"The stage that wasn't there"

September 11th 2010 at Københavns Musikteater
(Kronprinsensgade 7, Kbh K, Denmark)

18:45
The doors will open - the bar will be open too...

19:00 - 23:00
The performances and installations will continuously run, and you can walk around as you please.

23:00 - 02:00
DJs - Tough Love - dancefloor...PARTY!!!

Entrance: 50 kr. (remember to bring cash)

Download the program here

Photo: Marianne Bøgh "Cirkusprinsessen"

THE STAGE THAT WASN'T THERE - a platform for alternative stage art in Copenhagen for you who's curious, and would like to challenge the traditional forms in a theatre. The style is informal; you are welcome to walk around with your lukewarm beer and watch the installations, the Cirque or the avant-garde performances. The evening culminates in a great party for audience and artists, where Tough Love will make sure to warm up the dance floor.

THE STAGE THAT WASN'T THERE gives you the opportunity to experience dance, performance, theater, drama, videoinstallations, soundinstallations, cirque and scenography created by young international artists from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Peru, Belgium, Israel, France, England, Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria.

With THE STAGE THAT WASN'T THERE we give the audience the freedom and right to take action and navigate through their evening themselves. All rooms are open. The fearsome honesty between performer and audience will be valued and welcomed as nowhere else.

Take a look at the artists you can meet on "The stage that wasn't there":

Abalino Dance Theatre (UK)

"Bobroshkov’s Dream" is a delightful and dreamy work. It was inspired by the warmth inside and the loneliness outside of an old man's memory; by the old men that watch the world, but see the past. Through a series of images and metamorphoses, it tells the story of a magical world of hopes and dreams that is awoken as an old man struggles to put his slippers on...

Short info about the company:
Abalino Dance Theatre was set up in 2004 by choreographer Alice Cade and Puppet-maker Mike Helmy. The company presented its work at Resolution!2005 to rave reviews. In 2005, the company was the winner of a Creative Leicestershire Bursary Award, and in 2006 it won the „Best of the Fest Award‟ at the Buxton Fringe Festival. Choreographer Alice Cade has been awarded a Puppet Centre Bursary 2007/8 to further pursue her work in this new field.

Abalino Dance Theatre uses innovative and experimental techniques that combine the expressive qualities of contemporary dance and physical theatre with the magic of puppetry. It is one of the only companies in the UK to successfully combine these elements.

Drawing on principles from Japanese Bunraku theatre, the Circus, and ideas of illusions and transformations, Abalino Dance Theatre has developed a blend of wordless movement and puppet theatre. The performer is part dancer, part puppeteer and part puppet. Abalino Dance Theatre provides exciting and accessible visual theatre that appeals to all ages and backgrounds.

Choreographer: Abalino Dance Theatre - Alice Cade
Dancers: Gry Løvmo, Annika Ostwald, Ingeborg Dugstad Sanders, Line Strøm

www.abalino.com
Abalino Dance Theatre is supported by:

Amelie Marneffe (FR)

"Show must go on"

PerformDesign (DK)

"Candyshop"

A playful dialogue extract of project Candyshop

- What do you wish for?

- What can you offer?

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt (DK)

"Black Box"

Black box builds up a small version of a big ideology and invites everybody to enter the dark cube to play the role ‚actor’, ‚audience’ or ‚technician’.

Christian Adelhorst Rossil (DK)

"Pianola"

”Først kom de for at fange kommunisterne, men jeg sagde ingenting, for jeg var ikke kommunist.
Så kom de for at arrestere arbejderne, medlemmerne af fagforeningerne, men jeg sagde ingenting, for jeg var ikke medlem.
Senere kom de efter jøderne og katolikkerne, men jeg sagde ingenting, for jeg var protestant….
Til sidst kom de efter mig, og da var der ingen tilbage som kunne sige noget.”

(den brasilianske senator Lisanaes Maciel i en tale i juni 1971. Han citerede en tysk protestant, der blev arresteret under det 3. Rige.)

