nta graduation 2012 acting&scenography

Graduation 2012 ACTING&SCENOGRAPHY

”Continuosly develop methods that are questioning the interaction between various art fields, between theatre and society and between theory and practice.”

The Norwegian Theatre Academy was established within Østfold University College in 1996. At the origin of the project, it was a three years pilot-project in puppetry education accomplished by a foundation named: “Stiftelsen Norsk Dukketeater Akademi”. After a positive evaluation from the Ministry of Education, NTA started up as the new theatre education in Norway. Today we have moved beyond puppetry, to educate aspiring performing artists and scenographers who wish to explore the interaction between visual art and theatre, between theatre and society and between theory and practice. Our study program emphasizes collaboration between our two degree programs – scenography and acting. The artistic profile of the courses is inspired by theatre forms in which the perception of images, space, sound and bodily awareness are central elements. Our goal is to challenge students to think in innovative ways, to help them develop their own artistic practice, and to prepare them to meet professional demands of working with directors, choreographers, film-makers, composers, playwrights and other artists in both traditional and experimental genres.

Our identity is continuously developed by the artistic directors who curate the two BA programs for the students’ artistic development by giving the floor to renowned international artists. This way of organizing the teaching opens the Academy up for continuous development and brings us to the forefront of theatre training. It is important to notice that 60% of the teaching is provided by the visiting artists recruited worldwide, and that our artistic staff is appointed for a period (term) of 4 years.

Furthermore, we offer our students the chance to study in a very special and intimate setting that allows close individual attention whether they are creating independent projects or directed productions.

Since the very start in 1996, the Academy has graduated 66 actors and 43 scenographers. This spring, 12 new artists will graduate from Norwegian Theatre Academy.

Congratulations to all!

Anne Berit Løland Administrative Director

ABOUT THE NORWEGIAN THEATRE ACADEMY

OPPOSITE PAGE, photo: Hanna Reidmar.

Serge von Arx professorArtistic Director Scenography

Serge von Arx professorArtistic Director Scenography

This is the fourth group of scenography students I am proud to graduate, the ninth class since NTA’s foundation. At this moment I become aware how much they have grown, not only as individual artists on their distinct paths, developing their artistic careers, but also as a collaborative. There is a spirit unique to each class of students. The same way they have developed apart form each other, they have have grown into a unity. For three years they have been discovering, investigating, revealing, suffering, researching and questioning what we take for granted. Ida Grimsgaard explored the somatic self-reflection in performance art allowing her to understand and shape space with her performative presence. Sarah Funch Jahn extracted the essence from and expanded her artistic freshness and open mind into that of a precise and distinct spatial creator. Björn Neukom allowed himself in a meticulous indulgence to evolve his previous exploration in the visual arts into scenography, acquiring the performative. Hanna Reidmar allowed her photographic eye to become even sharper while unfolding her perception into the inherent spatial, discovering the profound means of a scenographer. Jon Skulberg had already accumulated such a profound theoretical knowledge of the arts when he came to the academy, it was almost a burden for himself; he developed an accurate sense as an art practitioner allowing him now to carefully balance both sides and freely juggle its components.

It is not only that I followed you grow over the last three years but also how much I learned from you. You have dealt with the complexity of developing a project within the collaborative frame of a theatre production, you have participated in the design in scale of a major exhibition bearing your contribution for more than a year, you have organized installations in the public environment in Oslo dealing with public organizations and authorities, you have started a political discussion in a German city with

your imaginative and precise statements reflecting history, you have developed stage-sets reflecting texts, you have built scenographies yourself and designed all visual material relating to them, you have explored the field of scenography in its holistic character, you have performed and you have investigated the fundamentals of space with your body as dancers which is the beginning of all architecture. You have collaborated with your fellow acting students, with lighting designers, with directors and costume designers, with musicians and visual artists, with scientists and curators, with politicians and prisoners, with photographers and cinematographers, with carpenters and technical directors. You enhanced your ability to listen and to see, to touch and to smell, the most essential skills you need as a scenographer. You have an awareness of all components of scenography and you know how to shape them in time. You have inquired the nature of architecture where it all starts from, and its encounter with theatre which made you experience the moment of scenography. In its substance you all have become architects, creators of space as all true scenographers essentially do architecture.

Now the world is your playground! Sculpt it and perform it. And do not forget that you have a responsibility as artists; you may not be able to change the world, but nobody can do so alone. Norway, Europe, the whole world needs artists like you more than ever, you bear the responsibility to remind its societies what they have chosen to forget!

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ARTIST

Scenography teachers and workshops Fall 09 – Spring 12

THEACHERS STAFF SCENOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

Serge von Arx Professor, Artistic Director ScenographyKarmenlara Ely PhD, Artistic Director Acting (since 2011) Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk Artistic Director Acting (2007-2011)Hans-Ove Granath Professor, Fine artBBB Johannes Deimling Teacher, Performance Art Birthe Marie Løveid Professor, Fine ArtsAnnalisa Dal Prá Teacher, Acting Pea Hov Head of study/project planningUlf Knudsen Technical Director/Sound/ArchivistHåkon H. Pedersen Technician

