Danse- og teatersentrums scenekunstpris (The performing arts award of Performing Arts Hub Norway) 2002

Danse- og teatersentrums scenekunstpris (The performing arts award of The Norwegian Association for Performing Arts/NAPA)for 2002 is awarded Kate Pendry for her production Sex in the Warzone. The production had its world wide premiere in Kosovo in 2002.

In Sex in the Warzone Kate Pendry invites her audience to take part in a personal journey to the Balkans anno 2002. Through Kate Pendry's strong scenic presence, combined with her politically sharp lack of correctness and not least her precise use of different soundscapes, she conveys human confusion in the range between the ability for empathy and disgust, confronted with our time's brutality and abuse.

Conveying a theatrical journey through, in time, near war areas such as Sarajevo and Kosovo, demands great artistic bravery. Kate Pendry reveals herself - and therefore us – through the words and images of a female war tourist in a tense range between shame and eroticism. Everything is performed with an aesthetically fine balance between an uncomfortable personal presence and comfortable personal distance.

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson wrote that "There is no problem being brave if one is not afraid". We rarely experience a raw theatrical will to recreate deep human fear of war and what it does to us into such a precise and unsentimental performing act as the production Sex in the Warzone.

Danse- og teatersentrums scenekunstpris (The performing arts award of The Norwegian Association for Performing Arts/NAPA)for 2002 is awarded Kate Pendry for her production Sex in the Warzone. The production had its world wide premiere in Kosovo in 2002.

In Sex in the Warzone Kate Pendry invites her audience to take part in a personal journey to the Balkans anno 2002. Through Kate Pendry's strong scenic presence, combined with her politically sharp lack of correctness and not least her precise use of different soundscapes, she conveys human confusion in the range between the ability for empathy and disgust, confronted with our time's brutality and abuse.

Conveying a theatrical journey through, in time, near war areas such as Sarajevo and Kosovo, demands great artistic bravery. Kate Pendry reveals herself - and therefore us – through the words and images of a female war tourist in a tense range between shame and eroticism. Everything is performed with an aesthetically fine balance between an uncomfortable personal presence and comfortable personal distance.

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson wrote that "There is no problem being brave if one is not afraid". We rarely experience a raw theatrical will to recreate deep human fear of war and what it does to us into such a precise and unsentimental performing act as the production Sex in the Warzone.