Laterna magica I

Laterna magica I (1991) was the first part of a trilogy. The production was a wandering theatre production at Domkirkeodden in Hamar.

Laterna magica I was a collaboration project with many participating companies from the county of Hedmark. The main companies were Interferens Holografi, Teaterforum, Klomadu Theatre and LOOC (Lillehammer Olympic Organising Committee).

Information

(Objekt ID 27039)
Object type Production
Premiere August 9, 1991
Produced by Klomadu Theatre, Teaterforum, ,
Audience All
Language Norwegian
Keywords Wandering Theatre, Multimedia, Dance, Music, Theatre, Outdoors theatre
Running period August 9, 1991  
Duration 90 minutes
Website Klomadu Teater, Kulturproduksjoner
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All the three pieces of the Laterna magica trilogy was performed in the outdoors area of Hedmark Museum at Domkirkeodden in Hamar.

The three different productions were developed over a period of four years.

Laterna magica I had its premiere in September 1991, Laterna magica II in February 1993 and Laterna magica III during the Olympics in February 1994.

In the production the audience wandered from place to place. The lighting and the three-dimensional images were significant parts of the stage design. Every stop along the way included different elements, such as dance, juggling, music, acting. The events and tableaus were not necessarily connected.

Svein Gundersen writes the following about Laterna magica I:

"We wanted the included artistic expressions to live side by side, as components on equal footing. As such the ambitions were related to visual performance work, in the choice of visual expression in the acting sequences, and in the dramaturgy of the performance, a visual, associative dramaturgy.

We wanted to equalise the imagery and the textual. To realise our inner images. Use a language speaking directly to our dreams, and the myth inside of us. At the same time we wanted to play, and we wanted beauty - a complete work, in which the facets of being could meet us along the way, with their own mobile and not always controllable lives. And we wanted the audience to take part in the action. Not just come to moving from scene to scene in the physical sense, but as participants in the creation."

Laterna Magica is a Latin term, meaning Magic Lantern.

Sources:

E-mail from Kulturproduksjoner represented by Karen Høie, 03.01.2012

Kulturproduksjoner, kulturprod.no, 07.03.2012, http://www.kulturprod.no/index.php/hjem/24-projektbeskrivelser/94-rapport-fra-arbeidet-med-laterna-magica-i-1991

Kulturproduksjoner, kulturprod.no, 07.03.2012, http://www.kulturprod.no/index.php/hjem/24-projektbeskrivelser/75-arbeidet-med-qlaterna-magicaq

Contributors (16)
Name Role
Nina Engelund – Text
Karen Høie – Text
Svein Gundersen (teater) – Script
Svein Gundersen (teater) – Direction
Bjørg Holmen – Choreography
Svein Gundersen (teater) – Stage design
Ola Jevnaker – Costume design
Hedevig Schjødt – Light
Nina Engelund – Actor
Karen Høie – Actor
Hege Rimestad – Musician
Nina Engelund – Producer
Karen Høie – Producer
Gunn Bergvik – Other
Jan Gjessing – Other
Olav Skipnes – Other (Lysbåter)
Performance dates
August 9, 1991 22:00 – Domkirkeodden i Hamar Worldwide premiere