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.
The American Moth brings the cathartic powers that great theater can offer; like a Greek tragedy, it can restore emotional equilibrium.
The American Moth opened the Bergen International Festival in May 2021 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.
Videos
The American Moth trailer