Seminar: Stage text and the young audience

The seminar is for anyone interested in or working with performing arts for children and young people. The seminar is divided into two parts and includes lunch and dinner. The first part consists of lectures from various speakers, and in the second part, participants can choose between several workshops to attend. Price kr. 200. Registration is required HERE.

FIRST PART - LECTURE AT 09.30-13.00

9.30 am: Registration, coffee and mingling

10.00 am: What is the state of Norwegian children's drama?
- welcome and introduction
With Line Rosvoll and Ådne Sekkelsten

Line Rosvoll is artistic director of Dramatikkens hus.
Ådne Sekkelsten is head of Scenekunstbruket.

10.15 am: Theweight of tradition in Norwegian children's drama
- from Julestue to Julestjerne and Snøfall
With Anne Helgesen

Anne Helgesen is a puppeteer, director and artistic director of Kattas Figurteater. She is currently working on the research project Drama for children - the soul of theater. The work includes a historical work on the history of Norwegian children's drama, as well as editorial responsibility for 15 volumes in the series Norwegian Children's Drama from 1906 until today. She has a PhD in theater science and has published non-fiction books, fiction and drama.

11:00 am: Choreography, meaning, language
- choreography as a meaning-generating aggregate
With Rosalind Iselina Barrat-Due Goldberg

Rosalind Iselina Barrat-Due Goldberg works as a choreographer and is currently a researcher at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She holds a master's degree in choreography from Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin - HTZ Berlin and from Balettakademien in Stockholm. Her work is based on an interest in the biological and social construction of the body and methods to explore the "dark waters" where these reside.

11:50 am: Hitting at eye level, child development stages
- child cognitive development
With Torun Vatne

Torun Vatne is a psychologist specializing in child and adolescent psychology with a PhD in communication with children. She works at Frambu Resource Center for Rare Diagnoses, and also teaches general psychology, therapy and communication at the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo.

12.30 pm: Target group drawing is artistic precision
- what knowledge about children can mean for art production
Lisa Nagel in conversation with Kristina Kjeldsberg

Lisa Nagel is a publishing editor at Aschehoug Barn og ungdom. She is educated as a theater scientist and drama educator, and has written a PhD on children's experiences of performing arts and literature.
Kristina Kjeldsberg works as a dramaturge at Dramatikkens hus and has a five-year directing education from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Kjeldsberg is also chair of the board of Assitej Norway.

LUNCH AT. 13.00-14.00

SECOND PART - WORKSHOP KL. 14.00-18.00
The workshops explore different practices in the creative process on the way to the stage text. Registration is required(you can only choose one workshop).

1. The documentary as a starting point
The workshop provides an introduction to the collection and processing of documentary material, as well as the practices and strategies Kjell Moberg uses in the process from devising to stage text.

Kjell Moberg trained as an actor and director at DAMY in Prague, and is the artistic director of KLODEN. In 2011, Moberg and NIE were awarded Assitej International's Award for Artistic Excellence for their artistic work for children and young people internationally. In 2017, he received the Hedda Award together with his colleague Alex Byrne.

2. The text as a starting point for close analysis
Unfinished text by Kristofer Blindheim Grønskag is closely read and examined by the participants together with the playwright. Facilitator: Mari Moen.

Kristofer Blindheim Grønskag has written over 20 theater texts since his debut in 2007. In 2018 he received Jugendtheaterpreis Baden-Württemberg for Satellites in the Sky, and he has been nominated for The National Ibsen Award twice, in 2018 for Counting to Zero and in 2019 for Satellites in the Sky.

Mari Moen works as a dramaturge at Dramatikkens hus. She has a master's degree in dramaturgy from Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich and has worked at a number of institutional theatres in Norway.

3. Body in space as a meaningful practice
With Th´Line

Th'Line consists of dance artists Kristina Wallace and Ida Wigdel, who work with dance and choreography in various sizes and formats. The company has developed its own expression that mixes the beautiful and the ugly, the stupid and the cool in a confrontational way. Physical humor is a driving force in their work and they have a very special form of physical timing where they mix technically advanced dance with the more naive and everyday. They perform regularly on stages in Norway and abroad.

SUMMARY At 16.15
Summary and reflections of the workshops with Kjell Moberg, Kristofer Blindheim Grønskag and Th´Line.

CLOSING at 16.45-18.00
We serve dinner and open the bar on stage for socializing and sharing experiences.

Organizers: Dramatikkens hus in collaboration with KLODEN and Scenekunstbruket

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

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