PRODUCTIONS/INSTALLATIONS/EXHIBITIONS

| Wash your hands until they get holes | Andrey Bartenev.| Everything Ends with Flowers | Performance by Jon R. Skulberg and Juli Apponen. Tutor: Inghild Karlsen.| Kamasutra Spoon | Moscow International Biennale for Young Art curated by Andrey Bartenev.| Dem og oss/Them and us | NTA in collaboration with Dramatikkens Hus and Fredrikstad Municipality. Artistic leaders: Ruth Ben-Tovim and Markku Uimonen.| Blaming the monster | By Björn Neukom, Lars August Jørgensen, Maja Clementsen Hansen and Mikkel R. Hofplass. Tutor: Serge von Arx.| Maze of my skull | By Sarah F. Jahn and Kyuja Bae. Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.

| Malted milk | By Ida Grimsgaard, Hanna Reidmar, Jessica Berg and Josephine Kylèn Collins. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.| I keep Coming back | By Jon R. Skulberg, Liv Pflug and Piet Gitz-Johansen. Tutor: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk| Mind Gap | Norwegian Museum of Technology, Industry, Science and Medicine by Robert Wilson in collaboration with Serge von Arx.| Memorial in the Wolfenbüttel Penitentiary | In collaboration with Univ. of Göttingen. Tutors: Wilfried Knauer, Dr. Habbo Knoch, Maria Magdelena Schwaegermann, Markus Weber, Serge von Arx.| Look At Me Now Here I Am | Directed production with acting students. Director: João Garcia Miguel. Scenography students: Sarah F. Jahn and Simona Bieksaite. Tutor: Kathrine Tolo.| A bigger scale of touch | By Ida Grimsgaard and Mikkel R. Hofplass. Festival of ABIETO DE ACCIÒN (ES) Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.| Klamm | By Maja Clementsen Hansen and Sarah F. Jahn. Tutor: Serge von Arx.| Rapid Eye Movement | By Hanna Reidmar and Björn Neukom. Tutor: Knut Åsdam.| Convey | By Jon R. Skulberg and Liv Pflug.Tutor: Karmenlara Ely.| As We Like It | By Jessica Berg, Ida Grimsgaard and Lars August Jørgensen, tutor: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk.| Merry-Go-Round | Directed production with acting students. Director: Victoria Meirik. Scenography students: Ida Grimsgaard and Hanna Reidmar. Tutor: Serge von Arx.

SKILLS, METHODS AND LABORATORIES

Neil Alexander (Guildhall School of Music and Drama) Multimedia Andrey Bartenev SpaceRuth Ben-Tovim Concept developmentMagnús Þòr Þorbergsson (Norteas workshop, Iceland)Ulrik Gad (Statens Teaterskole) MultimediaHenrik Helstenius CompositionStefan Iglhaut Concept developmentCarle Lange Space Birthe Marie Løveid Drawing & DesignReinert Mithassel MultimediaAndreas Morell Space – scenography in filmJan Pappelbaum Theatre spaceChristine Petersen Architectural spaceArne Revheim Drawing & Design Sami Rintala/Dagur Eggertsson Space constructionUrs Schönebaum Light Joshua Sofaer CompositionSaburo Teshigawara SpaceMikael Tham (Dramatiske Instituttet) MultimediaAndreas Thiele SpaceKathrine Tolo Costume designMarkku Uimonen Concept developmentBengt Wanselius Drawing & Design / PhotographyRobert Wilson SpaceSteffi Wurster Composition – stage design

OPPOSITE PAGE | One Morning I Woke Up And Nothing Was There | Björn Neukom. Installation. Tutor: Stefan Iglhaut. Photo: Serge von Arx

Karmenlara ElyPhD, Artistic Director Acting

Act 9 is a remarkable group of young actors. In the short time I have been artistic director of acting at the Academy, I have come to respect this group of men and women as curious and feisty individuals with a deep sense of humor. We experienced a diversity of voices, surrealisms and comedic dreams emerge through their struggles and development. Their three years as acting students at NTA began under the previous director, Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, who introduced them to teaching that immediately questioned their boundaries and pushed their definitions of theater. She describes this class thoughtfully, “Each student of ACT 9 has had a tremendous development through the three years. They have grown into strong collaborators, while preserving their individualities as artists. They have become responsible, playful, creative, and emphatic artists. I look forward to following their professional pathways.” Act 9 began with a very intense workshop with the scenographers, taught by Andrey Bartenev in a project called “Wash your hands until they get holes”. This legendary workshop experience still resonates as the first artistic crisis that bonded them together as a group. I think that experience is very well captured on the cover of the catalogue. We can see that raw energy of crisis and pleasure still in their performances today, and how they have learned to respond to space poetically and performatively. After this explosive opening, Act 9 started a journey together where they demanded more from their teachers and each other at every turn. Some valuable workshops were experienced with Nadine George, Hans Van den Broeck and Saburo Teshigawara, for example, where the group found very transformational tools and experienced new sides of themselves.

They continued to meet new artistic landmarks in their creative development each year. For example in their 2nd year directed production with João Garcia Miguel, this challenging director’s take on Gertrude Stein created a rhythmic bond in a uniquely insane ensemble with sharp musicality. While they had their individual studies on exchange in the fall of the 3rd year, they each investigated art practice uniquely, growing immensely, some with exciting international premieres. In the final independent productions this spring I was moved to see how articulate and strong they are artistically, and how dedicated they are to pursuing a steep path across expressive forms. They overcome obstacles well, and create from them. Each of the independent performances demonstrated creative risk and a willingness to reimagine what an audience can be. Their main acting teacher, Annalisa Dal Prá reflects: “From the start Act 9 as a class marked itself as individuals drawn towards an internal search for the art within them. Perhaps the most rewarding moments came in their independent productions, where they withdrew into their creative worlds, immersed in their questions, doubts, fragilities and then emerged with artistic experience. In these three years, ACT 9 has internalized the lessons of performative experience to the point that the performer is the lesson. Thank you for the journey.”

