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COSMOS+ / 2014

COSMOS+

a Big Bang performance about the Wonders of the Universe.

2014



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Credits
PARTICIPANTS

KOSMOS+ Copenhagen, 2015

Performers
Tom7 Frederic Linde-Fleron / Lau Emil Koeller
Moongirl Frida Striim Therkelsen / Zoé Andrea Braum Polychronopoulos
Astronomer Ellen Hillingsø
Mathematician Niels Anders Thorn
Philosopher Bende Harris
Philosopher Preben Harris
Physicist Sofie Lebech
Physicist Lisbeth Sonne
Operator Casper Sloth
Operator Stine Gyldenkerne

Direction Kirsten Dehlholm
Concept Kirsten Dehlholm, Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer, Jesper Grimstrup, Magnus Pind Bjerre
Music Ernestas Kausylas/Brokenchord, Misa Skalskis/96wrld
Script Kirsten Dehlholm, Laura Mortensen,
Morten Søndergaard, Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer,
Mindaugas Nastaravicius, Tomas Lagermand Lundme
Science research Jesper Grimstrup, Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer, Laura Mortensen, Kirsten Dehlholm
Video design Magnus Pind Bjerre, Birk Marcus Hansen
Set design Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer, Jesper Kongshaug, Kirsten Dehlholm
Light design Jesper Kongshaug
Sound design Kristian Hverring
Costume design Henrik Vibskov
Additional video design Juliana Stadelmann, Susanne Leon, Frigge Volander Himmelstrup
Director’s assistant Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer
Props: Maxime Robillard, Mar Vincens Fuster
Hand drawings Tristan Sømod Ferslev, Carl Theodor Rørbech Andreasen
Technical consultant Ville Hyvönen
Models and visual research: Atelier Hotel Pro Forma
Assistants Tobias Lukassen (sound), Rhoda Ting (set), Katrine Balle Hvidberg (production), Flora Brandt (light)
Make up MAC Cosmetics
Photo Roberto Fortuna
Graphic design for PR Nete Banke/Imperiet

Production manager Gediminas Ušackas
Video engineer Eglė Eigirdaitė
Light operator Andrius Stasiulis / Vilius Vilutis
Technics Michael “Østerz” Christiansen, Teater & Lysteknik
Project coordinator Johanna Maj Thorning
PR/Communications Peter Lyth
Tickets Ingjerd Heggem Nergaard, Ida Fredericia
Production Hotel Pro Forma and Lithuanian National Drama Theatre

KOSMOS+ is supported by
Oticon Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Toyota Fonden, Københavns Kommune, Knud Højgaards Fond, Louis-Hansen Fonden, The Danish Embassy in Vilnius, Danish Cultural Institute.

Partner
MAC Cosmetics, Teater & Lysteknik

Thanks to
Henning Langkjer, Lis Fisker, Jon Micheelsen, Pernille Pind, Mette Bjerre, Simon Lausten Østergaard, Bradley Allen, Jennifer Miller, CPH Volunteers, Den Grå Hal, Tobias Kirstein, Mikkel Bohm og Danish Science Factory, Andreas Mogensen, ESA, Videnskab.dk, Naturvidenskabernes Hus, Børnenes Universitet, Big Bang konferencen

KOSMOSAS+
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, 2014

Performers
Astronomer Vytautas Rumšas
Mathematician Remigijus Bučius
Philosopher Ramutis Rimeikis
Philosopher Vaiva Mainelytė
Physicist Jolanta Dapkūnaitė
Physicist Rasa Rapalytė
Operator Paulius Tamolė
Operator Elzė Gudavičiūtė
Moon Girl Liepa Petronytė, Leta Stopaitė
Tom7 Jurgis Benys, Alanas Janavičius

Musicians Ernestas Lausylas, Misa Skalskis

Lithuanian National Drama Theatre
Project manager Aušra Simanavičiūtė
Technical director Gediminas Ušackas
Head of production Darius Bastys
Stage manager Regina Garuolytė-Zikarienė
Video engineer Eglė Eigirdaitė
Translator Ieva Toleikytė
Sound operators Karolis Bratkauskas, Kastytis Narmontas
Light operator Andrius Stasiulis
Make-up Dalia Jovaišienė
Costume workshop Aurelijus Ivanauskas, Laima Junelienė, Birutė Menčinskienė, Janina Mickevičienė, Milda Selickienė, Danguolė Urbanavičienė
Costume design Sandra Straukaiti
Director’s assistants Maria Carneiro, Svetlana Karadimova
Costume print design Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer
Technical consultant Ville Hyvönen

Thanks to
Gediminas Gelgotas, Lina Simutyte, Tekle Kavtaradzė, Birute Kapustinskaite, Danish Embassy in Vilnius, Danish Cultural Institute

Reviews
Politiken (DK) – 5 hearts
When it comes to setting out into the cosmos, Dehlholm is on home territory. Precisely because only two per cent of the universe can be described and, basically speaking, we know precious little about it. So this is all the more reason to send us off on an insanely fine, sense-tingling tour de force out into space, packed with info about everything from the five billion years the sun has left to ‘live the life’ to the number of years a twin can catch up with on a long-distance journey in space. Kosmos+ is a performance that is mind-boggling
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Teater1 (DK) – 5 stars
With COSMOS+ Hotel Pro Forma has truly produced a new format for children’s theatre. A format of fantastic international artistic quality, that in no way talks down to the children. The little ones, just like the adults, have to be on their toes to follow and understand or just enjoy the unique images and music in constant motion. Star images in constant eternal change. They have to look up!
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Information (DK)
…It is important to note that new drama also has wild cross-over art on offer. Most recently with Kirsten Dehlholm and Hotel Pro Forma, whose Big Bang performance Cosmos+ at Den Grå Hal was a sizzlingly beautiful family performance on understanding the origin of everything. At the same time, it was also an existential problematizing of modern man’s explosive knowledge of our own infinitesimal smallness.

