| Alleyway Cinema: Odin Festival |
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Tue–Sat 2–6 September 2014, 9pm Przej¶cie ¯ela¼nicze Admission free Event as part of Odin Festival Tue 2 September, 9pm Dressed in White Directed by Torgeir Wethal, produced by Odin Teatret, Denmark, 1976, 45 minutes In English A strolling player arrives in a small village in southern Italy. She is masked. She always carries her drum with her. She tries to summon the inhabitants. They wonder at her, give her food, but would rather not be disturbed in their work with the tobacco harvest, in their card games or in their wedding ceremonies. The children think she moves in a strange way, almost like an animal. Only to the dead in the graveyard can she tell her story without being rejected. The public solitude of the actor’s journey is presented lyrically and realistically in this fictional film title is taken from an Italian folk song. The character, which Iben Nagel Rasmussen created for the role of town crier, later became a well-known figure in the street and dance performances of Odin Teatret.  Wed 3 September, 9pm Theatre Meets Ritual Produced by Odin Teatret, Denmark, 1976, 25 minutes In English In May and June 1976 Odin Teatret toured in Venezuela. This film shows barters in Kuripe, a Venezuelan black village, and with the Yanomami, an Indian tribe of the Upper Orinoco in Amazonia. It includes fragments from the Book of Dances and Come! And the Day Will Be Ours by Odin Teatret, as well as Yanomami dances and the shaman’s enactment of his tribal legend about the tortoise which killed the jaguar.  Thu 4 September, 9pm On the two Banks of the River Directed by Torgeir Wethal, produced by Odin Teatret Film, Denmark, 1978, 56 minutes In English There is martial law in the country Odin Teatret has come to. The authorities keep a sharp eye on theatre groups, who create disorder, gather crowds, because when people collect together anything can happen. In 1978 Odin Teatret travelled to Peru. The film, which shows how they managed to play their performances and come into contact with people in spite of the restrictive conditions, is essentially about the strategy of insubordination by means of theatre. Odin Teatret is seen training in a slum, organizing parades in Indian villages, performing in an Ayacucho prison and taking part in several barters. Traditional celebrations had not been forbidden. The authorities knew that fireworks were less harmful than paving stones. Some people invited Odin Teatret who agreed to perform on condition the local people accepted a barter: they should also show something of theirs.  Fri 5 September, 9pm Ascent to the Sea Directed by Torgeir Wethal, produced by Odin Teatret, Denmark, Denmark, 1982, 36 minutes In English In order to be seen amongst the crowd, the actors began to use tall stilts. Death was nine feet tall and wore a white tie and tails. In order to be heard they used drums and trumpets. This colourful army which advanced dancing and attacked in formation, broke the daily rhythm, surprising and imprisoning the public in their midst as they advanced to different sites where scenes of the performance were enacted. In the mid-1970s, using traditional processions and parades as a point of departure, Odin Teatret created the street performance Anabasis, which could move through towns and villages. Spaces in the town which normally went unnoticed were transformed into a stage. The film follows Odin Teatret’s street production Anabasis in Peru. It is a typical example of Odin Teatret’s unique use of the urban environment as a theatrical space.  Sat 6 September, 9pm Dances in the Sand Directed by Mette Bovin, produced by Mette Bovin Film, 1983, 45 minutes In English Dances in the Sand is a film about a cultural barter in Burkina Faso, West Africa. It is an experimental journey. Roberta Carreri, Odin Teatret actress, functioned as a catalyst for the Danish anthropologist Mette Bovin, who was able to meet the Africans in a new way: Provocation Anthropology. The actress, the anthropologist and the African villagers performed together in an exchange of dance, theatre, song, hyena dances, drums and masks.  |