Graduating students, I respect that none of you do things the easy way. This is a group of fighters and seekers. You are restless and dynamic individuals and have an insatiability that I admire. I also hope you allow yourselves to find the pleasure, self confidence and calm that comes with knowing you have accomplished something beautiful, just for a moment. That is just as important as being amazing on stage, which you are.

A HUNGER FOR LIVENESS

Acting teachers and workshops Fall 09 – Spring 12

DIRECTED PRODUCTIONS

“Dem og Oss/Them and us” NTA in collaboration with Dramatikkens Hus Toril Solvang & Kai Johnsen and Fredrikstad Municipality. Tutors: Ruth Ben-Tovim and Markku Uimonen.“Look At Me Now Here I Am” text by Gertrude Stein. Director: João Garcia Miguel.“Merry-Go-Round” Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.

TUTORS FOR INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS

Camilla Eeg-TverbakkKarmenlara ElySerge von ArxBBB Johannes DeimlingAnnalisa Dal Prá

METHODS AND LABORATORIES

Andrey Bartenev Space LabRuth Ben-Tovim Concept developmentHenrik Helstenius CompositionKai Johnsen Space – dramaturgyReinert Mithassel MultimediaUrs Schönebaum Light labJoshua Sofaer CompositionToril Solvang Space – dramaturgySaburo Teshigawara Space – danceMarkku Uimonen Concept development

SKILLS

Hanne Bull Aaby YogaHans van den Broeck Composition – danceJohn Paul Cook ImprovisationKim Erick Dahl Acrobatics Eva Dons Voice Hanne Engebraaten Yoga Celine Engebrigtsen Improvisation – camera actingElonora Fabião Performative bodyKaren Foss BalletNadine George Voice, textSnelle Hall Modern dance Fredrik Hannestad Voice – textRobert Johanson Improvisation – textØyvind Jørgensen Improvisation/butohKatrine Kirsebom Contact improvisationYvonne Levinsen Feldenkrais Caroline McSweeney Composition – viewpointMichael Norlind Body – movementsAnuschka von Oppen Improvisation – danceEnrique Pardo Improvisation – text Ragnheidur Skuladottir Improvisation – textVigdis Skråning YogaHenriette Slorer Body, dance Tiina Syrjä VoiceBibbi Winberg Contact improvisation

THEACHERS STAFF ACTING DEPARTMENT

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk Artistic Director Acting (2007-2011)Karmenlara Ely PhD, Artistic Director Acting (since 2011)Serge von Arx Professor, Artistic Director ScenographyAnnalisa Dal Prá Teacher, ActingØystein Elle Teacher, VoiceMiriam Sogn Teacher, VoiceBBB Johannes Deimling Teacher, Performance Art Pea Hov Head of study/project planningUlf Knudsen Technical Director/Sound/ArchivistHåkon H. Pedersen Technician

OPPOSITE PAGE | Answering Answering-machines | Independent production. Tutor: Karmenlara Ely. Idea and realization: Mikkel R. Hofplass, Josephine Kylén Collins and Piet Gitz-Johansen.Photo: Monika Sobczak

Rolf Alme Awam AmpkaMaria Markvard AndersenJ. Ed AraizaSara Jane Bailes Andrey BartenevTilde Björfors Veronika BoekelmannChristian BussmannGisela Cardenas

Ananya ChatterjeeKelly Copper BBB Johannes DeimlingSigrid Edvardsson Eleonora Fabião Melanie Fieldset Solveig GadeToril GoksøyrSimon Grand GRIFF architects

Robert Johanson Karen Maria JonsdottirEdit KaldorIzidor Leitinger André LepeckiChristina LindgrenPavol Liska Ole Lützow-HolmClaire McDonaldVictoria Meirik

Melika Melouani Mellani Reinert MithasselJürg MontaltaEva Løveid Mølster Cathy NadenEnrique PardoAlyson PerryChristine PetersenKlas PettersenMoritz von Rappard

Maria M. Schwaegermann Urs Schönebaum Sxip Shirey Mads Sjøgård Jo StrømgrenSaburo TeshigawaraIngrid TønderMarkku Uimonen Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson Meg Stuart Kelly Copper/Pavol Liska

GUEST LECTURES Fall 09 – Spring 12

ARTISTIC COUNCIL of the Norwegian Theatre Academy

OPPOSITE PAGE: Lecture by Robert Wilson. Photo: Serge von Arx

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | BA Scenography | Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad.2007-2008 | Visual Art | Engelsholm Højskole, Denmark.

SELECTED PROJECTS AT NTA

2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo. Tutor: Serge von Arx.2012 | Som vi vil ha det | A performative walk-in-installation. In collaboration with Jessica Berg andLars August Jørgensen. Tutor: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk2011 | A Bigger Scale of Touch | Long durational performances. Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.Performances in Bergen, Murcia (ES) and Fredrikstad.2011 | Between Lines | Film scenography. Tutor: Andreas Morell. In collaboration with Oslo Academy of the Arts, Oslo.2011 | Euphemismus Handbuch | Memorial design. Tutor: Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann and Serge von Arx. Wolfenbüttel, Germany.2011 | Malted Milk | Theatre performance. In collaboration with Hanna Reidmar, Jessica Berg and Josephine Kylén Collins. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.

