No Island is an Island: A larp using sound to create fictive islands

12 May 2018

Sat 12 May, 5.30 – 9.30pm
SPACE Mare Street
£6/4 Sign up here

All welcome, no prior larp experience necessary

This larp by Nina Runa Essendrop in an intuitive, sensuous and abstract larp in which players create fictive islands using soundscapes before exploring them together as members of a lost tribe. The players will practice how to use their voices in different ways and how to follow each other’s sounds to create coherent soundscapes. This larp also uses touch, movement and description of inner visions as primary tools and players will have their eyes closed throughout most of the larp. No Island is an Island was originally created to produce sound material for the performance installation “Ingen ø er en ø” by Francis Patrick Brady.

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No experience of larp or movement-based practice is necessary to take part. Play is suited to all levels of physicality, but if you have any specific needs please contact the gallery in advance. Please dress in clothes you are comfortable to move around it.

Larp is originally an acronym for Live Action Role Playing, but today it’s used as name in itself. It refers to an interactive activity where people immerse themselves in fictional worlds to experience how others might live. Larps are played by groups of 2 or more people facilitated by a games master whose role is to ensure the players feel safe, understand the rules, roles and fiction within the larp.

Nordic Larp is a school of larp design originating in the Nordic countries and is one which values immersion, collaboration and artistic vision. This larp event is of the Nordic school.

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Nina Runa Essendrop is a Danish artist and larp designer with a masters degree in Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. She has a strong focus on movement, sensory experiences and the meaning of physical action. Nina is an active player in the Nordic Larp community. She has designed and produced blackbox larps, freeform games, large scale-larps, audience inclusive larps and larp festivals and she has collaborated with artists in both Europe and New York. She has designed and run workshops, larps, performances and interactive theatre pieces at among others Transmediale 2016 (Berlin, Germany), Momentum: The 8th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art (Moss, Norway), The Flea Theatre (New York, US), Dome of Visions (Århus, Denmark) and Ormston House (Limmerick, Ireland).