Lithuanian Morning News, online edition:
…The images seen on the stage are truly impressive, and sometimes simply enchanting. The goal of creating a unique alternative image of the cosmos is what makes this production truly extraordinary…“It’s the best thing that I have ever seen”, my seven-year-old son told me when the lights went up.
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Seven Days of Art (LT)
…a parallel view of the cosmos created with the help of new image reproduction techniques, which extends across the entire space, sometimes exceeding the stage, surrounding the audience, immersing it into the approaching and receding virtual universe of images. The video designers Magnus Pind Bjerre and Birk Marcus Hansen together with the lighting designer Jesper Kongshaug have found fantastic analogies to convey the most important bodies and phenomena of the universe. Fascinatingly ingenious motifs.
Read the full review here

Ore.lt (LT)
The performance is a synthesis of image, sound and text…“Cosmos+” is an undoubtedly educational and work of popular science, but I would dare to call it philosophical as well.
Read the full review here

Download all reviews here (in English)

Program text
Why did Hotel Pro Forma create the performance COSMOS+?

Because we are fascinated by the phenomena in the universe.

Because we want to create an experience for children and adults where science mingles with art in a large, international format.

Because our ambition is that at least two boys and girls from tonight’s audience are inspired by the performance to decide to become scientists.

Our curiosity about the universe causes us to ask questions. The mysteries of the universe are thought-provoking. They have always been the subject of investigations, fantasies, theories, scientific experiments and journeys into outer space. If something happens in the universe, it leads to something else. Everything is interconnected. Our own organic building-blocks and molecules originally come from a star that exploded long before life on Earth arose. We all are made of stardust, the astrophysicists tell us.

COSMOS+ explores the discoveries of natural science and the latest images. The visual material in the performance is homemade in our ‘cosmic kitchen’. Shapes and textures are created via analog experiments and subsequently processed. With sensory series of images we interpret factual documentation of the phenomena of the universe. Children’s drawings, animated sequences and magic light are other effects used. An airy floor gives Earth a live surface.

First performances
Premiere on 21 March 2014 at Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Repremiere on 4 February 2015 at Den Grå Hal, Copenhagen, Denmark


COSMOS+ is a performance created with the aim of arousing enthusiasm and curiosity about the beauty and many mysteries of the universe.

COSMOS+ brings us closer to the stars, the planets, the sun, comets and asteroids and such phenomena as supernova, white dwarfs, red giants, black holes, dark matter and dark energy, background radiation and the Big Bang.

COSMOS+ is a composition of live performance with text, music, projections and light.

We follow the boy Tom7, who carries out his space experiments. He knows everything about the universe! He meets the astronomer, the mathematician, two physicists, two philosophers and two operators. They are experts who can provide us with facts about the phenomena in the universe – while the moon-girl comes and goes.
The farther out into space we look, the farther back we are in time. We meet cosmic phenomena that starts with the solar system and ends with the Big Bang, followed by quantum fluctuations – like thousands of soap bubbles.

Short, humorous stories from daily life on the planet Earth mix with almost incomprehensible facts about the universe. Here is where we live, and it is from here that we look up into the sky and are amazed. We are a part of the drama that takes place far, far away but that influences us each and every day.

Magnificent images fill the stage. Projections of immediate beauty and violent force are accompanied by rhythmic electro-music. Music and images, drawings and narratives show the fantastic history of the universe, where everything is interconnected.

Duration: 75 min. no intermission


Danish
En Big Bang forestilling om universets gåder.

Vi følger drengen Tom7, som er i gang med sine rumlige eksperimenter. Han ved alt om universet! Han møder astronomen, matematikeren, to fysikere, to filosoffer og to operatører. De er eksperter, der kan give os facts om universets fænomener – mens månepigen kommer og går.

Desto længere ud i rummet vi ser, jo længere tilbage kommer vi i tid. Vi møder kosmiske fænomener, der starter i solsystemet og ender med Big Bang efterfulgt af kvantefluktuationer – som tusinder af sæbebobler.

Korte, humoristiske historier fra hverdagen om menneskers daglige liv på planeten Jorden blander sig med de næsten ubegribelige facts om universet. Det er her, vi bor, og det er herfra, vi ser op på himlen og forundres. Vi er en del af det drama, der foregår langt, langt borte, men har indflydelse på os hver dag.

Universet bevæger sig konstant, universet bevæger os.

Storslåede billeder fylder scenen. Projektioner af umiddelbar skønhed og voldsom kraft ledsages af rytmisk electro musik.

Musikken er skabt til former og fænomener som en mangefacetteret bølge af fysiske lyde, fragmenterede klange og rytmiske melodier. Elekronisk musik der skubber til øret og til de talte ord.

Musik og billeder, tegninger og fortællinger er alle udsagn, der viser universets imponerende historie, hvor alting er forbundet.

Hotel Pro Forma Tomsgårdsvej 19 2400 København NV Denmark Tel. + 45 51 27 87 47 mail@hotelproforma.dk

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