Performere: Christian A. Rossil og Marie Lentz Frederiksen

Musik: Marie Lentz Frederiksen

Christine Borch (DK)

"Old eyes on new dance"

It is something about rolling on the floor and running around on bare feet and making strange and abstract movements. It doesn’t interest me. I have been raised in the old ballet tradition. I don’t care for the modern...no, I don’t .
Horrible! It might be quite fun to do but it looks horrible.
It doesn’t give me anything. And the music is awful but that is something totally different. No, I don’t know?

Deborah Vlaeymans, Karen Lambæk & Annesofie Norn (BE/DK)

"Chez Debs' Rehearsel Party"

A durational performance set in a dressing room. Chez Debs is a concert, an electro-party, a rehearsal, as well as a live art installation. The ambition is to both entertain and challenge by utilizing as well as thematizing the transformative power of an art event. Abundance, sweets, tarrantella and grotesque humour is taking the visitors on an apocalyptic journey into a stylised collage of iconoclastic metaphors, a luminous world with two-dimensional characters simulating a distorted dream about the perfect life.

Chez Debs er støttet af Tuborgfondet og Kunstrådets Scenekunstudvalg.

www.myspace.com/chezdebs

Esther Wrobel (ISR/DK)

"The Princess Project - Nut yet Crazy"

Event Transportable (DK)

"Drømmende Civilisation" er et poetisk storby ritual, en sammensmeltning af det moderne menneskets glemte traditioner og selvskabte ritualer, en afspejling af vores drømmes handlinger og hvordan vi kom hertil. Med brug af ritualet finder vi vej, sætter spørgsmål og søger svar, vi renser ud, river op og genfinder. Alt sammen udført i et stærk visuelt og ekspressivt univers, med en god portion humor, ild og en røvfuld kvindekraft.

EVENT TRANSPORTABLE er et netværk af kunstudøvere stiftet i 2006.
Vi bekender os ikke til en stil, men ser vores udtryk som en cross-over mellem performance, fysisk teater, videokunst, selviscenesættelse, artisteri, identitet og visualitet. I de seneste 2 år har vi primært arbejdet med ild-performance, hvor vi har eksperimenteret med ild, karakter arbejde og fictions universer. Målet har altid været at give publikum en anderledes, sanselig og tankevækkende oplevelse. Vi vil også promovere genrer som nycirkus, ildkunst og performance.

Medvirkende: Lea Thorning, Signe Thomsen, Stine T. Andersen, Line Loklindt, Ruth Anna Britz og Malin Westling.

"Drømmende Civilisation" er støttet af Tuborgfondet.

www.eventtransportable.com

EwaTrio (DK)

"The Perfect Family"

With our performance 'The Perfect Family' we try to challenge the concept of normality and western family culture.

EwaTrio is:
Nanna Schaumburg-Müller, Katrine Agesen & Emma Jorn

Sabrina Ruiz: photo

Gry Raaby (DK)

"One day, Some day"

Together, but by ourselves  –  a room, a universe  –  a beautiful ugliness  –  one day, some day…

Video:
Dance: Gry Raaby & Signe Koefoed
Sound: A Duck
Camera: Dario Aguirre

www.gryraaby.dk

Jakob Thorkild Overgaard (DK)

"Flowers of noise and colour"

Jakob Thorkild Overgaard (1976) arbejder med udtryk indenfor forskellige medier og kunstarter. Med en baggrund i musik arbejder Jakob Thorkild Overgaard konceptuelt med lyd og visuelle udtryk, der ofte har en finurlig pointe, men som også indeholder idéer, der kan perspektiveres ud i en større sammenhæng. Nøgleordene for Jakob Thorkild Overgaards kunst er farver, syntetiske materialer og brug af lyd som budskabsbærende element.

www.jakobthorkild.dk

www.companyjean.dk

Katharina Poensgen & Ingo Keil (DE/NL)

"Bardo"

Kir Qvortrup & Søren Christensen aka. A Duck (DK)

"Algorytme"

www.myspace.com/aduckartist

Kristina Irobalieva & Anna Byskov (BG/DK)

"A set for a dialog"

www.kristinairobalieva.com

Maj Dørup (DK)

"The Stage Off Stage"

Interaktiv lydvandring på Københavns Musikteate om performance, performativitet og præstationsangst på disse ”scener” - og dem midt imellem.

