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2025

Dávid Somló (HU) | Green Streets of Europe

In a public space, Dávid Somló sets up an area with collected twigs and portable speakers, and begins to balance. As people join him in this practice – which has proven to be contagious – …

Three elderly citizens take a walk in the city outside the safe space of their retirement home. They are not quite ordinary though – they are giants. A brisk walk is not what it used …

Am Laufenden Band

This Maag is a master of clowning and improvisation. Each performance is engaging and tailored to the audience present. Unique interactive theatre at its best. In his latest, already award-winning performance, This Maag presents analogue, interactive …

Post Uit Hessdalen (BE)

The audience is invited into a small, enclosed space where juggler Stijn Grupping sets off a hypnotic dance with bouncing balls. It’s wordless, precise, and enchanting – like circus turned into poetry. With sound, rhythm, and …

Blitz is a series of interventions in the public space. You need to have open eyes. You never know what will happen, when BLITZ creates little imperceptible changes in everyday life. It will tell another …

Dansedybet is a performance rooted in old Nordic traditions of transitional rituals and folk songs. Through the rhythmic movement of folk dancing, we are led into the story of the dancing plague that swept through …

Das ist der gipfel

Get ready to be surprised. This Maag is a clown without a clown nose, and he has a subtle talent for improvisation. Every performance is unique and tailored to the specific audience - sophisticated interactive …

Definition of the artwork as an act of trust in the audience

L'immédiat (FR)

In a radical act, as simple as it is dizzying, as political as it is poetic, the aim here is to define the relationship between an artwork and its spectators. It is collective and personal, spectacular …

Delicate Balancing of a Twig

Dávid Somló (HU)

Delicate Balancing of a Twig is a participatory movement meditation exploring collective presence through a single shared gesture: Balancing an ordinary twig on the tiniest point of one’s knuckle. This radically simple act invites care, sensitivity, …

FULL DAY TICKET | Performing Landscapes Helsingør

Metropolis + Københavns Internationale Teater

FULL DAY PASS Valid for either Saturday 6 September or Sunday 7 September ADULT | DKK 100CHILD (UNDER 14) | DKK 70 You can buy a ticket for a full day at Flynderupgård with PERFORMING LANDSCAPES HELSINGØR.The day …

DYNAMO + Cirkus GrandDanois (DK)

Grand Danois is a breathtaking, anarchistic circus performance that uses acrobatics, music, and humor to question our ideas of freedom and the pursuit of wealth. We meet a ragged and somewhat dysfunctional circus company living life …

BaroloSolo (FR)

You will meet Mr. Loyal, the Ringmaster, and his assistants, the acrobats, the strong woman, and her menagerie of wild animals. As the one-man band plays enthralling and lively music, you are transported into an …

Alessandro Vallin (IT)

The diver is an enigmatic figure. A silent actor in the theatre of fish, an acrobat of the depths, a mythical character. Like someone from another world, the diver suddenly moves across dry land, surrounded …

In the shadow of the Trees

Krista Burāne (LV)

How do we live I a world with fewer trees – with less shadow, less protection? The participatory walking performance “In the Shadow of the Tree” will explore the relationship between humans and trees in a …

La Ville en Feu (FR)

Le Sacre is a retelling of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, danced and sung a cappella. Twelve moving and singing bodies invade public space to make it vibrate and to make the audience vibrate with …

La Ville en Feu (FR)

Les Planètes takes you on a journey through the solar system. It is a re-interpretation of Gustav Holst’s symphonic work of the same name – told through a cappella singing, acting, and dance. Ten performers …

Living Culture of Play

Gerlev Center for Leg og Bevægelse (DK)

Everybody can join when Gerlev Centre for Play & Movement activates their playground with classic games from all over the world games. The games are for anyone: Children, young people, adults and elderly! Opening hours MONDAY 28th of …

MDR – Death from laughter

Los Galindos (CAT)

The three clowns Rossinyol, Mardi and Melon face an unexpected twist: a member of the audience has died of laughter during their previous show. In an act of responsibility, they will try to stop the propagation of …

MYRIAD LUMINARIUM

Architects of Air (UK)

Architects of Air’s brand-new luminarium, MYRIAD, is inspired by the stars – those points of light that illuminate the night sky. MYRIAD is a monumental and interactive sculpture you can lose yourself in: enter the 900 …

Manual of Adaptation to the Planet

Luckily, a team is looking for adaptation strategies to methodically reorganize human life on Earth. Page after page, they travel the world to write a MANUAL OF ADAPTATION TO THE PLANET. A time accelerator is being …

The workshop is inspired by the performance Sfumato by the Catalan company Llum de Fideu, shown during PASSAGE Festival. We are inspired by the poetic universe of Sfumato, where human and nature blends and become wonderful …

A heavenly mini-experience, where you'll experience the best moment of your life one more time within a minute! Those who go in ‘ordinary’ will come out ‘extraordinary’. A heavenly mega metamorphosis that totally renews you. …

Music in Toldkammergården – Friday

Popp & Petersen (DK)

Popp og Petersen are a seasoned street duo who, with their high energy, slapping double bass and fiery harmonica, ignite the dance floor – or in this case, the rippling, cobblestoned courtyard of the Toldkammer! CREDITS Bastian …

Music in Toldkammergården – Saturday

Mames Babegenush

As always, we’ll listen to good music and dance our way towards the end of Passage Festival together – with great beats and dancing in Toldkammergården on Saturday evening. This time it's Mames Babegenush playing the …

Nutcracker. Vegetable Ballet

BORSCH aka KHWOSHCH (CZ/RU/DE)

Set to the iconic classical music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, the artists behind the Vegetable Ballet have created choreography based on the idea of plant-based dancers. They explore both traditional theatre forms and …

In the backstage room, we meet an old variety artist. Sitting in front of the mirror, he stares at his own reflection. He looks at a face, he cannot recognize, and the room begins to …

Cie One Shot (BE)

Two men, two brothers, friends stroll around occupying themselves peacefully. Slowly out of their investigative and curious nature, a play with objects, space and body arise. Music is born when apple pieces are thrown around …

Orla Frøsnapper

André Andersen Solo

Villa Strand and Helsingor Kommunes Sommerferieaktiviteter invites you to Orla Frøsnapper. The rumor says that he once swallowed a living frog, that is probably why he is called “Orla Frogsnapper”. Ole Lund Kirkegaard is the writer behind …

PERFORMING LANDSCAPES HELSINGØR

Metropolis + Københavns Internationale Teater

PASSAGE EXTRA | LØRDAG 6. & SØNDAG 7. SEPTEMBER | FLYNDERUPGÅRD | During a weekend, in the area surrounding Flynderupgård, six different artists explore the role and potential of art in a time of ecological crisis. They …

Perhaps, Perhaps… Quizás

Chula the Clown (FI/MX)

Experience a heart-wrenching as well as hilarious clown piece, playing with the idea of loneliness, hope and the search for the perfect man, in an era where the longing for “real love” seems to be …

Requiem for Papir?

GribGruppen (DK)

I am the paper And I have survived nearly everything. I have been folded, crumpled and thrown away. I have held your love and carried your entire identity. But what now… …in a time when thoughts are stored in the cloud and love …

Resisting Extinction

BodyCartography (NO)

Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis. We invite you for a participatory and immersive walk into the forest. We must hone our skills, to be receptive, to improvise, to play, to experiment, to grieve, …

Ride! Sing! Repeat!

