Sort/Hvid opens NOMA at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Sort/Hvid was exposed to fire but the planned production continues. NOMA opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg for an extended period starting January 31st. The planned opening of NOMA suffered a setback when a fire destroyed the theatre Sort/Hvid on November 25th 2014. NOMA came close to being cancelled but in the last moment Kunsthal Charlottenborg stepped in with a perfect venue, and Sort/Hvid decided to go through with the project. NOMA opens on January 31st and continues for an extended period until February 28th. While most know the restaurant, renowned for its Nordic kitchen, few might know that noma is also the name of a horrific decease, caused by famine and malnutrition. NOMA is created as a restaurant surrounding a giant head made of food. The audience is invited to dine and the lucky ones might find themselves as winners of a food coupon to the praised restaurant, Noma. It will be the first time for Sort/Hvid to engage in a project where space and visual concept predefines stage art. NOMA is a very important project that from the start placed itself between performance and installation. We re happy that Kunsthal Charlottenborg offered us a venue also considering that we were not able to use the restaurant, Noma, explains Christian Lollike, Artistic Director of Sort/ Hvid. Outside performance hours, the audience will be able to experience NOMA as an art installation. NOMA is created by the three artists Dorte Holbek, Derek Lesher and Andreas Liebmann. The project was chosen as the winner of RUM/15 by Sort/Hvid and an external panel consisting of Kirsten Dehlholm, Kaspar Bonnén and Morten Stræde. RUM/15 is supported by Statens Kunstfond and Bikubenfonden. For more info see www.sort-hvid.dk Best regards, NOMA Press material (S/H) Page 2 Telephone +45 3313 5813 sort-hvid@sort-hvid.dk Press contact JEANNIE MØLLER HALTRUP, telephone +45 6060 7276, jeannie@sort-hvid.dk EGIL BARGFELDT, telephone +45 2254 3131, egil@sort-hvid.dk
Artistical Team Concept, text and direction ANDREAS LIEBMANN (CH) NOMA Press material (S/H) Page 3 Andreas Liebmann studied at the Schauspiel Akademie Zürich (Hochschule für Musik u. Theater, ZHDK) and has been acting and directing for several municipal theatres as well as creating and performing his own solo work internationally. His dramatic writing has been widely published and staged. In his work Liebmann fuses influences from science and personal research as well as political theory. Lately he has focused on issues of wealth and loss in European societies. www.andreasliebmann.net
Artistical Team Concept, costumes and props DORTE HOLBEK (DK) NOMA Press material (S/H) Page 4 Dorte Holbek is educated in spatial design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in Denmark and studied costume design at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Since then she has created set designs and exhibited performance works and visual art both nationally and internationally. She was nominated for the Reumert Award for Stage Designer of the Year in Denmark in 2011 as well as the Griman Award for Stage Designer of the Year in Iceland in 2011. In 2012, she co-founded Holbek-Lesher Food Performance Lab where she has worked extensively with food as subject, medium and social event in the transitional fields between installation art, social play and theatrical experience. www.holbek-lesher.com
Artistical Team Concept and installation DEREK LESHER (UK) NOMA Press material (S/H) Page 5 Derek Lesher has studied installation art, sculpture and graphic design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York. He has exhibited solo works both in Denmark and internationally, and works collaboratively as part of the interactive art collective Illutron in Copenhagen and as co-founder of Holbek-Lesher Food Performance Lab. In addition, he designs, organizes and curates participatory interactive social events such as Copenhagen Burlesque. www.holbek-lesher.com
RUM/15 It is the first time Sort/Hvid presents the result of a scenography workshop with the purpose of developing the stage art making visual concept and space the predefining framework for the process. The intention of RUM/15 is to challenge Sort/Hvid by letting space act as defining factor for the stage art. The physical framework undergoes a visual transformation with every intention of pushing the limits for the concepts of stage art. Sort/Hvid cooperated with an external panel consisting of KIRSTEN DEHLHOLM, KASPAR BONNÉN and MORTEN STRÆDE in choosing NOMA as the winning concept for RUM/15. NOMA is developed in close cooperation with the three concept owners ANDREAS LIEBMANN, DEREK LESHER og DORTE HOLBEK in the fall 2014. RUM/15 er supported by Bikubenfonden and Statens Kunstfond. Facts about NOMA Concept ANDREAS LIEBMANN, DEREK LESHER, DORTE HOLBEK Text and direction ANDREAS LIEBMANN Costumes and props DORTE HOLBEK Installation DEREK LESHER Song and composition MIJA MILOVIC Performance ERIKA SVENSSON, DEREK LESHER, MIJA MILOVIC, LINNEA JENSEN Dramaturg TANJA DIERS Technical Manager and light design MORTEN KOLBAK Video- and sound design RASMUS KREINER Supported by BIKUBENFONDEN, STATENS KUNSTFOND NOMA Press material (S/H) Page 6 Venue KUNSTHAL CHARLOTTENBORG Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 København K 31.01.2015-28.02.2015 Language UK Duration 60 MIN. TICKETS Teaterbilletter.dk Normal 145 kr. TeaterRabat 85 kr. Youth 75 kr. Group Adult (min. 8) 105 kr. Group Youth 40 kr.