Neither Nor
Neither Nor productions is a Bergen-based music-theatre company led by Alwynne Pritchard and Thorolf
05/12/2023
Tonight! We’ll be doing our thing at BBC Maida Vale Studios London. “Oh, Bobby”: the anarchic (anti-)Christmas mayhem you know you’re all secretly yearning for will be broadcast later in the month. I’ll keep you posted. 😋
05/12/2023
Big thanks to Ny Musikk for the commission, to Owen Weaver for his fabulous performance and to Emma Bjørgan Dalen for these photos from the premiere of "Unwriting: Part 1 (Departure)" at Dyrk Bryn in Oslo, as part of 7x7x7 on Saturday night. I had a blast! 🙂
16/10/2023
Neither Nor recently made the music for "Plañideras: Historia de convertir una tragedia en producto", a dance performance by Oihana Varela, with movement direction and choreography by my good friend Erick Odriozola.
Here's the trailer ❤.
Teaser Plañideras . Historia de convertir una tragedia en producto Autoria: Oihana VarelaDirección: Oihana VarelaAyte. de dirección de coreografía y movimiento: Erick OdriozolaAyte. de dirección de escena e iluminación:Jrisa...
01/09/2023
Hvis du skal på SlettaFest i morgen, ta gjerne med en piknikk, om du vil!
If you're coming to SlettaFest tomorrow, feel free to bring a picnic!
01/09/2023
Don't forget, SlettaFest is the best 😉.
See you all tomorrow!
30/08/2023
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS ❤
VI TRENGER FRIVILLIGE ❤
[English below]
SLETTAFEST 2023 søker ca 8 frivillige FRIVILLIGE – mest haster 2 (eller 3) personer til å dele ut flyers i Ytre Arna I MORGEN (torsdag) og ytterligere 6 til lørdag. Vi trenger også en sjåfør til lørdag. Send oss en melding hvis du er interessert.
[English]
SLETTAFEST 2023 is looking for about 8 volunteers VOLUNTEERS – most urgently 2 (or 3) people to distribute flyers in Ytre Arna TOMORROW (Thursday) and another 6 for Saturday. We will also need a driver for Saturday. Message us if you're interested.
07/09/2022
:-) It's official. SlettaFest is fantastic ;-)
06/09/2022
A big thanks from me and from Thorolf Thuestad at Neither Nor to everyone who took part, attended and supported SlettaFest 2022. We love you all 🙂
Apart from *all the wonderful musicians* who were game enough to take part at such short notice, we'd like to thank:
Kjetil McAuley and Francis Mc Auley for the Linden tree event.
Snorre R. Mandal, Ragnhild Storsletten Åse, Alexander Fiske Fosse, Jan Proch, Elaine Maltezos and Daniel Daniel Nientiedt for technical and production assistance.
Irene Bjørke and Erik Midtbø at Creative Technologies.
Bergen kommune.
Until next year! And in the mean time, if you want to stay posted, the SlettaFest FB group is the place to be.
Photos: Ragnhild Storsletten Åse, Hege Hammersland, Krister Salomon-Hammersland, Liv Sommerfelt, Elaine Maltezos and Ann-kristin Bjørnestad.
03/09/2022
Hvis du skal på SlettaFest i dag, ta gjerne med en piknikk, om du vil!
If you are coming to SlettaFest today, feel free to bring a picnic!
30/08/2022
SLETTAFEST 2022 *gratis* hagemusikkfestival er HER!! Lørdag 3. september kl 15 - 19. Peter Jebsens veg 83, Ytre Arna. Ta buss nummer 91 til busstoppet *Sletta*.
SLETTAFEST 2022 *free* garden music festival is HERE! Saturday, September 3, 15.00 - 19.00. Peter Jebsens veg 83, Ytre Arna. Take the number 91 bus to the bus stop *Sletta*.
28/07/2022
Was great to have students from the Grieg Academy put on a concert in the Neither Nor artist apartment last night. Thanks to Alexander Fiske Fosse and all involved 🙂👍
10/06/2022
Great to have a new resident artist at the Neither Nor HQ!
Alistair Zaldua, June 6th – 12th, 2022 – Neither Nor Alistair Zaldua improviser, composer, and violinist and is based in Manchester (UK) and is artist in residence at Neither/Nor (Ytra Arna, Bergen) in June, 2022. His work focuses on the relationship between notation and improvisation and in collaborative processes. His album remote music (2020) was f...
10/05/2022
Det har tatt en stund, men her er den – video av Slettafest 2021. Og 2022-festivalen er rett rundt hjørnet. Følg med her for et arrangement i slutten av juni eller august, den første lørdagen med godt vær.
It's taken a while, but here it is – video of Slettafest 2021. And the 2022 festival is just around corner. Watch this space for an end of June or August event, the first Saturday with good weather.
Slettafest2021Documentation This is "Slettafest2021Documentation" by Neither Nor on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Artist friends. In June our artist residency apartment on the fjord (but close to Bergen) will be open for business. We will post photographs soon (it is still a bit of a building site) but if you are interested to know more, send a message to Alwynne Pritchard or Thorolf Thuestad. Rates for individuals/couples (i.e. those of you not sent by an institution) will be nok 500 (approx. €50) per night, nok 2700 per week and nok 10 000 a month. So, the longer you stay, the better the deal. There is a project space which currently contains a harpsichord and a keyboard, but other equipment may be provided on request. We're just getting started with this and would like to develop the space in dialogue with our guests. More to follow soon. Watch this space.
Heart(nothing)
Friends.
They is coming:
Neither Nor presents: Heart(nothing) - by Thorolf Thuestad.