Copenhagen Opera Festival (DK)

Ride! Sing! Repeat! is a mobile opera performance where four opera singers tour the city of Helsingør in some sort of open party bus, and perform short, site-specific mini operas. Meet characters like Escamillo, Violetta, Musetta …

Seven Seconds – We Are All Lichens

Petra Fornayová/Asociácia Súčasného Tanca (SK) | Green Streets of Europe

We increasingly encounter problems whose common denominator is the inability to reflect on the problem and the inability to find its solution. The key elements are time and the lack of a responsive environment. According to …

Llum de Fideu (CAT)

We live surrounded by people and other living beings. Why do we take into consideration some lives and others don't? Can we empathize with a bird, a fish or a tree? How can the attempt …

Simply Treeming

BabaFish Asbl (BE)

Do you remember how it feels like climbing a tree? A big old one with great roots. It has experienced history going by. A person is intertwined in the arms of the tree, like a …

Les Etablissements Lafaille (FR)

It’s already too late. It’s daylight. They’re out in the open, in the middle of the city, vulnerable. They shave the walls with their stolen 2 x 1.40-metre painting. The sidewalks lay traps for them, …

Thomas Bentin (DK)

SOLD OUT | STELLA UTERO is a sensuous dance performance that leads the audience through MYRIAD LUMINARIUM by Architects of Air. The audience follows three dancers on a guided and intense journey, where movement, light and space …

Max Maccarinelli (FR)

Meet Arthur - a surreal and bewildered vagabond is moving in at the town square with his two improvised carts and a bed. However, Arthur does not only carry his home with him but also …

Performance artist Sara Hamming flips through the book “Lost Title – a cycle of testimonies about waste” together with the audience. Searching for something useful. The book smells sweet. Alongside the printed text are pencil …

Hands down Circus (IE)

Tape That! is a playful exploration and reinterpretation of the world we live in today; Completely wordless, the two performers create a visual world using colourful tape, object manipulation and partner acrobatics. A simple roll …

A mother and her children are taking a casual walk in the city. They are not quite ordinary though - they are giants. The children are very boisterous: they play tricks on kids and adults …

The Old Shipyard

Kajen Company (SE)

An immersive performance using the area as a playground for our imagination. The performers work with what the space has to offer, whether that be time travel: Recalling historical sounds of the space or discovering in …

Two Men & a Plank

With some self-irony and a twinkle in the eyes we pay a tribute to the phenomenon of men wearing sandals and the right to be yourself. The beloved characters DON and GNU, known from the …

Company Midnight (BE)

OBS! CHANGE OF LOCATION! Due to the weather, we are required to change the venue for this performance for safety reasons. The new address is:Borupgårdskolen, Smakkevej 2, 3070 Snekkersten Within walking distance from Snekkersten Station. Show times remain unchanged. …

CuntsCollective (DK) + Pikene På Broen (NO)

Weeping Men arises from a deep need to sweat out the oppressive systems. The performance takes place in the intimate and ritual space of the sauna, where the audience sits shoulder to shoulder with the …

Workshop: Make art out of trash

Stine Josefine Dige

Come and make planets out of plastic collected from the Beach The planets will later be exhibited at the library. You’re also welcome to bring your own waste in the colors black, green, or blue. INFO Age: From 8 …

Øens Dæmoner Vender Hjem

Teater Lux (DK)

A group of dead shipyard workers from Helsingør was forced to work as slaves for Lucifer in hell. After many years of slavery they are planning a rebellion, therefore they return to their old working …

2024

AMPHIBIA MATTER

Juana Ortega Kippes (ES /AR)

WORK IN PROGRESS: A part of the European Hand to hand circus and residency project and was developed in an immersion residency in the codfish packaging and distribution industry in Ilhavo, Portugal, together with Bússola. …

ARTIST TALK: Crap at Animals – The Journey

Mechanimal (GB)

To deliver the performance in Helsingør, Tom will be travelling for over 2 months by foot, walking more than 800 km. (Added sea journeys make the distance over double that) The journey is somewhere between a …

Arctic Ensemble (FIN)

Adrift takes the audience on an epic sailing adventure all of which you can enjoy without getting your feet wet. The show combines street theatre, pair acrobatics and perch balancing and is suitable for all …

Antilia: Crazy Fantony

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that seeks to …

Antilia: Crazy Heart

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Antilia: DeVualè!

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that seeks to …

Antilia: Happy Hoop

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Antilia: Yes Land

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Jimena Cavalletti (ES/CAT)

A humble musical band organizes burial ceremonies, but this time the priest and the deceased never arrive. The trio shares an uncomfortable and disastrous waiting with the relatives. With trumpet, euphonium and marching drums, the …

BABY DON’T HURT ME

CLARA CORTÉS (ES)

WORK IN PROGRESS: BABY DON’T HURT ME is a part of the European Hand to hand circus and residency project and was developed in an immersion residency in the salt marshes of Solana Ston, Croatia. …

Balder og dragen

Dansk Rakkerpak

Balder's father disowns him and kicks him out of his childhood home. Balder must pack his lute and some few belongings and go to the big city. Within the walls, the king, and the bishop …

Sur Mesure (BE)

Four artists with a rich background in music, performance, theatre and street theatre come together to fulfil their life's duty, submitting themselves to the needs of an old barrier. With humor and mischief composed to …

Two clowns are waiting for a bus. One is a bit lost and confused, the other in a hurry and impatient. They discover something - is it a billboard? a vending machine? artificial intelligence? or …

COLLECTIVE MATTER | Breath

First, the breathing is slow, then insistent, and finally out of control. BREATH explores the breath as a transformative and life-giving figure. This allegory is performed by two female artists: Nønne Mai Svalholm and her …

COLLECTIVE MATTER | Passages

Passages is a dive into the deeper layers of our shared memory and the potential that emerges when we unfiltered meet our inner visions and hallucinations. The work is a common reflection between generations, a transition, …

Conversations with trees | Work-in-progress

Krista Burãne (LV) | Green Streets of Europe

Krista Burāne will read letters from Linden trees in Riga, Latvia, to the trees at Wiibroe Plads. The place, Krista has selected for this is not a random selection: From Wiibroe Plads, there is a panoramic view …

Crap at Animals

Mechanimal (GB)

How do you do a Darth Vader Giant Pill Millipede? Have you ever heard of a Miss Kerala Look-a- Like? What kind of animal is a Problematic Flasher??? Solo performance artist Tom Bailey takes audiences on …

DRIFT | WORKSHOP

Dávid Somló (HU)

The performance is always adapted site-specific and is designed to be performed by local performers in a busy public space, using a simple, yet complex collective choreography of sound and movement. DO YOU WANT TO BE …

Drift | PERFORMANCE

Dávid Somló (HU)

„The key of the piece is the spot on dramaturgy - how it generates doubt and curiosity in the audience and then how it creates surprises. (...) It takes some time until we realise how …

Everything in a suitcase

Luigi Ciotta (IT)

Luigi Ciotta takes us back in time to an imaginary hotel, bustling with guests and too many old suitcases. It’s the 1930s, and music accompanies our delightful porter in his fight against the overwhelming forces …

People Power Partnership (EU)

OFFICIAL OPENING OF PASSAGE FESTIVAL 2024 FACE T(W)O addresses the discourse between digital and analog worlds. Both aspects shape our lives and are part of our reality. Inspired by this, the performance is designed from multiple perspectives, offering …

Vincent de Rooij and Daan Mathot

In this head spinning "space odyssey" the main character meets his destiny in a universe created in his own soup. With a cameraman, a musician, and a bunch of different film sets, he turns the …

Muchmuche Company (FR)

Sometimes certain situations are so sensitive that if we were not to stand up straight in the framework created by the gaze of others, we could collapse, loose ourselves. This is the starting point for Furieuse, …

HAPPINESS UNLTD POP-UP BUREAU

Kassandra Production (DK)

The travel agency HAPPINESS UNLTD takes over a shop in Helsingør Bycenter, offering a wide range of escapist happiness trips: sensory performance art, feel-good music, and endorphin-stimulating taste bombs that send the happiness barometer through …

HAPPINESS UNLTD Special Guided Tour

Kassandra Production (DK)

The travel agency HAPPINESS UNLTD takes over a shop in Helsingør Bycenter, offering a wide range of escapist happiness trips: sensory performance art, feel-good music, and endorphin-stimulating taste bombs that send the happiness barometer through …

Hand to hand – Public Q&A

Presentation of the European contemporary circus exploration

During the first public presentation by the artists in the European project Hand to hand, we invite you to join the project partners, mentors and artists in a public presentation of the project: In an informal …

Baumann&Henderson / Von B bis Z (DE/CH/US)

Two guys try to build something which is remarkable for their life. On the way their encounter with the objects causes a chain of reactions, where failure is incarnated in the architectures. But without giving …

Boys* in sync (DE/DK)

Boys* in Sync is researching the communal area of Nordvest in Helsingør built in the 1950s to provide green and affordable housing, inspired by the Athens Charter. 200 years earlier Heinrich von Kleist wrote “The Earthquake …

React Public Performances (SE)

What to expect? What are the rules? Is it safe? Keep it safe is an interactive performance where we play with the flow and movement of a small crowd, testing the possibilities of the relation …

Compagnie Bachi-bouzouk Production (FR)

First we're greeted by the maintenance man, who likes things to be CLEAN. Then he finds a red nose… While searching for the owner of this nose, he finds household items such as brooms, mops, …

