Photographer, filmmaker Martynas Norvaišas will prepare together with the creative teamiasi videographic performance based on Carl Orff’s stage play of the same nameę cantata “Carmina Burana“ prime minister. The video projection artist poetically explores people and Juhpraise ppitfalls, which he will be able to reveal not only by conventional filming techniques, but also by thermal imagers and infrared rays cameras.
August 11 22:30 the space of the old boathouse will be taken over and transformed almost beyond recognition by the video performance “Carmina Burana” of the Klaipėda State Musical Theater, which will host the 3rd International Klaipėda Festival. The artists who created the video performance based on the well-known cantata – director Dalius Abaris, music director and conductor Robertas Šerveniks, set designer Sigita Šimkūnaitė, costume designer Sandra Straukaitė – are well known to the Klaipėda audience. In order to imagine the grand scale of the cantata, it is enough to mention that the premiere is organized by the director of “The Flying Dutchman”, D. Abaris. D. Abaris in 2021 for the direction of this work, which was presented in the old boathouse three years ago. was awarded the “Golden Cross of the Stage”.
D. Norvaiš tells about the preparation for the performance.
Ar „Carmina Burana“ will be the first creative activity in the Klaipėda State Musical Theater? Not for the first time you cooperate with režIsieri Dalius Abaris and his talented and diversean award-winning team?
Until now, I have photographed and filmed the promo material of the performance “Dona Quixote” at KVMT. I met the director Dalius Abaris, set designer Sigita Šimkūnaite, costume designer Sandra Straukaite and lighting artist Andrius Stasiulis during the production of the musical drama “The Tale of a Gifted Heart” by the ensemble “Lietuva”. The video performance based on Carl Orff’s stage cantata of the same name “Carmina Burana” is our second joint work.
You are a video projection artist. What is your work tools?
I am a cameraman and photographer, so when creating projections in the theater, cameras become my main work tool. I do not use computer generated images. I look for the necessary material in the real world, I try to find graphic images in documentary situations that would look good on stage, without overshadowing the action with their intensity. I aim for the images to be non-abstract and have their own narrative, arising from the way the images connect and interact both with each other, with the material of the work, and with the scenery.
The title of the cantata “Carmina Burana” is followed by the appendix “Secular songs for soloists, chorus, instruments and magical images”. Therefore, I was looking for ways to show on the screens what the naked eye cannot see – I will use not only the usual technique for filming, but also a thermal imager and an infrared camera.
Look at youit takes time to preparetakes such a largefor a brilliant performance as “Carmina Burana“? are you readythis is influenced by the fact that it will be shown outside, ediantis saulei, ant mariuh shore?
The first meetings of the creative team in preparation for this performance took place back in the spring. As for the visualizations, now the intensive production phase begins – preparation for filming, filming itself, editing, post-production. The idea of the image is also shaped by the setting of the performance – Klaipėda Elingas, located on the shore of the lagoon. On the screens there will be fragments of the port city – the lighthouse, the sea: both stormy and calm, both at night and in the morning. The musical theater choir will also be the hero of the filming. During the performance, the artists of the choir will work both on stage and appear in filmed images on the screens. I juxtapose the sea and people and show them as uncontrollable elements. I don’t want to reveal too much – we are waiting for everyone at the premiere.
Video performance – the whole of video, sound and a large team on stage. Is music the most important creative engine?
I look at the performance “Carmina Burana” not only as classical music. It seems to me that this is a unique conceptual work created by the time. The texts were written by wandering poets as early as the thirteenth century, Carl Orff interpreted them in his own way and put them into a cantata at the beginning of the twentieth century. After a hundred years, the interpretations continue to be created and inspire more and more new creators, who become like collaborators of those nomadic poets. The music and the text do not change, but “Carmina Burana” has the ability to give itself freely to interpretations. It’s fascinating and inspiring.
How much creative freedom is there in your work?s?
It depends a lot on the director, on the team. So far, there has never been a lack of creative freedom, as in the preparation for the performance “Carmina Burana”. We all contribute to create a beautiful image, talk about the world we live in now and strive to make this performance understandable to everyone.
Interviewed by Žaneta Skersytė
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– 2024-04-04 07:59:16