One of three world premieres as part of a great programme put together by Electric Audio Unit. Sentralen, Oslo 05.10.2017 - 1900.
Presented in glorious surround sound.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Having fun working on K Underground at Ramdam in Lyon - despite the heat.
Eksperimentell hyllest av Beckett
Beckett festival review on Scenekunst.no.
scenekunst.no «What is the word?». Spørsmålet møtte meg, insisterende, over høyttalerne idet jeg gikk inn i Teaterhuset Avant Gardens dunkle scenerom. To dager var satt av til å feire det som ville vært dramatiker Samuel Becketts 111-årjubileum.
We, three
OK. This is not technically a Neither Nor project, but it does research ideas we'll be developing in one of our future projects, so here is video documentation (extracts) from Alwynne's "We, three" performed by Alpaca Ensemble at Avant Garden (Trondheim) a few weeks ago. Part of the Fail better... Becket@111 festival.
Alpaca Ensemble at Avant Garden, Trondheim for Fail better... Becket@111 festival, 2017. Video: Alice Winnberg.
Video documentation of the Trondheim performance of "Hospice Lazy" coming soon. Watch this space.
Vitality Forms Solo Performances Teaser
Tomorrow (Friday) night, Alwynne will be performing her "Vitality Forms" 5 & 6 at Avant Garden theatre, Trondheim, as part of the Beckett festival "Fail better". It's a collaboration with Neither Nor also featuring Alwynne's "We, three" and "Vitality Forms" performed by the Alpaca Ensemble.
This is "Vitality Forms Solo Performances Teaser" by Alwynne Pritchard on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Alpaca Ensemble
Alwynne has made 3 short films in which children talk about Samuel Beckett. They'll be screened on Saturday at Avant Garden, Trondheim as part of the Beckett festival "Fail better". The first film is at 18.00. Neither Nor will also be co-presenting Alwynne's "Hospice Lazy" that evening with the Alpaca Ensemble.
Barn om Beckett : Barn deler sine inntrykk av Samuel Beckett. Tre kortfilmer som vises under Fail better (en Beckett-happening!), Teaterhuset Avant Garden, Trondheim, lørdag 6. mai fra kl 1800.
Thank you to Susanne Fritz for sending me this beautiful letter after the performance of "We, three", "Vitality Forms" and "Hospice Lazy" with Trio Alpaca in Freiburg a few weeks back. I am hugely grateful and touched. And the trio was indeed amazing - so a big thanks to them too. Next stop, Avant Garden, Trondheim, May 5th and 6th.
Thanks to Aïda Boukenter for making the costumes for Sigrid Stang, Else Bø and Marianne Baudouin Lie for next week's performance of "Hospice Lazy". All ready for the Internationales Beckett-Festival, Beckett@111 at E-Werk, Freiburg (AND International Women's Day!).
Vitality Forms solo performances_teaser
As part of the upcoming Beckett 111 festival "Fail better" featuring two Neither Nor productions ("We, three" and "Hospice Lazy"), Alwynne will also be performing her solo pieces "Vitality Forms". E-Werk, Freiburg, March 8th and Avant Garden, Trondheim, May 6th. Here's a little teaser vid.
This is "Vitality Forms solo performances_teaser" by Alwynne Pritchard on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Hospice Lazy video trailer
Next up for Neither Nor: video trailer for "Hospice Lazy" which Alwynne will be performing with Alpaca Ensemble at E-Werk in Freiburg on March 8th and at Avant Garden in Trondheim on May 6th as part of "Fail better - Beckett @ 111".
Photo: Alice Winnberg.
Neither Nor's cover photo
Photo: Alice Winnberg.
We're excited to be entering 2017 with three projects under way. Both "We, three" Alwynne's new piece for Alpaca Ensemble and "Hospice Lazy" (first performed by them in 2014) will be presented by Neither Nor as part of Marek Kedzierski 's Beckett programme "Fail better..." in Freiburg in March and Trondheim in May. And we'll be joining our wonderful friends at Scènes Théâtre Cinéma in Lyon for rehearsals of our new joint project "Kafka Underground" in April. Here's a photo of Sam Beckett building a bonfire to get the new year off to a roaring start.
Working on plans for our next Kafka project with Scènes Théâtre Cinéma we came come across these photos of our script development residency at Casa al Bosco in Tuscany in August. Roll on next summer :-) Roll on "Kafka Underground"!
Neither Nor
Photo: Hervé Deroo.
Photo: Thor Brødreskift.
"The Art of Violin Playing" O espaço do tempo work-in-progress performance documentation (extracts)
And here's video documentation (extracts) of "The Art of Violin Playing" work-in-progress performance at O espaço do tempo, Portugal, 29.08.15.
"The Art of Violin Playing" O espaço do tempo work-in-progress performance documentation (extracts)
Korpus-Performance-Documentation.avi
And here's video documentation of "Korpus", which we also made for Borealis 2015.
From the world premiere of Korpus at Lydgalleriet, Østre during Borealis festival 12.03.2015. Video documentation by Karoline Finnema.
Homing_Final documentation_medium.mov
Video documentation of our very first project, "Homing", at the Borealis Contemporary Music Festival opening event at Sentralbadet last year.
This is "Homing_Final documentation_medium.mov" by on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Neither Nor productions is a Bergen-based music-theatre company led by Thorolf Thuestad and Alwynne Pritchard. Working from the premise of music as a cognitive process, a way of thinking, Neither Nor addresses means of making music-driven theatre. Investigating causal relationships between music, language, the human body, stage action, mechanics, kinetics, electronics and environment, Neither Nor addresses and redefines the balance of power between music and the many social structures it inhabits.