Composed by the Danish composer Sandra Boss, the performance stems from both historical and personal experiences of becoming a mother in a world full of war. Through music, choreography and costume design, Mother Soldier leads the audience through a series of tableaus: we see and hear women marching, we see them in doubt, in grief and in care, and we follow them in battle for their children.
Music in war times
Mother Soldier’s musical expression draws on war’s own aesthetics by incorporating and reworking marching music, which historically is a musical style created to communicate orders and encourage battle.
In Mother Soldier, the heavy march drum is exchanged with a light frame drum and the cymbal is replaced with a gong hanging around the performers’ neck.
The full sonic potential of these instruments are explored and exploited in order to make sonic associations to both march music, bombs, drones, heart beats and lullabies.
INFO
Age: From 12 years
Duration: 45 min
Language: Non-verbal
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CREDITS
Composer: Sandra Boss
Choreographer: Simone Wierød
Costumes: Stina Resting
Re-staging: Astrid Hansen Holm
Scenographer: Rosa Birkedal
Producer: Kristine Bech Sørensen
Musician: Marta Soggetti, Sara Nigard Rosendal, Irene Bianco
Photo: Julia Severinsen og Nathalie Wiberg
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Datterselskabet is an artist collective, focused on cross-diciplinary works that combines elements from the field of music, visual arts, and performing arts. The work of Datterselskabet departs from an eco-feminist mindset, where topics such as motherhood, ecological crisis, and caretaking of both humans and nature are explored through artistic means. See more: www.datterselskabet.org/mother-soldier
The Place is a series of intimate attempts to rethink the relationship we have and could have with the places we are in. Places carry us through life and we are a part of them, so we want to acknowledge our kinship and consider them as part of our most cherished relationships.
We are not sure if places have the same desires, but we want them to know that we care about them, even though our human minds can sometimes be as limited as a swimming pool.
The Place is a minimalist piece for a place, two performers and an audience, drawing on ingredients such as physical theatre, music and soundscapes, subtle visual impacts, humor and some grams of existentialism.
INFO
Age: From 7 years
Duration: 50 min
Language: English
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CREDITS
Creation, dramaturgy & performance: Alina Stockinger, Ana Redi-Milatovic, Clàudia Mirambell, Daniela Poch
Music: Jakob Rüdisser
Soundscapes: Joan Cot
Sound engineering: Marco Rubiol
Costume: Caroline Haberl
Artistic accompaniment: Sergi Estebanell
Outside Eye: Josep Cosials
Mentoring sessions: Shaday Larios, Maria Stoyanova
Video: Marc Costa
Design: Jonay PMatos
Photography: Jonay PMatos, Dainus Putinas, Eva Freixa, Nikola Milatovic
Mentoring sessions: Shaday Larios, Maria Stoyanova
Coordination and production: Alina Stockinger
Executive production: Arnau Vinós & Eléctrico Express
Co-produced by: ICEC, Generalitat de Catalunya, Stadt Graz, Land Steiermark, BMWKMS, INSITU, Creative Europe, Fira Tàrrega, La Strada Graz, Menu Spaustuve, SPOT Festival Vilnius, Hivernem, Ramon Llull
Other supporters: Ajuntament de Barcelona – Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Cultura Cardedeu & Tèxtil Rase, Escena Poblenou & Can Felipa
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Eléctrico 28 are a collective of artists from Austria and Catalonia who make performances from scratch and create singular dramaturgies for public places and their inhabitants. They also offer workshops and other formats of exchange and tailor audience experiences for cultural agents. See more: www.electrico28.org/
Out in the open street under a roof of clouds stands a bucket. The bucket collects water. But not water falling from the sky. The rain has disappeared, and all we are left with is the memory of it. Tiny drops of theatrical deception fill the street with surprises, and imaginary droplets transform into rhythm, choreography, and fantasy. A cup appearing out of nowhere, an endless flow of restless coins in a pocket, and spoons continuously tumbling from sleeves.
