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teatro GLIMT´s performances are modern visual theatre, Contemporary Circus – our stories combine theatre, circus techniques, dance and music. The story is at the centre of any teatro GLIMT performance. The essence of our message is the foundation for the creation of a performance. This we combine with the the physical abilities we have as artists. Our performances are suited to all age groups.
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teatro glimtPerformances on tour 09/10
Contemporary Circus
teatro glimtWelcome to teatro GLIMT´s material about our performances for the 2009/2010 season.
teatro GLIMT´s performances are modern visual theatre, Contemporary Circus – our stories combine theatre, circus techniques, dance and music. The story is at the centre of any teatro GLIMT performance. The essence of our message is the foundation for the creation of a perfor-mance. This we combine with the the physical abilities we have as artists.
Our performances are suited to all age groups.
Our tour repertory includes:
“...2 Minutes, and We Open!” – a favourite with families.Our new performance, ”Sisyphus Ascending”, about the ancient myth of Sisyphus, premiered in Copenhagen in October 2008 . Our up-coming project “A Glint of a Cabaret”.
The performance “Two Faces”, by and with Camila Sarrazin, is being planned. It will premiere in 2010.
Photo: Andreas Gregersen
When we created teatro GLIMT, we already had many years of experience with Contemporary Circus. We created our company, because we generally missed a thorough and drama-turgically consistent entrance to the genre.
Contemporary Circus performances have a dangerous tendency to end up being very visually poetic – but light and harmless, as the genre is so attached to physi-cal ability: This often makes the artist cling to the safety-net of their techniques, even though that specific technique, trick or ability might not be the best for or even suited to a performance as a whole. Often an “act” is being used again and again, just spruced up with some makeup. It has simply taken the artists too long to train for that act to just let it go.
As our performances are created from the essence of what we want to express, we have worked towards a process of developing the physical abilities for the stories, not the other way around.
We were especially careful to stick to this “dogma” when creating our new per-formance “Sisyphus Ascending”, where we had a research and rehearsal period stretched over one and a half years. The long research period made it possible to create new physical expressions specifically for the performance, but still with a very high level of skill.
Our future performance “Two Faces” will be created in a similar manner.
Photo: Camilla Hey
Work process
By and with: Lars Gregersen Director & dramaturg: Nina Larissa Bassett Producer: Peter Jentzsch Choreographic research: John Paul Zaccarini & Camila Sarrazin Sound & music: Johan Segerberg Light design: Mogens Kjempff Musical consultant: Savannah Agger Consultant: Kitt JohnsonIn co-operation with: KIT (Copenhagen International Theatre) Residency: Chateau de Monthelon, France & Theatre Baltoppen, Denmark
Sisyphus Ascending“... new steps into the unknown for Danish Contemporary Circus. Sisyphus has become a small Kafkan office slave, whose life is a humdrum of climbing and paper pushing by his desk, until the moment where he starts to occupy his several meters high bookcase and to rebel.”“... this performance is infused with lots of lifegiving ambition – in its choreography as well as in its content.”
Berlingske Tidende (Denmark), Jakob Steen Olsen26th October 2008
“An original Contemporary Circus performance”“It looks agile, when the grey office worker hangs upside down while the bookcase shoots off teasing papers from its shelves.”
Jyllands-Posten (Denmark), Henrik Lyding24th October 2008
“Sisyphus has donned a suit. The mountain is a high pole, the stone an attaché case, and the world is crammed with paper. All alone on stage Lars Gregersen lives through the exhausting Sisyphu-sian scenarium, where he must take the trip up the mountain with his attaché case time and time again.“The style is called Contemporary Circus and includes eveything from funny gestures to acrobatic impossibilities – slack rope dance being one of them”.
Metro Express (Denmark), Marie Schwennesen29th October 2008
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Photo: Camilla Hey
Supported by:
Wilhelm Hansen Foundation Copenhagen Art Council Danish Artist Union
The performance is a poetic, sharp and funny interpretation of the Greek myth about Sisyphus, who is doomed to roll a rock up a mountain forever, only to see it roll back again, so he can start all over again. Here it is portrayed through a visually and physi-cally strong piece of modern circus.
We meet him at his office with an oversized bookcase, a table full of strange sounds and uncontrollable piles of paper. The strange office frames a modern Sisyphus in a suit, and his audacious attempts at breaking out of Life’s perpetual repetitions.What must he conquer to escape his penalty? Can he find his freedom elsewhere?
Acrobatics with speech and live sound.The sound frame is a mirroring accompaniment, a wonderful mix of wildly twisted sounds, loops of the papers’ rattle, falls from the upper shelves, melodious tunes and a whole lot more.The musician Johan Segerberg has given soul to the sound and succeeds in making the scenography a worthy co-player.
The performance is directed by the internationally known dramaturg and theatre maker Nina Larissa Bassett, who has a long career in professional venues in Denmark and abroad.
Lars Gregersen is a true multi-artist who can create fantastic, intriguing and physically stunning pictures on stage by small means.
Photo: Camilla Hey
“Some performances sneak slowly into your heart, but when they do, they don’t leave you again. That is how I felt about Teatro Glimt at the Sestri Levante Festival”
Il Secolo XIX (Italy)
“Humourous entertainment depicted through slack rope and tango dancing, while Teatro Glimt quarrel on an artistically superior level”
Berner Zeitung (Switzerland)
“A seething fresh and entertaining performance, which makes you hold your breath when Camila-Lola, hanging from the top of a pyramid in two pieces of linen, dances her suggestive and sensual dance of contorsion”
Libertá (Italy)
...2 minutes, and we open!