Living Circus – Public

LIVING Circus takes hybrid circus beyond the public space and into locations that are not intended for performances – either PRIVATE or PUBLIC spaces, such as personal homes, living rooms, care institutions, cafés, libraries, prisons. The …

Living Circus Private | Børnenes Hus

Maybe you experienced Be Flat a couple of years ago, as they guided us through Helsingør, where the house facades became the scenography and the cobblestones turned into a dance floor. Now they have created LIVING …

Living Circus Private | Elværket

Maybe you experienced Be Flat a couple of years ago, as they guided us through Helsingør, where the house facades became the scenography and the cobblestones turned into a dance floor. Now they have created LIVING …

Guillem Albà (ES/CAT)

Through puppets and objects a story unfolds about hands. Hands that have created most of the things we use. Hands that have unleashed the most sublime beauty and the most terrible atrocities. Hands that tell …

Flyvende Prinsesse (DK)

Join us on a vibrant musical journey of adventure down in the grass among the tiny creatures that tickle and scratch under our feet; What does it feel like to be an egg? What does a caterpillar …

Cia. Barré Taldea (ES)

We are guided by an endearing clown, as these fishermen depart from their families in port, courageous individuals embark on a journey at the uncertainties of the sea. Their profession is a way of life …

Teatro Nucleo (IT)

P.O.P. (Piccola Orchestra Pasolini) is a sarcastic, musical, and poetic performance that commemorates the revolutionary and troubled artist, Pier Paolo Pasolini: As an interactive performance-concert. P.O.P goes through the highlights of Pasolini’s life and career, composed …

Lucia Heege Torres (ES)

WORK IN PROGRESS: Petralaions is a part of the European Hand to hand circus and residency project, and was developed in an immersion residency in Fila Arches, artisanal paper factory, France The re-composition of a …

Darya Efrat (DE/IL) + Mathilde Roy (FR)

WORK IN PROGRESS: Porous is a part of the European Hand to hand circus and residency project, and was developed in an immersion residency in Helsingør with local partners U/NORD and Hal 16 Maritime Workshop …

Daily Fiction (DK)

A choreographic exploration of the relationship between body, nature, and the non-human other, and a gentle homage to the coexistence between human and material. Body and sand flow together as one, accompanied by evocative soundscapes. A …

Amir Guetta (FR/IL)

WORK IN PROGRESS: Sar-Tan is a part of the European Hand to hand circus and residency project and was developed in an immersion residency in the codfish packaging and distribution industry in Ilhavo, Portugal, together …

It promises delights of Heaven on Earth but acknowledges that every Utopian possibility has a Dystopian result… A hilarious mashup of ludicrous promises and fatuous plans, experience the withering slabs of realism that the ideals …

Luigi Ciotta (IT)

A dusty hand wound 78rpm gramophone, and a folkloristic “theatrical” shoeshiner who’s ready to polish anything you may be wearing on your feet ... even the feet themselves!! A funny old Italian corner in your city: …

Marianna De Sanctis (IT) & Perrine Budan (FR)

WORK IN PROGRESS: Slow down is a part of the European Hand to hand circus and residency project and was developed in an immersion residency in the salt marshes of Solana Ston, Croatia. Hosted by …

Spittoons and black holes

Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen (DK)

Get a fresh perspective on how epidemics, bodily fluids, and our political reality intertwine and connect. The sound journey unfolds the language of the alien and that which is no longer us but emanates from …

Mille Lundt (DK)

WORK IN PROGRESS: Structures is a part of the European Hand to hand circus and residency project, and was developed in an immersion residency in the vineyards of Joseph Perrier, house of Champagne, together with …

Compagnie Mobil (NL)

With his tireless enthusiasm he tries to snare a woman. The man seems to have everything under control. But appearance can be deceptive. Suddenly his little car fills with smoke. Then begins his bungling and …

Eléctrico 28 (ES/CAT)

Four characters, skilled in observing street life, dive into the bustling chaos of everyday scenes, turning them into captivating performances. The idea is all about taking risks, reacting on the spot, and improvising to make …

STREETFOOLS (ES/CAT/IT)

Two ninjas come to the city to recover Maki, a sacred fish that someone has stolen from their monastery. Our ninjas heroes will start a city tour exhibiting their peculiar and dubious skills. At the …

The Seaguard Tower – PlanktonPower

Benny Henningsen & Ilon Lodewijks

The Seaguard Tower can be visited continuously within opening hours. However, there may be a waiting time if the maximum number of participants is reached. OPENING HOURS THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 – SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 | 11:00 AM …

The champion and the mosquito

Faber Teater (IT)

Everyone, both performers and the audience, is on a bicycle in this a-typical performance, riding across space and time on the river of the Twentieth Century. The ‘Guides of Time’ will lead you through the life …

The world in my eyes

Pernille Garde Stage Art (DK)

"The quiet, wondering feeling of happiness when I sat at the microscope and observed the diversity of life in my little world." Marie Hammer (from Forsker i fem verdensdele, 1981) Join us on a journey into the world, …

Compañía Rojo Telón (E)

In the circus, as in everyday life, the artist risk our lives. They have nothing more certain than death. They believe that we are happy, unlimited, and capable of controlling nature. But what if we …

In a high and festive tempo, Ugorskij renews both the klezmer tradiion and the gypsy-jazz. On stage: Hans Finn Møller Jakob Vikkelsøe Andreas Ugorskij

Work-in-progress | Residency

Kajen (SE) | Green Streets of Europe

Join the newly formed performance company Kajen Company (SE) in their artistic residency in Helsingør Drawing inspiration and materials from natural environments, Benjamin Black, Tara Jerome-Benabè and Santiago Ruiz invites you to join them by the …

2023

Arctic Ensemble (FIN)

Adrift takes the audience on an epic sailing adventure all of which you can enjoy without getting your feet wet. The show combines street theatre, pair acrobatics and perch balancing and is suitable for all …

Secret Hotel (DK)

Join us for a sensous experience, where science takes shape through theater, play and dance. Myrepostyr invites children from ages 8 to 12 on an interesting journey with stories, scientific knowledge from biology and brain research, …

Antilia: Between the boxes

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Antilia: Hanger?

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Antilia: Happy Hoop

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Antilia: La Dama Demodè

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Antilia: Yes Land

An Italian open air circus arena

At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that …

Uppercut Danseteater (DK)

BENCHED is a brutally honest bodily tale about life's big and very small questions. About settling down. About daring to sit in opposition, about sitting cross legged, about being sat, put off or benched. About …

Collectif La Méandre (FR)

With a cube as a stage and the public space as the only setting, a dancer and a musician tame each other and cross time until they find a common rhythm. Bien Parado is an …

Breathing From The Ground Up

Se Byen Vertikalt

The audience is invited to experience the surroundings and their place in them in a whole new way. The work transforms Reberbaneparken into a magical stage by bringing the architecture, sounds and atmosphere into a …

CANCELLED: Boucan

Cirk Biz'art (FR)

Boucan is an explosive cocktail combining circus, beatbox, time travel and comedy. The performance deals with the absurdity - and great beauty - of life, with a very free inspiration from a theater masterpiece. Live sound …

Le Guichet (FR)

The scenario is simple: a prisoner dreams of escaping from a daily life composed of a bed, a pillow, and a toolbox. With his imaginary friend, he dreams of another life far from this cramped …

Hr. Teater (DK)

The sisters Hilda & Cump live side by side in a battery cage - until one day the gate opens and they escape to discover the world on the other side. Full of physical excellence, …

Hr. Teater (DK)

The sisters Hilda & Gump lives side by side in a small cage - until the hatch one days open up and a brand new world lies at their feet. Hilda is smart and fast, …

We have many important questions to address regarding the climate and biodiversity crises - how can we even find visions for new ways of living together that do not disrupt the balance of the Earth? We …

Collective Matter 1: Passages

COLLECTIVE MATTER 1: Passages is a dive into the deeper layers of our shared memory and the potential that emerges when we unfiltered meet our inner visions and hallucinations. The work is a common reflection …

Collective Matter 2: Breath

CHANGE OF VENUE 26/7 DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS: See info below Breath is performed by Nønne Mai Svalholm, her muse Sisse Lunøe and a large inflatable yellow-black sculpture, which they think of as the work's third …

DEEP is a crazy, funny, short performance, in which the depth rises to a higher level. In this one-man show the performer hangs high and upside down for at least 5 minutes each act while the …

De Cuyper vs. De Cuyper

Company Pol & Freddy (BE)

