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English Programme
Aprilfes�val
Frederikssund
19th—26th April 2015
International Performances Financially Supported by:
Statens Kunstfonds Projektstøtteudvalg for Scenekunst,
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Korean Performances)
Korea Arts Management Service (Korean Performances)
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International Guest
Performances
Polyglot Theatre (Australia)
We built this City
Age: 5+
Duration: 10-120 min.
We Built This City is a large scale participatory theatrical installa-tion celebrating absolute simplic-ity and the power of children’s imaginations. It takes the form of a public ‘construction site’ using nothing but thousands of card-board boxes and the energy and ingenuity of kids and families. Guided by performers in the role of construction workers who fa-cilitate free play, the children build cities and buildings, trans-forming the boxes into land-scapes, each day bringing differ-ent creations. Then, during the very last performance of the sea-son, everyone is invited to help in crushing it all into a recyclable heap of cardboard rubble. A DJ or musician plays live to under-score the action with music while performers set challenges for the
children. We Built This City plac-es children in the role of archi-tect, empowering them to con-struct their ideal city, and during the performance they will make buildings go up, pull them down, redesign them, extend, walk through, jump on, and recon-struct them. We Built This City is not a play… it is play.
Art Stage SAN (Korea) The Fairy and the Woodcutter
Age: All
Duration: 30 min.
A fairy appears in town! And a woodcutter is looking all over for it. The traditional Korean fair-ytale, can now be enjoyed as a piece of street theatre. Huge puppets parade along the street, telling a story: an automaton rooster, the faces of a happy family, a 6-metre-high marion-ette, a fairy puppet that shares her tears, deer puppets and more. Without freedom, it is im-possible to be happy. So, when the fairy loses her freedom, her "wing cloth", she wanders the streets in tears searching for it. The woodcutter loves the fairy.
Every day, he looks up to heaven waiting for her and turns into a rooster. He loves her so much that he takes her "wing cloth", trapping her, like a bird in a cage. Deer manipulate the wood-cutter between good and evil, but what would he choose? Will the fairy get her "wing cloth" back? And what does freedom really mean in today’s society?
Art Stage SAN (Korea)
Dallae’s Story
Age: 8+
Duration: 60 min.
A story of war told through the eyes of an innocent child. In the spring, Dallae went out to see the flowers, in the summer, she went out with her dad to fish, in the autumn, she caught dragon-flies and picked apples with her mother and father and in the winter, she made a snowman. Dallae’s family was happy until war broke out and her father was drafted to the battlefield. Left alone, Dallae, begins to dream. While dreaming with Dallae, we discover things in life that con-nect people beyond borders. This performance presents a family in the face of hardship, through the lens of the Korean War in the 1950s.
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Special event / Collaboration
Jayu-Madang (Korea/DK
Andersen-Project / Nightingale
Age: 10+
Duration: 60 min. Created by a Danish director, a Danish set designer, a Korean composer and Korean actors (as part “Danish Focus” during the 21st ASSITEJ Korea Int’l Sum-mer Festival in 2014), "Andersen Project - The Night-ingale" marks the first collabo-ration between these Korean and Danish theatre artists. The Emperor of China learns that one of the most beautiful things in his empire is the song of the nightingale. When he orders the nightingale brought to him, a kitchen maid (the only one who knows of its whereabouts) leads the court to a nearby forest where the bird is found. The nightingale agrees to appear at court. The Emperor is so de-lighted with the bird's song that he keeps the nightingale in cap-tivity. When the Emperor is giv-en a bejeweled mechanical bird, he loses interest in the real nightingale, who returns to the forest. Eventually, the me-chanical bird breaks down due to overuse. A few years later, the Emperor becomes seriously ill. The real nightingale learns of the Em-
peror's condition and returns to the palace to sing for him once again. Death hears the nightin-gale's song, and so moved that he departs and the Emperor recovers.
Danish Performances
Apollo Teater
The Little Match Girl
(Den Lille Pige Med Svovlstik-kerne)
Age: 5-11
Duration: 40 min.
Yes, H.C. Andersen's classic tale is indeed tragic. But this retell-ing by Apollo Teater and Erik Pold gives the story a twist of warmth, humour and excite-ment. With a mixture of dance and theatre, we tell Andersen's original story and explore no-
tions of child poverty in our modern and rich societies. "The Little Match Girl" is packed with touching, exciting and comic moments.
http://apolloteater.dk/den-lille-pige/index.html
Arthotel
1-2-3-Now...
(1-2-3-nU…)
Age: 0-3
Duration: 35 min.
