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A aben Dans 01
Annika B. Lewis/Kassandra Production 02
Christine Borch 03
dadadans/Helle Bach 04
Danish Dance Theatre 05
Dansehallerne 06
Don*Gnu 07
Fanclub 08
Freestyle Phanatix 09
Gazart — Tali Rázga 10
GLiMT 11
Granhøj Dans 12
I am X 13
Ingrid Kristensen 14
KIRSTINE Ilum 15
Kitt Johnson/X-Act 16
Lotte Sigh 17
Mancopy Dansekompagni 18
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19 Marie Topp
20 The Mob
21 Mute Comp. Physical Theatre
22 Next Zone/Lene Boel
23 PAPERCUTS
24 Pernille Garde
25 Rapid Eye
26 recoil performance group/Tina Tarpgaard
27 RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN
28 Running Sculptures/Lars Dahl Pedersen
29 Sara Gebran/Public Eye
30 sART Danseteater
31 Two-women-machine-show/
Ida-Elisabeth Larsen and Marie-Louise Stentebjerg
32 UNTZTANZ
33 Uppercut Dance theatre
34 Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre
Danish dance and
movement based performances
During the last years Danish artists and companies
have shown a growing interest to collaborate
internationally and build international networks.
Young as well as established companies find both
artistic challenges and audiences outside Danish
borders a source of inspiration that the Danish Arts
Council wants to support the best it can.
The companies, choreographers and institutions
in this booklet represent a broad spectre of Danish
performing arts in relation to dance and movement
all with a common will and desire to engage in an
international environment. Our aim is to create new
co-operations, exchanges and networking for the
benefit of all parties.
On our website, www.kunst.dk/english you will
find further information about the funding possibilities
that might be of interest in relation to international
projects.
The funding schemes are:
International Performing Arts Exchanges
Research grants
Funding for residency programmes
+45 3373 3373
[email protected]
www.kunst.dk/english
01
A aben
Dans
Aaben Dans is a regional dance theatre based in
Roskilde, just 30 km outside of Copenhagen. The
theatre produces two new performances every year,
one for adults and one for children. The performances
tour in Denmark and in Europe. Most performances
are created by choreographer Thomas Eisenhardt and
director Catherine Poher.
Aaben Dans is part of the European network
Fresh Tracks Europe. Aaben Dans produces the SWOP
festival — an international dance festival for children
and youngster in 2012 and 2014.
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Recent work:
Again (2011)
I know where your
House is Living (2010)
Aaben Dans is looking for touring opportunities, coproduction, and performances for young audiences.
+45 3582 0610 / +45 2636 0582
[email protected] / [email protected]
www.aabendans.dk / www.swopfestival.dk
02
Annika B. Lewis/
Kassandra Production
Annika B. Lewis/Kassandra Production creates topical
and relevant contemporary performing art in the intersection between dance, theatre and performance art.
She challenges theatre concepts and creates
work characterised by a strong conceptual and visual
outcome, mixing the trivial with the philosophical.
Her work is signified by skewed and humorous angles,
in a border defying and innovative artistic expression.
Lewis explores new performative spaces, places
and concepts. Performances have been staged at
private apartments, caravans, fairs, old factories and
on the Internet, as well as in traditional theatre venues.
—
Recent work:
LET’S GET PERSONAL
DISPLACEMENT
LIFE HACKING
Annika B. Lewis/Kassandra Production is interested
in new partnerships, touring opportunities, co-productions and opportunities for artist-in-residencies.
+45 2163 4659
[email protected]
www.kassandra-production.dk
03
Christine
Borch
Christine Borch is a Danish choreographer and performer living and working in Berlin.
Borch approaches choreography as a way to
externalize, objectify and make sharable what was
originally an interior and un-sharable experience. She
objectifies living matter to construct a new body and
creates structures where she can re-live experiences.
Her work is characterized by a unique and
clearly formulated body language developed through
her experiential approach using imagination or direct
felt sensations as the source of material.
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Recent work:
the bodythatcomes
On intimacy Of Pain&Because
The Beauty Of
as we meet more often
What my neck remembers, my head
will forget
an I I am
Christine Borch is interested in possibilities for
residencies, touring possibilities and in co-producing
the new production One Revolution, Respiration.