In a swirling sports stadium, two juggling brothers compete against each other. All the codes of known, lesser known and invented sports are used: heroism and fair play, injury, and sponsorship, doping and bended rules. …

Pere Hosta (ES)

Today the office goes out to order and control. To see the dangers that the pedestrian is exposed to. This office worker transforms the space by working, he will transform our emotions. He has come …

Dávid Somló (HU)

During the piece, fifteen performers move along concealed pathways carrying portable speakers that each play one layer of a composition, enveloping the public setting in a mesmerising aural sphere. As the sound sources are completely …

Dávid Somló (HU)

During the piece, fifteen performers move along concealed pathways carrying portable speakers that each play one layer of a composition, enveloping the public setting in a mesmerising aural sphere. As the sound sources are completely …

Fabiola and the dog

Compagnia La Fabiola (IT)

Fabiola and Gulio, the stars of the show, are two very special puppets: Giulio, a very curious dog that loves candy and Fabiola, a sweet, cheeky, hot-tempered, little girl. They meet in a musical, funny …

Fabiola and the dog

Compagnia La Fabiola (IT)

Fabiola and Gulio, the stars of the show, are two very special puppets: Giulio, a very curious dog that loves candy and Fabiola, a sweet, cheeky, hot-tempered, little girl. They meet in a musical, funny …

Chris Iris (DE)

42 cm separate them in height, 42 kg in weight. A difference that connects and creates possibilities instead of being an obstacle. Extraordinary acrobatics make the audience marvel, subtle humour makes them smile. The artists show …

Ghosts – Something Rotten

The Desparate Men (GB)

Desperate Men return to Helsingør to investigate reported otherworldly psychic paranormal phantasmagoria. Three spectral specialists on a spiritual pilgrimage attempt to investigate trace phenomena, such as Hamlet’s ghostly father, poltergeist activity, and reports of the …

With headphones on and guided by the sounds of garden owners, aesthetic soundscapes, and the voices of experts, you are led through perennial beds and flowers. Two performers take you through the garden's spaces, inviting …

Panorama Kino Teater (CH)

Presented as a virtual cinematic experience, Panorama's unique 360º rotating pop-up cabinet transforms reality into fantasy, provoking our senses and re-mystifying the world we inhabit. An alternate world unfolds as actors integrate and conspire with the …

Hip Hip Hip! Photobooth

Step inside, take a seat, and choose one of the colored tokens - "click": a poetic snapshot, a sensory and visual journey of 5-7 minutes begins just for you, and becomes a memory you can carry …

Andréanne Thiboutot (BE)

While spinning hoops in dizzying number and speed, this Grand Lady subtly charms you into a universe filled with impressive skills and touching simplicity. INFO DURATION: 25 min.

In a tent with John

La Frontera (FR)

Through an ongoing performance, unexplained encounters may take you on a walk along the border of the unusual and the unbelievable. When was the last time you stopped to truly observe the world around you? How …

In a tent with John

La Frontera (FR)

Through an ongoing performance, unexplained encounters may take you on a walk along the border of the unusual and the unbelievable. When was the last time you stopped to truly observe the world around you? How …

Interludium is a work of music without sound, where six bodies move across an open space as a ceremonial interlude that occurs as a parenthesis in time. Interludium experiments with human clichés: What unites and …

Dansk Rakkerpak

The super agent Jane Blond also has a "License to Kill" and fights against a gallery of bestial criminals and finally saves the world from destruction. Physical and comical theatre – with exceptional sequences in …

KINSKI – ROI DE RATS

RUI PAIXÃO (PT)

Kinski – Roi de Rats (King of Rats) tells the story of Kinski, a troubled and unemployed actor, who finds himself having to sell vampire teeth to survive. In a demonstration of the product's potential …

Arctic Ensemble (FI)

When their car suddenly breaks down, six friends become stranded in the middle of nowhere, confronted by the unpredictable Nordic Summer. Still, even being attacked by mosquitoes, or struggling to hitch a ride, the characters …

Kikiristani Fantasies

Imperial Kikiristan

Let yourself go and receive a complete high class service offered by an orchestra capable of the craziest and most unexpected performances. All-terrain, this chameleon formation sublimates each event with humor, serenades, frenetic solos and …

L’air de Rien

Jeanne Simone (FR)

They are there to listen. Here. Now. Two performers dive into both composing and visualizing the soundscape at a selected location in Helsingør. With physical theater, drumsticks, and plenty of humor, they create a symphony in multiple …

La Extraordinaria

Compagnie eLe (ES)

La Extraordinaria is something difficult to define. What at first glance looks like a simple nursing home hide, behind its walls, a reality out of the ordinary. A collaborative project where very diverse people have …

Escarlata Circus (CAT)

Helium balloons, stones, dancing ladders, gramophones that laugh, self-portraits that gravitate and cigarette papers that dance to the rhythm of a waltz... ...so 'la grUtesca' is an essence in the form of verbalised thoughts and poetic …

La lévitation réelle

L’immédiat (FR)

Vertigo is usually described as a fear of falling, but what happens when the ground deserts us, when it just... lets us go? We’d be falling up, into a boundless, infinite emptiness. Our purpose in this …

Dávid Somló (HU)

Before entering the performance space, participants are given a simple set of instructions and a specific line on the floor to follow with a portable speaker. Each speaker plays one layer of the composition, thus …

Mask Workshop – The Voice of Nature

Linh Le + Randi Kjær (DK)

Linh Le is hosting mask workshops where you can come and build a mask representing a wild species, such as a toad, bird, mammal, insect, mushroom, or plant. The masks will be used for the …

Claudio Levati (IT)

The audience has starring roles in Levatis version of the classic scene from Titanic. Suddenly we are on the ship with DiCaprio and Winslet - but seasickness sets in, and what do you do? Everything is literally …

TOF Théâtre (BE)

Gaby, Antoine and Nadine are 3 joyful senior citizens. They merrily pull up their trailer on a square, in a park or in the clearing of a wood where they present an amusing show about …

Cie Basinga (FR)

Without those who support her, ensuring her ascent, set the lines, watch her, the tightrope artist has no power. This is not a superhuman figure walking on a tightrope. It is an association of people …

PASSAGE Planet is a platform at the festival that addresses the human situation in connection with the climate crisis. It aims to create space for sharing thoughts with each other and inspire hope. It is …

PASSAGE Planet: Knotting Workshop

Linh Le + Charlotte Østergaard (DK)

Can you tie a knot? Then you can join the workshop where we tie knots to life and create costumes from large ecosystems, which will be used for the performance "Saa by som borger, Saa …

PASSAGE Planet: SOLASTALGIA

Madeleine Kate McGowan (DK)

Solastalgia is a neologism formed by the combination of the Latin word sōlācium (comfort) and the Greek root -algia (pain, suffering, grief), describing a form of emotional or existential distress caused by climate change. Through …

Meandertaal (BE)

The Paper King roams through the city. Like words on wings, carried by the wind. Impressive yet fragile. He carries all the novels, poems and theatre plays in his soul. Letters flow through his veins. …

Gerlev Center for Leg og Bevægelse (DK)

EVERYONE CAN JOIN when you again this year is being invited to Playfestival at different locations in Helsingør. Gerlev Center for Leg & Bevægelse is organizing play and movement for all ages with pannabane, parkour and …

MØR collective

Step inside the abandoned house - assembled from material from more than 60 houses in North Jutland. A theatrical installation that bears witness to a life lived, explores the unnoticed detail and shows both the …

Tall Tales Company (NL)

Square Two is a journey of discovery into a wonderful world of codes and patterns. Tall Tales Company and visual artist Don Satijn researched for two years how the underlying codes of each other's work …

Compagnie Mobil (NL)

Sulky M1 and its awkward and bungling driver are on the road, off to paint the town red. With his tireless enthusiasm he tries to snare a woman. The man seems to have everything under …

THE LAST EXCURSION

Det Olske Orkester

If you were to take one last trip through your city, where would you choose to go? What would you want to see one last time? Your usual route? Your childhood home? Or maybe somewhere …

THE STRANDVEJ PARTY

Helene Kvint + Charlotte Bøving

It will be an exquisite pleasure for us to see you at the new annual road party on Strandvejen! Come and greet your neighbor and taste the wonderful organic Shakisso coffee from Strandvejsristeriet and the delicious …

TO HELL WITH PARADISE

TEATERGRUPPEN BATIDA

When Adam meets Juliet, it is not just the story of two young people with a taste for forbidden fruit. It is at the same time two of world literature’s greatest dramas – The Old …