Photo: Andreas Gregersen
By and with : Camila Sarrazin & Lars GregersenDirector: Johnny SørensenDramaturgy and choreography: teatro GLIMTScenography: Lars GregersenMusic: Lars GregersenLight design: Sara Chust
Love is put to the test when the odd couple Lola and Bruno, need to get the last details in place before the grand opening of their new café ”Bar Bruno”. The misunderstandings fly through the air when the practical Bruno and the passionate Lola, who each have their own agenda, try to make ends meet in spite of everything.
Time is short! The café is to open in a few hours – so Bruno’s practical soul comes to its own right when he needs to juggle with hammer, nails and hoovers.But it is also the couple’s anniversary. While Bruno fights to cope with practical matters, Lola fights to make Bruno remember what’s most important to her – their anniversary.
What we see is transformed into poetry, and words loose their meaning in an acrobatic display, where various forms of stage art are combined in order to show how love can conquer even the most amazing tests and difficult obstacles.
“...2 minutes, and we open!” has played sucessfully at theatres and festivals all over Europe.
Photo: Andreas Gregersen
a glint of a cabaret
Take 6 widely different performers, 1 director, 1 theme, 1 stage and mix in 5 rehearsal days, and you have the recipy for a completely unusual and extraordinary cabaret that contains
everything from acrobatics, dance, music, stand-up, mime, flamenco and pure humour.
During the 08/09 season, teatro GLIMT will present 3 different cabarets. Every cabaret have each its own theme, its own director and 6 especially selected performers.
The first cabaret “Esthetics of the Grotesque” can be seen at Kaleidoskop K1 thea-tre in Copenhagen on the 20th. December 2008.
The second cabaret - “Cabaret at the end of the World”, with “Climate” as a theme, premieres in march 2009. This cabaret will be directed by Nina
Larissa Bassett, and with artistic direction by Camila Sarrazin.
The third will be presented in the summer of 2009.
Presenters are offered the possibility of co-producing especially themed cabarets.
Contact us for more information.
Supported by:
Photo: Andreas Gregersen
The theme is “The Esthetics of the Grotesque”, and with each their own talent the 6 performers show their vision of what these aesthetics are. Each performer has carefully been chosen, and form part of a unique group of talents. The performance is put together by the up-coming Norwegian director Rudi Skottheim Jensen.
esthetics of the grotesque, a glint of a cabaret
Grafics: Rudi Skottheim Jensen
Artistic direction: Lars Gregersen, teatro GLIMTDirector: Rudi Skottheim JensenPerformers: Henriette Groth Karl Stets Michiel Van Leeuwen Mille Lundt Natalia Huidobro Stuart LynchLight design: Mogens KjempffAssistant director: Gillian Weitz-Clancy
two faces
Idea and performance: Camila SarrazinDirector / choreographer: Kasper RavnhøjScenographer: Line FrankComposer: Maja RommMusic: Lars GregersenLight design: Mogens KjempffProduction: Peter Jentzsch
Supported by:
Photo: Ulls
The performance “Two Faces”, is about the beginning of the puberty, the wild change of the hormones, physical change and sexuality. For girls this is a period which comes close to Scizophrenia.When you see the change of a 12-13 year old girl, it is not just a change in herself, but also in the one that beholds her. Not a girl anymore, but a woman, and the expectations of an adult´s response.
The performance is about duality. About one person who contains two personalities. Child and woman. Who is who, who does what, and who do we see? Her attempts of finding solid ground in a new reality, and the others´ interpretation of all her actions.
Light slowly fades in. We dimly see the silhouette of a swing, a seesaw and some discarded ropes hanging down from the ceiling. It is a forgotten playground, and in the middle a girl is sitting on the swing, slowly moving back and forth. It is difficult to determine her age, and as the light gets brighter, we see that the playground is in decay. It is desolate and half ruined by wear and usage. The light gets stronger and brings forth the shadow of the girl behind her. She jumps off and in bewilderment she observes her shadow. It is contorted, twisted out of shape, and at first grows thick, then thin, and she can’t recognise herself. That is how she feels. She knows she has changed, but can’t find herself in her own body. Outwards secure and beautiful, but inside filled with uncertainty and questions.
“Two Faces” will be premiering in march 2010. Research has begun.
cvteatro GLIMT was formed in 2002 by Lars Gregersen og Camila Sarrazin
Apart from our current touring performances, we have created the performances “ Memorias de un Viejo” (2002) and “The Dinner” (2003).GLIMT has toured extensively in Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia and Switzerland.
Lars Gregersen is educated in theatre, music and circus disciplines at schools in Denmark, Russia and Spain. Camila Sarrazin is educated in dance, theatre and circus at schools in Chile, Brasil and Spain.
Apart from GLIMT they have both been and are part of various companies and performances in Denmark and abroad, most recently in the company “Royal Bones”´ with the performance “FUSK”, playing at Kronborg Castle in Hamlet Sommer, Denmark 2007.
Photo: Camilla Hey
contact
Tour manager:Peter Jentzsch(+45) 28 11 88 [email protected]
Technical questions:Lars Gregersen(+45) 26 15 00 [email protected]
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