This special English language issue of the Danish dramaturgical studies journal Peripeti is dedicated to the internationally renown performance theater Hotel Pro Forma.
Since its foundation in 1985 the Danish performance theater Hotel Pro Forma has cultivated the interaction between architecture, music, visual arts and words from the principles of visual arts. With its distinctive aesthetic idiom it has gained a prominent place in the Danish and international theater landscape. Hotel Pro Forma’s use of advanced lighting and new technology has attracted attention in connection with its many remarkable productions.
Throughout the life of Hotel Pro Forma, Kirsten Dehlholm has been the artistic director of the theater, which acts as a studio, a laboratory, and a production company. In the course of the last 30 years, it has constantly explored new avenues between performanc, visual art, installation, and opera.
In this special issue of Peripeti several researchers have come together to investigate a series of performances and to look more closely into Hotel Pro Forma’s artistic means and processes to expand an understanding of the performing arts.
TABLE OF CONTENT
PROLOGUE
Erik Exe Christoffersen and Kathrine Winkelhorn
A CROSS SECTION
Hotel Pro Forma in a European Context
Theresa Bener
The Hauted Hotel
Monna Dithmer
Intermedial Performance and the Vertical Perspective
Erik Exe Christoffersen
PERFORMANCES
Envigorating the City of Holstebro
Erik Exe Christoffersen
Operation: Orfeo
Morten Kyndrup
The Picture of Snow White
Ida Krøgholt
Navigare
Erik Exe Christoffersen
House of the Double Axe
Nina Gram
Calling Clavigo
Niels Lehmann
The Face and the Divine Space
Christian Pagh
War Sum Up
Anette Vandsø
Ellen and Creative Relations
Erik Exe Christoffersen
The One Who Whispers
Laura Luise Schultz
Cosmos+
Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen
From Forgotten Works to Staging as Form
Kathrine Winkehorn and Anja Mølle Lindelof
NeoArctic
Kathrine Winkelhorn
“This is not Madama Butterfly”
Lars Qvortrup
EXPLORATION
The Lighting – an interview with Jesper Kongshaug
Kathrine Winkelhorn
Getting the World Back
Artistic Research
Kathrine Winkelhorn and Erik Exe Christoffersen
In The Machine Room of Hotel Pro Forma
Hotel Pro Forma’s Productions
Kirsten Dehlholm
Selected Venues for Hotel Pro Forma’s Productions
Authors
References
Peripeti is published by Department of Dramaturgy, Aarhus University, Denmark
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