The Beast of Theatre

Chris Lynam (UK)

Chris Lynam, the infamous iconoclastic clown, brings you his interactive, acrobatic, manically musical & gloriously epic Clown show! With his raw physicality, an exquisite grasp of the grotesque and a seemingly endless supply of explosive tricks, …

The Beauty Machine

De Røde Heste (DK)

In a little tent at Flynderupgård, you can experience a warm and peculiar puppet performance, about the creation of the world – and about how you got so beautiful eyes. In only 10 minutes, both …

The Geeseparade

Picar Productions (NL)

A maitre tambour, a drummer and a dozen pedigree Toulouser geese are the superbe ingredients of the Geese Parade. A unique and stunning combination of men, music and geese, that will delight young and old when …

The INNER World

Hakan realises that he is empty inside. His light has gone out. This is the start of a journey to get that light back, a path through the dream world he shares with various personal …

The Laughing Crowd

Antoinette Helbing

The Laughing Crowd is a celebration of laughter in all its forms. This force of nature that has the power to occupy our bodies, our minds and our relationships with others. Maybe you'll get infected...? Laughter …

The Perfect Mistake

Shaking the Sky (DE + US)

The Perfect Mistake is a continuous search for an incredible finale. A search, that incorporates many members of the audience and no one knows what is going to happen next. When the exact right accident happens …

The city as citizen, the city as species

Together with locals, Linh Le will take over public space and amplify the multitude voices of nature by wearing masks of the local species in Elsinore and costumes which are tied together as the ecosystems. …

Italian juggling, object manipulation, hula hoop acrobatics, clowning and charm meet indescribable physical comedy and grotesque humor: The British clown Chris Lynam and Mario Levis, Silvia Martini and Guilio Lanzafame from the Italian open-air circus Antilia, …

WE ARE THE NORDICS – a decolonizing ritual

NextDoor Project

CANCELLED: THURS 3 + FRIDAY 4 AUGUST. All audiences with a ticket are contacted directly. Among soil, plants, bones and glass, we move into a dissolution of the inherited choreographies of colonialism. Making ourselves known. And examine …

You Are a Day Tomorrow – The Classroom as Battlefield

Convoi Exceptionnel (DK)

It is a memoir tying past and present, a personal narrative exploring the social dynamics of school and the institutional influence on the body and soul. It presents an auditory sensitivity analysis that examines nostalgia …

2022

Compagnia Dromosofista (IT/AG)

Join your imagination on a trip around the world A magical performance of endless ideas, where shadows, puppets and mime unfold the imagination. Join Teatri Mobili on a trip around the world, where no place is …

Collectif La Méandre (FR)

Avion Papier (Plane Paper) is a caravan show at the crossroads of digital arts, music and object theater. You are welcome in a cosy little world of animated pictures and the music is created live …

Avion Papier at Nøjsomhed

Collectif La Méandre (FR)

Avion Papier (Plane Paper) is a caravan show at the crossroads of digital arts, music, and object theater. You are welcome in a cosy little world of animated pictures and the music is created live …

Simone Wierød (DK)

A sculpture that is created by you, the participating audience: through instructions given through headphones, you will be a part of a larger choreographic system, moving objects, creating formations, and shaping the space between you. The …

Teater Gyda (DK)

Mrs. Severinsen is a collector of dolls. Babusjka is not only the most beautiful doll, it is in fact maybe the largest pull-up doll in the world! Every day, Severinsen has to turn the key, to …

Banquet for Bees

Bee dances, nerdy and fascinating bee studies and samples from the world of the bees are served around a banquet table. Together we will dive into the challenges and pleasures of the bees, both honeybees …

Le G. Bistaki (FR)

In this world where everything is accelerating, condensing, merging, Le G. Bistaki suggests, in a low voice, to extract oneself physically and mentally. To extract oneself with calm towards a Beautiful Horizon Here you are here …

Breast in Peace

Feminist punk circus: As clowns, with a large dose of physical comedy, and in the tension between cringe and virtuosity, M.P.A.C. (Mighty Performing Arts Collective) explores breasts. What does breasts say about the human condition? …

CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL

Convoi Exceptionnel (DK)

CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL is a new composed staged piece with 12 singers, experienced from the edge of a swimming pool. In a physical study of water resonance, the singers are pondering on the paradoxes of a …

Criaturas Particulares

Roberto White Company (AR)

Experience 7 unrelated, short, poetic and humorous stories with puppets made of simple objects such as balloons, ping pong balls and plastic bags attached to parts of the puppeteer’s body.. Duration: 25 min. AGE: From 4 years …

Dance of the Fisherman

LOCATION X / LOCUS (DK + IRE + FIN)

Dance of the Fisherman is a site specific performance created specifically for Espergaerde Havn. In Dance of the Fisherman, the audience will be physically drawn into the meditative world of the fisherman, in an imagistic walking …

Das ist der gipfel

Get ready to be surprised. This Maag is a clown without a clown nose, and he has a subtle talent for improvisation. Every performance is unique and tailored to the specific audience - sophisticated interactive …

Det (B)lærerige Børneshow

Trolle og Tormod (DK)

Trolle and Tormod arrive in their reggae car. They have speakers with them, and out of them flows cool dancehall music. Two microphones are connected to the sound system and the audience is ready for …

Encore une fois

By Tripotes la Compagnie (BE)

"Encore une fois" (Again) is an energetic and playful show that thrills with breathtaking acrobatics and rousing creativity. Three artists, each more adventurous than the other, test the possibilities of the seesaw. With much authenticity, courage …

Encore une fois

Tripotes la Compagnie (BE)

"Encore une fois" (Again) is an energetic and playful show that thrills with breathtaking acrobatics and rousing creativity. Three artists, each more adventurous than the other, test the possibilities of the seesaw. With much authenticity, courage …

Festival of Playing

Gerlev Center for Leg og Bevægelse (DK)

Everybody can join when the festival of physical games and play again moves into three different places in Helsingør. Gerlev Center for Leg & Bevægelse activates the games for all ages, with for instance parcour and …

Teatret Fyren og Flammen (DK)

Fusskopf loves to dance, jump, run and walk. Yes he loves everything he can do on his feet. He explores all his senses. He does not always know how to use them, but together with …

A dancer in a fantastical costume and a guitarist’s improvised tones combine to create a living sculpture which turns gender stereotypes on their head and inside out. In constant flux, they challenge and shape how …

at Flynderupgård

At Flynderupgård you can partake in some of the historic plays that Flynderupgård have made in cooperation with Gerlev Legepark. PLAYAREAS OPENING TIMES Saturday May 21st 11 am to 5 pm Sunday May 22nd 11 am to 4 …

Homo Økonomikus

Departementet (DK)

Homo Økonomikus is an exploration of the modern individual and its economy in a time of crisis. In Homo Økonomikus we meet the white, privileged man CHRISTIAN in the middle of his life. He is …

La Famiglia Mirabella

Il Teatro Viaggiante (IT)

Meet Edoardo Mirabella, Elisabetta Cavana and our sons, Martin, Matilde and Mael. Every time they perform is like being at the family breakfast table: the same as always, but completely different. This is their strength and …

League & Legend

Acrobatic battle in sports disciplines. In ‘League & Legend’, 15feet6 take their visual comedy and breathtaking circus into a collision course with sports, with all the thrills and spills you’d expect as three acrobats battle each …

Looping Choreography

A loop is a cyclic structure, repetitions that grow in layers, bodies and sound that are woven together, overlapped and recreated. We constantly loop through life, an eternal choreography that is repeated with only a …

Mardi Gras All Stars

Let’s Make Music

You get captivating hooks and community singing. Brass Band Power, groovy vibes and rocking beats send you on the dance floor, where you can do nothing but surrender to the festive and life-affirming music. In …

Sustainability of the Arts

9-11 June 2022 Helsingør + Helsingborg + Online REGISTRATION Use the TICKET icon for registration to both the full programme or selected days. For the ONLINE programme, go here PASSAGE Festival invites artists, creators, performers, and everyone with an …

PASSAGE Festivalwristband

THE SALE OF FESTIVAL BRACELETS IS CLOSED. NOTICE! We are still selling individual tickets for the available performances. For example, we still have tickets for MDR - Death from Laughter. Buy your ticket HERE Festivalwristband - …

Collectif Primavez (FR)

Do artists depend on their audience? Of course, they do. Without the public there would be no show and vice versa. But... can they depend physically too? This is the challenge of Miguel Rubio. His staging …

