Verdensteatret

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Verdensteatret
Formation1986
TypeTheatre group
Location
  • Norway
Website www.verdensteatret.com

Verdensteatret is a hybrid performance art company based in Norway.

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In 1986 Lisbeth Bodd and Asle Nilsen founded Verdensteatret, a collective of artists from different fields who collaborate to stage pieces which combine performance, installation, shadow-play, sound and animation. [1] Using mostly found and repurposed material (they use the word "flotsam") like driftwood, wire, bicycle parts and bones, they use both computers and live actors to create audiovisual concerts. [2] For example, their 2008 show Louder combined robotics, videography, music and shadow-play to create a dreamlike journey through the Mekong Delta. [3] In 2006 Concert for Greenland won a Bessie Award in the category Performance, Installation, and New Media [4] "for building exquisite links between seemingly incompatible technologies and materials-robots, video, piano, driftwood, and computers; for sharing their succinctly visualized yet beautifully ambivalent relationship to hidden landscapes; and for offering a poetically and emotionally evocative soundscape of a far-off place...," according to the jury statement. [5] Concert for Greenland was performed at P.S. 122 (Performance Space 122) in New York.

Verdensteatret was awarded the Hedda Award Honorary Award in 2014. [6] They were awarded the Hedda Award for Best Audiovisual Design in 2015 for their production "Broen over gjørme" ("Bridge Over Mud"). [7] They received the 2014-2015 Norwegian Critics' Association Award for "Broen over gjørme" ("Bridge Over Mud") as well. [8]

Production History

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