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 you’ve never been, only dreamed of?
Join elderly man Hans and his caring helper on a final walk through the city to places that have been important to him. We pass places where he met people he got to know and people who left him longing. We see his life in everyday spaces, hills of hardship, corners with touches of happiness. And as we go, time passes, decay sets in and a farewell approaches.
With associations to Haneke’s film “Amour” and Dan Turèll’s “Through the city for the last time”, we go on a final excursion with two different people who look a lot like each other…
The performance is an exclusive experience that provides a poetic and captivating story of life for a small company of 20 people. Throughout the 2½ hour performance, we get up close and personal with the performer and his puppet: the old man in the wheelchair. In this company, the audience is invited into a philosophical conversation about life and existence. During the walk, the audience is also caringly taken care of as they walk, stop and take a break.
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Duration: 2 hours
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 with you.
A sensitive, visual, and poetic journey, in which you will explore various sensations in an intimate duo with our actress, all with a lot of softness.
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Duration: 5-7 minutes
Age: From 5 years
Note: The photobooth is open to 2 people at a time every 5-7 minutes during the performance times you see in the calendar. Once you buy a ticket, you will be able to choose a performance every 15 minutes. There will be a few minutes waiting time.
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
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 you to open your senses in encountering the poetic and sensory anatomy of specific plants: the scent of spearmint or sage, the taste of candied roses, and the deep purple sap of elderberry. Along the way, they encounter the dandelion and the cultivated rose, as well as the aching body of the garden worker.
HAVEN is a site-specific walking experience that investigates our relationship with nature from a scholarly, poetic, and sensory perspective throughout history and today.
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Duration: 60 min
LANGUAGE: The performance is in Danish
Age: from 12 years
TICKET PERFORMANCE
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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 through the staging of Nosferatu, Kinski ends up turning into a rat, in protest, and stinks up the whole town. KINSKI is ready to be on the loose in public space in a context of homelessness.
The extreme transfiguration of Rui Paixão’s body feeds chaos, disorder and an unusual absurdity, through improvisation and interaction with the public, with artistic interventions that mix visual arts, physical theatre and the clown.
Interview
Read an interview with Rui Paixão: about why he is inspired by Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog and the film Nosferatu – and about the special energy within the universe of the clown, and why the theatre is a zoo and the street a jungle: KINSKI – ferocity in the streets at PASSAGE Festival (English Google translation)
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Duration: 50 min.
Age: From 12 years
TICKET PERFORMANCE
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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 acts that converse creating a poetic and provocative collage that questions the role and the future of laughter and freedom in society.
An artistic score of thoughts, perceptions and emotions.
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Duration: 55 min.
Age: From 12 years
TICKET PERFORMANCE
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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 and brutality. You Are a Day Tomorrow is an invitation to listen with equal parts nostalgia, hope, and desperation, through headphones whilst sitting on chairs in a classroom.
Interview
Read an interview at Iscene.dk with artistic director Jon Skullberg about Open collaborations – creating during, for and together with a festival (English Google translation)
INFO
Duration: 45 min.
Age: From 13 years
LANGUAGE
August 3rd
15.00 – English version
17.00 – Danish version
August 4th
15.00 – English version
17.00 – Danish version
19:00 – Danish version EXTRA PERFORMANCE / Only festival-wristband tickets
August 5th
13:00 – Danish version EXTRA PERFORMANCE / Only festival-wristband tickets
15.00 – Danish version
17.00 – Danish version
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. Buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE.
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 dancer; with references to a lung, an ocean, a garden, a body, a gate. At first the breathing is slow and calming, then commanding and finally out of control. Breath examines breath as a life-giving and transformative figure.
Nønne Mai Svalholm has created the sculpture in collaboration with multi-artist Henrik Vibskov.
COLLECTIVE MATTER consists of two choreographic works:
COLLECTIVE MATTER can be experienced as a coherent event or as individual, but still connected, impacts: COLLECTIVE MATTER 1: Passages (2021) by the duo two-women-machine-show and the new work Collective Matter 2: Breath (2023) by Nønne Mai Svalholm.
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Duration: 25 min.
COLLECTIVE MATTER 2: Breath
can be experienced in two different locations in Hornbæk:
26. juli kl. 13.00 + kl. 15.00 + kl. 17.00 – Hornbæk School, Lille Sal
27. juli kl. 13.00 + kl. 15.00 + kl. 17.00 – Hornbæk School, Lille Sal
INTERVIEW
Read an interview at Iscene.dk with Nønne Svalholm and Jon Skullberg about Open collaborations – creating during, for and together with a festival English Google translation here
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 between generations, a transition, an exchange and a co-creation.
Through daily meditative practices, four performers have created individual solos. Together, these solos create a common choreographic composition that includes moments of abstraction as well as more recognizable situations. Voices and movement from subconscious layers point towards the unpredictable. Passages was originally created for the COLLECTIVE MATTER in 2021, which was performed during Aarhus Festival.
COLLECTIVE MATTER consists of two choreographic works:
COLLECTIVE MATTER 1: Passages (2021) by the duo two-women-machine-show and the new work COLLECTIVE MATTER 2: Breath (2023) by Nønne Mai Svalholm.
COLLECTIVE MATTER can be experienced as a coherent event or as individual, but still connected, impacts. Collective Matter 1: Passages and COLLECTIVE MATTER 2: Breath
INFO
Age: from 6 years
DURATION: 15-20 min.
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
INTERVIEW
Read an interview at Iscene.dk with Nønne Svalholm and Jon Skullberg about Open collaborations – creating during, for and together with a festival English Google translation here
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 cell and tells his story.
Caillasse (stones, cobblestones) immerses us in the history of rebels of all eras, throwers of cobblestones, pebbles. With a delirious and corrosive humor, the two artists mix play and acrobatics, a cappella singing and scrap metal percussion in a show with a grating universe where mischief and poetry are omnipresent.
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Duration: 50 min.
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 ode to freedom, a visceral battle to emancipation.
Bien Parado (”Stop”, ”well posed”) is the name for a pose in the Sevillana dance tradition from the South of Spain. Jane Fournier and Cédric Froin create an encounter between the tradition of a dance transmitted for generations, and the world of the night, where bodies dance undone by all rules.
Telling an intimate revolution agitated by the underground mutations of a tormented world, Bien Parado questions the codes that are too established, and opens a necessary dialogue between heritage and deconstruction, allowing us to enjoy a a strong connection through a new, common rhythm.
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Duration: 40 min
Age: From 8 years