Printing Workshop

At the workshop Camilla Grell teaches you how to blockprint on textiles. With pressure blocks and textile paint she help and teach you so you can create beautiful, fun and marvelous prints. Bring an old …

Sofie Krog Teater (DK)

Come closer! The Quacksalver is in town. Come closer if you dare. Are you bothered by hustle and bustle that makes your hair fall out? Have you become too plumb around the belly? Or are you …

Radio Merkur (DK)

Radio Merkur live is a experience with smiles, a warm atmosphere and a community on stage that spreads among the audience. It's all carried by a joy of playing, and their "Spillemands Svanesang", has a …

Cie O Quel Dommage (BE)

Room Service is a zany, black humor playlet, diverting the stereotypes of the mother-baby relationship and highlighting the guilty fantasies and impulses inherent to motherhood. The baby is a puppet with a human head and …

A sculpture that is created by you, the participating audience: through instructions given through headphones, you will be a part of a larger choreographic system, moving objects, creating forms and shaping the space between you. …

Tombs Creatius (CAT)

Secrets are exciting. They are whispered to our ears, they are discovered through a keyhole, or sometimes, they are revealed when unlocking a box. The heart always beats faster when you are about to know …

Instant Dissidence

Instead of touring with a finished show, the company has turned it all upside down and decided to create SlowMo along the journey from Ireland through Europe, with stops in Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, Hungary and …

Merel Kamp (NL)

A man and a woman are suspended from rusty steel springs. They are limited in their freedom of movement, but within the limits the possibilities are limitless… The cliché about the relations between men and women is built up to a tragicomic love story: from the moment they meet, till the inevitable “and …

TWO MEN AND A PLANK

With some self-irony and a twinkle in the eyes, Don Gnu pays tribute to the phenomenon of men wearing sandals and the right to be yourself. The beloved characters DON and GNU, known from the Reumert …

Teatri Mobili presents: “Manoviva”

Girovago e Rondella (IT)

Step into a microcosm where the characters are two skilled hands. Manin and Manon introduce the audience to a fantastic world, where hands can be two talented circus acrobats unfolding incredible dramas. DURATION: 20 min. AGE: From 3 years TICKET PERFORMANCE Click the TICKET icon to …

Emiliano Sanchez Alessi (ES)

In Tei Tei, Emiliano Alessi invites you to join him on a trip trough your imagination and the pedestrian streets of Helsingør. Armed only with tape and ribbons, each step creates a new stage. The …

Dansk Rakkerpak (DK)

Under foreign skies - in a distant land - at an unspecified time in history, a team of dedicated border guards are trained in the difficult art of keeping unwanted characters out of their land. …

The Geeseparade

Picar Productions (NL)

With roll of drums, whistling, cackeling and other musical sounds they walk into the courtyard at Flynderupgård. A unique and stunning combination of men, music and geese, that will delight young and old when marching past …

The Geeseparade in Espergærde Centret

Picar Productions (NL)

PASSAGE mini festival an Espergærde Centret presents: With roll of drums, whistling, cackeling and other musical sounds they walk into the courtyard at Flynderupgård. A unique and stunning combination of men, music and geese, that will delight …

The Laughing Game

Antoinette Helbing (DK)

The Laughing Game is a dance solo that explores laughter as an act of human belonging and empathy, as well as the body’s answer to emotional overload. The performance oscillates between dance, installation and concert …

Two ballerinas rest on top of a giant music box. They invite us on a trip, where transforming cogs and hologrammes give life to the beautiful story of the forbidden love between music and dance, …

The Strandvej Party

Helene Kvint + Charlotte Bøving

It will be an exquisite pleasure for us to see you at the new annual road party on Strandvejen! Come and greet your neighbor and taste the wonderful organic Shakisso coffee from Strandvejsristeriet and the delicious …

John Hicks (UK)

A faith free, mystic, psychic, sorcerer, street prophet of our times, who will deliver increasingly impressive tricks and predictions in a dramatic appearance that reflects and reacts to the modern life and its surroundings. Watch …

Through the Wall

Thomas Bentin Works (DK)

Through the Wall takes you on a walk through the urban landscape and shows you the city from a new angle. You follow three dancers, who appear and disappear constantly, as they explore and move …

Tju-hej Vilde Dyr

Dansk Rakkerpak (DK)

What does a bear, a fox,, a sheep and a chicken have in common? Discorythms, swaying hips and red hot instruments! Four animals will light up the farm as they march, cluck, and roar in …

Les Etablissements Lafaille (FR)

Uncountable dangers threaten the two explorers at every step on a wild journey into the heart of public places - among impassable groves, bus shelters, poles, benches and other precipices. Our two explorers are neither …

2021

Mythical and rare object of the traditional circus, the wheel of death is by its size and its circular movement loaded with many symbols. In “78 Tours”, La Meute fearlessly explores this hypnotic and ritualistic dimension …

Poesi i baggårde / Poetry in backyards

THURSDAY 29 - SATURDAY 31 JULY, PASSAGE Festival invites you for a morning coffee together with three poets and original voices, that most of us have never heard. PASSAGE Festival has started a collaboration with …

Poesi i baggårde / Poetry in backyards

THURSDAY 29 - SATURDAY 31 JULY, PASSAGE Festival invites you for a morning coffee together with three poets and original voices, that most of us have never heard. PASSAGE Festival has started a collaboration with …

“A towering force in modern Nordic music” —fRoots Chamber pop renegade Kim Nyberg, better known as Afenginn, writes in big, bold colors, in structures with symphonic ambition. Even at his most epic, however, he circles back to …

ALEX BARTI (DK & MK)

The marionet puppet Mr. Barti is a talented musician – and an even better performer! He can play, sing, and dance, and always seems to mesmerize his audience, whom he loves to fool around and …

TEATRET BRÆNDENDE KÆRLIGHED (DK)

Impresario and opera lover Sibelius Vogelfreud is getting ready to present his celebrity songbird MISS BIRDY. The audience is in place. Sibelius fixes the last details. We are ready. But oh no! - the cage …

Fabrizio Rosselli (IT)

Donning a black blouse and straw hat, a stuttering, dazed man, begins to maneuver buckets like a worker performing repetitive tasks. But the operation never ends as planned; the buckets become objects of play and …

Banquet for bees

Secret Hotel (DK)

Bee dances, nerdy but fascinating melittological knowledge and samples from the world of the bees are served around a banquet table. Together we will dive into the challenges and pleasures of the bees, both honeybees …

Boucherie Bacul

PikzPalace (BE)

The rude Bacul family sell their morbid but above all insane merchandise to the passersby. But to do so they use very strange techniques. A deliciously dark sideshow comedy, not for the faint-hearted. These Belgian …

CANCELLED City Matters

CANCELLED 31/7 Daily Fiction (DK)

In City Matters, you get the chance to get up close and personal with the materials of the city. Take a walk, where you as part of a group sense and move through the city, …

Children’s Poetry Day

Børnenes Hus (DK)

Letters become words. Words become rhymes, nonsense, fairy tales, stories, books, booklets, posters and more at The Children's House and the City Garden Åndehullet. A day of poetry for children with performance, reading aloud and …

David Skunk (MX/US/DK)

The Mexican-American comedian David Skunk is not only a talented clown; he is also a linedancer, hilarious juggler, amazing one-man-band and stage magician. Both kids and adults will leave the show amazed and with their …

DEEP is a crazy, funny, short performance, in which the depth rises to a higher level. In this one-man show the performer hangs high and upside down for at least 5 minutes each act while the …

Amer i Àfrica (ES/CAT)

Between 250 kg of straw and 125 kg of human mass, two people play around with movement, balance and humor, exploring the peculiarities of human relationships. Traveling from intimacy to the outside, Envà deals to …

Fictions of the Flesh

Ingri Fiksdal, Fredrik Floen, Mariama Fatou Kalley Slåttøy (NO)

"Fictions of the Flesh" (2021) is a site-specific solo performance that examines the relationship between the present, embodiment, and the figure of the stranger: all topics found within the current decolonial turn in art and …

In Follow Me, two circus-chameleons interpret the public space. The duo invites you to become part of the followers and discover the city in a unique way. The streets of the neighborhood are transformed into a stage with the …

Følgesvende & Ledestjerner

Julie Schmidt Andreasen (DK)

Følgesvende og Ledestjerner is a physical and poetic experience of forms of leadership and ways of following. Dancers lead each other from place to place, and their wanderings develop into a form of hypnosis. They …

