The globe at the center - the performances are ready!

March 15, 2018

During Heddadagene, Kloden moves into a tent in central Oslo, and throughout the week we fill it with fantastic performing arts for young audiences. Applications for a total of 72 productions were received from 60 companies and theaters. Of these, we have selected five. In addition, Norsk Scenekunstbruk has programmed the winners of The Hedda Award 2017 in the categories best production for children and best production for youth. The program with times will be announced after Easter.

Performances

What I talk about when I talk about running

Inspired by Murakami's book of the same title, Fredrik Høyer races towards the goal to see what the prize is in the end. In collaboration with director Nils Petter Mørland and Det Andre Teatret, they have developed a performance where slam poetry, oral storytelling and Det Andre Teatret's audience-oriented and loose theatrical expression meet. Fredrik Høyer made his novel debut with Månehund & fatter'n in 2014. In 2016, the poetry collection Grønlandsūtraen was published. This poetry collection was published as both a book and an album, soundtracked by musicians Fredfades & Eikrem. An adaptation of Grønlandsūtraen was staged the same year as a separate performance at the National Theatre, a monologue written and performed by Fredrik Høyer himself.

Photo: Tor Orset

Soft Eyes

This is a short and intense theater performance about the refugee crisis. The production is based on the newspaper headline "71 dead in a truck in Austria", and deals with people on the run and those of us who receive them. The performance meets the audience with facts, poetry and associations to the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. In the flood of information, it can be difficult to navigate, and it is easy to be driven towards the extremes of public discourse. Soft eyes is an attempt to create a space for young people to reflect, a physical encounter with issues related to the refugee flows. The text is written by playwright Kate Pendry in light of the refugee situation in recent years, and is produced by Artilleriet Produksjoner and Scenekunst Østfold.

 

Safari

Through sensory and tactile exploration of the space, the audience gets to experience both physical power and sensibility up close. The aim is to challenge the audience to experience the body beyond the everyday. The expression unfolds in a tactile landscape, which the performers and the children share. Safarium is a dance performance that was initially developed for children with special needs, but can be experienced by everyone.

The company Landing was established in 2005 by a group of 11 dance and performing artists, with the artistic vision of creating site-specific performing arts. By initiating and researching different forms of encounters with their audience, they want to contribute to making contemporary dance art relevant and popular among more people.

MINI

The theme of this production is the experience of each other and everything that is different from ourselves. It is about trying to grasp and understand the world, as children often do in their curiosity about everything around them. What is it? Why is she doing that? What is that sound, what is that movement?

The production is developed by Teater Nova by Simone Thiis, and the Italian company TPO. TPO specializes in high-tech performances, including custom-built sensor mats and interactive graphic design. The expression is both magical and adventurous.

This is a performance for the very youngest children, from 1 to 4 years old.

Meg, Meg and Meg

In the performance we meet four different characters who are actually one and the same person. The masked characters seek acceptance from each other and the audience, and they have a strong need to find their personal spaces. Their feelings of being cool and stupid alternate unpredictably, and characterized by the culture of achievement, the characters try to be an elevated version of themselves.

Th'Line was established in 2006 and is run by dance artists Kristina Søetorp and Ida Wigdel, both educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Th'Line has developed a distinctive expression that mixes the beautiful and the ugly, the stupid and the cool in confrontational ways. There is a lot of comedy in their cross-genre expression, and the company is known for inclusive and unpretentious performances.

Photo: Lars Opstad/Kulturtanken

 

Last year's winners of The Hedda Award in the categories Best production for children and Best production for youth

Norsk Scenekunstbruk presents the winners of The Hedda Award 2017 in the categories best production for children and best production for youth, and performs them at Kloden i sentrum.

 

Brown

Winner of The Hedda Award for best production for children 2017.

Teater Joker developed the production "Brune" in collaboration with Akershus Theatre.

The production is a dramatization of Håkon Øvreå's book of the same name, which won the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize in 2014 and was nominated for the Brage Prize in 2013.

By day Rune is Rune Rune, a boy who has just lost his grandfather, but by night he is Brune - the superhero who is not afraid of anything. He sneaks out and paints the bikes of the boys who demolished the plank cabin. Eventually, he gets help from his friends Atle and Åse. But that's not all: Suddenly he meets his grandfather, who is dead ...

The story of Rune is a wonderful mix of realism and adventure, play and seriousness, with themes such as grief, bullying, friendship and revenge. Teater Joker's stage language, with the use of serial mime, reflects the community Rune experiences in the meeting with his friends, a friendship that helps them all in the fight for justice.

Photo: Mads Nygård

We Come from Far, Far Away

Winner of the Hedda Award for best youth production 2017

The performance is based on stories collected at Hvalstad transit reception center for underage asylum seekers in Asker, and we follow the young people Omar and Abdallah on their flight from Aleppo in Syria, until one of them arrives at Oslo Central Station. The audience sits inside a tent that is set up at each venue, and the action takes place close to, and also among, the audience. The material in the performance is documentary, and is shared with NIE through conversations and workshops. The participants' stories are painful and incredible, but as with most young people, they are full of energy, vitality and hope for the future.

Over the past 17 years, NIE has established itself as one of the leading European companies working specifically with children and young people. Through extensive collaboration across national borders and disciplines, the company has steadily developed its signature.