Lotte van den Berg | OMSK

Printer-friendly version

Lotte van den Berg | OMSK

Joyfully uplifting and achingly forlorn

Language: 

None

Contact: 

Artistic director: Lotte van den Berg

T +31 (0)78 – 614 87 78/ +31 (0)6 – 48 26 77 14

E info@omsk.nl

I www.omsk.nl

Award-winning director Lotte van den Berg (1975) has been making her presence felt in Holland as one of a new generation of artists described as the ‘young Dutch minimalists’. She explores the power of movement in her productions with a profound intensity that is both joyfully uplifting and achingly forlorn. Although it resists categorization, her work can be characterized as having a pared-down style and a devoted attention to detail. Abandoning text, her work moves between the worlds of dance, film and theatre – creating a bold, fresh style offering the audience various perspectives and angles. Van den Berg works with professional and non-professional actors, her work is site-specific or for theatres and she makes a conscious choice to allow herself to be inspired by what happens around us in everyday life.

After graduating in Theatre Direction in Amsterdam, Lotte van den Berg worked for Toneelhuis Antwerp for three years and as a freelance director. In 2009, she became artistic director of the new organisation OMSK, a multidisciplinary initiative based in an old power station in Dordrecht.

Lotte van den Berg has already developed various multi-disciplinary projects with OMSK, including three theatre productions and an expedition to Kinshasa, The Republic of Congo.

International: 

International programmers are watching Lotte van den Berg's work with ongoing interest.

Braakland/Wasteland, Stillen, Gerucht/ Rumour, Het verdwalen in kaart/Mapping the Unknown, Les spectateurs have toured numerous countries all over the world.

Lotte van den Berg will make Pleinvrees/Agoraphobia in 2012 and the production will take place in the open air, in a busy square, somewhere in the centre of town. Pleinvrees/Agoraphobia is an event, an extraordinary meeting of people about the possibility and impossibility of being together. The production will travel to Belgium, the U.K. and the U.S.A.