Polyphonia Variations

In Polyphonia Variations, subtitled A visual radio play with youth, the young and inexperienced performers were confronted with a material laid out beforehand in the shape of a virtuoso demanding musical and audio visual concept. This double confrontation – the unusual meeting between actor and material – was the fundament and force of power behind Polyphonia Variations by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret-Bergen. The hope was to achieve an artistic exchange and development project in three parts, in which the young performers could change in meeting the material, in which the Polyfonia Variasjoner material (text/direction/music) could change in meeting the young performers and, not least, how the expression itself was changed so to include the audience in the very process.

The attempts at casting children and youth in a professional art setting have (most) often been done due to a wish for authenticity. Embargo, written and directed by Tore Vagn Lid for Hordaland Theatre (2009) went in the opposite direction. He staged the prejudice itself assisted by 11 18 year olds – 11 young hopeful – having spent two months in circular training within the cultural industry, that is, to hide their strategies and instrumental calculations and belittling techniques as well as they could, not least by taking advantage of their childish lack of danger and their authentic presence in the post-dramatic theatre. Polyphonia Variations built on these experiences while inviting to new attempts.

Supported by Bergen City Council.

Source:

Transiteatret-Bergen, transiteatret.com, 01.08.2010, http://www.transiteatret.com/