[email protected]
www.christineborch.com
04
dadadans/
Helle Bach
dadadans is founded by choreographer Helle Bach.
Her work is shaped by an attraction to the stories our
bodies carry, recognizing the banal realities of life as
well as its poetic beauty.
Bach works with the body in an exploratory way
giving time and space to details and individuality. Her
work is underlined by a strong sense of rhythm and
humour, which infuses her choreography with unexpected turns. Here is a universe that mirrors what is
twisted, poetic and ironic in all of us.
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Recent work:
FEATHERS & STILETTOS/
Fjer og stiletter — Life as a showgirl at
the famous music hall stage Folies Bergere in
Paris is not just about feathers, false eyelashes
and stilettos. Here the body is a tool to portray
a stylised image of beauty. Through a mix of
dance and theatre Helle Bach takes a tour of her
personal experiences at the Folies Bergere in
the early 1990s.
dadadans is interested in touring opportunities, and in
coproduction and residency in connection with future
productions.
+45 2814 7313
[email protected]
www.dadadans.dk
05
Danish
Dance Theatre
Danish Dance Theatre is the largest contemporary
dance company in Denmark — and widely acclaimed
— with twelve international dancers and six project
assigned dancers. Under the artistic leadership of
Tim Rushton the company has gained an international
presence and enjoys great success throughout Europe,
North America, Australia and the Middle East. Tim
Rushton’s close collaboration with the dancers has
bridged different styles and techniques that reflect the
nuances of human existence. The vision of the Danish
Dance Theatre is to push the borders of the perception
of dance. The gap between contemporary and classical dance is the signature playground of Tim Rushton
and the company.
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Recent work:
Love Songs
The End of Loneliness
Rhapsody
Monolith
Danish Dance Theatre is interested in touring opportunities for both 2012/13 and the following seasons.
The Preliminary tour schedule for 2012/13 includes:
Washington, the Kennedy Center (Nordic Cool),
New York, Boston, KulturStadt Forum in Leverkusen,
Sweden, Italy, Serbia and China.
+45 2217 7927
[email protected] / www.danishdance.com
06
DANSEhallerne
DANSEhallerne is the largest centre for contemporary
dance in Northern Europe. In Carlsberg’s old mineral
water bottling factory, both local and international
dancers, choreographers, and educators thrive on the
stage, in the rehearsal studios, and in the offices.
The top professionals of the branch, as well as the up
and coming, are part of the daily comings and goings
in DANSEhallerne.
The general public can enjoy Danish and
International dance in DANSEhallerne’s performance
areas, Store Carl and Lille Carl, and the curious can
have their dance-related questions answered at the
Dance Info Denmark.
DANSEhallerne uniquely brings together the
most important players in the field of contemporary
dance in Metropolitan Copenhagen, offering both
dance performances and other events all year round
on the two stages and in the foyer. Further more
there are great rehearsal and production facilities
for professional dancers as well as dance classes for
beginners, nationwide activities for children and youth,
and dance information and consultation.
With the establishment of DANSEhallerne in
2009, the dance scene in Copenhagen now has “room
for everyone”; the creative and performing dancers,
the professional dance educators, the up and coming,
and last but not least — the audience.
+45 3388 8000
[email protected]
www.dansehallerne.dk
07
Don*Gnu
Don*Gnu is a collaboration between the two choreographers Jannik Elkær Nielsen and Kristopher Louis
Andrup Pedersen who represent Don and Gnu. The
cooperation is based on and aims to create “a creative
and unpredictable interaction striving to provide innovative and alternative perspectives”. Their foundation
is based on creating dance performances that allow
them to break their own framework in order to surprise
and create new opportunities for themselves and their
surroundings.
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Recent work:
Woman Know Your Wardrobe
(60 min., premiere 11 October 2012) — Inspired
by Polanski’s film “Two Men and a Wardrobe”
(1958). Don*Gnu deals with how we experience
reality differently.
MEN IN SANDALS (35 min.) — The performance is a physical discussion, which asks
“where to put the wardrobe?”
AS A START #2 (25 min.) — It is a passionate
and compact story where the two men challenge
each other and themselves.