2010 | Try Nothing | Long duration performance. Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.2010 | Mind Gap | Development of exhibition design by Robert Wilson. In collaboration with Norsk Teknisk Museum. Tutor: Serge von Arx.2010 | And Now You Will See Some Beautiful Flowers | Multimedia performance. Tutor: Reinert Mithassel.2010 | A Shortcut To Nothingness | Changing life with Hanna Reidmar. Tutor: Joshua Sofaer.2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Directed production. Directed by Andrey Bartenev.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2011 | 1012 | Site specific performance. Performed at the festival Seanahk III. Haapsalu, Estonia.2011 | From Me To You | Performances in collaboration with Marcel Sparmann (GER) and Márcio Carvalho (PT). Berlin, Germany.2010 | Transformers | Video installation and performance. Moscow Biennale For Young Art,Moscow Museum Of Museum Of Modern Art, Russia.2010-2011 | Glasnost | Co-organizer. National seminar for theatre and film students in Norway. Fredrikstad.

Year of birth: 1988Nationality: NorwegianE-mail: [email protected]: +47 995 98 717

IDA GRIMSGAARD SCENOGRAPHER

Because I experience the world through my body – the body and its physicality becomes the starting point of my work.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT “Beyond the Pale” Photo: Ieva Zule FROM LEFT: 2011 | A Bigger Scale Of Touch | Photo: Paco Vivo. 2012 | Som vi vil ha det | Photo: Ida Grimsgaard.

EDUCATION

2012 - SPRING SEMESTER | Exchange to Statens Teaterskole | Copenhagen, Denmark.2011 - FALL SEMESTER | Exchange to Korea National University of Arts | Seoul, Korea.2009-2012 | BA Scenography | Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, Norway.2008-2009 | Scenography | Romerike folkehøgskole, Jessheim, Norway.


2012 | [ KLAMM ] | Independent Production, with Maja Clementsen, Based on the novel “The Castle” by Franz Kafka. Tutor: Serge von Arx, at B&W warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark.2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Stage design and light on the performance, text from Gertrude Stein. Director: João Garcia Miguel, at NTA, black box.2011 | Mind Gap | Development of exhibition design by Robert Wilson at Teknisk museum, Oslo, Norway.2011 | Thinking Rabbit | Sculpture in connection to Mind Gap, with Jon R. Skulberg.2011 | Travel with brain rabbits | Performer in a performance by Bjørn Neukom and Hanna Reidmar.2011 | Maze of My Skull | Independent Production with Kyuja Bae. Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.

2011 | People next Door | Stage design model and stop motion video. Tutor: Steffi Wurster.2010 | ten point zero five square meters | Installation based on a complete index list of all my belongings, at NTA Ridehuset.2010 | F O C U S S U C O F | Solo Performance.Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling, at NTA hallway.2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Actor, props and costumes in the performance. Director: Andrey Bartenev.2009 | Spider Hotel | Installation researching the optimal construction for spiders to thrive. Tutor: Hans-Ove Granath, NTA Blue Room.

Year of birth: 1988Nationality: NorwegianE-mail: [email protected] Tel: +47 91 15 72 51

SARAH FUNCH JAHN SCENOGRAPHER

“The mind is like an umbrella, it functions best when open” – WALTER GROPIUS

EDUCATION

2011 | Stage & Costume Design (exchange) | Weissensee School of Art, Berlin, DE. 2009-2012 | BA Scenography | Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, NO.2008-2009 | Artistic Prep Course | F+F School of Art and Media Design, Zurich, CH.


2012 | Silence Was Never A Part Of It | A performance about what a room once contained. Tutor: Serge von Arx.2012 | Rapid Eye Movement | Spatial performance for light. Tutor: Knut Åsdam.2011 | Clouds From Above | Short movie in collaboration with Oslo Academy of the Arts, Oslo2011 | Archiv – Wort und Schicksal | Memorial design proposal, JVA Wolfenbüttel.Tutor: Serge von Arx and Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann.2011 | Blaming The Monster | Poetic Action Theater, Independent production. Tutor: Serge von Arx.2011 | Eisenhower Memorial | Visual concept proposal for the Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial inWashington D.C. US. Collaboration between Frank Gehry and Robert Wilson.2011 | Communication #1 | Performance. Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.

2010 | Mind Gap | Development of exhibition design, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Tutor: Serge von Arx and Robert Wilson.2010 | One Morning I Woke Up And Nothing Was There | Installation. Tutor: Stefan Iglhaut.2010 | Dripping Dreams | Installation. Tutor: Joshua Sofaer.2010 | All I Got Was This Pink Flamingo | Devised production. Tutor: Serge von Arx.2010 | Face It My Deer | Multimedia Performance. Tutor: Reinert Mithassel.2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Directed production. Director: Andrey Bartenev.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2012 | Melon – Pineapple | Performance, PAS performance art studies #24, Truck Gallery, Calgary, CA.2011 | Between Water And Land | Site specific for dance performance, Tutor: Kitt Johnson, CultureNight, Copenhagen, DK.2011 | Travel With Brain Rabbits | Silent performance in the Metro System of Oslo, in connection with Mind Gap exhibition at Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo, NO.2010 | Butterfly | Video, Moscow Biennale For Young Art, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow, RU.

