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A motion-picture performance
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2008 |
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Direction, concept, set design
Ralf Richardt Strøbech (1973- )
Ralf Richardt Strøbech is educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture, as well as in music and film studies at Copenhagen University. He has worked with Hotel Pro Forma since 2004, developing such performances as RELIEF (2008), THE SAND CHILD (2007) and THE ALGEBRA OF PLACE (2006). He teaches at the Danish National Theatre School in Copenhagen and works as an architect for various companies in international competitions. From these platforms he works at investigating the cultural mechanisms of his surroundings and to express them in the field between architecture, music and image. He has been artistic director of Hotel Pro Forma since 2006.
Concept, manuscript
Kirsten Dehlholm (1945-)
With a background in the visual arts, Kirsten Dehlholm has worked with performance art for over 30 years. She began with Billedstofteater (Theatre of Images) from 1977 to 1985, and she founded Hotel Pro Forma in 1985. She has directed well over 100 performances ranging from site-specific performances for museums, city halls and other architecturally significant buildings, to performances for prestigious venues around the world, including the Venice Biennale, Berliner Festspiele and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Some of her most well-known performances are the visual opera OPERATION : ORFEO (1993/2007), a collaboration with Dumb Type entitled MONKEY BUSINESS CLASS (1996) and the musical piece I ONLY APPEAR TO BE DEAD (2005) on Hans Christian Andersen.
Music UKR.tele.com (2003)
Initiated in Odessa, Ukraine in 2003 by poet/dj Sergei Klein and experimental electronic artist Andrei Sechkovski, UKR.tele.kom was conceived as an onlie sound source exchange network between Germany, Russia and the Ukraine. Since then they have performed live and collaborated with artists across Europe, including Los BerlinBeamBoys, Mamasweed and Maczde Carpate.
Light design Jesper Kongshaug (1977-)
Jesper Kongshaug is recognized as Denmark’s most radical and innovative light designer. Being very skilful and open-minded he is able to work with the most established theatres as well as the most experimental theatre companies like Hotel Pro Forma. Besides theatre light he creates light for buildings and architectural projects. He is the winner of the Nordic Light Award 2008 for his work on the Royal Danish Playhouse. His productions with Hotel Pro Forma have among others included RELIEF (2008), OPERATION : ORFEO (2007, 1993) and I ONLY APPEAR TO BE DEAD (2004).
Production Hotel Pro Forma
Hotel Pro Forma is an international laboratory of performance and installations. Perception, perspective and themes from the world are blended into a conceptual, visual and musical art form. Each work is developed through an almost natural-science approach to study and research, and subject matter is often taken from this world-view. The artistic process is exploratory and transdisciplinary. The structure of the work is strongly anchored in music, visual arts and architecture and does not follow traditional theatrical structures such as story, text, plot or dramaturgy. Instead the work presents visual and musical universes that investigate universal subjects such as evolution, world cultures, perspective and gravity. The audience is presented with themes and subjects in new contexts, and experimental technology in audio-visuals, light and sound is often developed for each work, so that the subject matter is seen, heard and experienced anew.
Since 1985 Hotel Pro Forma has produced more than 50 works shown in over 30 countries, ranging from exhibitions to performances. The artistic directors are visual artist Kirsten Dehlholm and architect Ralf Richardt Strøbech. |
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