INFO
Duration: 45 min
Language: Non-verbal
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CREDITS
Direction: Leandre Ribera
External vision: Claire Ducreux
Creation: Yves Sheriff and Txema Muñoz
Conceptual complexity: Núria Campos and Stacey Laureyssens
Original Soundtrack: Louis Alba
Sound technician: Ruben Ruiz
Dressing room: Judith Dress Art
Andromines: Niconicot, Quique Méndez
Collaborations, help and complicity: Lluis Petra, Ismael Civi-civiac, Daphne Malherbe, Jose Luis Carbajo Mustache
Photo: Alex Griffin
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Txema Muñoz combines magic from the clown without words. At the age of 15 he started sweeping confetti from a magic shop. In 2025, the new project Gota was selected at FiraTàrrega. Presented at the Freiburg 2025 fair and at the StrtFstvl. In 2026, Gota has been awarded as the best street show in FETEN. He has performed in more than 30 countries. See more: www.txemamunoz.com/en/
The climate crisis has found its place somewhere between resigned acceptance and apocalyptic noise. Even the loudest voices are growing quiet. Where others give up, KRA gets started. We solve all the world’s problems. This time, the climate crisis. And you can be a part of our first ACTION MOVIE.
From our headquarters, we launch our mission. In the spotlight: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Austrian figurehead, global symbol of strength and contradiction. Bodybuilder, Terminator, governor, climate advocate. A man who fights for change while remaining part of a world driven by consumption and resource depletion.
Muscles, power, masculinity. Seen too often. Failed too often. KRA is taking over. We terminate pollution. Be part of our first action movie.
Mission Arnold Schwarzenegger is a participatory performance and live film shoot in public space. Together with the audience, we create scenes for an action movie about climate heroes. Participants become film crew and extras while the city itself turns into a movie set.
The performance explores the survival of old heroes, the desire for simple solutions and the powerful myths of masculinity that still shape how we imagine climate action. KRA asks: Who really inspires change? And what happens when we try to become the heroes ourselves?
INFO
Age: From 10 years
Duration: 75 min
Language: English
Meeting point: Skolen i Bymidten, Lundegade 13
NB: The duration of the performance is incorrect in the calender in the printed program. The correct duration is 75 min.
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CREDITS
Created and performed: Dana Crosa, Nora Köhler, Vera Kopfauf
Project Lead: Nora Köhler
Tour Producer: Nicolás Conde
Set and Costume Design: Katharina Wraubek
Dramaturgy: Moritz Ostanek
Production & Technical Assistants: Jakob Kolb, Gabriel Martha
Production Administration (KRA): Sarah Mueller
Photo credit: Maria Schneider
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Vera Kopfauf and Nora Köhler form collective KRA, together with Argentinian theatre and filmmaker Dana Crosa. The three artists bring different backgrounds in performance and film into dialogue, combining them into a hybrid format. Our collaboration is grounded in long-term collective work practice that values shared authorship and continuous exchange. See more: www.kra.international
Attired in dark cloaks and with headphones, audiences are guided through a rhythmic, immersive, group choreographical experience.
Pan Pan brings visceral energy to Cascando, Samuel Beckett’s 1963 radio play, transforming it into an absorbing experience in which the audience is part of the spectacle.
Featuring the melodic voices of Andrew Bennett and Daniel Reardon, Cascando poetically pits words against music. This is a deeply riveting yet broken tale of a man hopelessly trying to finish a story.