Don*Gnu is looking for co-producers and residencies
as well as festivals and other possible venues.
+45 2622 1550 / +45 2556 4204
[email protected]
www.dongnu.dk / www.youtube.com/dongnudk
08
fanclub
Fanclub is a dancers’ collective that invites their idols,
artists they admire, to collaborate in various projects.
Their work ranges from stage productions, installations
and film.
The five dancers in Fanclub: Andrea Deres,
Carolina Bäckman, Ellesiv Selseng, Klara Elenius
and Sofia Karlsson strive to flavour and expand the
performance art scene with thrilling work that makes
an impact and takes a stand.
—
Recent work:
GONE HOME — Two surrealistic fairytales
about going away and finding home. A collaboration with the two choreographers Dorte
Olesen (S/DK) and Ari Rosenzweig (DK/IL)
both relating to the theme “home”.
Fanclub is looking for new collaborators. And would
like to expand their professional network to find artists
as well as possible residencies, co-productions and
venues. Fanclub is also looking for international touring opportunities.
+45 2025 8428
[email protected]
www.fanclubdance.com
09
Freestyle
Phanatix
Freestyle Phanatix is an infamous performance and
breakdance ensemble, which has been sought after
throughout the years for their strong and innovative
performances. Since 1993 the company has engaged
and thrived with young dancers and has used it as
leverage for exploring new aspects of theatre and
street dance.
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Recent work:
Future Roads — Three young people’s
friendship is put on trial. None of them had any
real support from their families and as they grow
up they find support and comfort in different
communities away from each other. One friend
finds himself involved with crime and suddenly
has to choose the direction of his life …
Freestyle Phanatix is looking for touring possibilities in
Europe and specifically in Germany.
+45 6171 3584
[email protected]
www.phanatix.net
10
Gazart —
Tali Rázga
Tali Rázga’s performances are charged with a sense of
carefree playfulness, poetic sensitivity and raw energy.
Her art is engaging and touches the funny bone,
reaching out at eyelevel to girls and boys, women and
men alike.
Since 2003 her main focus has been dance for
young audiences, ranging from toddlers to teenagers
and her performances have toured extensively nationally and internationally.
—
Recent work:
Heartbeat (2012 — age 13–18)
Drops (2011 — age 0–4)
Mirror — What’s your gender?
(2011 — age 12 and up)
SnowEyes (2009 — age 0–4)
Tali Rázga is looking for co-production partners and
touring possibilities. The company also offers workshops related to the performances.
+45 2684 8239
[email protected]
www.talirazga.dk
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GLiMT
GLiMT’s contemporary circus is modern visual performing art. The essence of the story is told with
extreme physical skills and imaginative use of stage
design. Using visual and physical expressions,
GLiMT links dramaturgy, circus techniques, dance
and music, and reaches a broad audience across age
and gender.
—
Recent work:
Are you us? — Contemporary circus with 222
meters of rope: A story about a man, the earth
and our relationship to home. A performance
that reflects on our modern times.
SisyphusAscending — The repetitions
of modern life: The performance is a poetic,
incisive and funny interpretation of the Greek
myth of Sisyphus, condemned to roll a stone up
a mountain again and again in all eternity.
STEPS — Surviving a life on the street: The performance evolves around a man and a woman
meeting each other after many years.
GLiMT would like to expand it’s international network
by meeting artists and organisers from other countries
and different artistic backgrounds.
+45 2860 5521
[email protected]
www.glimt.info
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GRANHØJ
DANS
GRANHØJ DANS — an ongoing research within
performing arts. Danish choreographer Palle Granhøj
has won international recognition for his original and
unique stage language.
Based on the Obstruction Technique, he
reshapes the movements of the performers by means
of hindering actions, revealing inner layers of their
personality in the process, thus turning the spotlight on
human condition. Rather than aiming to show choreographies, or the technical skills of the dancers, he wants
to present human beings on stage, in a direct and
ahonest way, as simple and complex as they can be.
Through the years, Palle Granhøj, together
with visual designer Per Victor and his co-creating
performers, has produced over 20 performances that
have been shown throughout the world.
