The 17th-20th of February 2009 the ensemble line and the theater line at Performers House participated in a workshop dedicated to the “instructions” given by the little boy Paa Kwesi from Ghana (see description of the work below). Taking a point of departure in photos and video of the boy, the students worked with the movements of the boy, the objects, with which he was playing, and the possible atmosphere of sounds and smells in his surroundings. After testing and improvising with these aspects, the work was focused on different ways to disseminate to an audience the impressions and experiences that the students had gained from the material. In the end a test performance installation was made, in which information and facts about Ghana were blended into an idiosyncratic setting inspired by the Ghanaian child. A showing was made for a test spectator. He among other things commented, that he had received the information about Ghana more attentively in the context of the test performance installation, than he would have had if just reading it in a book.
The students, who participated in the workshop, will soon be going on a trip to Ghana; and the work, which was initiated in this workshop, will be developed further aiming towards a performance installation in Verdenskulturcentret in Copenhagen this spring.
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