AVENY-T
Sylfiden
Hip hop interpretation
Friday October 6 at 8 pm.
Choreographer: Steen Körner
Text: Clemens
Composer, Yo Akim Hjejle
Set designer & Lightning design: Steven Scott
The jewel of Danish Ballet reinterpreted by the team who also created the award winning hip hop interpretation
of “The Nutcracker”. Today as when the ballet was created, the story about James, who runs away into the
forest with a sylph on his wedding day, is worth looking in to. It is about a human being who chooses to leave
the safe life. Aveny-T’s “Sylfiden” is a production about the search for identity and the desire to free oneself. It
is about girl power and the necessity of having dreams in order to survive.
Aveny-T has gathered a team of the best artists in Denmark and the rest of the world. With the coolest streetsylphs, a Steven Scott scenography and lightning design and Henrik Vibskovs costumes it is Aveny-T’s most
dedicated effort ever. In Steen Koerner, Clemens and Yo Akim Hjejle’s interpretation it is a message that even
though you are being suppressed no one can ever take your dreams away from you.
Press quotes about the Nutcracker:’
"The wildest Nutcracker ever– a thrilling Hip-Hop version of 'The Nutcracker' that scores on virtuosity and
humour.” Weekendavisen
" Success in a nutshell. The new hip-hop Nutcracker is a cracking show.” Berlingske Tidende
“ ‘WAY COOL': It's young, it's dynamic and it's powerfully energetic. What can you do but surrender
and call out 'Way cool'!” BT
www.aveny-t.dk
Evening programme
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MANCOPY
Stringens
Contemporary dance
Friday October 6 & Saturday October 7 at 8.00 pm.
Choreography, idea, direction: Jens Bjerregaard
Choreography 1st piece, Embody: Jens Bjerregaard
Choreography 2nd piece, Ekskursion: Anders Christiansen
Choreography 3rd piece, Dual Loops: Olga Cobos & Peter Mika
With the project Stringens, Mancopy gathers four highly estimated European choreographers, who one by one
represents an outstanding, personal choreographic universe; consistent, not making compromises and without
any kind of flattering for passing vogues and trends.
The Stage is set in a simple and minimalistic style and the variety and expression of the dance will be the
central issue.
Stringens is close to the pure and rough performance form that shows the inner substance of the dance and
as a matter of fact the theatre as well. The choreographers of the project have been free to do what they
wanted, but were asked to create a product, that with little but effectfull means will bring the expression of the
dance and its unique form of storytelling into focus.
In the Mancopy dictionary "Stringens” means: Simple, tight, cut the crap.
Press quote:
”On the floor projections of three modernist works of art, a sensual amalgamation takes place, living proof of
Bjerregaard’s deep inspiration and maybe even pointing towards a ‘common element of art’ – an aesthetic
common denominator for painting and dance. For even though there are considerable differences between
Mondrian’s monochromatic rectangles and Pollocks’ wild crucifying of the self, Bjerregaard succeeds in the
attempt of catching them in his body’s eye and is capable of not only creating a synthesis with the creators of
the paintings but also of portraying them in the instant of creation ...” Politiken
www.mancopy.dk
Evening programme
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BETTY NANSEN THEATRE
GYNT
Rap music theatre
Friday October 6 at 8.00 pm
Direction: Mogens Pedersen
Set design: Mia Stensgaard
It is SKRAKO. It is acting, rap and comedy, when Jonathan Spang, Rune Klan, Carsten Bang, “Geolo G” AND
“Blæs Bukki” enters the stage together IN their wild, thought-provoking and deeply entertaining version of
Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt.
See or revisit the performance about the young master of lies Peer, whom with his enormous curiosity and
appetite on life ventures into the world on a hurried journey of acknowledge through the (dårskaber) of our
time.
