Årg. 14 Nr. 26.5 (2017): Hotel Pro Forma – Hotel of Beauty. A Laboratory for Performing Arts
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 art. 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. Publiceret: 2017-01-01
Prologue
- Prologue Erik Exe Christoffersen, Kathrine Winkelhorn 6-9
A Cross Section
- Hotel Pro Forma in a European context Theresa Bener 10-16
- The Haunted Hotel Monna Dithmer 17-22
- Intermedial Performance and the vertical perspective Erik Exe Christoffersen 23-30
Performances
- Invigorating the City of Holstebro Erik Exe Christoffersen 31-32
- Operation:Orfeo – its Act of Enunciation Morten Kyndrup 33-36
- The Picture of Snow White Ida Krøgholt 37-39
- Navigare – The Inauguration of Arken in 1996 Erik Exe Christoffersen 40-41
- House of The Double Axe – The Meeting of Two Worlds Nina Gram 42-43
- Calling Clavigo – The Intellectual as Readymade Niels Lehmann 44-47
- The Face and the Divine Space Christian Pagh 48-50
- War Sum Up Annette Vandsø 51-52
- Ellen and creative relations Erik Exe Christoffersen 53-56
- The One Who Whispers – The playwright as ghostwriter Laura Luise Schultz 57-61
- Cosmos + A Big Bang performance about the Wonders of the Universe Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen 63-64
- From Forgotten Works – to Staging as Form Kathrine Winkelhorn, Anja Mølle Lindelof 65-72
- NEOARCTIC 12 Songs. 12 audio Images. 12 Landscapes. 1 Planet. Kathrine Winkelhorn 73-75
- “This is not Madama Butterfl y”: Hotel Pro Forma’s triple transformation of Puccini’s Madama Butterfl y Lars Qvortrup 76-79
Exploration
- Interview with lighting designer Jesper Kongshaug Kathrine Winkelhorn 80-85
- Getting the world back – about working in Hotel Pro Forma’s gravitational fi eld Morten Søndergaard; Anna Maria Orrù; Morten Søndergaard 86-89
- Artistic research for a production Kathrine Winkelhorn, Erik Exe Christoffersen 90-98
- In The Machine Room of Hotel Pro Forma Tine Voss Ilum 99-102
- Hotel Pro Forma’s Productions Kirsten Delholm 103-115
- Selected venues for Hotel Pro Formas performances: Peripeti Redaktion 116-118
- Authors Peripeti Redaktion 119-120
- References Peripeti Redaktion 122-127