INFO
Duration: 45 min
Language: English
Age: From 12 years
This performance is not suited for wheelchair users
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CREDITS
Director: Gavin Quinn
Designer: Aedín Cosgrove
Sound Design and Music: Jimmy Eadie
Dramaturg: Nicholas Johnson
Opener: Daniel Reardon (Voice Recording)
Voice: Andrew Bennett (Voice Recording)
Photo: Tristram Kenton, Georg Kronenberg, Daliangshan Theatre Festival, Ros Kavanagh
Supported by: Culture Ireland and The Arts Council of Ireland
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Founded in 1993, Pan Pan has developed an individual aesthetic from approaching theatre as an open form of expression, constantly examining and challenging the nature of its work and resisting settling into well-tried formulas. Pan Pan is committed to presenting performances nationally and internationally through co-productions and collaborations. More info: www.panpantheatre.com/
The piece sends megahertz straight to the centre of your guts and gives you goose bumps. Marcelo Nunes explores the limits of his body through powerful and spectacular body control. He steps onto a carpet of broken glass and rubs, scratches and dances across the shards.
In a moving combination of installation, fakir art, dance and bouffon, the darker cousin of the clown, Brazilian artist Marcelo Nunes seeks to challenge the boundaries of what we are able to see and feel.
Pacemaker is a both raw and poetic performance about confronting fears and breaking free from the restrictive chains of normality.
A performance that stabs into the body like a splinter.
A bouffon is a subversive and grotesque form of clown that mocks societal norms and injustices by pushing the audience out of their comfort zones.
INFO
Age: From 8 years
Duration: 30 min
Language: Non-verbal
NB! The show on thursday evening are prosponed to 9:45 PM
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CREDITS
By and with: Marcelo Nunes
Technician: Joan Lavendeira
Photo: Dainius Putinas
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Cie Dissociée was created by the artist Marcelo Nunes. He is an author and performer whose artistic journey is rooted in an incessant quest for novelty, influenced by his experiences in Brazil and Europe. His practice focuses on three techniques: trapeze, clowning, and fakir, exploring the wild nature of humanity. See more: www.instagram.com/disso_ciee/
Through simple actions and poetic encounters, it invites people to slow down, reconnect and share meaningful human experiences.
INFO
Duration: 60 min
Language: English
CREDITS
Artistic direction, creation and performance: Sergi Estebanell
Creation, performance and facilitation: Luz Calvi
Visual artist and live painting: Quim Moya
Technical direction (light, sound and video): Marco Domenichetti
Production and international distribution: Paco Bialek
Photo: Natalya Lucia and Xavier Caparros
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Acts of Liberation is an artistic project that creates immersive and participatory experiences in public space. Through simple yet powerful devices, it explores themes such as love, fear and collective transformation, inviting audiences to become active participants and generating encounters that foster reflection, connection and social impact. See more: www.actsofliberation.cat
“It begins with a question: How can a sick body perform a political act? I set out to investigate the non-productive body – the inactive body – the body that, due to physical or mental illness, is unable to act in public space. To be activist, one must be active.”
Sofie Lebech’s performance action Body Acts focuses on how physically and mentally ill bodies can be active participants in society, even when leaving home or taking an active part in one’s own life can be difficult.
Drawing on the visual language of political demonstrations, with their banners and placards, the action creates a framework for articulating the conditions under which the sick body exists within the Danish welfare state.
Inspired by the chronically ill artist Johanna Hedva’s statement, “How do I throw a brick through the window of a bank if I can’t get out of bed?”, invited participants walk through the city carrying signs bearing reflections on what it feels like to inhabit a sick body and how that body wishes to participate actively in a community.
“Illness is the night-side of life, and citizenship in the kingdom of the sick is burdensome,” wrote author Susan Sontag. We wish to turn this statement around and ask how, as a society, we can invite those who are ill to participate actively in the kingdom of the healthy.
Body Acts – Actions in Public Space is a preliminary study for the performance Body Acts, which premieres at Teatret Får 302 in October 2026 and will be presented at Helsingør Teater in spring 2027.
INFO
Duration: 55 min
You can join the actions from the beginning or along the way – or just observe from a distance. The actions all end in fornt of The Culture Yard.
