Puppets at the piano (11.08.2023) by Ellen Ugelvik

In Performing Precarity we have been working with several composers staging projects that enhance unstable situations on stage. For Berg & Høeg’s Photostudio I composed the music myself. In this exposition I reflect upon experiences from the process of creating and performing the music in improvisational dialogue with my collaborators in Theater Corpus. What ideas and work methods are available to me in the encounter between puppets, actors, myself and my instrument? How can themes and experiences from the research project Performing Precarity inform the work? My reflections deal specifically with the music, despite the fact that the music clearly cannot to be separated from the whole setting. Many thanks for permission use our material in this exposition; Tormod, Aina, Tuva, Ragni and Daniel.