The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes by Teater Fot is an interactive installation theatre performance with dance, song, music, sounds, objects and playing for the very youngest.
Information
(Objekt ID 635)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | April 17, 2010 |
| Produced by | Teater Fot |
| Audience | (from 1 to 3) |
| Keywords | Multidisciplinary |
| Running period | March 8, 2008 |
| Duration | 50 minutes |
Requirements to venue
| Minimum stage width | 6m |
| Maximum stage width | 8m |
| Minimum stage depth | 8m |
| Maximum stage depth | 10m |
| Minimum stage height | 2m |
| Maximum stage height | 4m |
| Blackout | No |
| Rigging time | 240 minutes |
| Downrigging time | 60 minutes |
| Audience | 50 |
The Red Shoes by Teater Fot is directed towards those who have just learned how to walk on their own feet, and who want to examine the world and the theatre in their own way.
In The Red Shoes the audience is allowed to walk onstage, take part in the dance, play with shoes and objects and try things out on their own. The production examines the interaction between the performers and the aesthetic of performing arts and the participation and input of the children in a partly improvised, but still choreographed and studied process in which the children can recognise elements from their own playing and examination of shoes, rooms and sounds.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Lise Hovik | – Direction |
| Tone Pernille Østern | – Choreography |
| Lise Hovik | – Dramaturge |
| Lise Hovik | – Stage design |
| Tor Andreas Haugerud | – Sound design |
| Hilde Bjerkeskaug | – Actor |
| Line Strøm | – Actor |
| Terese Vangstad | – Actor |
| Hilde Bjerkeskaug | – Dancer |
| Line Strøm | – Dancer |
| Terese Vangstad | – Dancer |
| Lise Hovik | – Puppet maker |
| Lise Hovik | – Producer |
| Tor Andreas Haugerud | – Other |
| April 17, 2010 – Amfiscenen, Nationaltheatret, The National Theatre | Opening night |
"Fortunate symbiosis between art and pedagogy. (...) it is aesthetically thorough and it is complex: The dramaturgy has sort of a bubble structure, with small, conclusive action sequences in chronology. The music is improvised and works as a starter for the different sequences. The fairytale about the red shoes which take control over the person wearing them gives a dynamic, thematic depth to the performance. It is not just a game with the elements, but also rooms conflicting powers allowing for dramatic situations to play out. (...) This is holistic theatre which can be experienced in many ways and at several levels, also by the children."
Lisa Marie Nagel, DRAMA no. 01.09