V Festuge 2001 - The Tooth of Time
The Festive Week was held in 2001, between August 25 -
September 3. The theme was Tidens tand - det forgangne, det
flygtige og morgendagen (The tooth of time - the way things were,
the fleeting world, what is to come).
Odin Teatret had invited Teatro Potlach from Italy including more
than fifty European artists - from opera singers to tango dancers
and saxophone quartets. The Brazilian percussion orchestra
Bagunçaço, with twenty-five street children from Salvador, was led
by the composer and musician Wilson Café. Once again Holstebro's
own citizens were active participants at different level as
organisers, performers, helpers and spectators.
The main event was an open air performance, THE
INVISIBLE TOWN, whose three acts took place on
differents evenings in different neighborhoods. Each act, which was
an autonomous performance, presented tableaus from the past and the
future which interacted with the present. The Dane Tage Larsen, the
Italian Pino di Buduo and the Brazilian Paulo Dourado were the
directors of this "transformance" which, in addition to the invited
foreign artists, involved Sløyfen (Holstebro amateur
theatre), tanks and soldiers from the Dragoons Regiment, local
sports clubs, riding schools, associations of veteran cars
etc.
TIDEVANDET (Tide) was another
performance which came to life in the course of seven days,
directed by the composer Frans Winther. In the morning, at noon and
in the evening, musical and theatrical events celebrated a statue
of melting ice created by Kirsten Justesen while poems by Thomas
Boberg were recited and sung.
