Expanding the Stage with animation and new technology

Stage Arts Expanded

Expanded Animation / Stage Arts Expanded

Stage Arts Expanded seek to expand the narrative potential and the audience reach by introducing animation, CG arts, simulations, projections and XR into the toolbox of Scenography, Stage Arts and Performance Arts.

Stage Arts Expanded

About

Expanding the Stage with animation and new technology

Stage Arts Expanded is a sub program activity that houses the different collaboration projects that includes stage and performance arts or aspects of it. Typically a theater contacts the center with a imagined request that requires technical development and/or design of characters, universes, or work methods that enables new way of developing stage arts. The program is running and working with national and international partners.

Project start date: Project is running
Welcome to Elusia Gallery
HC2 Gallery
Sceno Gallery
Artists

Every project is assessed from the perspective of the imagination that has created it. What does it require to realize that vision. The center works together with a network of Danish and international artists and specialists that can ensure any vision can be produced in the necessary quality.

Adrian Dexter

Plastic Collective

Bob Lundgren
Bob Lundgren is a danish born adventurer, a published cartoonist and live visual artist with a bachelor’s degree in graphic storytelling and a background in marketing, business law and economics. He specialises in mixed media and narrative driven visuals for commercial illustration, graphic design and the performing arts. welcometoelusia.com and the Extended Universe project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and is the culmination of a european wide experimental collaboration in storytelling spanning live shows, podcasts and webcomics. Bob is currently working as a live visual artist on the show “Elusia: Your dream is just a click away”. Here he draws the settings and atmosphere of the play live on stage by projecting artwork from a glass table onto a transparent screen. The play is set to premier in September 2021 in Teater Grob.
Examples of Development Projects

Teater Grob has the ambition to create relevant performances that stands out as contemporary perspectives of the time we live in. Teater Grob cultivates today's stories in a diverse expression. We strive to create theatre where the credible and present style of play is paramount, and where text and staging constantly seek to create the best conditions for the audience to be seduced and affected. website: https://www.grob.dk/
Working with Theatre Katapult to investigate, through production, the efficacy of using animated content as the background and/or as a framing device in the execution of a live stage performance. The project is part of the Creative Europe (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/node_en) Project: Welcome to Elusia. (https://www.welcometoelusia.com/)

CLICK Festival is an open and inclusive platform in which the curious is immersed in new media and contemporary culture through workshops, exhibitions, talks and extraordinary concert events. New media has vast potential and at Click creativity, knowledge and visions are shared freely. website: https://www.clickfestival.dk/
HC2 Join a group of artists in training and conversing with an artificial intelligence that is searching for a solution to humanity’s greatest problems. An AI has taken its liking to the literature of the Danish poet H.C. Andersen and scientist H.C. Ørsted., calling itself HC2. Performed in the incredible 4D stage (a holographic screen located in Helsingør) the audience is transported into the strange mind of HC2 as it generates particle systems, hyper-realistic environments, and fairytale worlds. Audience members conversed with a real AI on stage, leading to unpredictable and sometimes hilarious discussions.

Theater Catapult presents 15-20 socially relevant and thought-provoking guest plays each season, 1-2 self-productions and a number of other events with the narrative at the center. Whether it's comedy or StorySlam, the focus is on the narrative, the proximity and the authenticity.Theater Catapult has been around since the mid-90s and has arisen out of a desire to deal with current themes from the world that surrounds us. Therefore, Catapult has also, from the beginning been the writing theatre with a strong focus on the text that forms the basis of the performing arts. website: https://katapult.dk/
In direct cooperation with the theatre director, backgrounds to the show This Is Water were created to breathe life into what is traditionally a static and motionless set design. The digital scenography made it possible to create far more locations, including a running sushi restaurant with sushi on moving conveyor belts. The project was a successful and effective fusion of artistic opportunities that arise in the mixing field of scenography and animation.

Teater Svalegangen, Aarhus, Denmark is setting the thoughts and feelings of our time in motion. We believe that art that reflects and debates our present can break down barriers, create identity and community, and strengthen democratic cohesion. website: https://www.svalegangen.dk/
As part of a multi-year project focusing on the UN's 17 World Goals, this artistic collaboration between a number of partners aimed to develop an animated film. The film will alternately be a narrative that focuses on life on Earth, with pauses in the narrative that create opportunities for audience reflection in the space of performing arts. The theme is the human management of Earth's resources as being essential to our survival as a species.
Contact

Kirk Johnson

T: +45 87 55 49 22

E: kijo@via.dk

Morten Thorning

Project manager

T: +45 31 25 40 02

E: mortenthorning@outlook.com