Forestilling

Mourning violence

How can I perform in a way where I don’t hold the emotional responsibility of telling the story to the audience?

My name is Timothée Neie and I am a Master Student in Comparative Dramaturgies and Performance Research. I am currently working in between Paris and Norway. Within the context of my broader Masters research, I want to work on a performance which will allow me to tell difficult and urgent stories with a certain kind of gentleness and empathy.
This is a piece of process oriented performance around the subject of representation of violence.

About the artistic project

Mourning violence is about how darkness and silence as materials allow the exploration of the following subject: the representation of violence.
By darkness and silence, I mean darkness/silence within the languages of light, sound, space, materials and performance.

Or rather, Mourning violence is about exploring violence as a subject on stage.
Violence within stories, violence within broader narratives, violence within relations.

Or rather, Mourning violence is about the violence which is explored on stage.
In the bodies, in the space in between the bodies, in the space in between the different informations of the stage (light, sound, space, materials, performers…).

Artistic and technical team

Directing: Timothée Neie
Development of Material: Timothée Neie along with the performers

Sound Designer: Elmeri Kunnas, student at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA)
Light Designer: Martin Maisch Brandvoll
Spatial Dramaturgy: Piotr Chrzanowski, student at KHiO, MFA in Art and Public Space
Costume Supervisor: Signe Vasshus
Technical Producer: Kjetil Skåret
Stage manager: Are Engebretsen

Performers

Piotr Chrzanowski, student at KHiO, MFA in Art and Public Space
Mina Nærø Gjersvik, student at Oslo Met, Master in Theater and Society
Nina-Sofia Kratz, student at KHiO, Bachelor in Classical Ballet
Timothée Neie, student at KHiO, Master in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research
Åsne Sørlie-Nordnes, student at KHiO, Bachelor in Acting

Master Supervisor: Cathrine Myhre Solbjør