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 engage in a dialogue with Holst’s music, bringing it out of traditional concert halls and closer to the audience. Each planet is given a musical portrait – with its own colors, energy, and atmosphere – following Holst’s original sequence as the narrative thread.
As something new, the performance begins with an eighth planet: Earth. Since Holst never composed a piece for our own planet, they open with his piece Hymn of the Travellers.
By replacing the orchestra with human voices and movement, a new kind of intimacy emerges – without stage, without distance – where cosmic and interstellar images unfold in the encounter between performers, audience, and space.
Les Planètes is a journey. A musical odyssey through the solar system – from Earth, past Mars, and on towards Neptune.
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Duration: 45 min
Accessibility: It is a moving performance
About the company
La Ville en Feu is a multidisciplinary artists’ collective whose members are trained in drama, song and dance from art schools in France, Belgium and Switzerland. They began working together in 2015 after meeting in Nadia Vadori-Gauthier’s movement class.
For more info: www.lagrosseplateforme.com
Credits:
With and by: Marius Barthaux, Maxime Bizet, Thomas Bleton, Louise Buléon-Kayser, Agathe De Wispelaere, Justine Dibling, Juliet Doucet, Giulia Dussollier, Jean Hostache, Myriam Jarmache (creation only), Sim Peretti, and Garance Silve.
Alternating with: Suzanne Dubois and Livia Vincenti (performance only).
Production: Amandine Bretonnière
Presented with support from Augustinus Fonden + Knud Højgaards Fond
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 hug. Simply Treeming is aerial acrobatics and dance with trees. The performance aims to bring back sensuousness, body awareness and attentiveness. It is a unique encounter between human, trees, nature and surrounding sounds. It is a sensuous and visual walk, where Anke Fiévez & Mille Lundt creates a re-connection with the trees in town.
The performance is inspired by the German sociology Harmut Rosa’s theory on alienation and acceleration. The theory is making a critique of the daily speed and streamlining and asks if it nourishes the good life we want to live.
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Duration: 30 minutes
Age: From 6 years
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About the company
The company BabaFish Asbl aims to create an utter and urgent stillness as a contrast to our fast-moving society today. Anke Fiévez (DE) and Mille Lundt (DK)) both graduated from ESAC (Brussels) and have since then been living in Belgium for more than twenty years. They both place their work in the intersection of performance and circus art.
Credits
Concept & performers: Anke Fiévez & Mille Lundt
Costume: Anna Terrien
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 research by neuroscientists, most of the time, human beings function in routine activities, or in activities that are defined by inertia and the repetition of usual patterns. The problem arises if the previous formulas cease to be functional – when the world around us changes, we need to rethink our choices. To re-evaluate.
The basic condition for this is (self) reflection. An individual is able to concentrate fully and continuously for self-reflection in an average of only 7 seconds. Then our reasoning is diverted. However, if we try to reflect on reality in dialogue, we are able to concentrate on (self) reflection for up to 60 minutes. Discussions, conversations, dialogue is not only important for gaining knowledge on the people around us, but also for a purely practical reason: to be able to concentrate on reflection.
Meanwhile, Lichens are organisms that give us a perfect picture of symbiotic existence. They are representatives of network, working in a smart and highly developed manner.
7 seconds to think -We are all lichens is inspired by this non- human way of life; We are all lichens; we need to speak and to be heard by others. Otherwise we will have to try to change our lives in poor seven seconds.
Together with local young participants in workshops, Petra Fornayová will explore, what happens, if the routines that constitute a framework for our minds are tampered with.
In this public showing, the performers create a common movement vocabulary, in interaction with the audience. Oscillating between the common and shared, solo parts in interaction with the music & text, rhythmic in 7 sec. entries, this performance examines what happens to our 7 second reflections.
GREEN STREETS OF EUROPE RESIDENCY
The Hungarian artist Dávid Somló is one of the participating artists in the European project Green Streets of Europe (2023–2025). From April 23 to May 1, 2025, he and Slovak artist Petra Fornayová will take part in a residency hosted by Helsingør Teater and PASSAGE Festival to further develop their artistic investigations.
In the Green Streets of Europe project, artists and festivals work together to rethink conventional structures for the production and international touring of performing arts works in public spaces.
Traditional touring practices carry a significant environmental cost. Green Streets of Europe therefore shifts the focus away from the final artistic product — the finished performance — and towards the artistic process, for the benefit of artists, festivals, and local audiences alike.
By opening up artistic residencies and workspaces to include local citizens and audiences, we believe it is possible to create longer-lasting and more sustainable formats and relationships together.
” Day 1 | Tuesday November 26, 2024: First meeting with the others (Julian, Ella and Rosalia). Forest, deep forest, primeval forest, Mr. Jan Sovák as the head of forestry here. Interesting discussions with him about the division of our countries. He likes the forest differently than we do. He looks at us a little like UFOs who want to make a play about ecology. But he is extremely helpful, explains, shows, waits, answers. I try to tell him that for me, it is also a very questionable how to process all the essential information (and then possibly save the world:). He loves trees, they are beings and material at the same time for him. We pick mushrooms.Work in the studio in the afternoon.”
“Day 3 | Thursday November 28, 2024: Meeting with a mycologist / nature conservationist from the Zdarske vrchy Protected Landscape Area. Great lecture – confirming that mushrooms are an underappreciated part of our lives. Writing – processing information from the lecture“
From Petra Fornayovás residency diary during her first residency with Festival KoresponDance & S.E.S.T.A., Czech Republic
The artistic residencies in Helsingør in 2025 are organized in collaboration with The Culture Yard
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 – a collective choreography and a quiet, poetic spectacle emerge in the public space, while a meditative sense of community is created for the participating audience.
Delicate Balancing of a Twig is a movement meditation that fosters a subtle and harmonious connection – to a twig, to oneself, and to one’s surroundings.
While balancing a chosen twig, one may experience a growing sensitivity in movement, deep attention and presence, a care for a light object, playful curiosity, and a space for self-reflection. The piece unfolds into an open and flowing performance over time within an atmospheric soundscape.
The interaction between participants and passersby creates a playful presence and a shared curiosity and reflection on our behavior in public space, and our connection to nature.
“The twig is always present.
The twig pays attention to you.
The twig is sincere.
The twig is very sensitive.
The twig is inexpensive, but very valuable.”
“If I want, I’m fully immersed in the crowd, and I feel like I’m navigating the entire world in balance. Is this magic? someone asks. Which sect do you belong to? another one throws in, but it’s neither magic nor a sect, just us and the sticks, a rather profane situation, and that state in which this seemingly insignificant nonsense, for some inexplicable reason, is still able to change dimensions.” Csaba Králl, Élet és Irodalom, participating audience
The artistic residencies in Helsingør in 2025 are organized in collaboration with The Culture Yard
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.
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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.
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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.
READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE