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The Meteor festival is among the best known festivals of performing arts in Norway. The festival manifesto states that Meteor should explore the possibilities of theatre, and at the same time display a clear interest in, and an attitude towards the entire field of contemporary art. Meteor is a meeting place for Norwegian and international artists, as well as international theatre managers, producers and members of the press. This provides an opportunity for the exchange of knowledge and experiences, but also for promotion of Norwegian contemporary theatre and its essential figures from all over the country.

At Meteor 2007, we will emphasize the festival's potential as an arena for competence and network building – in addition to maintaining and further developing a strong artistic program. This year, the traditional seminar program will be revitalized by increased emphasis on professional skill, artist participation and informal network building.

The Satellite1-program is built upon the following main components:

- a theoretical approach to the field of performing arts, based on practical work

- involvement of the dramatic arts society: speed dating, videoteque

- practical networking: debates.

Two European capacities have been invited to Bergen to provide contributions to the debates. Above all, they all have extensive theoretical knowledge and practice within several fields of art. They will present texts of both political and polemical nature, and will refer to different practices and results, as well as confronting us with future challenges within the field of dramatic arts. This is an open event.

With: Christine Peters: Yesterday is already so far away and Danjel Andersson: Varför i helvete är vi så jävla fega här för? - en delrapport mitt i en kritisk strukturanalys av svenskt teaterlandskap* (Why the hell are we such bloody cowards here? A partial report in the middle of a critical structural analysis of the Swedish theatre landscape.)

Moderator: Knut Ove Arntzen

Christine Peters studied theatre, English and French literature in Giessen, Dublin and Frankfurt am Main. From 1992 to 1998 she was Project Director and from 1998 to 2003 Artistic Director at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, an international centre for contemporary arts. Linked to an interdisciplinary discourse & research she presented a year round program dedicated to experimental visual & performative formats. Her work contained curating, international networking, production, and publication. Since 2004 she works as freelance curator, dramaturge and lecturer, e.g. for: Festival Tanz & Theater Hannover 2004, Festival Theater der Welt, Stuttgart 2005, Festival Steirischer Herbst, Graz 2006 (here she co-curated the group exhibition Protections at Kunsthaus Graz). She lectures interdisciplinary practice at the theatre, media & film department, University of Frankfurt.

Danjel Anderson is a journalist, critic as well as founder and editor of the Swedish magazine Visslingar och Rop. He is artistic director and curator of Perfect Performance, a Swedish performance festival.

Knut Ove Arntzen is an associate professor in theatre studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He worked as a theatre critic in Oslo from 1976 to 1986, and has published a long series and essays in Norwegian and international research periodicals on trends and developments within the field of theatre and visual art. He has participated in a long series of symposia and conferences of research in theatre and cultural studies, and he has been a visiting professor at universities like Antwerp, Frankfurt am Main and Kaunas. He is an international research counsellor to the Bergen International Theatre.

Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, Meteor 2007, Satellite 1. 20.09.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no -archive