—
Recent work:
2men2mahler
Dance me to the end on/off love
W[doubleyou]-UNDERTOW
A Portrait of Anne Eisensee
Aline Not Alone
MEN&MAHLER
Granhøj Dans is interested in touring possibilities.
+45 6160 5053
[email protected]
www.granhoj.dk
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I Am X
A collaboration between Danish and American
artists: Roland Gebhardt (Director, US), Ljuba Castot
(Choreographer/performer, DK), Rebecca BannorAddae (Writer, DK), Helle Lyshoj (Video designer,
DK), and Niels Rønsholdt (Composer, DK).
—
Recent work:
I am X is a multimedia, multidisciplinary exploration of how new information is perceived
through the filters and layers of experience.
The piece explores how memory influences the
evolution of individual identity as a female performer moves through an experimental blackbox environment in a journey of lifetime experiences, interacting with composite images (often
of herself) that appear or disappear in space in
a holograph-like manner. Her journey through
this cubist reality evokes a universal sensation
of the evolution of identity.
I am X wishes to tour and co-produce.
+1 212 925 4110
[email protected]
www.rolandgebhardt.com/i-am-x/introduction
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Ingrid
Kristensen
Ingrid Kristensen creates cross-sensual works that
materializes in several media — installations, videos
and performances. With the senses as the main focus,
Ingrid Kristensen collaborates with researchers from
universities in several countries. She represents a
renewal of Danish cultural life. It is a fusion between
art and research that not only opens new perspectives
for art, but also research.
—
Recent work:
Sensing (show) — Sensing is a dance show,
a dance installation and a laboratory for
audience research
El eco del Carlito (installation) — The
dance installation is a study of the visual sense
and has been created in collaboration with
Aarhus University and newly composed music
by Fuzzy.
Magic Move (show) — Magic Move is a
medley of sensuous influence, which insistently
demands attention in the urban jumble. The
show is based on experimental versions of H. C .
Andersen fairy-tales.
Ingrid Kristensen is interested in touring possibilities,
co-production, and the possibility for showing our
dance installations.
+45 2720 1917
[email protected] / www.ingrid-kristensen.dk
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KIRSTINE
iLUM
Kirstine iLUM engages in interdisciplinary performing art projects and focuses on collaborations across
borders. With a base in contemporary dance theatre,
iLUM is driven by the urge to tell stories while experimenting with extreme and risk taking physicality. This
makes her work powerful, political, interesting and
energizing to watch.
—
Recent work:
PAUSE (2009, 45 min.) — A trio work about
being so occupied with everything in life that
you risk being late for life itself.
MaMa (2010, 35 min.) — A duet. Two neighbours, completely separated, tell their life
stories simultaneously.
FOBIA STUDIES #1 (2011, 10 min.) — A solo.
Audience interaction study that deals with the
political situation in Europe concerning immigration politics.
STIMULATION OVERLOAD (2013, 60 min.) —
A raw physical dance theatre performance
about surveillance and the abuse of power.
Kirstine iLUM is looking for international co-production and residence possibilities as well as touring,
collaborations and commissioned work.
+46 7078 39914
[email protected]
www.kirstineilum.com
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Kitt Johnson/
X-Act
The award-winning choreographer and dancer Kitt
Johnson is one of a kind. For more than 25 years she
has been developing and presenting her distinct
artistic universe: minimalist, expressive and original.
Combining a unique sense of space and stage effects
with her sublime body control, she has made it her
particular trademark to present the audience with
intense and surprising tableaux, which investigate
the deepest layers of human nature.
Both in Denmark and internationally the work of
Kitt Johnson have attracted great interest, and X-Act
has toured extensively across five continents.
—
Recent work:
DRIFT or drive — A solo performance by Kitt
Johnson about the human being as a creature of
instinctive drives caught between culture and
biology. The performance was nominated for a
Reumert for Best Dance Performance 2011/12 —
Denmark’s most prestigious theatre award.
Kitt Johnson/X-Act is interested in touring
possibilities.
+45 2991 8713
[email protected]
www.kittjohnson.dk
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Lotte
Sigh
Juggling with hybrid movements and new media such
as live 3D holograms Lotte Sigh salutes the very broad
spectre from hardcore duets, intimate solos, site specific events and installations at museums to large scale
productions with 30 dancers and performers.
