{"id":281,"date":"2011-02-28T21:31:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2011-02-28T21:37:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:37:02","slug":"verdensteatrets-and-all-the-question-marks-started-to-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/verdensteatrets-and-all-the-question-marks-started-to-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdensteatret&#8217;s &#8220;And All the Question Marks Started to Sing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this crazy, detailed mess of small motors, gator clamps, cables, seemingly fragile steel armature constituting a kinetic sculpture set against a beaming light that projects elements of the sculpture onto a backdrop.  These sculptures are part of the staging or more appropriately actors of Verdensteatret&#8217;s performance titled &#8220;And All the Question Marks Started to Sing&#8221; which was at Dance Theater Workshop this past week.  As a performance, I hated the piece and wanted to leave ten minutes into it, but I would have very much enjoyed the work as an installation.  I loved the kinetic sculptures and portions of the interactions between the sculptures and animations projected onto the walls, but as a performance, it was painfully dull.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/verdensteatret1.jpg\" alt=\"Verdensteatret's kinetic sculpture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoy experimental work, but if I&#8217;m expected to sit in a seat for nearly an hour, I expect to be given something that I can follow, get lost in, or will take me somewhere.  There were elements of &#8220;And All the Question Marks Started to Sing&#8221; which were exciting, but as a whole it seemed disjointed.  There was no anchor or narrative that allowed me to follow the work as a staged linear performance.  Perhaps it was merely presented in the wrong venue, rather than a seated stage performance, the piece seems to be produced for a gallery or museum environment in which the audience may come and go as well as walk through the staging.  Better yet, I would have loved to have interacted with the sculptures and manipulated the playing of the animations and sound.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/verdensteatret2.jpg\" alt=\"Verdensteatret's kinetic sculpture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were four actors that worked with the sculptures to seemingly manipulate video and animation projected onto the walls as well as the sound in the environment.  There were a couple spoken portions, but they were not translated into English, so I had no idea what the actors were saying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/verdensteatret3.jpg\" alt=\"Verdensteatret's kinetic sculpture\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this crazy, detailed mess of small motors, gator clamps, cables, seemingly fragile steel armature constituting a kinetic sculpture set against a beaming light that projects elements of the sculpture onto a backdrop. 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