Rattleshake

Lila vs. Rattleshop Inc.

Rattleshake - Lila vs. Rattleshop Inc. by Drivhuset was a music and dance performance for school children.

Rattleshake followed the character Lila and her battle with the powerful business corporation Rattleshop Inc.

Information

(Objekt ID 9998)
Object type Production
Premiere March 1, 2006
Produced by Drivhuset
Coproducers Black Box Teater
Audience Children (from 10 to 12)
Language Norwegian
Keywords Music, Workshop, Work-in-progress, Performance for children, Dance theatre, Dance, Contemporary dance, Multimedia, Multidisciplinary, Performance for youth
Running period March 1, 2006  
Website Rattleshake

Requirements to venue

Blackout No
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Rattleshake - Lila vs. Rattleshop Inc. by Drivhuset sprung out from the world of computer games.

In the program of Black Box Teater and on the webpage of Rattleshake one could read the following about the content and form of the production (a slightly different chronology under than in the original source):

"A new trend, a new "craze" is on - Rattleshakes! The rattleshakes are neither puppets nor kicking marionettes, but robots living their real lives on the internet. Rattleshop Inc. attempts to get millions of children to fight the Rattle-Battle online.

The recipe for the next commercial wave follows familiar Japanese images. The stroke of genius by the corporation Rattleshop Inc is that millions of children can participate and influence the development of the series The Rattleshake Dimension through interactive participation online. But one child, Lila, takes another attitude. This creates an unexpected chain reaction among thousands of children and all of a sudden the corporation loses control over its own Rattleshakers.

Will Lila follow the strict system and become a Rattleshake master after all? What does she want? Can Lila’s choice affect the powerful Rattleshop inc., which is always pulling the threads?"

Freedom of speech and freedom to think in the meeting with massive, global marketing were among the issues discussed in the music and dance performance Rattleshake, which also used robots onstage.

Sources: Vallat, Marianne Dyrnes, Tom Klev, Kristian Seltun (2006). Black Box Teater Oslo the spring of 2006. Black Box Teater [Oslo] page 40.

Drivhuset, drivhuset.org, 09.12.2010, http://drivhuset.musikkverksted.no/rattleshake/

Contributors (13)
Name Role
Isak Anderssen – Concept/Idea
John Halvor Bjørnseth – Concept/Idea
Inger-Reidun Olsen – Choreography
Isak Anderssen – Music
John Halvor Bjørnseth – Music
Kjersti Svendsen – Visual design
Kjersti Svendsen – Stage design
Jean Vincent Kerebel – Lighting design
Kaja Slotnæs – Dancer
Isak Anderssen – Musician
John Halvor Bjørnseth – Musician
Rune Madsen – Other
Arve Voldsund – Other
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