Concert for Greenland

Concert for Greenland is a production by Verdensteateret.

"That corpse you planted in your garden last year, has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?"

Concert for Greenland is an audio-visual composition where rusty mechanics meet new technology on the backside of a "video-shadow-theatre" on Greenland. It's a performance following the principle of "any media necessary", and visual art, sound, video, installation, text and theatre try to unite into one composition.

Information

(Objekt ID 2970)
Object type Production
Premiere March 4, 2004
Produced by Verdensteatret
Coproducers Black Box Teater
Audience Adults, Youth
Language Norwegian and Danish
Keywords Puppetry, Installation, Concert, Live art, Musical theatre, Post-dramatic theatre, Performance, Theatre, Multidisciplinary, Object theatre, Video
Running period March 4, 2004  —  2005

Requirements to venue

Blackout Yes
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In Concert for Greenland by Verdensteatret Greenland is the main focal point of the work. The material is based on travels and research around the Northwest-Atlantic countries Greenland, Iceland, Faeroe Islands and Norway from August until November 2003. In Oslo all the material collected on these trips went into a deeper artistic process, and in the end a concentrate was, the way Verdensteatret says it, "sweated out".

Verdensteatret says: "Our longest stay was in Greenland and it made a deep impression on us. The ambivalence we often felt during our stay there has through the process transformed into a deep fascination. The subconscious experience of our travels there is rebuilt through dreams and our unreliable memory and resulted in these artistic transformations. Concert for Greenland is a work in honour of Greenland."

Performances not clear from the performance date list:

2004:

DETOX/BIT. Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway

Avant Garden. Trondheim, Norway

Kulturhuset Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden

The Norwegian Opera/KHiO (Performing at a seminar on space-related art) Oslo, Norway

Stamsund International Theatre Festival. Lofoten, Norway.                

2005:

Steirischer herbst festival. Graz, Austria.

De Singel. Antwerp, Belgium.

TRAFO House of Contemporary Art. Budapest, Hungary.

International Theatre Festival Divadelna. Nitra, Slovakia.

PS 122. New York City, USA

Source:

Verdensteatret, verdensteatret.com, 05.12.2010: http://www.verdensteatret.com/kg_intro.html

Contributors (20)
Name Role
Erik Balke (from August 1, 2006) – Co-creator (Aktør)
Christian Blom – Co-creator (Aktør)
Lisbeth Bodd – Co-creator (konsept/idé)
Øyvind Borgemoen Lyse – Co-creator
Corinne Lyche Campos – Co-creator
Ali Djabbary – Co-creator (Aktør)
Per Flink Basse (to May 8, 2006) – Co-creator (Aktør)
Kjeld Kemp – Co-creator
Ulf Knudsen – Co-creator
Kenneth K. Langås – Co-creator
Jannicke Lie – Co-creator
Håkon Lindbäck – Co-creator (Lysdesign)
Trond Lossius – Co-creator (Konsulent)
Reinert Mithassel – Co-creator
Asle Nilsen – Co-creator (konsept/idé)
Piotr Pajchel – Co-creator (Aktør - Video/Film)
Morten Pettersen – Co-creator
Bergmund Waal Skaslien – Co-creator
Petter Steen – Co-creator
Lars Øyno – Co-creator (Aktør)
Performance dates
June 3, 2005 21:00 – Lofoten Trålerrederi Show
2005Dom im Berg Show
2005Dom im Berg Show
2005Theatre Studio, deSingel, De Singel Show
2005TRAFO House of Contemporary Art Show
2005 Show
2005Second Floor Theater, PS122 Show
December 5, 2004 Show
December 4, 2004 Show
March 7, 2004Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 6, 2004Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 5, 2004Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
March 4, 2004Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Worldwide premiere
2004BIT Teatergarasjen, Norsk Dramatikk Show
2004Verkstedhallen, Svartlamon & Co Show
Festivals (5)
Press coverage

Hilde Østby: Merkelig vakkert (literally: Strangely beautiful), 06.03.2004, Dagsavisen page 21 [Oslo]:
"Verdensteatret's intensely mystical and beautiful productions are like clips of a very old movie in a dead language, edited in a way which has left the action out. The result is composed of strange images, fragments of conversation and a highly processed and interesting landscape of sound. Concert for Greenland is a beautiful performance, a concert in which sound and image melt into a higher unit. This is an aesthetic experience one can only understand if one experiences it."