“Hi, I am Elena… I need your help! I am going to perform along with over 40 other artist… and to be honest, it makes me really anxious. I am all alone – so I was wondering if you would come with me? It’s easy! Find me in the bar.”

Marie Topp (DK)

"After summer, fall"

www.marietopp.wordpress.com

Marie Topp (DK)

"Perfect landings"

www.marietopp.wordpress.com

Martha Brandt

"Confessional / Exposure"

It is a space and opportunity for one to confess their guilt.

In catholic culture the confessional is a dimly lit stall where one confesses one’s sins to an anonymous priest. In Confessional /Exposure one is invited to confess a sin to an anonymous spectator, an be logged in an archive of sins.

Avarice, jealousy, lying, envy, adultery, corruption, theft, greed, murder. All since welcome.

Matilde Mørk (DK)

"Nogle menneskers lyd"

The sound of some people, voice installation

Digte behøver ikke være noget man læser op fra en scene, lyrikken findes over det hele, ofte på ganske tilfældige steder og tidspunkter, så det er netop dér at jeg vil være til stede, med et par tekster i lommen (eller i en pose)...

MIKS (UK)

"We’re Working On It" is an installation performance displaying a collection of performative situations involving text, bodies, a loop sampler and balloons. The material derives from 25 performance artists’ responses to a questionnaire concerning their art practice.
For the premier of this new work MIKS relocated themselves into a storeroom within the Greenwich Dance Agency art deco building. A durational performance, people were welcome to come and go throughout the evening, and stay as long as they liked.
“After a while, the substance of the answers and the externally objective, but internally sensitive presence of the performers start resonating. As audience you start thinking about your own life, the lives of the performers and then eventually everyone's lives.” -Audience member-

About MIKS:
MIKS is a dance theatre company under the joint artistic direction of Anaïs Bouts, Sara Lindström and Ida Uvaas. Collaboratively and conceptually driven, MIKS aims to explore the boundaries between performance making and other art forms by delivering provocative, entertaining work and nurturing artists’ multifaceted roles as performer, creator and curator. The work challenges a number of conventional ideas in theatre and choreography: the notion of ownership, the fluctuation of an artistic creation, the creative processes, and the significance of people’s individual style.

www.miks.org.uk

Mona Møller Schmidt (DK)

"Who lives in my house?"

www.monamona.dk

Sara Hamming (DK)

"Bloody Mary #2 - en kropskult"

Medvirkende:
Astrid Kjær, Titta Soini, Sara Hamming og Birgit Hamming

Signe Koefoed & Balz Isler (DK/CH)

"Like Patuio Deconstructed Three"

LP3 "a perspective of time"

An installation performance
by dance maker Signe Koefoed and media artist Balz Isler

www.signekoefoed.org - www.balzisler.org - www.diekunstapotheke.de

Signe Lillemark & George Chiper (DK/RO)

"Spaces"

I am interested in the duality between the real, physical space and the mental, inner space. I am exploring this duality by juxtaposing a real space and it's scale-model replica, as differences of visual relations and perceptions transposed to emotional level. By doing this the rules of the physical world can be broken and replaced with the illogical structure of dreams.

Signe Lillemark (DK)

"The walk"

The video is a study of a single action: The walk. At the same time it is a study of the places we walk and lead our lives, as well as the triviality and loneliness that echoes from it.

Sille Dons Heltoft (DK)

"8 bit"

”A bit is a binary digit. A ”1”or a ”0”, an ”on” or an ”off”, a ”yes” or a ”no”. A bit is either confirming or affirming a state of being. All registration of existence starts with the posing of a question and the registration of the answer given. Existence is derived from the participation of the observer, there is nothing without this engagement. What is, is identical to the thought that recognizes it. All things derives its basic function from the binary yes/no indication of bits. A bit is the basic unit of communication. A bit is a difference that makes a difference.”

www.silledons.dk

Siri Carlslund & Loa Carlslund (DK)

"Away/Towards"

En videoinstallation af produktiondesigner Siri Carlslund og danser Loa Carlslund.
Contemporary dance og videokunsten udfolder sig over temaet at være ét med sine omgivelser eller være sin egen. Flugt og tilnærmelse. At være tæt på og langt fra. En undersøgelse af den fysiske og mentale kontrast mellem afstand og nærvær.

