PRODUCTION MALTA: 22th.-29th. of April 2008.





THE COW AND THE SEA
Prologue to an Elevation


The old cow is dead, but we kept the bones.
They have been sunk in the sea for two months.
Now we hope they are clean as the cow's will.
Now we will bring them back to the society,
with these words by the English realist writer Charles Dickens:

"I am thrown away in society.
Cows are my passion.
What I have ever sighed for,
has been to retreat to a Swiss farm,
and live entirely surrounded by cows — and china
What I want, is frankness,confidence, less conventionality,
and freer play of soul. We are so dreadfully artificial.

Photos left: Gisle Martens Meier. Photos: BONES and BONES (Baktruppen)

IT DOESN'T WORKSHOP DARTINGTON
5th.-9th. of November at Dartington College of Arts, Totnes.
8th. November: Footballgame between Ibsen's women and Strindberg's men.
9th.November: Student covers of GOOD GOOD VERY GOOD, SPECT and KVAKK.
ALL IMAGES
DO&UNDO PERFORMANCE LECTURE
Audience volunteers & Baktruppen move together through Baktruppen history.
5th.November at Dartington College of Arts, Totnes.
IT DOESN'T WORKSHOP LONDON
29th. of October - 2nd. of November at Drama and Performance, South Bank University, London.
Actions at Imperial War Museum, Waterloo Station, Starbucks and "I love Melons" at The Fruit & Melon Marked. 2nd. November: Student covers of TONIGHT and WHEN WE DEAD AWAKE.
BUSINESS FOR ALCOHOLICS
20th. October: Meteorfestivalen, org. BIT Teatergarasjen.
GENDER
10th.-12th. of October: workshop arr. by Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
DO&UNDO & DELI COMMEDIA at Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria, the 22nd. & 23rd. of September. Org.: Steirischer Herbst
TEXT 1st.july-07
IMAGES &
Breadnose from Graz.
FUNNYSORRYJESUS Rosa Luxemburg strasse 24,
Berlin, the 26th.-27th.-28th. and 29th. of June at 21.00. Org.: Sophiensæle
Images from the performance

USKARP2 at Norsk Litteraturfestival, Lillehammer, Norway.
Opening performance at Café Banken the 30th. and 31th. of May at 22.00
IT DOESN'T WORKSHOP HELSINKI: HELSINKI PIKNIKK
: Milla Martikainen, Milja Aho, Laura Poranen, and Ana Amorim.
Workshop at Helsinki Theater Academy, 14th.-19th. of May.
IT DOESN'T WORKSHOP FREDRIKSTAD: BAGTROUP evaluated by BAKTRUPPEN
30.03.07: StageArtAcademy in Fredrikstad, Norway.
Workshop BAKTRUPPEN&BAGTROUP: 20th. - 30th. of March.
IT DOESN'T WORKSHOP FREDRIKSTAD: BAKTRUPPEN BY BAGTROUP
29.03.07: Germania Tod in Berlin by third year students at theStageArtAcademy in Fredrikstad, Norway.
Workshop BAKTRUPPEN&BAGTROUP: 20th. - 30th. of March.
FUNNYSORRYJESUS at Kunstbanken, Hamar, Norway.
28.10.06 at Kunstbanken, org. Performancehelg,
Katalog (pdf)
FUNNYSORRYJESUS TEATERGATEN
23rd.&24th. of September 2006, at TIT, Bergen, Norway.
Org. Bit Teatergarasjen.
IMAGES Photo: Karl Henrik Nymo
VIDEO
Forhåndsomtale 23.09 i Bergens Tidende
Kritikker i Bergens Tidende og Bergen Arbeiderblad 24.09.
Vivaldi's "Winter" performed as bush on agave harps and horns.
21st. September, Café Opera, Bergen. Org. Skurkeklubben.
New cd preparations.
20th. to 23rd. of September in Bergen.
Celebrating THE YEAR OF THE BUSH
Baktruppen show their latest work THE YEAR OF THE BUSH in
Dælenenggata 31, Oslo, Norway, 08.-10.09.06
PRESSPHOTO (300dpi)
VIDEO
FUNNYSORRYJESUS E6 / Olav Tryggvasonsgate
3rd.&4th. of February 2006 at Teaterhuset Avant Garden, Trondheim, Norway.
Kritikk i Adresseavisa & Klassekampen.
VIDEO
DO&UNDO & DELI COMMEDIA & -UN-DO-THREE.
3rd.&4th. of December 2005 at PS 122, New York.
org. BIT, BBT and TAG.
Review in the New York Times
Review in Gay City News
photo: At Merce Cunningham Dance Company where Cunningham's Deli Commedia (Baktruppen's Do&Undo2) was made in 1984. Image from the studio.
SØKNAD om prosjektstøtte 2006-007-008. Til Norsk Kulturråd.
DO&UNDO & DELI COMMEDIA & -UN-DO-THREE.
November 2nd. 2005 at Continental Breakfast Tallinn - NU Performance Festival, location Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn. h 19.30
QuictimeMovies: Vivaldi's Winter & Dancing Screen 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Images from the show. Tallinn Faces.
UN-DO-THREE.
Production, number three in Baktruppen's dance trilogy, at Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany.
October 21st. to 31th. 2005:
DO&UNDO.
June 24th 2005 at Morokulien/Riksutstillinger, border of Norway/Sweden.
More images
FUNNYSORRYJESUS TOU.
10 &11.06 2005 at Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway.
LIK TIL SALGS
Baktruppen cansel the jubilee show NOK and perform Dario Fo's Corps For Sale.
Pressemelding Dario Fos Lik til salgs (norw.)
Performances at:
Karlstad Stadsteater, 21.05.05.
Kulturhuset Stockholm, 17&18.05. Kritikk: Svenska Dagbladet 19.05.
Ålesund Teaterfestival, 05.03.05.
Black Box 24.- 27.02.05. Kritikk: Morgenbladet 04.03.
Teaterhuset Avantgarden, Trondhjem 16&17.02.05.
Kritikk: Adresseavisa17.02&Klassekampen18.02. Forhåndsomtale Adresseavisa.
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen 05&06.02. Kritikk: Bergens Tidende 05.02.
QTMovie (940kB)