Year of birth: 1986Nationality: SwissE-Mail: [email protected]: +41 79 732 51 72

BJÖRN NEUKOMSCENOGRAPHER

Slowing down time, pointing to details, sharpening the awareness of small changes ...

EDUCATION

2011 | Scenography (exchange studies) | Stockholm school of dramatic, STDH, Sweden.2009-2012 | BA Scenography | Norwegian Theatre Academy, NTA.2008-2009 | Dramaturgy and Theatre analysis | University of Gothenburg, Sweden.2007-2008 | Photography | Gamleby photography school, Sweden.2003-2004 | Fine art | Falkenberg art school, Sweden.


2012 | Hotel Valhalla | Performance/installation.Collaboration with Columbia UniversityTutors: Serge von Arx and Gideon Lester, The Watermill Center, New York - US.2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.2012 | Rapid Eye Movement | Independent Production / Spatial performance for light.Tutor: Knut Åsdam.2011 | Coffee in Context | Interactive performance, Stockholm school of dramatic, Sweden.2011 | Malted Milk | Independent production / Theatre performance. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.

2011 | Mind Gap | Development of exhibition design.Tutors: Robert Wilson and Serge von Arx.2011 | Clouds from above | Short movie.Tutor: Andreas Morell. Oslo National Academy of Arts.2011 | Euphemismus Handbuch | Memorial design.Tutors: Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann and Serge von Arx, Wolfenbüttel - Germany.2010 | The In-between | Independent production / Interactive theatre performance.2009 | A Shortcut to Nothingness | Auto biographical performance. Tutor: Joshua Sofaer.2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Theatre performance. Director: Andrey Bartenev

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2011 | Travel with Brain Rabbits | Silent performance in connection with the Mind Gap exhibition, Teknisk Museum. Tutor: Robert Wilson and Serge von Arx, Oslo.2010 | The Kybeles | Photographs exhibited at the 2nd Moscow International Biennale for young art Curator: Andrey Bartenev, Moscow - Russia.2008 | Introspektion | Photography exhibition. Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden.2008 | Group Photography exhibition | Art studio “Storgatan 31”, Västervik, Sweden.

Year of birth: 1983Nationality: SwedishE-mail: [email protected]: +46 735 526995

HANNA REIDMARSCENOGRAPHER

I want scenography to be intoxicating – It should effect your body


2012 | Convey - a live portrait of an archivist | A visual and vocal investigation of Herta Müller in collaboration with Liv Pflug. Concept, scenography, light, costumes, performance. Tutor: Karmenlara Ely.2012 | Everything Ends with Flowers | Performance by Jon R. Skulberg and Juli Apponen. Tutor: Inghild Karlsen.2011 | ARCHIV- wort und schicksal | Memorial design proposal, JVA Wölfenbuttel. Tutors: Serge von Arx, Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann.2011 | Jeg bliver ved med at komme tilbage | Devised performance based on “Crave” by S. Kane, in colla-boration with Liv Pflug and Piet Gitz-Johansen. Concept, scenography and light. Tutor: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk.2010 | HEIMAT | Performance. Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.2010 | Eisenhower memorial | Visual concept proporsal for the D.D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington D.C. Collaboration between Robert Wilson and Frank Gehry. 2010 | Mind Gap | Development of exhibition design for Robert Wilson’s exhibition about brainscience. Norsk Teknisk Museum. Tutor: Serge von Arx.2010 | The Pose Of Knowledge | Installation concept for Deichmanske Library. Tutor: Stefan Iglhaut.2010 | LIFE/FORM/STILL/LIFE | Tutor: Joshua Sofaer. Installation.2010 | Somwang City | Devised performance in collaboration with Liv Pflug, Ida Grimsgaard, Jessica Berg and Josephine Kylén Collins .

2010 | Dying is fun | Mulitimedia performance. Tutor: Reinert Mithassel.2009 | Surface of protection | Tutor: Hans-Ove Granath.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2011 | War Sum Up | Opera by Hotel Pro Forma, assistant director for Kirsten Dehlholm. Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia + international tour. 2010-2011 | The Watermill Center Summer Program | Artistic director: Robert Wilson. New York, USA.2011 | pier/man | Choreography and dancer. Copenhagen Culture-night, Skolen For Moderne Dans. Tutor: Kitt Johnson, Copenhagen.2011 | Thinking rabbit on stone | Sculpture design for the exhibition Mind Gap, Oslo University Square/Norsk Teknisk Museum. Exhibition design: Robert Wilson. Oslo, Norway.2010 | LETTE | Dance performance, scenography and dramaturgy. Director: Piet Gitz-Johansen, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark + touring in Bottna, Sweden and Prague Quadrinalle 2011.2010 | gymnos_gymnos_gymnos | Video installation/performance, 2nd Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Curator: Andrey Bartenev. Moscow, Russia.2009 | STILLE/räume | Performance. Concept and direction. Philologische Bibliothek der Freien Universität. Berlin, Germany.2008 | At langsomt gøre nogen udødelig | Operainstallation. Trans-Port, KulturNat08, Århus, DK.

Year of birth: 1985Nationality: NorwegianE-mail: [email protected]: +47 97636373

JON R. SKULBERGSCENOGRAPHER

– What moves us?

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | BA Scenography | Norwegian Theatre Academy.2007-2008 | Dance Studies | Copenhagen University.2005-2007 | Dramaturgy | Aarhus University.

