilie Løveid
Audience Children, Youth, Families (from 6 to 16)
Keywords Dance, Theatre of the absurd, Performance for children, Fairytale, Contemporary dance, Installation
Running period October 11, 2002  —  2007
Duration 40 minutes
Website Odd Johan Fritzøe

Requirements to venue

Blackout No
Audience 60
Other Can be played on stage, in gymnasiums, in galleries and under the blue sky.
More

The Residents - A Construction Kit by Odd Johan Fritzøe was created as an open performance in which the spectators had to take part through using their own imagination. What happened could be different, depending on one's location in the room. Many different stories could be formed.

They were building up, down and around. The performance was all about a changing world. Did you see the house and the foot wanting to travel by itself? The residents were looking for one missing brick belonging to the castle. Without this brick, the entire world would fall apart.

The Residents - A Construction Kit was an abstract production, most appropriate for children aged six years or more.

The Residents - A Construction Kit by Odd Johan Fritzøe was supported by The Norwegian Culture Fund, The Audio Visual Fund, The Norwegian Visual Artists' Association, The Cultural Rucksack via The National Touring Network for Performing Arts and Hedmark Touring Organization (ToH).

SOURCES:

Annual reports for Brageteatret 2005 and 2006.

Odd Johan Fritzøe, oddjohnfritzøe.no, 01.06.2017., http://www.oddjohanfritzoe.no/site/innbyggerne.html

Contributors (15)
Name Role
Cecilie Løveid – Playwright
Odd Johan Fritzøe – Direction
Odd Johan Fritzøe – Choreography
Odd Johan Fritzøe – Staging
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje – Music
Hild Sofie Tafjord – Music
Karl Hansen – Stage design
Svein Ove Kirkhorn – Costume design
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje – Sound
Odd Johan Fritzøe – Dancer
Olav André Gravseth – Dancer (2016)
Ole Alexander Hansen – Dancer (2016)
Thomas Lægreid Gundersen – Dancer
Svein Ove Kirkhorn – Photo
Inger Marlene Glette – Choreogreographic Assistant
Performance dates
June 22, 2016 18:30 – Inderøy Kulturhus New opening
March 2011 Show
October 22, 2004 16:00 Show
October 22, 2004 18:00 Show
September 24, 2004Dansens Hus på KHiO Show
February 10, 2004Trikkehallen på Kjelsås Show
January 28, 2004Underhuset, Bærum Kulturhus Show
October 24, 2002Verdensteateret i Sandefjord Show
October 17, 2002Papirhuset Teater Show
October 16, 2002Papirhuset Teater Show
October 15, 2002Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
October 14, 2002Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
October 13, 2002Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
October 12, 2002Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
October 11, 2002Lille scene (Vika), Black Box teater Worldwide premiere
Festivals (5)
Kortreist dansefestival June 22, 2016
Satellit dansfestival för barn og unge March 2011
SAND-festivalen October 22, 2004
CODA September 24, 2004
Ultima October 11, 2002