Language: Non verbal

Premiere!

Symbiotic Stages (Rosendal Remains) is a new scenographic work, a motion picture, made for Sal 1 at Rosendal Teater. A work which interweaves different stages through which the theatre has journeyed over the past 100 years, into an experience of past and now. Layers of images and structures are composed into a symbiotic staging of the buildings past as a cinema from 1921 and onwards. You are invited to a breathing scenographic meditation, a possibility to see oneself as part of the work, while being flooded by rhythmic light through an experience blurring the boundaries between illumination and image, imagination and information, depth and surface, background and foreground.

The work reflects, reimagines, remembers and restages the past of Rosendal Teater. Seeking an experience of simultaneous movement and stillness, a feeling of how everything always moves.

Symbiotic Stages (Rosendal Remains) is part of Jakob Oredssons artistic research project Scenography as Symbiosis at Norwegian Theatre Academy, Østfold University College.

In connection with Symbiotic Stages (Rosendal Remains), Cinemateket Trondheim is staging the western film Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks 1959). This was the last film to be shown at Rosendal under municipal auspices in 1986. Those who have a ticket to Symbiotic Stages (Rosendal Remains) will also have the opportunity to see Rio Bravo on the same ticket. Bring your ticket and show it at Cinemateket during opening hours, and you'll get a ticket to Rio Bravo. And if you have bought a ticket to Rio Bravo at Cinemateket, you can visit the ticket booth at Rosendal Teater one hour before the performance and show your ticket to get a free ticket to Symbiotic Stages on the day of your choice. OR you can secure a ticket earlier by sending an email to Karianne at karianne@rosendalteater.no.

About the artist Jakob Oredsson:

Jakob Oredsson is an artist, architect and scenographer, currently Artistic Research Fellow at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA), Østfold University College (HiØ), with the project Scenography as Symbiosis, 2020-2023, which seeks to explore how scenography exists in different diverse contexts.

After receiving a BA in scenography from NTA, Jakob studied architecture at The Cooper Union and Pratt Institute in New York and received an MA in Architecture from The Royal Academy in Copenhagen.

Oredsson has realized works internationally in public, gallery and theatre contexts, through a variety of mediums. Works which endeavor to engage existingenvironment in its very form, seeking to queer binaries such as art-context, form-content, active-passive and culture-Nature, accentuating ambiguity and embracing flat ontology. In the Norwegian performing arts field Oredsson has collaborated with Ingvild Holm, Magnus Myhr, Maritea Dæhlin and Verk Produksjoner.