Sofie Volquartz Lebech (DK)

"ANKOMMST"

www.urbana.dk/sofie

Stina Nilsson & Dan Nicholls (DK)

"Parades"

Parades is an innovative meeting between contemporary dance and contemporary music. Dancer/choreographer Stina Nilsson (SE) and pianist/composer Dan Nicholls (UK), both residing on the Copenhagen scene, met whilst studying at Skolen for Moderne Dans and Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium respectively. The material performed by the duo is written collectively and challenges conventional methods, exploring the relationships between dancer, musician, audience and performance space.

www.myspace.com/paradesduo

Søren Meisner & Sofie Volquartz Lebech (DK)

"Walk enter exit"

www.urbana.dk/sofie

Tanja Thara, Karim Ghahwagi & Adam Jandrup (DK)

"Transient Spaces of Domesticy"

Tanja Thara (DK)

"The Littles"

Når vi sætter ting op i det offentlige byrum, ved vi aldrig hvordan det vil leve videre efterfølgende. Måske kommer det på en street artist blog, måske på museum, måske hiver nogen det ned og tager det med hjem, måske bliver det hængende til det ældes væk. De ting vi bidrager med til byrummet, er ude af vore hænder så snart vi har sat det op, så lever det deres eget liv. Jeg har et ønske om alle de figurer der er i byrummet lever op om natten. Mine to figurer går rundt i alt hemmelighed og betragter os mennesker. De er på eventyr ude for at se verden og er kun levende når vi ikke kigger. Pludselig opdager de, at det ikke kun er dem der betragter os, men at de selv bliver betragtet af et overvågnings kamera. Det liv gider de sgu ikke leve, og derfor hiver de sig selv ned.

Terra Nova (DK)

"The Institute of Parallel Sciences (TIPS)"

Based on research within the realm of modern physics, The Institute of Parallel Science invites its audience to participate in short excursions to a parallel universe. Excursions to a world that exists right here and right now, but in a parallel reality where things may be just a little different, very different or completely unrecognizable.
Our universe is only one of many in a reality that is even more complex and incredible than you could ever imagine.

Medvirkende:
Jens Bäckvall
Mette Guldborg Hansen
Karl Sørensen
Katrine Kjølby Larsen
Diana knudsen

www.t-nova.org - www.The_Institute_of_Parallel_Science.

The Mob & Frank Julie (SE)

"The Mob Performing EnviroSocial Changes"

www.themob.dk

"Ahh"

Tora Balslev har baggrund i fysisk teater, butoh, dans, og performance og er uddannet på School of Stage Arts v. Cantabile2. Hun arbejder freelance som performer, danser, underviser og koreograf. Desuden laver hun fysisk satire i duoen ”Teater T.I.S. – Total Interessant Scenekunst” og udvikler løbende egne forestillinger og performances i et fysisk komisk univers. Tora modtog i 2010 et arbejdslegat af Statens Kunstfond bl.a. til videreudvikling af forsøget Hvad Er Min Dans?

Musik: Regin Petersen
Juhupiger: Ditte Laumann og Emma-Cecilia Ajanki
Videoredigering: Mark Schram Christensen

www.torabalslev.dk

Tove Haraldsted & Niklas Schak (DK)

"Aftendage"

’Aftendage’ er et stykke nyheds-lyrik fra udkanten af alting. En vintertekst, som tager afsæt i flere ting: en avis, en bydel, en dag i januar, et tilfældigt år, men også i lokale drømme og skæbner, der (på flere måder) går forbi hinanden.

Som flerstemmigt ’musiknummer’/ lydinstallation varer stykket cirka 12 minutter. I denne (beta-) form har det kun været opført én gang før, ved en forfatteraften for TH på ambassaden i Berlin.

Tekst, idé og instruktion: Tove Haraldsted

Musik og lyddesign: Niklas Schak

Stemmer: Christine Pettersen, Linnea Voss, Deborah Vlaeymans, Merete Nørgaard, Hanan og Rachel.

www.dramatiker.dk/th - www.greatmusic.dk

Tough Love

Fergus Murphy & Mad-S

DJs of the night

www.toughlovemusic.wordpress.com