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | BA Acting | Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad. 2011 | Mime | Exchange program. Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de kunsten, Amsterdam.2008 | Fine arts | Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm.2006 | Dance | Ecole Populaire Supérieure Suédoise, Aix-en-Provence.2002-2005 | Newcircus | St. Botvids’ Secondary School, Stockholm.


2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.2012 | Som vi vil ha det | Performative walk-in-installation in collaboration with Ida Grimsgaard and Lars August Jørgensen. Tutor: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk.2011 | For The Time Being | Director/choreography: Boukje Schweigman, Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de kunsten.2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Director: João Garcia Miguel.2011 | Malted Milk | Performance in collaboration with Josephine Kylén Collins, Ida Grimsgaard and Hanna Reidmar. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.

2010 | Dem og Oss | Socially engaged art project in collaboration with Fredrikstad Townhall and Dramatikkens Hus. Tutors: Ruth Ben Tovim and Markku Uimonen.2010 | Somwang City | Performance in collaboration with Jon R.Skulberg, Liv Pflug, Josephine Kylén Collins and Ida Grimsgaard. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.2010 | Jessica VS the Rope | Autobiographic performance. Tutor: Joshua Sofaer.2010 | Fuga | Multimedia performance in collaboration with Mikkel R. Hofplass. Tutor: Reinert Mithassel.2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Director: Andrey Bartenev.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

2011 | Omelett! | A Commedia dell‘Arte performance, Prospekt 11 – Gotland.2011 | Production leader for “Glasnost” | Seminar for theatre and film students in Norway.2008 | The Japanese Garden | Children dance-theatre performance,TPO/Rikskonserter, Stockholm.2008 | Peter Pan and Wendy | By J.M.Barrie.Director: Johanna Huss. Enskedespelet, Stockholm.

Year of birth: 1987Nationality: SwedishE-mail: [email protected]: +46736 59 76 73 / +4796 83 72 90Web: www.jessicaberg.seLanguages: Swedish, English, basic FrenchPhysical training: Acrobatics, modern dance, contact improvisation, yoga, climbing

JESSICA BERGACTOR

When in doubt – breathe.

TOP: 2011 | Malted Milk | Independent Production. Photo: Simona Bieksaite.

BOTTOM: 2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Directed Production. Photo: João Garcia Miguel.

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | BA Acting | Norwegian Theatre Academy.2011 | Exchange semester in New York, USA at Studio 5, NYU and Movement Research | Teachers: Per Brahe, Akil Davis, Jeff Berry, Raina von Waldenburg and Barbara Mahler.2006 – 2008 | Scenekunst | Den Rytmiske Daghøjskole, Copenhagen, DK. Teachers: Lykke Meyer Jacobsen, Kasper Ravnhøj, Thomas Bentin, Bo Madvig.2003 -2005 | Music/language student | Aurehøj Gymnasium, DK.


2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.2012 | Answering Answering-machines | Independent production. Tutor: Karmenlara Ely. Idea and realization: Mikkel R. Hofplass, Josephine Kylén Collins and Piet Gitz-Johansen - NTA.2011 | Travel with brain rabbits | Silent performance. A collaboration between: NTA, Norsk Teknisk Museum and Robert Wilson. Concept and idea: Björn Neukom, Hanna Reidmar. Metro system of Oslo.2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Directed production by: João Garcia Miguel, NTA.

2011 | Jeg bliver ved med at komme tilbage | Independent production. Tutor Camilla Eeg Tverbakk. Idea and realization: Liv Pflug, Jon R. Skulberg and Piet Gitz-Johansen, NTA.2010 | All I got was this lousy flamingo | Independent Production. Tutor: Serge von Arx. Idea and realization: Björn Neukom, Lars August Jørgensen, Jin Katrine Fosli, Sarah Funch Jahn and Piet Gitz-Johansen, NTA.2010 | 11 Attempts to fly | Video work.Tutor: Joshua Sofaer, NTA.2009 | And now you will see some beautiful flowers | Multimedia performance. Tutor: Reinhart Mithassel. Idea and realization: Ida Grimsgaard and Piet Gitz-Johansen, NTA.2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Directed production by: Andrey Bartenev, NTA.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

2011 | Krabask | A performance created in collaboration with Josephine Kylén Collins, Oella Doden, Juli Apponen, Lisa Werthén and Karl Sjölund.2010 | LETTE | Dance performance. Concept and idea: Piet Gitz-Johansen. Performers: Piet Gitz-Johansen, Josephine Kylén Collins. Music: August Rosenbaum. Text: Mathias Møllebæk. Dramaturgy and scenography: Jon R. Skulberg. Dansehallerne, Copenhagen (DK). 2010 and at the Prague Quadriennale 2011.

Year of birth: 1986Nationality: danishE-mail: [email protected]: +45 27203575Web: pietgitz.Blogspot.comVoice: TenorLanguages: Danish, English, simple FrenchVoice training: Screaming technique, choir, improvisation, Roy Hart techniquePhysical training: Modern dance, basic acrobatics, improvisation, crash dance and contact improvisation

PIET GITZ-JOHANSENACTOR

Dedication to daring - endurance - testing gravity and exploring the humour and oddities in everyday life are

fundamental to my work with acting.

