Zoe Christiansen
Also known as: Gerd Zoe ChristiansenGerd Zoe Christiansen (born 1957 in Denmark) is a director and stage designer. Gerd Zoe Christiansen began working with performing arts in 1980. In 1991 she moved house and career to Norway.
She has been the artistic director of several performing arts companies and worked as a freelance director and stage designer. Gerd Zoe Christiansen started Mobile Homes with Sven Erga and others. In 1997 she started Hollow Creature with Kirsti Ladegård.
Information
(Objekt ID 488)| Object type | Person |
| Also known as | Gerd Zoe Christiansen |
| Born | 1957 |
| Functions | Artistic director, Director, Stage designer |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Gender | Female |
| Member of | The Norwegian Union of Stage Directors, Norwegian Stage Designers’ Association |
| zoe@getmail.no | |
| Adresse | Smålensgt. 1, 0657 Oslo, Norway |
| Website | Zoe Christiansen |
Gerd Zoe Christiansen is inspired by the European performance art stage and explores the use of multimedia and high technology in performing arts. She wants to mix traditional and modern expressions to find new ways to express herself.
Gerd Zoe Christiansen describes her performing arts work as a layered audio visual landscape. A room for reflection, like a praying room in an airport. Not a place to be entertained, but to stop the time, discover new connections, resurrect one's senses or again remember something one had forgotten.
Gerd Zoe Christiansen won The Hedda Award 2001 in best visual design category for her stage design for The Tiger Garden, produced by Hollow Creature.
She also got the performing arts award of Performing Arts Hub Norway for the same production in 2000. Between 2001 and 2004 she was a member of the board of Performing Arts Hub Norway.
SOURCES:
Mobile Homes, www.mobilehomes.no, 30.11.2010, http://www.mobilehomes.no/pdf/CV_GZC_norsk_08.pdf
Sceneweb on The Hedda Award 2001, www.sceneweb.no, 08.11.2012, http://www.sceneweb.no/en/awarding/23910/Heddaprisen_2001-2001
- Mobile Homes - Artistic director
- Mobile Homes - Director
- Mobile Homes - Stage designer
- Hollow Creature - Artistic director (from 1997 to )
| Title | Premiere | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Songs of the Refugee (Grenland Friteater) | June 19, 2015 | Stage design, Costume |
| Passing Place (Mobile HomesStamsund Teaterfestival) | June 1, 2010 | Text, Direction, Other, Concept/Idea |
| Rust (KatmaTeater Klubb '81) | June 27, 2008 | Instruction, Direction |
| Snøhvit deja vú* (Snow White Deja Vú) (Anna Leyman Scenproduktioner) | February 15, 2008 | Direction |
| Sense of Place III (Grenland Friteater) | August 29, 2007 | Playwright, Direction, Clipping, Graphic designer |
| Sense of Place II (Grenland Friteater) | September 3, 2006 | Clipping, Direction |
| Story of O (Hollow Creature) | April 30, 2005 | Puppet designer, Puppet maker |
| Atlas (Mobile Homes) | December 2004 | Concept/Idea, Direction |
| Heart of the Dream (Grenland Friteater) | June 12, 2004 | Stage design, Costume |
| No Doctor for the Dead (Grenland Friteater) | January 21, 2004 | Stage design, Costume |
| Sonar (Mobile Homes) | 2004 | Direction, Video/Film |
| Nightwood (Mobile Homes) | April 26, 2003 | Direction, Stage design |
| Mapping 4: Strategy of survival (Mobile Homes) | January 16, 2003 | Direction |
| Alter Native (Hollow Creature) | Navember 3, 2001 | Direction, Stage design |
| The Tiger Garden (Hollow Creature) | September 27, 2000 | Direction, Script, Dramaturge |
| Great Expectations (Hollow Creature) | May 1999 | Animation, Puppet designer, Direction, Stage design |
| Persona (Hollow Creature) | Navember 21, 1998 | Direction, Stage design, Puppet maker |
| Pasienten (Sagliocco Ensemble) | June 6, 1997 | Direction, Stage design, Script |
| Blue is the Smoke of War (Grenland Friteater) | May 18, 1997 | Costume |
| Ariadnes ettermiddag* (Ariadne's Afternoon) (Hollow Creature) | 1997 | Direction, Stage design |
| Øyeblikkets Evighet (Grenland Friteater) | June 11, 1995 | Costume |
| Mine barnslige venner* (My childish friends) (Grenland Friteater) | Navember 11, 1993 | Stage design |
| Historien om den falne helt (Inside the ImageSagliocco Ensemble) | April 22, 1993 | Idea, Text, Direction, Stage design |
| Granateplenes port (Grenland Friteater) | February 26, 1992 | Actor |
| Det svundne er en drøm (Grenland Friteater) | Navember 27, 1991 | Stage design, Costume design |
| Nattsvermere (Grenland Friteater) | February 2, 1990 | Stage design |
| Nothing human shall frighten me (The Magdalena Project) | 1989 | Actor |