In this harvesting autumn, 7 delegates from International Performance Experimental Teaching Studio in STA visited Holstebro, Denmark for 10-days Odin Week Theatre Festival organized by Odin Theatre-Northern Europe theatre Laboratory from 19 August to 29 August, 2013.
Odin Week Theatre Festival is an annual international seminar theatre festival for those who want to know more about the activities in Odin Theatre. The activities include training, rehearsal participating, performance and work display of all current plays in Odin, Odin-related film appreciation, meeting Eugenio Barba, speech and discussion, etc. First Odin Theatre Festival was held in 1989. Initially, the festival mainly took the form of workshop to go with the film appreciation and performance, aiming to allow participants to experience the body and sound training in the process of performance as creating, so as to finally present the performance directed by Mr. Eugenio Barba. Now the Odin Week Theatre Festival would last for 10 days so that the participants will be immersed in all activities of different fields from Odin Theatre arranged closely from 8 am to 10 pm.
This year's festival includes:
1. 14 performances of Odin Theatre
During the festival, participants will have the chance to watch all current plays of Odin Theatre which are greatly different in genre. The group work by all actors, plays by a few actors, or even a monologue, will be showed this year. Those plays are as follows:
《THE CHRONIC LIFE》
《MY STAGE CHILDREN》
《JUDITH》
《ESTER’S BOOK》
《MEMORIA》
《GREAT CITIES UNDER THE MOON》
《THE CASTLE OF HOLSTEBRO II》
《WHITE AS JASMINE》
《SALT》
《DOÑA MUSICA’S BUTTERFLIES》
《INSIDE THE SKELETON OF THE WHALE》
《AVE MARIA》
《ITSI BITSI》
《ODE TO PROGRESS》
8 demonstrations:
《The Echo of Silence》
《Traces in the snow》
《The Dead Brother》
《Nora’s Way》
《Text Action Relation》
《Letter to the Wind》
《Quasi Orpheus，the Actor-Musician》
《The Whispering Winds in Theatre and Dance》
trainning during the class
Eugenio Barba giving instruction
stage photo