Together with the award winning visual designer
Lars Egegaard Sørensen she has worked for a number
of institutions such as EUNIC during Intradance in
Russia, The Royal Cast Collection in Copenhagen and
the smaller unique festival Dies De Dansa in Barcelona. Lotte Sigh is collaborating closely with the
National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Music
Theatre and has since -08 choreographed on a regular
basis for the apprentices at the Royal Danish Ballet.
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Recent work:
Remind Me (15 or 30 min.)
Transparency (60 min.)
Journal (15 min, 45 min. or 60 min.)
Cast Eyes On (2012, 15 or 30 min.)
Lotte Sigh is looking for international touring possibilities, co-production and cooperation with artists, producers and institutions around the world. She is looking
for an agent from 2012 with an extensive international
network.
+45 2943 8123
[email protected]
www.cph-dancearts.com/www.lottesigh.com
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Mancopy
Dansekompagni
Artistic director Jens Bjerregaard has been collaborating with artists from around the world convinced that
through exchange, art finally becomes an instrument
of free expression. Thanks to its international composition and unconventional approach to dance, Mancopy
seeks more than just the next performance or the next
tour — it has established collaborations in Asia, North
America, The Middle East and Africa. With a natural
instinct for the relations in and between bodies, Bjerregaard gives movement an accessible and human
dimension. His passion for letting the body come first
is a guiding element, not only in his own work, but also
in the choice of guest choreographers, dancers and
other artists.
—
Recent work:
EVERY last BREATH — A performance
about the dancers themselves; it’s from their
stories that the performance takes shape. From
their stirred up histories, constantly shaken by
political and social instabilities, they reveal a
personal artistic and physical reality. The piece
is touring to Lebanon, Poland, USA, Singapore,
Sweden and Spain.
Mancopy is seeking further collaborations at touring,
residencies, co-production and co-creation levels.
+45 2711 6991 / [email protected]
www.mancopy.dk / www.facebook.com/mancopy
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Marie
Topp
Marie Topp is a freelance choreographer, dancer
and founding member of the artistic collective
RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN.
Topp’s work is characterized by a strong
physicality and a concrete, pragmatic approach to
choreography. Her work is generated from an ongoing exploration of the source, character and intention of movement.
—
Recent work:
The Everyday Practice of Resistance
A solo performance created in 2011 as a
choreographed examination of the concept
of force.
Marie Topp is interested in touring opportunities,
festivals and platforms, artist in residence programs
and co-production opportunities to develop a new
solo performance starting in the fall 2012.
[email protected]
www.marietopp.wordpress.com
www.riskreclaimentertain.dk
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The
Mob
The Mob is Emma-Cecilia Ajanki and Julia Giertz.
The Mob makes physical dance pieces, installation art
and electro pop concerts. Ajanki and Giertz have been
working professionally as The Mob since 2009. The
company believes that stage art is about offering the
audience a new reality by creating new rules to play
by. The company works with constantly questioning
norms in our society while keeping a literal yet poetic
approach to dance, concepts, esthetics and action.
—
Recent work:
Pogo Mob (2010) — A violent concretization
of the concept of D.I.Y. — do it yourself. (Selected for Aerowaves Priority List 2012.)
Maggie is a twat — the talk show
(2012) — A fairytale reaction to the political
actions of Margaret Thatcher.
The Crying Concert (2010) — A session
where we invite the audience to let go of their
addiction of water.
The Mob are looking for partners in order to tour the
pieces Pogo Mob and Maggie is a twat — the talk show.
They are also looking for partners to co-produce the
new production “Baby it’s me not you”.
+45 2740 0705
[email protected]
www.themob.dk
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Mute Comp.
Physical Theatre
Mute Comp. Physical Theatre was founded in 1999 by
the two choreographers, dancers and actors Kasper
Ravnhøj and Jacob Stage.
Mute Comp. tackles urban themes and tendencies in performances that embrace theatre, contemporary dance, live music, poetry slam, slapstick and
crash dance. The company often combines physical
risk-taking with a sense of play creating a unique but
highly accessible stage language. Their daring is
combined with playfulness and a unique physical
language, which has its own vocabulary and defies
any school or method.
