Sense of Place I

Sense of Place I by Grenland Friteater was a grand-scale staged town wandering tour meant to re-conquer the town’s spaces for its citizens. A cross-cultural project not just including the town’s own professional artists, amateurs, associations and unions, but also national and international artists.

Information

(Objekt ID 224)
Object type Production
Premiere September 6, 2005
Produced by Grenland Friteater
Audience All
Audience size 2250
Number of events 12
Keywords Multidisciplinary, Dance, Performance, Theatre, Street theatre, Concert, Exhibition, Performing arts
Running period September 6, 2005  —  September 10, 2005
Website Grenland Friteater, den store by:vandringen I - Stedsans 2005
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In 2005 Sense of Place was chosen as the artistic main event during Porsgrunn’s jubilee as a town; a large town wandering tour should be arranged annually from 2005 to 2007. The project became so popular among the audience in particular and performers of all kinds and categories, the project continued after the jubilee celebrations ended.

The model Sense of Place by Grenland Friteater has inspired towns like Kongsvinger, Kongsberg, Sandnes and Notodden in Norway and Santa Clara in Cuba. China, Vietnam and Colombia are new possible countries for internationally developing the project.

Vision:

"We wanted to explore the hidden town, the one behind the facades, reshaping it in an artistic vision never seen before. A vision to revive memories, ruins and traces from life and activity, hidden stories and dramas usually covered by the daily life activities, through breaking up the conventional logic of the theatre stage and to create performance arenas from the town’s real spaces.

We wanted to capture the town’s architecture, its entrances, streets and squares, its spaces in between, using the whole body of the town as a stage. We connected with national and international artists, architects, writers, visual artists, historians, composers and musicians, on their own and in groups. Large parts of the town’s artistic and cultural environment, associations and unions were drawn into the event to create a full-length experience for the audience’s better. The whole thing is made in the shape of a grand-scale town wandering tour."

Source: Grenland Friteater, grenlandfriteater.com, 18.08.2010, http://www.grenlandfriteater.com

Contributors (4)
Name Role
Geddy Aniksdal – Direction (Meierislottet)
Vibeke Lie – Direction (Meierislottet)
Sven Erga – Composer (Meierislottet)
Guttorm Guttormsen – Composer (Meierislottet)
Performance dates
September 10, 2005 Show
September 10, 2005 Show
September 10, 2005 Show
September 9, 2005 Show
September 9, 2005 Show
September 9, 2005 Show
September 8, 2005 Show
September 8, 2005 Show
September 8, 2005 Show
September 7, 2005 Show
September 7, 2005 Show
September 7, 2005 Show
September 6, 2005 Worldwide premiere
September 6, 2005 Show
September 6, 2005 Show