Jo Stromgren Kompani Nórsko/Norway

26.máj, 20:00 Divadlo Aréna/The Arena Theatre

Jo Stromgren Kompani is one of the most significant independent companies in Scandinavia. It has been a playground for different styles and crossover ideas. From film to puppet theatre to live music events to textbased theatre to more abstract dance. Last year they even premiered a cinema movie. The company has been for quite a while and will continue to use young actors as performers. In their work they are searching in the non-educated movement sources and also taken up the tradition from the dadaist times, using nonsense language. They also focus on telling a story or at least playing on associative elements - a bit of reactionary principles mixed with a contemporary approach.
The company co-producers are: Bergen International Theatre, The House of Dance Stockholm, Lithuanian Dance Information Centre. Their last production was co-produced by Rui Horta in Portugal, Festival Danse a Aix in France and the National Theatre in Norway.

Oddelenie/The Department

Choreografia/Choreography: Jo Stromgren
Hudba/Music: Lars ordal/Jo Stromgren
Scénografia a video/Set and video: Jo Stromgren
Svetelný design/Light design: Stephen Rolfe
Tancujú/Dance: Espen Reboli Bjerke, Trond Fausa Aurg, Bartek Kaminski-Obuchowicz, John Fjelnseth Brungot
Výroba/Produced by: Ann-Christin Danhammar
Produkcia/Production: Jo Stromgren Kompani

The Department describes one day in a secret office of an imaginary government. Agents analyse and scrutinise society through keyholes and message services. Doors have long lost their purpose of separating the public from the private. Orders coming from above are implemented into the bureaucratic system a priori. Absurd and incomprehensible and certainly not without complications. But to the outside, everything seems normal. Until one of the agents smell freshly baked bread and starts asking questions…The performance, using an extremly political topic, expresses a tribute to arbitrary mistakes leading to a general confusion. A general confusion, which we created and of which we are victims. The main symbol of the one-hour long performance is bread, being the last and most common thing in everyday life and at the same time the sacred symbol of religious spirituality.

S Podporou/Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NordScen – Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts, Municipal of Bergen, Fond for performing artists and Fond for lyd og bilde.