—
Recent work:
THE ILLEGAL TRILOGY (2010) — The trilogy
is about the biggest illegal economies in the
world: sex, weapons & drugs! The trilogy
contains: Knock on unpainted wood
(2010), F.U.B.A.R — Fucked Up Beyond Any
Recognition (2011), Blackout (2012)
Mute Comp. is interested in international collaboration
and co-producing, residencies and touring.
+45 2627 8389
[email protected]
www.mute-comp.dk
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Next Zone/
Lene Boel
NEXT ZONE-choreographer Lene Boel has produced
performances and film since 1997 and has received
funding from The Danish Arts Council since 2001. Instincts, the body and emotions are the basic elements
in choreographer Lene Boel’s unique vocabulary of
movement. In her latest productions she has chosen
to work with break-dancers, circus artist and modern
dancers to use their technical skills to explore and develop new choreographic territories. She has achieved
wide recognition for her ability to create aesthetically
beautiful and integrated performances in which light,
sound and dance are equal partners in creating a unified artistic force.
Lene Boel’s work has been performed throughout Denmark and presented internationally at festivals.
—
Recent work:
TRIBE — Ritual #3 — The inspiration comes
from Nijinsky’s choreography “Rite of Spring”,
rituals from different cultures around the world
and from urban gang environments. The ritual is
shaped in an acrobatic and articulated movement language, using techniques from popping,
break dance, and new dance to create a strong
contrast switching between the barbaric brutal
to the touching vulnerable.
+45 4035 1437
[email protected]
www.nextzonemovers.dk
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PAPERCUTS
PAPERCUTS is an artistic trio, based in Copenhagen,
working in the universe between contemporary dance,
music and paper. The company consists of musician
Tomas Raae and dancers Mejse Vedel and Sofia
Karlsson.
With paper as common link, they create performances with equal relation between movement,
texture and sound. The performances are abstract but
recognizable. Dancing in handmade paper costumes,
new obstacles and possibilities rises. Sound, texture,
scenography and movement merges into subtle
relations, all connected by paper.
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Recent work:
watermark (2012)
Papercuts (2011) — Two women dressed in
white paper enter the room. Something is different. The atmosphere is delicate but tense. They
circulate around a man with a bass, seem to
be communicating. The sound of their dresses
merges with his.
PAPERCUTS is interested in touring possibilities,
co-productions/performances, artist in residence or
other collaborations.
+45 2892 3013 / +45 4136 7922
[email protected]
www.facebook.com/papercuts.dk
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Pernille
Garde
Pernille Garde is a Danish choreographer born in 1973,
who graduated from The Danish National School of
Contemporary Dance in 1999.
Her performances are based on telling stories,
focused on emotional and sensual expression.
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Recent work:
Symphony of Silence — An expressive
and sensuous performance about the consequences of war 100 years ago. 70M soldiers.
9 of them died, 22M were wounded and cripled
and 5M went missing. 1914–1918. World War I.
A massive devastation and loss of life. A soldier
returns home from World War I and checks into a
hotel. The war has left its marks upon the soldier
but also the cabaret dancer and the composer
at the hotel are deeply affected. Haunted by
hallucinations, obsessions and nightmares the
soldier gradually shows symptoms of shellshock
evoking fear and chaos.
Pernille Garde is looking for touring opportunities.
+45 2616 2256
[email protected]
www.pernillegarde.dk
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Rapid
Eye
Rapid Eye is a company with a profile within movement
based contemporary arts. Rapid Eye was founded in
2010 by juggler and performer Samuel Gustavsson.
The company aims to produce performances
on the border of contemporary circus, dance and
object theatre, and to act as a platform for artistic
development.
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Recent work:
QUIPROQUO — The Poetry of Contemporary
Circus Meets the Logic of Mechanics. Is mankind
open to performing actions they would not have
chosen to do themselves? Does free will exist?
And is anything at all coincidental? Inspired by
the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot
and his determinist world perception the contemporary circus performance.
Rapid Eye is interested in touring possibilities and
co-production of future performances.
+45 2734 0800
[email protected] / [email protected]
blog.rapideye.dk
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recoil performance group/
Tina Tarpgaard
The award winning company recoil explores new aesthetics in the meeting between dance and software art.