Blomster til Ilevollen Sykehjem i Trondheim.
KIK
15.12.04: Presselansering av Kunstårboka 2004.
I forbindelse med lanseringen av Kunstårboka 2004 legger Baktruppen fram materiale fra Stamsundundersøkelsen, forteller om prosess og resultat, viser bilder og den afrikanske figuren som sto modell for Turisten. Alle har hatt.
DO&UNDO&DELI COMMEDIA (DO&UNDOII) at CCA, Glasgow, November 26th.-04.
DO&UNDO&DELI COMMEDIA (DO&UNDOII) at Black Box, Oslo, Norway, Nov.11th. to 13th.
Kritikk i Dagsavisen 14.11.04.
Cunninghamgate, Do&UndoII på Black Box, av Marit Strømmen. (in norwegian)
AGAVE HARP MUSIC
UK TOUR:
DO&UNDO&DELI COMMEDIA (DO&UNDOII)
20th.of October 2004 in Lancaster at Nuffield Theatre, and in Bedford at Bowen West Theatre the 23rd.
UK CARPETS
Special event at Britannia Adelphi Hotel, The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, 15th. of October 2004.
«..Baktruppen are a Norwegian national resource, proven and refined over 18 years of global critical success, their work floating freely between categories, always challenging, innovative and creative. Concerning the ubiquity of carpets in public spaces in the UK, specifically in the Adelphi Hotel, this work seeks to explore Liverpool's built environment and history».
FUNNYSORRYJESUS SERGELS TORG.
Seen from the bookshop konstig, at Kulturhuset, Stockholm. org. Nordic Excellence. 24th. and 25th. of September 2004.
Kritikk Dagens Nyheter.
SCENEKUNSTPRIS
Danse- og Teatersentrums Scenekunstpris for FunnySorryJesus
04.09.2004
Production NOK: 17th.-20th. October 2004 in Llandudno, Wales.
Production 9-15th. September 2004 in Menton, France.
STAMSUNDUNDERSØKELSEN 2004.THE TOURIST.
As a result of Stamsund Gallup Poll 2003 a two and a half meter tall wooden sculpture made by Baktruppen and Trond Solberg was given to the people in Stamsund to decide it's name and if they wanted it to stand ON LAND or be thrown IN THE OCEAN. The sculpture was wanted ON LAND by 95%!
See everything at www.norskbakgrunn.org

DELI COMMEDIA (DO&UNDOII) made during residency at Rui Hortas Centro Coreográfico de Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal.
First night 23.04.04. Stockholm, Moderna Danseteatret 29.04. POSTER
Kritikk i Dagens Nyheter. (sv.) (review in english)
Kritikk i Aftonbladet. (sv.) (review in english)
Kritikk i Svenska Dagbladet. (sv.) (review in english)
IN THE PRESS (short)
23.04.04: DO&UNDO at Rui Hortas Centro Coreográfico de Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal.
27.11.03 Review De Morgen
FUNNYSORRYJESUS DÆLENENGGATA. 24th.-25.October 2003.
FUNNYSORRYJESUS Swevegemsestraat, 27th.-28th. Nov. 2003, Limelight, Kortrijk,Belgium.

QTMovie FunnySorryJesus (2MB).
FUNNYSORRY DÆLENENGGATA. 26th.-27th.September 2003.
FUNNY DÆLENENGGATA. 29th.-31.rd August 2003.
Søndagstekst av Anders Eiebakke.
"Gærnegjengen gir seg ikke" av Jon Refsdal Moe.
Stamsundundersøkelsen 2003 / Stamsund Gallupp Poll 2003 30.05.-01.06.03.
Norwegian Background(NORSK BAKGRUNN)
Winner of a journey worth Nok. 10.000,-Rita Aasheim.