Muscle Temple

In Muscle Temple (2010) by Goro Tronsmo four dancers and one director met five days every week for approximately three months. The only direction the dancers were given was that there was no direction. The time frame consisted of five daily hours and cameras recorded everything the dancers did. The intention was to put the performers in an intersection between private and public, individual and group, reality and fiction. The lack of rules encouraged them to handle themselves in new social settings and to create their own framework.

Information

(Objekt ID 7424)
Object type Production
Premiere April 8, 2010
Produced by
Coproducers Black Box Teater
Audience Adults
Language Swedish
Keywords Theatre, Multidisciplinary, Installation, Durational performance, Post-dramatic theatre, Site spesific performance, Dance, Work-in-progress
Running period April 8, 2010  
Website Muscle Temple, Muscle Temple, Muscle Temple, Muscle Temple, Muscle Temple, Muscle Temple

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In the Black Box Teater catalogue one could read the following about Muscle Temple by Goro Tronsmo:

"Tronsmo has made a work in which the process is the result and the result is the process. This line of thinking creates a scenic tension and new layers and stages of experience. A process Goro Tronsmo and her company invite the spectator to take part in.

In Muscle Temple contexts are broken down, ordinary perceptions are remade and rephrased. Tronsmo and her company work in a wide open process in which the divides between private persons and characters are no longer visible. Goro herself calls these stations ”non-fixate able spaces”, events shifting and creating confusion.
Muscle Temple is a reality show in which five performers spend large shares of their time together in front of cameras in Stockholm and Oslo. At the same time it is an art installation, improvised madness and a disrespectful cliché of something we usually call theatre."

Source: Black Box Teater Oslo, http://www.blackbox.no/, 15.10.2010, http://www.blackbox.no/content/titlePresentation.php?tid=2035

Contributors (10)
Name Role
Goro Tronsmo – Concept/Idea
Goro Tronsmo – Direction
Kine Lillestrøm – Stage design (Rom)
Per Platou – Sound design (Lydkonsept)
Kyrre Heldal Karlsen – Lighting design (Lys)
Linda Adami – Co-creator
Ludde Hagberg – Co-creator
Kristiina Viiala – Co-creator
Mathias Wiik – Co-creator
Morten Kippe – Production assistant
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