In their performances, the physicality of dance is met
with elegantly choreographed video scenography.
recoil’s FROST and LIVING ROOM won the prize
for Best Dance Performance of the Year at the Danish
Performing Arts Award in 2010 and in 2012.
—
Recent work:
FROST — A performance about memory. Pulsating energy of the dancers is contrasted by the
urge to stop and seize a moment in time, to make
room for contemplating and remembering.
LIVING ROOM — A room in motion, evoked not
just by the dancers but also by an almost organically living video scenography. The floor gives
in, the floor disappears — the space begins to
breathe …
recoil is interested in establishing contacts to international partners through touring possibilities,
residencies or co-production. The company offers
workshops and lecture demonstrations related to the
performances.
+45 4027 7090 / +45 6110 1130
[email protected]
www.recoil-performance.org
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RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN
RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN is an artist collective
consisting of members Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Marie
Topp, Gry Raaby and Marie-Louise Stentebjerg. The
collective’s primary focus is to create opportunities
for the creative cambium in Copenhagen as well as
to support the collective feeling among young artists
both nationally and internationally. RISK does this by
organizing open platforms, where artists can present
their work without having to compromise according to
the set profiles of venues, festivals or galleries. Furthermore, the collective also create independent works
that explore collective work forms and methods. Here
young artists are invited to create together with the
members of RISK, across skills, genres, cultures,
nationalities etc.
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Recent work:
End(less) Theatre — A 7 day performance,
which dismember the traditional theater production process as we know it by aiming to exhibit a
process which decisively refuses to be product
oriented. Instead the performance focuses on
the artistic practice itself, creating an exhibited
and self-evaluative organism.
RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN is looking for touring,
future co-production, artist in residence and festivals.
+45 2222 2307 / [email protected]
www.riskreclaimentertain.dk
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Running Sculptures/
Lars Dahl Pedersen
Lars Dahl Pedersen finished his training as a dancer
and choreographer in 1999 from the Danish National
School of Contemporary Dance with studies in New
York and London. Since 1999 he has choreographed
performances which have been playing at all the
dance venues in Denmark, and have been touring in
Europe, China, The Middle East and Canada. The
company Running Sculptures was founded in 2009 and
produces most of Lars Dahl Pedersen’s work.
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Recent work:
Always Now Slowly (2010) including two
shorter duets: Realised by some one and
Tied and Untied. A dance piece inspired
by the writings of the famous writer and feminist
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946).
Running Sculpture (2007)
Deranged Elegance (2008)
An Airing (2011)
Besides touring Lars Dahl Pedersen and Running
Sculptures are always looking for new collaborators,
residencies and possibilities to work with other artists,
curators, theatres, museums, universities etc.
+45 2267 0143
[email protected]
www.runningsculptures.dk
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Sara Gebran/
Public Eye
Sara Gebran is a Choreographer, performer, City
Planner and Head of choreography at the Danish
Contemporary Dance School and has since 1994 been
choreographing, touring and working with collaboration internationally.
Together with Anders Paulin, Sara Gebran has
created the art platforms in refugee camps in the West
Bank: Vertical Exile 2009 and Vertical Gardening
2010–2011, where they are implementing the notion of
choreography in geography and applying Foucault’s
concept of Heterotopia space.
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Recent work and involvement:
Sara is now creating a series of 5 self-critic
solo works, as extension and evaluation of the
projects Vertical Gardening done in the West
Bank Maximum Spaces project in Stockholm:
a digital system for free booking spaces for
professional artists to perform and rehearse
anywhere without curatorial filters.
Guesting the collective Arena Bauno
new project.
+46 7392 31632 / +45 2329 0139
[email protected]
www.public-e.dk
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SART
Danseteater
sART is a newly founded company based in Svendborg, Denmark. The works of sART is a mixture of raw
dance joy, naivety and presence.
The choreographer Sophie Christiansen is the
former leader of the dance company LIX and founder
of the dance line at Ollerup folk high school.
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Recent work:
Spis min Gris (Eat, my piglet!) — Eat, my
piglet! is a humorous and absurd dance journey
into the world of food inspired by eating design
and Eat art.
