The American Moth
The American Moth is a hybrid, multi-medial performance combining dance, theatre in multiple languages and cinematic live video.
Featuring an extraordinary cast, including the legendary Liv Ullmann, The American Moth is a poetic exploration of the sympathies and resentments at play in inter-generational relationships – what’s loved and what’s lost, experience, memory, time. but leaping between hearts from old to young and back again, love is never alone, fear leaps alongside it.
With The American Moth – looking both backwards and forwards in time – Alan Lucien Øyen and a cast of truly extraordinary performers, will attempt to reconnect with the wisdom that the modern world is rapidly losing.
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
Photo:Thor Brødreskift
The American Moth opened the Bergen International Festival in May 2020 and was co-produced by The National Theatre and Concert Hall, Taipei / The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C. / ITA, Amsterdam / and The Norwegian Opera and Ballet, Oslo.
Undeniably influenced by the ongoing global pandemic – The American Moth reveals a series of personal stories in a stripped-down, confessional format. amid the lies and labours of an increasingly confused world, an ancient demon grows stronger. a shared anxiety, while causing us to huddle together, threatens to tear us apart.
Using state-of-the-art film cameras with cinematic lenses, winter guests push the envelope on live-video in a theatrical context, bringing the audience up-close and intimate – cinematic intensity on stage.