ReAct! - Actions Moving (SE)

Last Call is an interactive street performance that follows the flow of today’s communication by allowing the audience to call our phone booth and influence the performance. From a humorous standpoint and using dance, movement …

Living Game Culture

Gerlev Legepark (DK)

Gerlev Play Park is behind the play area with a lot of different games from all over Europe, all of which are at least 100 years old. From familiar and fun throwing and bowling games to …

Lost in Communication / The Peer Phenomenon

In a post-pandemic era, two women meet in a world of unlimited media flow that constantly breaks in and interrupts them. They do not know why they are here, nor do they know where to …

Bellevue Teatret (DK)

Émile is a bicycle recycling professor with green, yet oil-stained fingers. He lives in a mechanical bicycle tree, built of old bicycle parts. The bicycle tree can light up, play music and spin like a …

Moving a Memory

Convoi Exceptionnel (DK)

Convoi Exceptionnel explores experiences and memories connected to the gymnasium, to this space which most of us have a relationship with. The smell of lacquered floor, thick rope, and wooden rib walls. Scheduled exercise activating a …

Normal Cake, Please

UnEasy Listening Society (DK)

Normal Cake, Please is a fictional wedding taking place in Helsingør in August 2021. Unusual and unexpected, this site-specific, performance playfully addresses concepts of normality, freedom and cake. The audience is split into groups and invited …

Cikaros & Kimone (DK)

On the Bench is a dance acrobatic interlude, where two circus artists stage the iconic Danish city-bench. In a quirky and whimsical acrobatic duet with surprising choreographies to the sound of Chopin, the familiar element …

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People Power Partnership

Sitespecific dance performance

At PASSAGE Festival you can experience one of 13 different, site-specific performances, presented from June to October 2021 throughout Europe as part of the PPP project. In Helsingør, the performance is created by 16 young dancers …

As a new feature this year, PASSAGE Festival presents Radio PASSAGE. Radio PASSAGE, headed by Karen Dich will run from Thursday to Saturday at 1-3PM. We will be discussing themes of the festival, interviewing some of …

STRANGE STILL – Relax and observe

Strange Still is a performance-action, a creation of the Camouflaged Creature. Past pandemic year has raised questions about isolation, silence and belonging, as well as material and virtual presences. Walls are speaking and listening but …

Sweet Home on Wheels

Studium Actoris (NO) A. Schvarzstein (CAT)

Comedic street theater for the whole family! Actors Schvarzstein and Martini perform in this show respectively the characters of «wife» and «husband». Love, jealousy, tenderness and irritation will be unveiled by how they relate to each …

TING – a lifesize boardgame

Ilon Lodewijks (NL/DK)

TING is a performance and a life size boardgame in one. Take a pair of headphones on and enter the Universe of Things. On a 100 square meter board, you and 11 other players encounter …

Poesi i baggårde / Poetry in backyards

THURSDAY 29 - SATURDAY 31 JULY, PASSAGE Festival invites you for a morning coffee together with three poets and original voices, that most of us have never heard. PASSAGE Festival has started a collaboration with …

Sew Flunk Fury Wit (DK)

SOLD OUT IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT TICKETS, CONTACT OUR TICKET OFFICE AND YOU CAN BE REGISTERED TO A WAITING LIST. IF WE GET ANY CANCELLATIONS WE WILL CONTACT YOU. Naked bodies covered in mud, ropes digging into …

The Third Reich

Romeo Castellucci + Societas (IT)

Few artists have dominated European theater in the last 30 years as much as Italian director Romeo Castellucci. His works have been performed on the biggest stages and festivals in the world, and it is …

Between the wheels and acrobatics, Duo Kaos create a story about movement, transformation, and poetry. Building and destroying are parts of the same mechanism and each member, in their own way, tries to turn chaos …

Tju-hej Vilde Dyr

Dansk Rakkerpak (DK)

They have disco rhythms, swinging hips and red-hot instruments! Four animals set the street in motion when they come marching, clucking, bleating and roaring in a colorful musical procession! The four animals carry their musical …

Trip Tout Petit

PUDDING asbl (BE)

Two girls take you to a destination of your choice. Our visual travel agency takes you wherever you want. It offers tiny private trips in a nutshell. Griet welcomes you at the check-in desk, and helps …

These fluffy pastel-coloured unicorns celebrate hope, freedom and community after months of lockdown, isolation and darkness of winter! With wireless sounds systems they move through public spaces, pull audiences out of the daily humdrum and …

Claudio Stellato (BE)

As if they follow an assembly manual from a parallel universe, the characters / craftsmen are working on a site where everyone has their role. They perform precise gestures resulting from hours and hours of …

2020

Alex Barti (DK/MK)

The marionet puppet Mr. Barti is a talented musician – and an even better performer! He can play, sing, and dance, and always seems to mesmerize his audience, whom he loves to fool around and …

Anchors Aweigh (OBS fullbokad)

OBS: fullbokad! Three dancers in a wordless show about the noble art of saling and mastering the wind. Like a sailing school where Jaques Tati och Bob Fosse are the sailors. The show contains dance, music …

By the Wall Bars

Convoi Exceptionnel (DK)

Convoi Exceptionnel explores spaces that deeply interfere with our bodies and minds. AT THE WALL BARS - ECHO FROM A SCHOOL is a staged and sensationalized prelude to the upcoming “Trilogy for Educational spaces”. A gym …

CameliOrquestra

CameliOrquestra is a performance where acrobatics and music intertwine in intense, insistent, and intimate moments. A performance where anything can happen when the musicians literally fly around while they play their instruments. Listen to a …

Kompani Hint is a new cirkus group based in Malmö and Copenhagen and tour around Sweden and Europe. During 45 minutes you get to make different materials to juggle with and learn how to use …

Dansk Rakkerpak (DK)

Calling all model citizens: Here is a performance for you! The crazy coppers are at it again. Maintaining law and order since 2004, these cops have dealt with their fair share of troublemakers and menaces …

Diorama – for Helsingør

Ingri Fiksdal (NO)

With choreography as her lens, Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal stages particular views of natural and urban landscapes in different cities, interfering with its context. The site-specific performances reflect on the passing of time, on the slow …

Drôle d’impression

Dédale de Clown (FR)

Two bill posters are pasting a photographic mural on a wall. Dodging showers of glue and the odd safety hazard, they manage to remain focused on the task at hand. As they work (encountering a few …

Everyday People

Society of Labyrinthian Anarchaeology (DK)

We have to change our form of life. Man used to be in an ecstatic contact with cosmos. The city is a motherboard of connections. This forgotten connection can only be reestablished communally. We have to …

1Watt company has been creating performances for public spaces for many years, using play as a way of exploring and listening - always in collaboration with the people who live and move through these spaces Now …

Instant Compositions

Copenhagen International Arts Collective (DK)

A group of dancers appear. They take the first step. Around, aside and in co-existence with the dance, the ordinary life continues. The performance invites for a (non-verbal) conversation about the presence of the body, dance …

Paolo Nani Teater (DK)

Jekyll is a sensitive and introverted ice salesman who, in an attempt to break the ice and come out of his shy shell, embarks on a slippery slope. In his quest to invent the world's best …

Uppercut Danseteater (DK)

How would you deal with the law of gravity, mediocracy, and winter depression at the same time? You would get a specially designed large bouncy-cushion and begin exploring it. Throw yourself on the side, throw …

Les Frères Troubouch (FR)

THE PERFORMANCE IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE REPLACED BY: 27/7, 17:00 Alex Barti in Nordvest 28/7, 17:00 Jump by Uppercut Dance Theater in Hornbæk 30/7, 12:00 Jekyll On Ice! by Paolo Nani Theater on the space behind the …

Cie. Albedo (FR)

You might not see the danger – but they do! The two bodyguards, Tony and Tony, are on a mission to secure the city and its inhabitants. They might not be the smartest of men, …

Magic and bubbles

Have fun with bubbles. Limited seats available. Ticket is required. To secure tickets, call project leader Christel Molin: +46 (0)722 45 82 91

När musiken oväntat avbryts börjar en dansare diskret trumma och ropa ”no music, clap, clap” och från ingenstans hänger fler på. I gemensam stomping koreografi fortsätter dansen. Biljett krävs. För att skaffa biljett, ring projektledare Christel …

Teatret KrisKat (DK)

Anarchistic and contagiously joyful street theater about a great ego in free fall, inspired by the Marx Brothers' playful physical expression where one must dig deep to find everyday logic. DURATION: 40 min.