“1 – 2 – 3 – Now…” is an interac-tive, musical performance for the very young. Clouds that hover over towns…a digger that makes the world’s biggest mountain of sand, just right for crawling on to…a butterfly that can’t be caught…an apple that you have to jump high to reach… Will you join us? 1-2-3-now… This is some of what we experience when we open the great pop-up book. With its viv-id images and surprises, it will take us on a sensory and musi-cal journey out into the real world. “1-2-3-now” is a perfor-mance with a focus on song, music, movement and interac-tion.
www.realproduktion.dk
Jayu Madang – Andersen Project/ Nightingale Photo: Chung Foundation
Apollo Teater– The Little Match Girl
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Asguer Zap Showteater
Mito and Dito
(Mito og Dito)
Age: 5+
Duration: 45 min.
A fun and poetic perfor-mance for those aged 3 - 90 and their families. In a musi-cal and nonverbal universe, two friends, Mito and Dito, tell a story based on chil-dren's understanding of the relationship between yours, mine and envy.
http://www.zapshowteater.dk/215-208-mito__dito.htm
Teatret Aspendos
The Nightingale - must be found!
(Nattergalen – Skal Findes!)
Age: 2-6
Duration 30 min.
Inspired by HC Andersen’s “The Nightingale”, we have created a life affirming tale of friendship. Steffen finds Benjamin wearing the Emperor of China's robe and a friendship develops. Some-times, all the best in the world is right outside your own door. Many years ago, the Emperor met the Nightingale that sang beautifully. With live music on hang and gubal, the show cen-tres around the search for the nightingale and the emperor's first encounter with the little bird. A friendship develops and the emperor is so happy he has tears in his eyes. How wrong can it go for these two? You'll find out soon enough...
www.aspendos.dk
Asterions Hus
Leonardo
(Leonardo)
Age: 14+
Duration: 80 min.
Leonardo da Vinci was beautiful. Elegant. Mysterious. He repre-sented a never-ending duality. He bought pigeons in cages, only to set them free. He observed and investigated so intensely, that he almost managed to fly like a bird. He was a scientist with art as his tool. He cut and scratched and dug to find our inner self, our nature. How do you get under the skin and under the shirt of the number one re-naissance super hero? House of Asterion uses Leonardo's appe-tite to unearth the inventor, the artist, the sculptor, the musi-cian, the geologist, the botanist and the engineer.
www.asterionshus.dk
Asterions Hus
Romeo and Juliet!
(Romeo og Julie)
Age: 9+
Duration: 50 min.
House of Asterion take on Shake-speare and the greatest love sto-ry ever told and create a touch-ing, fast-paced and humorous play. 24 scenes, 24 detours and 24 celebrations of love's many faces and endings. In our hands, Shakespeare's text unfolds into wormdance, sumo wrestlers in love, gardeners singing and bal-let in a wheelbarrow. There has never been so much life in play-ing dead!
www.asterionshus.dk
Teater Baglandet
JUHU It’s Raining
(JUHU Det er Regnvejr)
Age: 3-8
Duration: 35 min.
Is it fun to brush your teeth? Can a frog make you happy? Who de-cides whether you are cross? Does fantasy tickle your toes? …And does every cloud have a sil-ver lining? “JUHU it's raining” is a poetic comic bubble about everyday life where the sky is the limit to your fantasy. New friends, exciting games and mu-sic pop up in the middle of eve-ryday routine. “JUHU it's rain-ing” is a nonverbal performance for everyone wanting to be sur-prised by the unexpected magic of everyday life. For children between 3 and 8 years old and their grown-ups.
www.teaterbaglandet.dk
Asterions H
us – Rom
eo and Juliet P
hoto: Ingrid Bugge
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Teater Baglandet
BODY AMOK
(BODY AMOK)
Age: 13+
Duration: 60 min.
BODY AMOK is about all the things you experience in your teens. What happens when your body explodes in a myriad of new thoughts, feelings and questions? ABOUT being inse-cure and confused. ABOUT what boys don't know about girls and what girls don't ask boys about. ABOUT feeling all wrong and lonely even when you're with others. ABOUT all the exciting and wondrous things that hap-pen, when your body starts to bulge and, suddenly, you look like your mother or get a voice like your father's. BODY AMOK is about surviving the transfor-mation from child to adult, from skinny boy to strong man, from little girl to woman in full bloom. Young people are bom-barded with pictures of the ide-al body, the ideal job, the ideal boyfriend or girlfriend, the ideal life. If you're a famous and suc-cessful actor, pop idol or sports star, surely you must be beauti-ful, fit and happy?
www.teaterbaglandet.dk
Barkentins Teater
Inside
(Indeni)
Age: 1,5-4
Duration: 30 min.
A blue story about two blue boots and some blue music.
www.barkentins-teater.dk
Teatergruppen Batida
The Wonderful Trio
(Den Vidunderlige Trio)
Age: 5-9
Duration: 45 min.
