OPEN SOURCE
Winner Premiered Toured Icelandic Team - Icelandic Dance Company - March 2005: Irish Team - Galway Arts Festival - July 2004: “Man´s greatest gift is his vast capacity for learning from his enviroment” Desmond Morris “In Open Source, Iceland´s leading dance-theatre artist, Helena Jonsdottir, is sharing with us some of the discoveries made by a thoughtful and observing individual alone the way. In this uniquely transparent and yet complex performance, she invites us not only into her own library of possibilities, but opens up endless other sources as well. In a collaboration based on trust and mutual respect, she has created a well of energy that everybody in the stage can recognize as their own. And, accordingly, you have been given something you already had. That is with great artists do. They remind you that you are the creator of your own world, equipped with every tool and material you choose to use. Nothing more, nothing less.” Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson How it all beganIcelandic Dance Company and Icelandic City Theatre held their annual contest for dance theatre in 2003 From nearly 100 applications only 9 were chosen for further developement The 9 pieces were staged in the Reykjavik City Theatre on June 7th 2003 for 10 minutes each Samuel Wuersten, artistic director of the Holland Dance Festival was chairman of a five person jury. Others were Baltasar Kormakur, Lara Stefansdottir, Kjartan Ragnarsson and Anio Freyja Open Source received the first prize. How little things can become larger than life…Open Source takes on a different form in each country The work is an interpretation of itself as it comes to life on stage. It is meant to convey to the audience the comlex world behind the idea of gathering and the process of a modern dance theatre combined with different art forms and various ideas. This is how the German lecture (from Florian Cramer) becomes the basic source that binds the rest together. Trivial acts of our daily lives are weaved into the work Open Source, where endless fractions from different directions slowly gather and form a new whole. The writer then edits a version of Florian Cramer´s text and creates something new. The video artist makes his own image, using Floran Cramer´s voice to make new sounds combined with ambient sounds. The composer creates his own music from the rhythm of Cramer´s video along with composing something completely new. The director assists his dancers and actors in creating life from the dramatic facts that can be found in the material at hand. The choreographer creates a version of Florian Cramer´s fascinating movements. Combined with the video, the movements are made to the convey how the most ordinary act of speech can be a whole work of art. What is open source?Is open source for everyone? Implies that artists should utilize the work of others Production companies – IcelandMyPocket productions Helena Jonsdottir - www.this.is/helena Production – Ireland and Belgium 2004Galway Arts Festival Rose Parkinson Co-production – Belgium 2004Ghent Art Festival |