Serien är inspirerad av att Rumiko försöker förstå sin egen far som kan ses som den typiske stereotypen. Under en tid med ekonomisk tillväxt arbetade han outtröttligt som man förväntade sig av män i dessa …

Paradiso fire show (OBS fully booked)

OBS fully booked! Enjoy a fire show with Paradiso. It doesn't get any hotter than this! The fire show starts directly after the show Unplugged. Your ticket for Unplugged is also valid for the fire show …

Perfect Working Order

A furtive man has come to town to play his oldest, favourite game. He walks, moves, floats, shouts and finally dares to do something. He feels inspired. DURATION: 37 min.

ROOM Collective (INT)

ROOM is a time-specific and immersive performance for one audience member at a time, co-created by 3 performers and you. Using voices, soundscapes and music, a story is improvised with you, in response to your imagination. In …

Livestream from Skegness (UK)

Saturday the 22nd and Sundag the 23rd of August you can experience a street theater programme in Skegness, England, from the comfort of your couch! We will be live-streaming performances and talks at our Facebook- and …

Slabam is high energy and fuld steam ahead. Experience circus disciplines such as teeterboard, acrobatics, juggling, cyr wheel and unicycle. All tied together in an entertaining performance where performers and the audience back each other …

Dansk Rakkerpak (DK)

“Me Tarzan. You Jane!” From this classic line springs a WILD and crazy journey led by Dansk Rakkerpak and multi-instrumentalist Bastian Pop. Charge head-first into an action-packed story with comical twists and turns – a …

Les Goulus (FR)

A strange family arrives from the middle of nowhere into the welcoming arms of Europe. They invite us into their bizarre and poetic world through music, acrobatics, and magic, evoking a strange sensation that moves us, …

Third Hand Group (SL)

A young woman appears in your neighborhood. With great difficulty, she drags a wooden boat through the streets. She seems tired and lost. She doesn’t speak the local language. THE BOAT is a dreamlike scenario that …

Les Goulus (FR)

Three handsome and statuesque Greek Gods fire their arrows into the heart of men and women they meet. With a gazelle-like approach, they harpoon the hearts of bystanders with their golden arrows. Sensitive, endearing, and passionate, …

Kunstnerkollektivet Vontrapp

Welcome. To a universe that has been built on the oldest of myths: THE FLOOD. This is the story about the world’s extinction and resurrection, and YOU can influence the outcome. Together we embark on a journey …

THE FURTIVES are like foxes. Clever, adaptable, solitary and shy, they flee from large crowds. They live on the outskirts of the city and find their way into the center. After laying low, it's time …

Les Goulus (FR)

Snappy suits and well-groomed horses. The French riders take their horsemanship very seriously, as they prepare for the upcoming Olympic Games. Saddled up with confidence and arrogance, they particularly practice “The French Attitude”. This calls for …

The insect orchestra

Teater Sagohuset

An insect orchestra on tour visit the people for the first time to perform their cabaret. After a while we discover that the insect orchestra is sent out by the council of insects, who rule …

Time Travel Tours

Join Time Travel Tours on a bus journey through time! Travel from the future and back to the present through three decades. In a low-tech, sci-fi, site-specific performance, the LIMINAL performance group casts a playful and …

Unplugged (OBS fullbokad)

A personal show where Johan Wellton delivers advanced cirkus numbers in combination with clever reflections and a sense of humor. On target, a show that will make any audience gasp for breath and have their …

Luna Park Scenekunst (DK)

sightSEAing is an invitation to visit the border between fantasy and reality, past and future, the skies and the seas. A game and exploration of the city’s maritime memory – its DNA. The show premiered in …

2019

Aviator – Cirkus

Kompani Hint/Cirkus Saga

Aviator — a charming new circus performance for the whole family. Three friends embark on a playful adventure in the sky where the only limit is one’s own imagination. Feel the wind in your hair as …

Vindenes Bro (DK + INT)

During a BARTER, the actors present their work to a specific milieu which, in return, pays with expressions from its own culture: songs, music and dances, biographical accounts, games, food samples, etc. During meetings with workshops, …

Señor StetS (DK/ES)

Welcome to the world of Señor Stets. A man lugs a suitcase around. Out of it he pulls a one-hour long performance with only a few elements. A rope to dance with. Another masquerading as a …

Donna with dogs

A woman takes her social and unruly dogs for their daily walk.

A woman takes her dogs out for their daily walk. The six dogs are all very social and are quite curious about everything happening around them on the street. The woman has a rather difficult …

Equilibrium Tremens

Tobia Circus (IT)

Enough with the same old clubs, unicycles and jugglers... Tobia Circus presents an innovative show where ordinary brooms lead us in the absurd world of Philip Sutil, a thin and nimble gentleman who loves dancing. This smart …

Tout En Vrac (FR)

La Cuisinière (The Cook) is a duel between a young woman and her work environment. The kitchen is no longer a set, it is a real, living character. Who is controlling who ? Who is …

La Famiglia Mirabella

Il Teatro Viaggiante (IT)

LA FAMIGLIA MIRABELLA looks like a contemporary version of the circus of the past, but its true origin lies in street theater of the twentieth century. We are Edoardo Mirabella, Elisabetta Cavana and our sons, …

Lonely Orkestar

Señor StetS (DK/ES)

Classic melodies and new material are mistreated by a character obsessed with playing everything simultaneously. In a fight to succeed, it seems obvious that sometimes the instruments will emerge victorious!

Miss Höök-Fertig

Miss Höök-Fertig (och andra dårar)

Go celebrity spotting with Miss Höök-Fertig in Hollywood! During Miss Höök-Fertigs performance, you will partake in witnessing an unfiltered personality that expresses whatever feels right at any given moment. This time she’s come to Hollywood …

Brunette Bros. (DK+ES)

RA·DI·O·PHO·NY /'reÎ·di·∂℧·fo℧·ni/ Two eccentric operators with a portable radio apparatus on an itinerant exploration through the city in search of a radio frequency. A phony broadcast evolves through a continues change of humorous caricatures that portrays …

Asterions Hus (DK)

Asterions Hus has taken on Shakespeare, and the greatest love story ever told. Out of this comes a moving, fast-paced and humorous performance.24 scenes, 24 lifegrips, 24 detours and 24 celebrations of love’s many faces …

Guillaume Paoli (FR) + America Vera Zavala (RO + CL + SWE)

Thursday- Saturday, the festival will have a series of conversations i different hairdressers in Helsingør. The conversations will be hosted by the French philosopher GUILLAUME PAOLI in collaboration with the Swedish acitivist AMERICA VERA-ZAVALA. The conversations will …

The Pilgrimage is an immersive, site specific, interactive, experiential walking tour based on the idea of finding salvation, in this case, through an adoration or appreciation of some of the great works of art. Critics will …

The girl with the rocks

Revolucão Teatral (BRA)

A performance inspired by a traditional Brasillian folktale. The folktale revolves around social oppression, but this performance will still bring a smile to your face, with a phisical language, song and dance. Revolucão Teatral spring from the …

Total Hip Replacement

A young and energetic band, with a serious message. Total Hip Replacement combines reggae, soul and funk with african highlife, inspired by af Bob Marley, The Black Seeds, Fat Freddy’s Drop and todays New Zealand reggaescene. The …

Two headless men

Kompani Paradiso

Two headless men walk forward with determined steps. They wear stylish and timeless trench coats, polished shoes, and freshly pressed trousers. And they’re going somewhere… No! They stop suddenly in front of a group of …

Umpa-Umpa Umpas!

Whether you listen to music with an intellectual ear or with a pair of dancing feet, Umpas will get you out of the chair! Umpas’ music is inspired by klezmer, men borrows without any inhabitions (or …

LiveArt Danmark (DK)

Our participatory Virak Revy is an entertaining live art programme that includes music, dance, actions and words. The instructions are by artists such as Yoko Ono, Marcel Duchamp and the Danish Eric Andersen. Come and try out …

Hr. Teater (DK)

The sisters Hilda & Cump live side by side in a battery cage - until one day the gate opens and they escape to discover the world on the other side. Full of physical excellence, …

An International discussion on the impact of the European lockdown and how this will shape the future of Street Theatre Festivals in Europe. How will European Street Theatre Festivals look in the future? Thursday 31 July …

Slabam is high energy and fuld steam ahead. Experience circus disciplines such as teeterboard, acrobatics, juggling, cyr wheel and unicycle. All tied together in an entertaining performance where performers and the audience back each other …