Else Marie Laukvik was born
in 1944 in Oslo, Norway. She was one of the five young
people who agreed to work with the then unknown Eugenio Barba in
Oslo in 1964. Else Marie followed the group to Holstebro, Denmark.
Her experiences as an actor are published in The Actor's
Way, edited by Erik Exe Christoffersen. At the same time as
she was performing with Odin Teatret, Else Marie worked as
director for Teatret Marquez in Aarhus, Denmark, from 1981 to
1991, and from 1993 to 2004. As an actress Else Marie has also
collaborated with Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy),
in 1996. She worked as a freelance director with
Munin Teatret (Denmark) in 1997, Teatro Actores Alidos (Italy)
in 1999, Rogo Teatro (Italy) in 2002, Associazione Culturale
Teatro dell'Albero (Italy) in 2003. Else Marie Laukvik toured
to Australia and New Zealand in 2004 as director of the performance
Ingeborg Stuckenberg, Teatret Marquez,
giving lectures at universities about Odin
Teatret's history. Else Marie worked as director
with the musical trio Kabaret Wagon, making En tu pequeña
vida in 2005, and The Monkey
Orchestra, a performance for children, in 2006. In 2007,
she directed the cabaret performance Hungry Tigers
with the new theatre duo Mia & Max. Else Marie Laukvik has
created My Stage Children, a
performance which presents all her stage characters live and
through film fragments.
Performances
Ornitofilene
Kaspariana
Ferai
My
Father's House
The Book
of Dances
Presenze e Figure
Come! And the Day will
be Ours
Anabasis
The
Million
The Gospel
According to Oxyrhincus
Memoria
Performance
demonstrations
My
Stage Children
Storytelling Project
The Soldier, a Child and the Blue Bird
Odin performances for children
Gøglere og Spaghetti
Performances with Else Marie Laukvik as actress
with other companies than Odin Teatret
Per Gynt (directed by Renzo Vescovi, Teatro Tascabile di
Bergamo, Italy)
Performances directed by Else Marie Laukvik for Teatret
Marquez
La Candida
Goya - a Masquerade of Love
Perler og Svin - en cabaret
Kroppen er et digt - Kærligheden en sang
Omnibus
One More Planet! Please.
Blind Sejlads
Short Letters from a Long Voyage
Performances directed by Else Marie Laukvik for other
companies
The Night of the Vagabonds (with Silvia Ricciardelli, Ulrik
Skeel, Julia Varley)
Hvor ravnene vender (with Munin Teatret, Denmark)
Mille e un Sogno (with Actores Alidos, Italy)
Good Night Cathy (with Rosalba Genovese, Teatro dell'Albero,
Italy)
Senza Destinazione (with Rogo Teatro, Italy)
Ingeborg Stuckenberg Project 2004 (Teatret Marquez,
Denmark)
En tu pequeña vida (with Kabaret Wagon, Denmark)
The Monkey Orchestra (with Kabaret Wagon, Denmark)
Hungry Tigers (with Mia & Max, Great Britain)
Caveflowers (with Hazal Selçuk, Turkey, co- director F.
Winther)
Seagreen Story (with Hazal Selçuk, Turkey)
Metamorpheosis (with Samka Teatro, Italy/Colombia)
Arctic Hysteria (with Abi Basch and Kinderdeutsch, San
Francisco, USA)
KNOTS - Rules to Be Happily Unhappy (with Itinera arte en
expanción, Italy/Mexico)