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | BA Acting | Norwegian Theatre Academy.Fredrikstad, Norway. 2011 (FALL) | BA Acting (exchange term) | Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg. Gothenburg, Sweden. 2008-09 | Scenekunst | School of Physical Theatre.Copenhagen, Denmark.2004-08 | BA Performance Studies | University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark.


2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.2012 | [KLAMM] | Site specific independent production. Tutor: Serge von Arx. B&W-hallerne (Danish Royal Theatre), Copenhagen, Denmark. 2011 | The Lady | Independent production. Text by Shakespeare. Tutor: Peter Melin/Per Nordin. HSM/Artisten, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Directed by João Garcia Miguel. Text by Gertrude Stein. Black box, NTA. 2011 | Blaming The Monster | Independent production inspired by Jean Racine’s “Phédre”. Tutor: Serge von Arx. Black box, NTA.

2010 | The Inbetween | Independent production. Blue Room, NTA/GLASNOST 2010. 2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Directed by Andrey Bartenev. Ridehuset, NTA .

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2009 | Forlad Os Vor Skyld | Directed by Camilla Bonde. Character: The Woman. Planeten (Copenhagen), Teater Katapult (Århus), Denmark. 2007-08 | Hamlet Destruktionen | Directed by Liv Helm. Character: Hamlet. Teater Får302, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Year of birth: 1984 Nationality: DanishE-mail: [email protected] Tel. +45 22888656 Web: majaclementsen.Blogspot.comVoice: Mezzo-soprano (great range and genre ability) Languages: Danish, English, German (Swedish, Norwegian) Physics: Contact impro, modern dance, acrobatics, yoga, swimming, stagefight Others: Member of dansk skuespillerforbund / danish actor’s association (DSF)

MAJA CLEMENTSEN HANSENACTOR

If you happen to be a squirrel, don’t worry – be a squirrel!

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | BA Acting | Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad.2006-2009 | BA of Fine Arts | Bergen National. Academy of the Arts, Dept. of Fine Art, Bergen.2008 (FALL) | Internship, workshops and tutoring in casting with Nicola Costantino | Buenos Aires.2005-2006 | Prosjektskolen | College of Fine Arts, Oslo.


2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.2012 | Answering Answering Machines | Independent production. Tutor: Karmenlara Ely.2011 | A Bigger Scale of Touch | Long durational performance series shown in Murcia, Spain, Bergen and Fredrikstad, Norway. Tutor: BBB Johannes Deimling.2011 | Det er som om hånden min har vokst over natten og kaffen er svart sand som renner ut av armhulen min | Independent production. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Director: João Garcia Miguel.

2011 | Blaming the monster | Independent production. Tutor: Serge von Arx.2010 | The in-between | Independent production.2010 | Human Fountain | Sweat performance. Autobiographic performance workshop. Tutor: Joshua Sofaer2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Director: Andrey Bartenev .

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2009 | Breaking nuts in front of an audience | Sculpture, installation shown at graduation exhibition at Dept. of Fine Art, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Bergen.2008 | Rød koffert | Commisioned sculpture, Collaboration with Kristine Halmrast og Janna Thöle Juul. Nye Akershus Universitetssykehus, Lørenskog.2008 | Salt Lick Land | Walk-in-installation, 1 week happening/performance, in collaboration with Janna Thöle Juul, Galleri Fisk, Bergen.2007 | Actor in ”Floating Charachters | A scenic multimedia project by Karen Kipphoff, BIT Teatergarasjen.

Year of birth: 1984Nationality: NorwegianE-Mail: [email protected]: +4798899072Web: www.mikkelhofplass.comVoice: Tenor/baritoneLanguages: Norwegian, English, basic SpanishPhysics: Basic training in modern dance, acrobatics, yoga, contact improvisation

MIKKEL RASMUSSEN HOFPLASSACTOR

I like to think of myself as an imagemaker. Both by being on stage, making installations and sculptures I create

images. For me it is no strict division between different mediums. I see them more as tools in a toolbox that invite creation. In my

toolbox all my tools are laying in a jumble, affecting each other, so it’s always an interesting surprise to see what gets dragged out of it.

TOP: 2011 | Det er som om hånden min har vokst over natten og kaffen er svart sand som renner ut av armhulen min | Photo: Monika Sobczak. 2011 | A Bigger Scale of Touch | 5 hour long durational performance. Photo: Monika Sobczak. 2011 | Det er som om hånden min har vokst over natten og kaffen er svart sand som renner ut av armhulen min | Photo: Thea F. Bringsværd. BOTTOM: 2012 | Answering Answering Machines | Photo: Jan Hajdelak Husták

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | BA Acting | Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad.

SELECTED PROJECTS NTA

2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo. 2012 | Som vi vil ha det | performative walk-in installation, in collaboration with Ida Grimsgaard and Jessica Berg. Tutor: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk.2011 | Blaming the monster | Independent production. inspired by Jean Racine’s “Phédre”.Tutor: Serge von Arx.2010 | All I got was this lousy flamingo | Independent production. Tutor: Serge von Arx. With Björn Neukom, Jin Katrine Fosli, Sarah Funch Jahn and Piet Gitz-Johansen.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2011/2012 | Messiah run! | Cocreator/dancer with the company SOIT. Brussels.2006- | Borgarting impro | Part of an improv teatre group. Norway.