CREDITS
Concept, text and Direction: Sofie Volquartz Lebech og Jon R. Skulberg
Performers: Elena Anna Biner + Rose Vergmann + Karoline Severinsen + Louise Serup + Jon R. Skulberg + Sofie Volquartz LebechGraphic Design: Søren Meisner
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Sofie Lebech is a Danish director, performer and author of texts working solo and in collaborations. Since 2003 she has made numerous performances, research projects, site specific interventions, and installations. Some of the recurring themes in her work are the intersection between reality and fiction, and the relationship between spectator and work. Her artistic approach is research-based and interdisciplinary. See more: sofievolquartzlebech.dk/
About capitalism and love — and about imagining other ways of organizing society. Live action role-play and song are used to conjure new worlds from the ruins of the existing one. In the story, we meet a group of beings who have created their own alternative society. Each of them brings their own melody, and together they try to find a shared song that they can sing and pass on to future generations.
INFO
Age: From 13 years
Duration: 55 min
Libretto: Danish
HOW TO GET THERE
Adress: Gurre Slot, Gurrevej 430, 3490 Kvistgård
EXTREMELY LIMITED PARKING
Please note that parking at the venue is extremely limited. Parking along the roadside on Gurrevej is not permitted. A small number of parking spaces are available at Barkladen, but we cannot guarantee that any spaces will be available. Approximately 20-25 minutes walk away parking is possible at Gurre Church, Gurresø Parking, or further along Gurrevej.
– BUT VERY EASY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BY BUS
HOWEVER: The Bus 390 R departures every hour and half hour from Helsingør and will take you directly to the Gurre Castle Ruins in 15 minutes
Bus: 390R, stop at: Gurrevej 430 – find the plan on: Travel planner
– or take your bicycle for a nice ride!
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CREDITS
Concept: Kai Merke & Filip Vest
Directing: Kai Merke
Libretto & Scenography: Filip Vest
Choreography: Kai Merke
Music: Francesca Burattelli and Rasmus Steenberg
Text: Filip Vest in collaboration with the team
Performers: The performance is developed in collaboration with and performed by: Jasmine Gordon, Anaïs Matwara, Peter Scherrebeck / Misty Superdeluxe and Faun Vium
Photos: Davy Denke, Pernille Emilia Kjær
Video: Valentin Marcus Andersen
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Det Obelske Familiefond, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Nordea Fonden
Thank you to: Husets Teater, Anna Caroline Kristensen, Miu Beydin, Snorre Elvin, Abdul Kader Moses and alex blum.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Ruinerne is conceptualized through a collaboration between performance artist Filip Vest and choreographer and nature educator Kai Merke. The artistic methodology behind the project is based on a collaborative process in which performers, musicians, and artists participate in workshops and role-playing sessions to develop characters and narratives. Through improvisation and co-creation, the team explores complex themes such as capitalism, colonialism, and love. See more: www.filipvest.dk/#the-ruins
They wish to get in shape, get more energy, better balance and maybe lose a few pounds. But they also dream of meeting someone. The last great love or a new friend. Conflicts and old-school dynamics spread amongst the participants when they start to get to know each other.
INFO
Age: From 6 years
Duration: 55 min
Language: Danish
CREDITS
On stage: Le Münster-Swendsen, Søren Møller Pedersen, Gunni Torp & Niels Grønne
Director: Troels Hagen-Findsen
Idea: Niels Grønne
Storyline: The team
Scenographer: Christian Q. Clausen
Composer: Gunni Torp
Dramaturg: Jane Rasch
Choreographer: Susanne Bonde
Costumes: NadjaViga Englevers
Administration: Emil Børninck
Photo: Søren K. Kløft
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Dansk Rakkerpak was founded in 1994, and over the years the theatre has developed a comic, physical, and nonverbal performance style. With the company’s precisely timed, action-packed, and cliché-filled approach to theatre, any subject can be presented with humorous perspective — without losing its seriousness. Dansk Rakkerpak is based in Næstved. See more: www.danskrakkerpak.dk/han-hun-og-fitness