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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

“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, down into the soil fauna, and into unknown and invisible worlds, and follow the traces of a female researcher who was ahead of her time and later forgotten.

THE WORLD IN MY EYES is a sensory walking performance and a choreographic work that celebrates the rediscovered Danish researcher and zoologist Marie Hammer (1907-2002). A woman who, throughout her life, sought and found a great truth about our shared world. THE WORLD IN MY EYES is not just a portrait of a unique researcher but also a very familiar story about one of science’s overlooked women. The performance renews focus on Marie Hammer and allows the audience to experience the wondrous beauty of nature through her eyes.

The performance explores Marie Hammer’s lifelong studies of microscopic moss mites that live hidden underground worldwide and are crucial to ecosystems. Marie Hammer’s deep fascination with microbiology and her dedication to research took her on journeys to all the world’s continents for over 50 years. At home in her study with her husband and four children around her, she examined thousands of collected moss mites under the microscope. Over time, she provided evidence for Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift; that all the world’s continents were once united in a supercontinent more than 200 million years ago and have since drifted apart to their current positions. Marie Hammer’s research is exceptional, her work effort enormous, and her research results groundbreaking.

THE WORLD IN MY EYES takes the audience on a fascinating journey: Three dancers explore Marie Hammer’s life and research, with curiosity and humor, leaping between human and moss mite, fieldwork and family life, past and present, and between small and large universes.


Marie Hammer (1907-2002), zoologist and Dr. Phil., was one of the first women in the natural sciences at the University of Copenhagen and received her Master’s degree in 1932. She participated in Knud Rasmussen’s 7th Thule Expedition in Greenland in 1933 as the only woman. Her research on moss mites began in 1931, and she was simultaneously fascinated by Alfred Wegener’s controversial theory of continental drift proposed in 1912. Marie Hammer collected moss mites on all the world’s continents for over 50 years, traveling to places such as Canada, Iceland, North America, South America, Australia, Tahiti, Bali, Tonga, New Guinea, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Iran, and the Sahara. In a remote meadow in Argentina, she made a sensational discovery; the moss mite Mucronotrus Nasalis proved to be identical to individuals from cold springs in Lapland, Rold Forest, and as far away as New Zealand. Marie Hammer published more than 40 papers on moss mites. In 1979, she published the paper A Review of the World Distribution of Oribatid Mites in Relation to Continental Drift with J.A. Wallwork, which finally argued for the connection between the distribution of moss mites and the movements of continents over the past 200 million years, thereby proving Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift.

INFO

THE WORLD IN MY EYES begins outdoors in front of Flynderupgaard, Agnetevej 9, 3060 Espergærde, with a walk through a nearby green area before the audience is guided back and into the performance space where the rest of the performance unfolds.

Note: Unfortunately, the performance is not suitable for those with walking difficulties. Remember to wear practical clothing according to the weather!

Duration: Approximately 90 minutes
Age: From 15 years

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 session, we will present and discuss the european contemporary circus project Hand to Hand: a project, that explores how circus arts and social ecology can come together in a collaborative process involving artists, scientists, and private firms with a strong local anchorage.

READ MORE ABOUT HAND TO HAND BELOW

We will share experiences gained through the Hand to Hand journey of exploration visits at each partner, individual immersion residencies for the 8 artists in the project and first public presentation of their artistic explorations at PASSAGE Festival.

The session will include reflections and insights from the partners, scientists, and artists involved in the project.

MODERATORS: Jens Frimann Hansen, director of Helsingør Teater and PASSAGE Festival + Fanny Bordier, Hand to hand project manager

ARTISTS: Darya Efrat, Mathilde Roy (Residency with Hal 16 Maritime Workshop + U/NORD boatbuilding and sailmaking school + Helsingør Teater) and Lucia Heege (Residency with Papeterie Arches + Le Palc, France)

RESEARCHERS Magali Sizorn and Nathalie Blanc will share some of their insights.

MENTOR Delphine Lanson will share insights about how Hand to hand has worked with the artistic process.

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, a choreographic circus performance for two acrobatic dancers. It is the sensitive transcription of a surge of anger, using two tools: the body and drawing.

