En slags manifest
Our ambition is that our different conceptions can be distinguished by a distinctive artistic profile.
We try to find the sophisticated and complex in the simple, thereby creating unpredictable experiences with few and simple tools.
The "Journey" towards the performances on the other hand, is never simple. We deliberately choose not create the form or the solution that seems obvious, thus making it necessary to investigate and verify the possibilities we could not think us in advance. We choose partners who work quite differently and have a completely different approach to theater than we ourselves, to reach the inexplicable. All this to sharpen the ability to imagine and desire to change something seemingly unchangeable.
The starting point for an idea is often a very short story or narrative in which life itself is at stake. If a story is short, and if it is good, it is already compressed in its idea and can give us room for digressions, so our own watermark can be made visible in the submission.
How wonderful it is to be fascinated by a story and then force ourselves to convey both the history and fascination and simultaneously realize where the fascination is - where is the delicate point in ourselves, where exactly this story sneaks in and insist on an acknowledgment, a change ... or just a movement?
It is also crucial for us that life is at stake, even if our audience is mostly kids or maybe because of it. We shoot no mitigating circumstances in order to spare the children audience. A story can be so cruel, so lethal and infinitely sad, as it claims to offer the strongest emotional experience. Reality is deadly.
'Artist Quote' v / Bodil Alling:
With one hour of compressed image of reality, I want to give an island, a moment of clarity in the flicker to the audience when they leave the show.
Right now I'm eager to titillate the ability to imagine. Getting the audience and myself, to imagine things that you could not imagine that one could imagine.
In a little while I probably preoccupied with something else!
