- Performance type:
- Music
- Duration:
- 40 min
What do glam rockers and one-year-olds have in common? More than you think!
For example, they share a great fondness for bold colours, contrasts, glitter and catchy tunes.
Heavy riffs and a five-piece band dressed in their finest glam and poodle rock attire are perhaps rare ingredients in a performance aimed at the very youngest of audiences. Nonetheless, Rock me Baby by Øystein Elle and Karstein Solli excites both its core audience members as well as their older siblings and parents.
The performance offers a combination of concert, theatre, dance, play, absurd antics, and close contact with platform shoes and glittering effects. With visual expressions, references, and stylistic features from the world of rock, those between 0 and 6 years of age can experience a fun and exciting universe within an acceptable sound level and safe surroundings.
In the 1970s and 80s world of glam and poodle rock, gender boundaries became less clear, as artists often appeared with an androgynous expression. In Rock me Baby, the ensemble explores this liberation from the norms of what gender is.
Solli and Elle have created several well-received shows for young children that have been performed both in Norway and abroad. The spectacular costumes in Rock me Baby are designed by Kjell I. Nordström, also known as Baron von Bulldog and a costume designer for Maskorama on NRK.
'... the music [is played] without compromising the quality of the performance or the desired aesthetic expression, while simultaneously being adapted and rounded and wrapped in dance and play.' – PERISKOP
Extra performance
Sunday 2 June at 16:30, there will be an extra performance of Rock me Baby. Buy tickets here. Updated 26 May.
Information
The performance lasts for approx. 40 minutes, and it will be possible for the children to explore the stage and some of the instruments and props afterwards.
Recommended age
0–6
Contributors
Karstein Solli, Øystein Elle artistic direction
Øystein Elle/Capto Musicae, Beata Kretovicova Iden production
Kjell Ingebrethsen Nordström / Baron von Bulldog costume design, make-up
Carl Nilssen-Love scenography
Benjamin Fjellmann lighting design
Vitor Truzzi visual consultancy
Bente Ulla, Ann-Sofi Larsen (Høgskolen i Østfold), Maybritt Jensen (Oslo Met) Child specialist supervision
Øystein Elle, Thomas Hildebrand, Håkon Sigernes, Simen Iversen Vangen, Geir Hytten cast