Year of birth: 1988Nationality: NorwegianE-mail: [email protected]: +47 928 81 733Languages: English, Norwegian

LARS AUGUST JØRGENSENACTOR

“Lars August is generally a nice person”

EDUCATION

2009-2012 | Bachelor in Acting | Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA) Fredrikstad, Norway.2011 | Exchange at the Mime Department | Amsterdam School of the Arts,Netherlands 2005-2008 | Contemporary Dance Department | Royal Swedish Ballet School. Stockholm, Sweden


directed productions2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Director: João Garcia Miguel. NTA.2011 | For the Time Being | Director: Boukje Schweigman.Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de Kunsten.2009 | Wash your hands until they get holes | Director: Andrey Bartenev, NTA.independent productions2012 | Answering Answering-Machines | In collaboration with Mikkel Hofplass Rasmussen and Piet Gitz-Johansen. Tutor: Karmenlara Ely.2011 | Malted Milk | In collaboration with Hanna Reidmar, Ida Grimsgaard and Jessica Berg. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.

2010 | Somwang City | In collaboration with Jon Skulberg, Liv Pflug, Jessica Berg, Ida Grimsgaard. other projects2010 | Face it my Deer | A multimedia performance in collaboration with Björn Neukom. 2010 | We don’t remember who created us | A solo performance– Tutor: Joshua Sofaer. 2010 | Dem og Oss | A socially engaged art practice in collaboration between Fredrikstad Municipality. Dramatikkens Hus and NTA. Tutors: Ruth Ben Tovim and Markku Uimonen.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2011 | KRABASK | Performance. Bottna Kulturfestival, Sweden.2010 | LETTE | Dance performance. Danse Hallerne in Copenhagen, Denmark/Prague Quadrienale.Czech Republic 2011.2009 | KONG | A Music and Dance group founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.2009 | DAJOLINA | Dance movie, part of 1 minute film&sound award, Belgium.

Year of birth: 1990 Nationality: Swedish / American E-mail: [email protected]: +47 97936966 / +46 720141925 Languages: Swedish, English, basic- Danish, Norwegian and French Voice training: Improvisation, Choir, Text work and Screaming Technique Physical training: Modern Dance, Ballet, Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, West African Dance and basic Acrobatics.

JOSEPHINE KYLÉN COLLINSACTOR

I work to be able to get in contact with my gut feeling; that inner drive which gives me the possibilities to break away from my

own restrictions and play. It is with that power and tension of the unexpected I can communicate to an audience.

EDUCATION

2012 | Exchange semester with PANTHEATRE | The International Roy Hart Center, South France. Training in Choreographic Theater and the Roy Hart’s Extended Range Techniques. Teachers: Jonathan Hart-Makwaia, Rosemary Quinn, Enrique Pardo, Linda Wise, Kaya M. Anderson, Carol Mendelsohn, Pierre-Francois Blanchard.2009-2012 | BA Acting | Norwegian Theatre Academy.2007-2008 | DRD Scenekunst | Copenhagen, DK. Teachers: Lykke Meyer Jacobsen, Kasper Ravnhøj, Thomas Bentin, Bo Madvig.


2012 | Merry-Go-Round | Based on the play “La Ronde” by Arthur Schnitzler. Director: Victoria Meirik, NTA/Nationaltheatret in Oslo.2012 | CONVEY – a live portrait of an archivist | Independent production. Concept, script, songs and performance. Collaboration with Jon R. Skulberg. Tutor: Karmenlara Ely.2011 | Jeg bliver ved med at komme tilbage | Based on ”Crave” by Sarah Kane. Independent Production. Concept and performance. Collaboration with Jon R. Skulberg and Piet Gitz-Johansen. Tutor: Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk.

2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Text by Gertrude Stein. Director: João Garcia Miguel.2010 | Dem og Oss | Director: Ruth Bentovim. Dramaturg: Toril Solvang. Town Hall, Fredrikstad.2010 | Somwang City | Independent Production, NTA. Concept and performance. Collaboration with Jon R. Skulberg, Jessica Berg, Josephine Kylén Collins & Ida Grimsgaard. Tutor: Annalisa Dal Prá.2009 | To whom it may concern | Autobiographical performance, sound installation, site specific. Tutor: Joshua Sofaer.

Year of birth: 1984Nationality: DanishE-mail: [email protected]: +47 92566310Voice Training: Roy Hart’s extended range techniques, improvisation, composition, choirLanguages: Danish, English, simple FrenchPhysical training: Improvisation, modern dance, crash dance, contact improvisation, basic acrobatics

LIV PFLUGACTOR

In the presence of you, I promise to give my heart, my voice, and my love. For better and for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, I hereby surrender into the power of imagination,

transformation and creation.

LEFT: 2011 | Jeg bliver ved med at komme tilbage | Independent Production. Photo: Jan Hajdelak Husták. TOP: 2011 | Look At Me Now Here I Am | Directed production. Photo: João Garcia Miguel.BOTTOM & RIGHT: 2011 | CONVEY – a live portrait of an archivist | Independent Production. Photographer: Monika Sobczak.

Serge von Arx Professor, Artistic Director Scenography

Karmenlara Ely PhD, Artistic Director Acting (since 2011)

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk Artistic Director Acting (2007-2011)

Anne Berit Løland Administrative Director

Hans-Ove Granath Professor, Fine art

BBB Johannes Deimling Teacher, Performance Art

Annalisa Dal Prá Teacher, Acting

Øystein Elle Teacher voice, singing

Pea Hov Head of study/project planning

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Håkon H. Pedersen Technician

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