Quasi Orpheus: the actor-musican

Quasi Orpheus is a work demonstration in which Jan Ferslev uses examples from training and performances to explain how movement, music, voice and musical instruments are integrated in his work. He shows how a musical instrument can become an extension of the body, thus enhancing its possibilities; how action, voice and sonority merge to suggest different associations and moods; how the visual aspect of an instrument is integrated in the creative process;  and finally how all these elements are united in a complex synthesis of expression, which belongs to the performer's personality and turns into the backbone of the performance.

Actor and musician Jan Ferslev has performed with Odin Teatret for more than 25 years. Talabot, Itsi Bitsi, Kaosmos and Mythos are some of the performances he has participated in.