MADDID Nordic Festival 2009
Imitating Eloquence by Imploding Fictions (Saturday & Sunday)
Devised and written by Øystein Ulsberg Brager and Astor Agustsson
Part performance, part game, part ritual; Imitating Eloquence is a discovery of how easy it is to lie. How near death is. And how, if you say "eloquent" over and over again, the word suddenly looses meaning. Eloquent. Eloquent, eloquent, eloquent, eloquent, eloquent. Eloquent. See? Doesn't mean anything.
Intrepid Exploring by Sam Coren & Kasper Hansen (Sunday)
Intrepid Exploring is a humorist collage of live performance and video with an extensive use of costume, movement material and text. It deals with masculine issues such as male dominance, self obsession and loneliness.
Water symbols by Astrid Bärndal (Saturday & Sunday)
Light-photo-projection
The 21st century is going to be the century of water.
The Nordic countries, Scandinavia is known for its richness of water and wonderful nature close to water. Especially being so close related to water, Scandinavia should force the awareness of how to use water sustainable in future.
Janne Malmros (Sunday)
Big backdrop drawing reading as a landscape and score, based on the development of 3 Scandinavia companies on the stock marked in the week leading up to the festival. The drawing will be performed at the festival by 3 musicians.
The Apple Girl by Malin Ståhl (Sunday)
The performance the Apple Girl draws inspiration from a character in the painting Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch a naked girl with two apples attached to her head.
Hjemme by Maria Korsnes (Saturday)
(Contemporary dance solo)
Family, friends, new encounters, places and pathways. Memories fade over time, however the feeling from that memory seem to be etched in our bodies. In 'Hjemme' (home) the lost fragments of those memories are revisited and collected to try and make sense of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Pigeon Love by Greta Clough, Presented by Vindauga (Sunday)
A Play in One Act, Two People, and Three Pigeons
Performed by Drifa Arnthorsdottir and Oliver Wilson Directed by Siggi Lindal
This play explores intercultural exchange through the 'meet-cute'
staple of romantic comedy. Part of a larger piece in development; Pigeon Love is the London link in a chain of vignettes about Icelanders abroad.
une cartouche (Saturday)
features Henri Växby and Catherine Kontz of experimental rock band French For Cartridge playing graphic and experimental scores as well as free improvisation.
Snorri Kristjansson Comedian (Sunday)
A display of limited physical skill, little dramatic value and some words. Hugely likeable and curiously staisfying Time Out
Hold Me Until You Break by Bottlefed Ensemble (Saturday)
A performance installation about love and relationships with live music by Kobayashi
At the beginning there was the image of a woman holding a man until she breaks. We did it many times. We broke in many different ways. It always hurt."
Johnny Acecraft / Spalien Acecraft (Saturday & Sunday)
Johnny Acecraft returns briefly from his extensive travels through space and time to compère proceedings at this year's festival. On Saturday he shall be appearing companionless and sentinel, then on Sunday he shall be accompanied by the crew of the Spalien Acecraft, exhibiting their trademark blend of interactive intergalactic playground pop for grown-up extra-terrestrials.
The Four Elements & Be-Linda-Be by SolSkin Theatre Group (Saturday)
The Four Elements -Directed and Choreographed by Joana Raio
In a partially improvised dance theatre piece, the four elements meet, express their needs and find their human side. How far can greed for a precious element drive human kind to destruction?
Be-Linda-Be -by Andrea K. Gudmundsdottir
They say that money makes the world go around. What happens when this important factor suddenly turns against us? How does that effect us emotionally and physically? Let's follow Linda's journey.
The festival will also include:
Maddid will perform an extract of their newest project (Saturday & Sunday)
Sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy
