Someone who looks like a sailor mumbles something incomprehensible to himself, someone else nods. Sound blows like the wind. Far away, flotsam moves around like a troll, like a nocturnal animal, a seal perhaps. “Concert for Greenland” is archaic, arctic shadow and picture theatre, as if it were centuries old and yet an up-to-the-minute audio-visual, electro-musical composition: sound art, video, language, robotics, age-old cultural technologies and hi-tech, it is all one. But above all, this theatre piece, a concert and an installation and a choreography, takes us on a sentimental, but never soupy journey through the improbable, lonely scenery of Greenland. “Concert for Greenland” reflects the places actually visited on this journey as a distant memory, as a dream, as an unconscious experience. And, at the same time, it is an entertaining expedition that takes us on a walk around an unknown landscape of sound, pictures and language with subtle humour. An orchestral piece and yet not a piece of music, but rather a spatial composition. The Norwegian Verdensteatret unites artists from all disciplines – the characteristic trait of their work is the unusual, often surprising use of new technologies in an intimate dialogue with traditional means of artistic expression.

By and with Asle Nilsen, Lisbeth J. Bodd, Håkon Lindbäck, Piotr Pajchel, Petter Steen, Ali Djabbary, Per F. Basse, Corinne Campos, Øyvind B. Lyse, Lars Øyno, Morten Pettersen, Bergmund Skaslien & Trond Lossius
Artistic directors, Lisbeth J. Bodd & Asle Nilsen
Verdensteatret