The 13 competition categories: Arts Documentary & Performing Arts
We bring you the 13 categories featured in this year’s competition along with a precise definition, example videos and an interview with a prominent expert in the field.
10. Category: Arts Documentary & Performing Arts
Definition:
Entertaining programmes dedicated to the arts, artists or performances or a combination thereof.
Between 1961 and 1992 the Rose d’Or Festival awarded three different prizes: the Golden Rose, the Silver Rose and the Bronze Rose. From 1993 – the year the first categories were introduced – Arts Documentary & Performing Arts became an integral part of the Rose d’Or Competition with a separate competition category.
The first Golden Rose-winning Arts Documentary & Performing Arts Shows were PRV’s Djabote (Silver Rose 1993) and Sogepaq's Sevillanas (Golden Rose 1994).
The Arts Documentary & Performing Arts Interview with Arild Erikstad
Arild Erikstad is Head of Music / Executive Producer at Norwegian TV-network NRK. He is also a cultural journalist and producer of music programmes. Erikstad is a graduate of Musikhochschule in Detmold, Germany and has a diploma in sound engineering. Arild has played double bass in both the chamber orchestra Tibor Varga and the Deutsche Bachsolisten. He began his career at NRK in 1983.
1. Can you give us a typical example of an Arts Documentary / Performing Arts programme?
Strictly Bolshoi (Winner of the Rose d’Or 2008 for Best Arts Documentary). Why? Strictly Bolshoi is truly entertaining. Conceived and shot by the infamous Ballet Boyz (former Royal Ballet stars, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt), they take the viewer on a compelling journey through the trials and tribulations of the creative process. We follow talented choreographer Christopher Wheeldon as he battles with the temperament of the Bolshoi ballet dancers, having to deal with their egos and amusing tantrums along the way. It’s a film that gives insight into the ballet world and at the same time tells a highly compelling story.
2. Is there an Arts Documentary or Performing Arts programme you would have loved to have created yourself?
A programme about the best concert halls in the world - focusing on the acoustic in these halls. Because acoustics is something that the audience know too little about, and in my opinion – it is extremely important both for the musicians and the listeners regarding the artistic result. In such a programme I also would try to explain what sound is – also very important for music interested viewers to know more about.
3. In which direction is Arts Documentary / Performing Arts going?
Maybe the most interesting new direction is the combination of documentary and live performance. We have seen examples of for instance opera productions where one channel is broadcasting the real performance live on stage and simultaneously a second channel is filming what’s happening back stage, with interviews and information about what is going on. I think we have to try to give our viewers some “extra value” in connection to performing arts programmes – and this combination of live performance and documentary elements is interesting.
4. Do you see emerging markets and sub-genres?
What I mentioned in the previous answer can be seen as a sub-genre. And of course live-streaming on the internet can also be used in connection with live TV broadcasts. Of course opera and arts documentary in cinemas is a new hit. With High Definition pictures and 5:1 Sound this is a totally new market for music productions.
5. Which television program would you currently not miss for the world?
Dating In The Dark - and a lot of other silly reality formats.
Arts Documentary & Performing Arts example video: Pictures Reframed (with courtesy of NRK)
