So the past few weeks have been filled with much snow, which has been incredible as I have never experienced this kind of snow before and also training and performing in this. I have been digging out our vehicle's, digging a path to our front door, training and running. I can definitely say that I am making most of the snow.
So we have been focusing our attention on the performance at Holmenkollen, Oslo for a ski jump competition. This will be an intense two day performance, with both parade and short performances including fire, acrobatic, masks, dances and clowning.
We have been in training for this artistic work and also in practical work, where we have been making large animal figures (pictures to Right). This is a nice project to see being made, working alongside crew members who are experienced in this and also getting the chance to put your input into the creative side. This is a practical task I find enjoyable, making large animal figures and masks, the process is very interesting the end result is always very satisfying. I have also been working on the costumes for this production. This has also been an experience as we have been left in control of seeing that these costumes are ready for performance. It has been nice to work in this area too as I have had some experience in costume making but now I am learning to make all different types of costumes, from birds to fox hats to waistcoats and trousers.
Within the artistic side I have the opportunity to work with clowning and buffoon for a character in part of the performance. I will be working with one other and we have the artistic intention that we are fertility clowns. This is because as part of our performance we lead the audience up the mountain to the arena where the skiing and our performances will take place, so we will be entertaining the audience as they go up and provide them with fruit and chocolates, and this will be a job for these clowns. I am very excited to work on a new element that I enjoy so much, and especially for this new performance, it gives me new motivation and lets me use the skills i have and learn new ones from my directors who are highly experienced in this field.
The children's theatre is also going very strong we are on our way to creating the two performances where I will be taking the role of Artistic Director for these performances. This is something I am very excited about as I have clear vision of which direction to take these performances and with the other two practitioners we all have the same ideas and focus for each performance. One performance will be a the local museum where there is a art exhibition called 'Holy Toys', it is nice as there is a Edinburgh Artistic in this collection 'Hew Locke' and three Scandinavian artists. We will be creating a performance within an area of the museum and will incorporate elements of the exhibition. The other performance will take place outdoors within the Forrest, and will involve mask, puppet, clowning, dance and song.
So as you can see from the photos there has been much snow, and now we are on a small winter holiday and return next week to proceed with intense preparation for Holmenkollen 2010.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Year 2010
Hello and welcome back to my blog in the year 2010.
So I have started back with Stella Polaris after the holiday break, and it is very nice to be back. We have a full schedule ahead of us, and I am sure it will all come very quickly. I have posted some new photos as well and some videos.
There Is plenty of snow out here and we have performed outside twice which was an experience, and a great one at that. It somehow created more energy and fire within the performance.
We did a performance for a skiing competition which happened in the local town of Stokke, and we performed a street performance of 'Celebration of Life' and then a parade to the award ceremony were we did a fire show. This was my first performance in the celebration of life and the parade, I worked with the big elephant mask in the parade which is something I haven't worked with before, and it was a challenging task, to keep the movement of the elephant dancing and walking on the icy roads. the next performance was for Colgate, and this was a small performance in a beautiful location looking over the city of Oslo.
We are currently in training with a couple of programmes.
'Meeting of Dreams'
This is an improvisation training, in building characters and scenes. We are asked to prepare text and a skill, and we bring this to the session, and along with warming up and other technical training we go into a world were we discover different characters and situations. This is proving to be a very beneficial and personal experience for me, as you use your own emotions and experiences and put this into the exercises. I am starting to develop nice characters and also have started to learn the Accordion as my skill.
'Youth group training'
We are currently in training for a performance at a huge ski jump competition in Oslo. This will take place on 13th and 14th march, were we will do parade and performances to over 30,000 spectators each day. This is a big event for Norway and attracts many people to come and enjoy this weekend. the performance will include, many circus skills, Tissue, trapeze, acrobatics, juggling etc and also fire performance.
So we are currently training for this performance at present.
'Children's Theatre'
We have started the children's theatre, which is going very well, I am working with 2 others and we are working very well as a team. We have two groups, and we already have our shows in place, with one being performed at the local museum, and the other at the theatre base. It is nice to work with the Norwegian children and teach skills from Scotland, and teach them some history and language, which in return they teach me about Norway. The two performances will be in April.
We have just celebrated Stella Polaris 25th anniversary, which was very nice to be apart of. We had a lunch and watch films that were made whilst we were on our 'exchange of theatres' with Gardzienice in Poland.
The daily life of the theatre is a life I very much enjoy, from the programming of events, making costumes, fixing props, daily morning training in singing acrobatics, skills, dance and fire. I feel at the end of every day that I have worked and learned something new.
So I have started back with Stella Polaris after the holiday break, and it is very nice to be back. We have a full schedule ahead of us, and I am sure it will all come very quickly. I have posted some new photos as well and some videos.
There Is plenty of snow out here and we have performed outside twice which was an experience, and a great one at that. It somehow created more energy and fire within the performance.
We did a performance for a skiing competition which happened in the local town of Stokke, and we performed a street performance of 'Celebration of Life' and then a parade to the award ceremony were we did a fire show. This was my first performance in the celebration of life and the parade, I worked with the big elephant mask in the parade which is something I haven't worked with before, and it was a challenging task, to keep the movement of the elephant dancing and walking on the icy roads. the next performance was for Colgate, and this was a small performance in a beautiful location looking over the city of Oslo.
We are currently in training with a couple of programmes.
'Meeting of Dreams'
This is an improvisation training, in building characters and scenes. We are asked to prepare text and a skill, and we bring this to the session, and along with warming up and other technical training we go into a world were we discover different characters and situations. This is proving to be a very beneficial and personal experience for me, as you use your own emotions and experiences and put this into the exercises. I am starting to develop nice characters and also have started to learn the Accordion as my skill.
'Youth group training'
We are currently in training for a performance at a huge ski jump competition in Oslo. This will take place on 13th and 14th march, were we will do parade and performances to over 30,000 spectators each day. This is a big event for Norway and attracts many people to come and enjoy this weekend. the performance will include, many circus skills, Tissue, trapeze, acrobatics, juggling etc and also fire performance.
So we are currently training for this performance at present.
'Children's Theatre'
We have started the children's theatre, which is going very well, I am working with 2 others and we are working very well as a team. We have two groups, and we already have our shows in place, with one being performed at the local museum, and the other at the theatre base. It is nice to work with the Norwegian children and teach skills from Scotland, and teach them some history and language, which in return they teach me about Norway. The two performances will be in April.
We have just celebrated Stella Polaris 25th anniversary, which was very nice to be apart of. We had a lunch and watch films that were made whilst we were on our 'exchange of theatres' with Gardzienice in Poland.
The daily life of the theatre is a life I very much enjoy, from the programming of events, making costumes, fixing props, daily morning training in singing acrobatics, skills, dance and fire. I feel at the end of every day that I have worked and learned something new.
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