“Respectless, madly funny, very funny. Cheeky fusion theatre.” Berlingske Tidende
“Vital entertaining rap comedy - a Gynt which wants to touch us” Politiken
“tremendous power staging. Genius rap songs- totally poetic- you are delighted to be able to join this party”
Kristeligt Dagblad
NB! Performed in Danish
www.bettynansen.dk
Evening programme
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MEDIET & MASKEN + BAADTEATRET
Display
Marionette theatre, ritual and new stage art
Friday October 6 (pre-premiere) & Saturday October 7 at 8 pm (world premiere)
By Rolf Heim & Svend E. Kristensen
Rolf Heim is the artistic director of the Bådteatret and the director of the show. In collaboration with the
marionette artist Svend E. Kristensen he has made the concept of the show, while Svend E. Kristensen
(Director of Mediet og Masken) has developed the concept of the marionettes.
THE FUNERAL WEDDING
Neo-Puppetry and Ritual
A puppeteer, a dancer and a modern life-sized animation theatre figure seek the road back to the antique
rituals. Sacrifice, death and resurrection becomes a modern myth in the stomach of Bådteatret, a 2500 year
old ritual that call for reflection.
The ritual prescribes: the woman is given away to the kingdom of death. Surviving through the initiation she
can return as a priestess. The “I” must die to be able to experience the starting-point of life for then to return as
the two times born.
THE FUNURAL WEDDING is a game with the living in the dead, between the dancer and the figure, between
the man and the machine in a poetic and grotesque universe. There is an attempt to investigate everything in
this moving and sensuous show about the living and the dead.
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NEXT ZONE
Cinematic Moves#3-Cartoons
Cinemainspired Dance
Friday October 6 at 10.30 pm (snacks from 10pm) & Saturday October 7 at 8.30 pm
Choreographer: Lene Boel
Performance Profile
Cinematic Moves # 3 - Cartoons
Choreographer Lene Boel has chosen The Theatre Museum in The Court Theatre situated in the heart of
Copenhagen as the frame for her new dance performance Cinematic Moves # 3 - Cartoons. Both the
choreography and the sound and lighting of the performance are inspired by the Japanese and American
cartoon traditions creating a funny, explosive and poetic performance which forms a striking contrast to the
beautiful 18th century auditorium of The Theatre Museum at The Court Theatre.
CINEMATIC MOVES # 3 - CARTOONS takes selected characters, scenes, rhythms and themes from the
cartoon universe and transforms them into performing art. The Japanese inspiration comes from works such
as Pom Poko, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and the Ghost in the Shell while Looney Tunes from
Warner Brothers represent the American input.
The performance presents new choreography from Lene Boel ranging from delicate gestures to powerful
physicality. The music which is created from sampled sounds of toy instruments is composed by Rex
Casswell, while the simple by atmospheric lighting is designed by Jesper Konghaug. The performers are
William Collins (London), Laura Weiss (Berlin) and Lasse Hoeg Laursen (Copenhagen).
“The strong characters, the physicality and the rhythm of the cartoons have been my inspiration for the
performance. The choreography is not just about having the dancers copy the movements of the cartoon
characters but also about entering the emotional universe of these characters and expressing their instincts,
urges and emotions which are extreme versions of our own”, explains Lene Boel.
Evening programme
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TEATRET HANS RØNNE
August
Physical performance
Director: Lars Knutzon
Artistic director and actor: Hans Rønne
AUGUST is a theatre performance of few words. It’s about the meeting between people - about the risk and
possibilities of the meeting. Every single step, every single movement, every single attempt to meet another
human being contains the possibility of accept, friendship and a new beginning. But at the same time it
contains the possibility of mistrust, aggression and painless rejection.
August – you’ll never know if this character is inspired by Henry Miller - is inspired by the circus clown with the
red-painted mouth, the red nose and bolded head. But the performance has cleansed the classic humour of
the clown away and is instead about how unpredicted, paradoxical and fatal this tour in the circus ring can be.
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