Furieuse is a color chart, offering a sensitive range of expressions that anger can take.

Sitting in a circle, as if around a ring, the audience witnesses the overflow of two women who are less and less able to control the restraint of their emotion and are overwhelmed. In a simultaneous progression, bodies, breaths, voices, and printed fabrics open a space in a whirlwind.

Anger can be the origin of agitation, therefore of movements, of changes. We consider anger here as opposed to indifference, resignation, and condescension which call for inertia.

Saying “no” results from the ability to imagine other spaces where a “yes” is possible.

INFO

Duration: 35 min.
Age: From 6 years

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 Circus, which takes hybrid circus a step further than just public spaces, but into places where you wouldn’t expect to experience circus at all – either PRIVATE or PUBLIC spaces, such as personal homes, workshops, living rooms, care centers, cafés, libraries, prisons.

The very different levels of intimacy of the places play a significant role, and each location and each audience are variable factors. LIVING Circus plays with these variables.

In LIVING Circus – Private, Be Flat takes audience involvement to a new dimension, mixing private and public space and transforming the inhabitants of the venue into both audience in their own house and hosts for a very special and intimate circus performance. Here, four circus artists, audiovisual artists, physical actors, and jazz musicians together improvise and playfully invite the audience and hosts to join in.

LIVING Circus comes in two different versions: LIVING Circus – Private and LIVING Circus – Public.

Each has its own logic, aesthetic, and message. Together they form LIVING Circus.

The audience can choose to experience only one or both performances, and in any order.

INFO

Duration: 45 min.
Age: from 6 years

TICKET PERFORMANCE

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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 Circus, which takes hybrid circus a step further than just public spaces, but into places where you wouldn’t expect to experience circus at all – either PRIVATE or PUBLIC spaces, such as personal homes, workshops, living rooms, care centers, cafés, libraries, prisons.

The very different levels of intimacy of the places play a significant role, and each location and each audience are variable factors. LIVING Circus plays with these variables.

In LIVING Circus – Private, Be Flat takes audience involvement to a new dimension, mixing private and public space and transforming the inhabitants of the venue into both audience in their own house and hosts for a very special and intimate circus performance. Here, four circus artists, audiovisual artists, physical actors, and jazz musicians together improvise and playfully invite the audience and hosts to join in.

LIVING Circus comes in two different versions: LIVING Circus – Private and LIVING Circus – Public.

Each has its own logic, aesthetic, and message. Together they form LIVING Circus.

The audience can choose to experience only one or both performances, and in any order.

INFO

Duration: 45 min.
Age: from 6 years

TICKET PERFORMANCE

Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals.

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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 end, with the help of the audience, they can recover Maki.

Two ninjas who exchanged violence for humor. Improvisation, comedy and play with urban space and the public. 

INFO

Duration: 40 min.
Age: From 4 years

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 stage into a bustling film studio. You’re not just watching; you are a part of the action, witnessing a short film come to life before your eyes. Scenes are crafted, cut, and projected onto the big screen—all in real time. 

INFO

Duration: 10 min.

TICKET PERFORMANCE

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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 of an extraordinary cycling champion, Fausto Coppi, and Anifele, the African mosquito that stung him. 

Moments in Coppi’s life and historical facts hit each other like poetically propelled news; In the stations, the most memorable feats are played, such as the climb up the Galibier in the Tour de France and other victories and defeats, up to the final meeting between Fausto Coppi and the small African mosquito… Everyone has their place in this epic ride! 

Experiential theatre for all ages, featuring nature as an ever-changing set piece, and a bicycle seat for one’s bottom. 

INFO

Duration: 80 min.
Age: From 7 years  

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

PLEASE NOTE: You have to bring your own bicycle.

TICKET PERFORMANCE

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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 relaxed and poetic introduction invites the audience into a safe space for a close and intimate experience. The performance connects nature and humans by caring for both and giving them voice. Sandkind is an exercise in meeting the earth as a form of life.

INFO

Duration: 50 min.
Age: From 15 years

PLEASE NOTE: You can experience dust from the sand during the show

TICKET PERFORMANCE

Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals. 

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