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 taking, creating, and giving space, and preferably remembering to do so before falling on your ass where the bench ends.
A crudehonest story about life’s big and small questions. About settling down. About daring to sit askew, about sitting cross-legged, about being put down, put off or benched. About taking, creating, and giving space, and preferably remembering to do so before you fall on your ass where the bench ends.
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Duration: 45 min
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 long has it been since you spoke to your neighbour, talked to a merchant or that same person whose eyes you cross every day on the street?
By creating what may seem a mundane daily experience, far from any artistic creation, our performance is accessible to all citizens present in a specific area. The mundane daily experience is distorted, pushing the frontier of what’s normal and what’s not, walking along the border that separates the believable from the unbelievable.
If you are receptive and open, the theatrical reality may come to light to you some time after the encounter.
We shall push the boundaries of the audience’s perspective and bring dialogue in the public space.
Keep your ears open and raise your eyes from your smartphones, an atypical meeting may be waiting for you around the corner…
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 long has it been since you spoke to your neighbour, talked to a merchant or that same person whose eyes you cross every day on the street?
By creating what may seem a mundane daily experience, far from any artistic creation, our performance is accessible to all citizens present in a specific area. The mundane daily experience is distorted, pushing the frontier of what’s normal and what’s not, walking along the border that separates the believable from the unbelievable.
If you are receptive and open, the theatrical reality may come to light to you some time after the encounter.
We shall push the boundaries of the audience’s perspective and bring dialogue in the public space.
Keep your ears open and raise your eyes from your smartphones, an atypical meeting may be waiting for you around the corner…
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 hidden from the audience, it’s the spatial movement of these subtle, continuous tones that gradually unravel the piece’s choreography – and morphing the public space into something that is about more than solely transit.
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Duration: 40 min.
Age: From 6 years
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 can bring people together. It can be liberating, light and playful, but it can also be uncontrollable, uncomfortable and a tool to expose power and hierarchies. What happens when we let go of control and make room for the wild, the ugly, the filterless?
The Laughing Crowd celebrates the joy and community that comes from laughter, and the breathtaking, unifying energy of laughter. Laughter is used as a prism to explore the physical and aural expression of laughter, as well as its social and emotional implications: laughter can be an infectious bond between people, but can also be uncontrollable, uncomfortable, and can be a tool to display power and positioning within a group. The social mirroring of laughter therefore spans a wide range of emotions that the performance explores, distorts and magnifies. The Laughing Crowd is therefore a social dance in the basic humanity of laughter, where the audience is taken on a journey through the body’s affective expression.
In this performance installation, you can move freely around the stage area.
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Age: from 6
DURATION: 60 min.
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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, improvise their way through a variety show in Toldkammergården.
It has been announced that BLITZ will be conducting traffic control in the Elsinore area during the PASSAGE Festival week.
Exactly where and when the inspectors will be on the spot is never known – so drive and walk carefully and be careful out there.
Drive carefully and be careful out there
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 other old games from all of Europe.
Join for some fun at Kulturhus Nordvest, Kulturhus Syd and at Nøjsomhed where Levende Legekultur and Gerlev Center for Leg & Bevægelse invites children, youngsters, adults and elderly to the Playfestival in Nordvest, Vapgnagaard and Nøjsomhed.
It is completely free to join
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 separates us humans as archetypes and individuals? How do we change the spaces we inhabit? What happens when the distance to other people fades?
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Duration: 35 min
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 peaking and there is a gurantee of plenty of waves and aboundance of silly contrivancies.
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Duration: 40 min.