(5:35) Rehealsals and performance, fragments.
(3:56) The Million
A journey among the carnivals of different cultures, from India to Bali, from Japan to Brazil, from Africa to European ballroom dancing. A "musical" à la Odin: a mocking album of exoticism whose figures of flesh and blood prance about in front of a strange traveller, clad like a missionary, with the spectacles of a short-sighted intellectual and the backpack of a tourist. The spectacularity and the candid joy of the opening scenes slowly reveal their opposites: dismay at the brutality which accompanies the explosions of life, the misfortunes which encompass the carnivals on the outskirts of empires, the exploitation and humiliation of women, the children with no future.
This exotic album becomes one of meditation reduced to its essentials: love, abandonment, old age, death. For the civilised traveller who is intimidated and vulnerable, the journey becomes escape, distance, involuntary cynicism. A procession of the Magi sings a lullaby to the skeleton of a child: "In a doorway in Bethlehem/ The Virgin and Saint Joseph...".
(20:56) Performance at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium, Performing arts theater.
(2:43) Short trailer of 'The Secret Room - A journey into the universe of Odin Teatret,' a feature-length documentary by Janica Draisma, 2019.
In a mix of documentary and fiction, this beautiful, poetic film takes us on a trip through the universe of Odin Teatret, a unique theatre company founded in 1964 by the famous Italian stage director Eugenio Barba (1936) and housed in an old farm in Holstebro, Denmark. How does this theatre family manage to stay together for more than five decades? With the passing of time, the close-knit group has to deal with the fleetingness of life, in an existence where the stage and everyday reality are so close together.
(4:08) Nordisk Teatretlaboratorium - Odin Teatret
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