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"'Sarabande'" was originally created for Fastaval 2013. It has been run in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Texas (and soon Lithuania and France). It is an expressionistic larp [[Larp]] focusing on the use of repetition, non-linear time and the use of art as communication. It is set in a French café on Montmartre at the end of the 19th century where twelve persons meet every day– all entangled in issues of love, beauty, freedom and truth. Day after day they live out these issues through their art, trying desperately to break free or to find that one true love.
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'''Sarabande''' is a scenario originally created for [[Fastaval]] 2013. It has been run in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Texas (and soon Lithuania and France).
The scenario uses special repeated scenes with choreographed movement, restrictions on the use of spoken language for communication, props and the use of sound and music for shifting between scenes.
It is up to the participants whether they would like to jump forward in time, or perhaps repeat the same day again and again. And sometimes some participants will play as if several weeks pass between each scene while others in the same room are experiencing the same day again and again. This is in no way a problem but just ads to the intended artistic feel of the larp.
The game is mainly influenced by operas like La Traviata and La Boheme, and like opera it is not centered around the plot, since it is taken for granted that everybody knows up front what the plot is, but instead focuses on the expression and the way that the plot is told. In contrast to typical larps which are more focused on unfolding a story and perhaps surprising the participants with plot twists.<br>
From the larping scene it has taken inspiration from [[Vrøvl]] and [[Déjà vu]] and was written for Fastaval, where it won the [[Otto]] for Best Participant Experience and was nominated for the Jurys' Special Prize. Before Fastaval it was playtested on [[Vintersol]] and has afterwards been run at [[Grenselandet]], [[Stockholm Scenariofestival]], [[Playing to Loose in London]] and in the US by [[Sarah Lynne Bowman]]. It is currently on the program for [[Metamorphoses]] in Lithuania and [[Black Box Horsens]] in Denmark.