| Theatre Cinema: 50 Years of Odin Teatret |
 15, 22, 29 October 2014 5, 12, 19 November 2014 Cinema Room Admission free Wed 15 October, 19:00 The Million Screening of a performance by Odin Teatret In English Performed by Torben Bjelke, Roberta Carreri, Toni Cots, Tom Fjordefalk, Tage Larsen, Else Marie Laukvik, Francis Pardeilhan, Iben Nagel Rasmussen, Silvia Ricciardelli, Gustavo Riondet, Ulrik Skeel, Julia Varley and Torgeir Wethal; performance directed by Eugenio Barba; film produced by Odin Teatret Films; Denmark/Germany 1979; 60 minutes A journey among the carnivals of different cultures, from India to Bali, from Japan to Brazil, from Africa to Europe. A “musical” à la Odin: a mocking album of exorcism whose figures of flesh and blood prance about in front of a strange traveler, clad like a missionary, with the spectacles of a short-sighted intellectual and the backpack of a tourist. The Odin Teatret performance The Million was played in different versions between 1978 and 1984.  Wed 22 October, 19:00 In the Beginning was the Idea (The Gospel according to Oxyrhincus) Screening of a performance by Odin Teatret With English substitiles Video directed by Torgeir Wethal; performed by Roberta Carreri, Else Marie Laukvik, Tage Larsen, Francis Pardeilhan, Julia Varley and Torgeir Wethal; written and directed by Eugenio Barba; film produced by Odin Teatret Film; Denmark 1991; 71 minutes The film is based on Odin Teatret’s production The Gospel according to Oxyrhincus. It is the story of the revolt buried alive, the story of Antigone, and her brother Polynices. It is also the story of Zusha Mal’ak, the Jew, who is searching for the Messiah and comes upon a society which has already found its Messiah. Here actors speak Coptic and Old Greek, two dead languages, which nobody any longer understands. Between 1985 and 1987 the piece was performed in 12 countries in Europe and South America.  Wed 29 October, 19:00 The Dead Brother Screening of a work demonstration with Julia Varley In English Written and performed by Julia Varley; film produced by Claudio Coloberti for Odin Teatret Film; Denmark 1993; 67 minutes The Dead Brother is a performance about how performances are made at Odin Teatret. The film describes all stages of the work, which – starting from a poetic text – becomes a “poem in space”: the performance.  Wed 5 November, 19:00 Traces in the Snow Screening of a work demonstration with Roberta Carreri In English Film directed by Torgeir Wethal; written and performed by Roberta Carreri; video produced by Dimitris Vernikos, co-production of Document Films, Athens and Odin Teatret Film with the contribution of Kulturfonden; Denmark 1994; 120 minutes Every performance tells a story. The characters belonging to the world of fiction become credible reality for the spectator thanks to the actor’s technique. In Traces in the Snow the technique itself becomes the protagonist. The actress carries on a dialogue with the secrets which precede and follow the building of a character and the creation of a performance.  Wed 12 November, 19:00 Ego Faust Screening of a performance by Odin Teatret In Italian Film directed by Luigi Rossini; performed by Torgeir Wethal, Augusto Omolú, Kanichi Hanayagi, Sae Nanaogi, Cristina Wistari, I Nyoman Budi Artha, Ni Wayan Sekarini, Julia Varley, Kai Bredholt, Ni Ketut Maringsih, I Made Djimat, I Wayan Bawa and Roberta Carreri; performance directed by Eugenio Barba; video produced by Cometa Film, Bologna, for Odin Teatret Film; Denmark/Italy 2001; 66 minutes Ego Faust is a performance created especially for the 12th ISTA Session by the Theatrum Mundi Ensemble with forty actors, dancers, musicians and singers from different cultures.  Wed 19 November, 19:00 The Transparent Body Documentary In Italian with English subtitles Video produced by Claudio Coloberti for Odin Teatret Film with the contribution of the Polish Culture Institute at the University of Warsaw and the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci Programme; performed by Eugenio Barba and Iben Nabel Rasmussen; Denmark 2002; 46 minutes A conversation between Eugenio Barba and Iben Nabel Rasmussen about the actor’s training illustrated by fragments of Odin Teatret’s performances, images of Iben’s own training developed over thirty years and examples of pedagogical situations with her actors/pupils of The Bridge of Winds.  |