Kai Bredholt was born
in 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He did an apprenticeship as a
boat-builder. He began as a folk-musician playing in the streets
and in popular cabarets. His studies include extensive exposure to
various genres of European traditional and folk music, especially
those of Denmark. He joined Odin Teatret in
1990, first as a musician/composer,
later as an actor and organiser/director of barters and
transformances (theatricalisation of a specific social milieu). Kai
Bredholt directs street performances for theatre groups
all around the world and has created particular circus performances
which present actors, pets, farmers with their animals, ballet
dancers on tractors and much more. Kai Bredholt's clown
figure Van Gakk performs for children both alone and in
collaboration with other clowns in Denmark and abroad. He also
collaborates with a local Tae Kwondo club, folkdancers and a
shepherd to create theatrical situations, and with the architect
Anton Ryslinge to create outdoor theatre venues, for example with
ice or bales of straw. Since 1992 he has been a member of ISTA (International
School of Theatre Anthropology) ensemble.
Performances
Itsi
Bitsi
Kaosmos
Fathers and Sons
Inside the Skeleton of the
Whale
Ode to
Progress
Mythos
The Great Cities under the
Moon
Andersen's Dream
Don Giovanni
all'Inferno
The Chronic Life
The Tree
Theatrum Mundi
performances
Ur-Hamlet
Four Poems for Sanjukta
Ego Faust
The Island of Labyrinths
The Jungle Book
Performance
Demonstrations
The Whispering
Winds
Odin performances for
children
Den Grimme, den Grumme og den virkelig Dumme
Van Gakk
Van Gakk møder Spugna
Performances directed by Kai
Bredholt
Parada de Rua (Teatro Lume,
Brazil)
M. Chou et Mme. Fleur, street performance (with Theatre Madame
Bodage, France)
Le Bal des Lampions, street performance (with Theatre Madame
Bodage, France)
Le Fanfare Perdue, street performance (with Theatre Madame
Bodage, France)
Halmtorvet, (with guest artist and Holstebro inhabitants,
Denmark)
Cirkus paa Kanten (with local farmers, actors and dancer from
different countries, Denmark)
Saeta - a cirkus performance about horses and with flamenco
(with local horses and local people)