The sensitivity of modern dance is mixed with
the powerful energy of street dance to a rich
and tasty dish served step by step. Enjoy the
sensuousness when food comes on stage, as it
has never been danced, smelled and experienced before.
(“Eat my piglet! Tomorrow you will be slaughtered” is a traditional Danish saying told to
children with a spark in your eye to make them
finish up their meals …)
sART Danseteater is interested in touring,
coproduction etc.
+45 2625 1618 / +45 2857 9768
[email protected] / [email protected]
www.sartdanseteater.dk
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Two-women-machine-show/
Ida-Elisabeth Larsen and
Marie-Louise Stentebjerg
“Two-women-machine-show” is the newly founded
duo between performers and choreographers IdaElisabeth Larsen and Marie-Louise Stentebjerg. Their
work, both individual and in collaboration, is motivated
by an interest in investigating how to construct meaning on stage, and thereby creating a work that is alive
and engages the audience. This autumn the duo has
a one month residency at Residencias Artistica Habitantes in Argentina.
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Recent work:
Back to Limbo — Is an exploration of how
one can play with construction of meaning,
when a presented text meets visual or auditory
disturbances on stage.
Mass Hysteria — Explores the mass hysterical symptoms within choreography, what is also
known as “Unison”.
Two-women-machine-show is looking for touring,
co-production, artist in residence, festivals.
+45 5059 9376
[email protected]
marielouisesentebjerg.wordpress.com
jennyvain.wordpress.com/author/idaperforms
www.twowomenmachineshow.com
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UNTZTANZ
UNTZTANZ is a music and dance company, founded
by My Grönholdt (dance) and Erik Christoffersen
(music). It’s electronic beats and crazy moves, set performance pieces, installations, dance film and instant
composition. It’s a poetic, expressive and party-party!
UNTZTANZ performed in Malmö, Copenhagen,
London, Berlin and Amsterdam. UNZTANZ works
interdisciplinary in collaboration with exciting artist
and art forms and make good art to the people. There
is one thing to do; Love it!
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Recent work:
Thirds (2012)
The moving concert (2012)
jag? (2011)
UNTZTANZ is interested in touring opportunities,
co-production, workshops and artist in residence.
+45 5030 0440
[email protected]
www.untztanz.com
Facebook: UNTZTANZ
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Uppercut
dance theatre
Uppercut Dance Theatre’s latest productions combine
modern dance of the highest caliber with world-class
break dance, physical theater, and performance.
Get ready for unfiltered joy of dance. Uppercut’s huge outreach program has also opened doors
to whole new audience groups.
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Recent work:
ATLAS — Six well trained male breakdancers and two exquisite prima donnas take
the stage in three choreographies making
up ATLAS’ journey.
TWINS — Break dance for the youngest. Two
of Uppercut’s talented break dancers tackle
small children’s interactions with friends. What
happens when busy adults are too busy to interfere with their kids’ games?
Uppercut Dance Theatre would like to collaborate
with choreographers and companies.
+45 3582 1171 / +45 2946 0092
[email protected]
www.uppercutdance.dk
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Yossi Berg and
Oded Graf Dance Theatre
Since the beginning of Yossi Berg and Oded Graf’s
partnership in 2005 (after having incredibly successful individual careers as dancers / choreographers
including companies such as, DV8 Physical Theatre
London, Batsheva Dance Company Israel to name
but a few), this dynamic duo has built a reputation
for creating supremely physical, sometimes provocative, and always-poignant dance works. In the last
years their company is touring extensively in the most
prestigious festivals around the world. They create for
dance companies and opera houses and won numerous choreography awards.
Yossi and Oded offer new ways of looking at
dance and exploring performance.
They continuously challenge the process of
personal and physical investigation, and they strive
to create a dialogue with artists from different fields.
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Recent work:
Black Fairytale; Animal Lost; 4Men;
Alice, Bach and the Deer; Mechanical
trio in a hot Country; Most of the
day I am out; Heroes
Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre is interested
in touring opportunities.
[email protected]
www.yossioded.com
Designbolaget
Danish Arts Council
H. C. Andersens Boulevard 2
DK-1553 Copenhagen V
Denmark
+45 3373 3373
[email protected]
www.kunst.dk/english
www.kunst.dk/english