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 performance, 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

Morten Søndergaard

 

Artistic Research

Kathrine Winkelhorn and Erik Exe Christoffersen

 

In The Machine Room of Hotel Pro Forma

Tine Voss Ilum

 

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

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