A Norwegian choreographer Jo Strømgren and his dance company had a pre-premiere of their latest performance "The Department" in Belgrade and Skopje. The premiere is planned for the annual Bergen International Festival (www.fib.no), 19-30 May 2004. The Belgrade pre-premiere took place on 18 May 2004 in the Centre for Cultural Decontamination.
19/05/2004 :: Dance Theatre Performance
THE DEPARTMENT
The Department describes the daily agenda inside the innermost and secret office of an imaginary government. Agents analyse and scrutinize society through peepholes and message services. Doors have long ago been sealed off for extreme secrecy. Orders arrive from above and others are distributed down into the bureaucratic system. Absurd and incomprehensible, and not without complications. But still everything seem to be normal. Until one of the agents feels the smell of freshly baked bread and start asking questions...
Choreography: Jo Strømgren Dancers
Actors: Espen Reboli Bjerke, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Bartek Kaminski-Obuchowicz, John Fjelnseth Brungot
Set design/ Props / Costumes: Jo Strømgren
Music / Sound design: Lars Årdal / Jo Strømgren
Light design: Stephen Rolfe
Produced by: Ann-Christin Danhammar
Production: Jo Strømgren Kompani
For more information, please visit www.jskompani.no
The local project partner is the Center for New Theatre and Dance (CENPI) from Belgrade www.cenpi.org.yu