Poetic Fusion of Dramatic and Visual Art
The Rio Rose Theatre produces internationally recognized and award-winning art theatre.
Our performances have a conventionalized idiom that centres on the human being. We create theatre pictures through light, music, choreography, objects, fragments of text and dialogue. Tableau follows tableau, and it is up to the audience to piece the sense of the performance together. This allows the audience to make use of their own imagination and makes room for reflection. We aim for a comic, absurd and human expression.
This poetic theatrical universe, rich in images, avoids clichés by striving for an immediate and unadorned style of acting. The focus is on physical and visual expression, which embraces dimensions language cannot express. Yet, dialogue is a part of most of the theatre’s performances.
The theatre’s method emphasizes improvisation, rather than a finished script. As a springboard for improvisation, the theatre gathers inspirational material from literature, film, visual art, objects, music and other performing arts. Only then is the form and content of the performance fixed.
Throughout the years, The Rio Rose Theatre has strived to make performances that fits audience at any age.
The Danish Arts Foundation awarded Theatre Rio Rose with a prestigious prize for BLAH BLAH BLAH in 2007.
Haiku was nominated for the Japanese Uchimura Prize in 2005, and the theatre was nominated for prestigious Danish Reumert Award for Take Ten Things in 2003.
The Rio Rose Theatre received the Danish Reumert Award for Haiku and See Me for Best Performances for Children in 2000.
The Rio Rose Theatre has toured all over the world.
Current Productions
HEAVEN AND EARTH (HIMMEL OG JORD)
(2008)
A performance about being kill or cure. The Rio Rose Theatre challenges the gap between heaven and earth in the pursuit of the ability to fly without losing touch with reality. What makes you take off? And can you stay in the air or do you fall to the ground? How can you approach the sun without getting burned? When are you courageous? And when are you foolhardy?
Age Group: 14+
Language versions: Danish and English
BATTLEFIELD
(2007)
A performance for both adolescents and adults about the battles we have with ourselves, with the people we meet and with our loved ones at home. Why are we so often at war with each other? Why is it so difficult to behave properly in the supermarket or towards our relatives? And is it at all possible to relate to the battles of the world while we are fighting our own?
Age Group: 14+
Language versions: Danish and English
BLAH BLAH BLAH
(2006)
The tale of a man with an alcohol addiction who refuses to face up to himself and his own reality. Everybody lies. Some less than others. In a humorous and loving way, this man’s lonely struggle with the lie of his life is described. A play about the courage to acknowledge and accept one’s mistakes.
The Danish Arts Foundation awarded Tove Bornhøft with 100.000 DKK. for the direction of the performance BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Age group: 12+
Language versions: Danish, English, Italian
Review Extracts
"BLAH BLAH BLAH has a visual appeal and directness that makes it immediately communicative. While there were a number of children who seemed to be enjoying the piece on the day we visited, the performance is in no way childish."
The Copenhagen Post (DK), BLAH BLAH BLAH
”It is an incomparable theatrical elixir to attend Teater Rio Rose’s wonderful and impressive performance. Mentally, Teater Rio Rose’s BLAH BLAH BLAH sends you straight up into the bliss of seventh heaven and the feeling of going on and on and on."
BørneTeaterAvisen (DK), BLAH BLAH BLAH
"Rio Rose has created a visual beautiful and present performance about our lack of understanding each other."
www.teateranmeldelse.dk (DK), BATTLEFIELD
International Tours
2007
Accademia Perduta / Romagna Teatri (Forli, Italy)
2006
Starke Stücke (Frankfurt/DE)
2004
Schäxpir Festival (Linz/AT)
Thèatre Jeune Public (Strasbourg/FR)
Festival Melimome (Reims and Troyes/FR)
SuperDanish/Harbourfront, (Toronto/CA)
