Last day in San Francisco. Now we just got to "type it up"... #AMERICA Ep.3 - SuperAmateur...
Alan and Andrew with Eric and Chicken. #America3 #superAmateur...
Alan will be one of the first two artists to create a new full-length piece for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bauch.
The work will première in Wuppertal on June 2nd 2018 as part of Adolphe Binder's first season as Artistic Director.
"It's an absolute privilege to be allowed to create together with the inspirational artists that are the legacy of Pina Bauch. I'm entirely humbled by this incredible honor."
- Alan Lucien Øyen
For the second year running winter guests was responsible for the Opening Ceremony of the Bergen International festival. This years event was written and hosted by Andrew Wale together with Suzie Davies, and directed by Alan Øyen.
The event was very well received and particular credit was given to the conceptual choice of using last years criticism towards the festival as satire during this years Opening ceremony. The Bergen Newspapers called it "a turnaround with surgical precision".
Simulacrum is opening this years edition of the
CounterCurrent festival in Houston, TX!
Shows run April 18 - 20th at The Mitchell Center for the Arts.
Heres a peak at the trailer: https://youtu.be/OtyJWIkJF6k
#CounterCurrent17 #futureperfectproductions.
In August 2016 Alan Lucien Øyen and Andrew Wale will spend a week at New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency to continue working on AMERICA - Ep. 2 Psychopatriot.
Award-winning New York Theatre Workshop is both a laboratory for theatrical exploration and producer of plays that expand the boundaries of theatrical form and address the critical issues of our times.
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland has invited winter guests /Alan Lucien Øyen for a month-long creation residency during summer 2016 to complete ”Simulacrum”.
The Clarice has provided winter guests with excellent premises, and a great opportunity to produce and show new work in the States, and to make new contacts in the field.
Winter guests / Alan Lucien Øyen has been selected to participate at a one-month residency program summer 2016 at Robert Wilson´s Watermill Center to work on the new text for the upcoming theatre work AMERICA –Ep. 2 -Psychopatriot. As a part of their residency at Watermill, Alan Lucien Øyen and Andrew Wale will present a staged reading of AMERICA Ep.2 – Psychopatriot.
We're excited to be back in NYC and be part of Satellite Meeting organised by the Performing Arts Hub Norway and FuturePerfect. The 5-days delegate meeting is from January 11 till 17, involving meetings, tour of venues, workshops and performances.
We will be talking with U.S partners specifically about our upcoming project Simulacrum.
We are extremely honoured and proud that Legendary fashion photographer Nick Knight wanted to make a fashion film out of Sinnerman.
Knight first saw Sinnerman when it was presented Ivan Putrov’s Gala "Men in Motion" the London Coliseum last year.
Nick wanted to create the film as a celebration of the majesty of the male dancer - a sublime example of the possibilities of the body and the impact of the moving image.
Our Holiday Special Jingle Horse! - A Christmas Special Received great review after a successfull run and full houses at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet!
Seasongs Greetings
and
Happpy Holidays!
COELACANT earned Andrew Wale and Alan Lucien Øyen a Hedda Award for best play script 2014!
The Hedda Award is the most distinguised award for theatre in Norway, and our five and a half hour long epic also earned us nominations in the categories Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Play! We are extatic and proud.
Some excerpts from some of our rave reviews after the premiere of our last work "Sinnerman" at London Coliseum:
Roars for Proietto, camouflaged in sequins, glittering in the dark like the world’s population of fireflies, and roaring tremendously through Sinnerman, a ferociously demanding solo by Alan Lucien Øyen.
Clement Crisp, Financial Times
more reviews: London Dance, Harpers Bazar, London Evening Standard
Presented over 5 and a half hours, with 12 musicians on stage and a strong international cast of dancers and actors, COELACANTH, is our biggest and most ambitious project ever.
Offering moving performances, exquisite dance, live music and a visually stunning set design, the play is a wild and humorous, but also unique, insight into the life behind the scenes of the theater.
Performing at at the New Norwegian Opera House in Oslo,
October 2013.
On March 27, 2012 winter guests received base funding from the Norwegian Arts Council.
As of 2012 the company will receive annual funding aimed towards developing winter guests as a production platform for the creation of innovate and exciting performances. This means not only a strong increase in annual funding, but enables us to fly by the seat of our pants, as the funds are not earmarked specific projects.
We feel proud and humbled with these news. And very, very excited!
Bird in Magic Rain with Tears is invited to perfor at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC as part of their Nordic Cool Program.
in the press:
The play is braided together in a montage of acting and live video - a mix reminiscent of Robert Le Pages works, but here in an unmistakable 2011-version with you-tube as a best friend. […] Would Ibsen have been writing like this today? - Informationen, (DK)