All the way from the Moldavian Hills. There is something curious about Karl, something disturb-ingly sprouting and bubbling. Every time the Maestro intends plays proper music, something pops out of Karl's crazy head so that the melody sounds com-pletely wrong. The Maestro is about to give up on him com-pletely. But, the trio must com-pose a spring concert, a piece of lovely music to make the audi-ence applaud and the maestro famous! The third member of the trio, Klein, is a little nerv-ous... Listen to the music and see what slips out of Karl's head and sends the trio and the audi-ence off on a fantastic journey into the imagination of the won-derful members of The Wonder-ful Trio.
www.batida.dk’
Teatergruppen Batida
Little T
(Lille T)
Age: 3-8
Duration: 40 min.
When Little T was born his fa-ther said, "Alas, I've got a son with ears as big as rhubarb leaves." But Little T did not care, he just sat and listened to the world. A poetic story of hid-den talents.
www.batida.dk
Teatergruppen Batida
A Man called Rolex
(Manden de Kaldte Rolex)
Age: 12+
Duration: 75 min.
A black comedy from old East-ern Europe. The great leader hires an artist to paint his por-trait. But when the painter falls in love with a woman, it results in seminal political events.
www.batida.dk
Teatergruppen Batida
Ouverture
(Ouverture)
Teatergruppen Batida—The Wonderful Trio Photo: Steen Dalin
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Age: 10+
Duration: 40 min.
Ouverture is a comic and poetic story of life within a peculiar orchestra. It is a story of joy and sorrow, of great happiness, and of violent tragedy, all of which evolve between the members. Where the performers come from, no-one knows. Perhaps they are family to one another, or maybe they just come from the same remote village some-where in Europe. We don’t know, - and their characteristic accent is not immediately recog-nizable. The 9 performers in Ou-verture say as little as possible while telling the story.
www.batida.dk
Teatergruppen Batida
Spaghetti
(Spaghetti)
Age: 3-8
Duration: 40 min.
Spaghetti makes you tall, say the two tall people Then they boil their spaghetti by the book. Their neighbour, who is not tall, but is small, fat and terribly hungry, wants to eat some too.
www.batida.dk
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Teatret Beagle
The Bodybureau
(Kropskontoret)
Age: 6+
Duration: 45 min.
A male and a female work at the Body Bureau for the Registration of Body Language and Emotions. Cooped up in the clothes wring-er of emotion, their interest in each other awakens. The Body
Bureau is a physical theatre comedy with few words.
www.teatretbeagle.dk
Teater Blik
Hey!
(Høv!)
Age: 0-4
Duration: 30 min.
A performance around the fra-gility and richness of paper. Through origami, music, folds and sculptural forms, a perfor-mance about the diversity and beautiful chaos of life is creat-ed.
www.teaterblik.dk
Boing Production & Media ApS
iPlay uPlay wePlay
(iPlay uPlay wePlay)
Age: 10+
Duration: 50 min.
iPlay uPlay wePlay is a musical, comic tribute to the digital hu-man being, living in a world crowded with tablets, apps, smartphones, laptops and other digital devices. Artist Thomas
Sandberg invites the audience into a playful, interactive digital world full of sounds, music, vid-eo art and computer graphics. iPlay uPlay wePlay is the third part of a technological trilogy of solo performances that explore the use of the latest technolo-gies on stage in a musical con-text with physical performance and comedy.
http://www.thomassandberg.dk/iplay
Bornholms Teater
687 km
(687 km)
Age: 13+
Duration: 60 min.
The Earth is suffocating! It‘s in the news, it’s on TV, and chil-dren learn about it in school. Pollution and consumption are getting out of control. But what can we really do about it? Bornholm’s Theatre has sent two actors on a world trip as eyewitnesses to the environmen-tal deterioration. The result is a theatre report on the state of the world and about us who should do something about it. How much can the world stand? And how much can YOU stand? '687 km' is an interactive perfor-
Teatret Beagle—Kropskontoret Photo: Martin Dam Kristensen
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mance. There is only a space where the audience and the ac-tors together perform the play. Made for school children from the age of 13 but equally rele-vant for adults.
http://www.bornholmsteater.dk/¨
Teater Borderline
Kiss it! The Goddamn Life
(Kys Det Nu, Det Satans Liv!)
Age:9+
Duration: 60 min.
'Kiss it! The goddamn life!' is a story about music and historical events, which have created strife and hatred in a family for decades. 12 year old Kasper lives alone with his father. Kasper is a gifted classical guitar player, but prefers rock'n roll. But Kasper's love for rock 'n roll is of no importance to Kasper's dad. Therefore Kasper leaves home and flees to his grand-mother, who he hasn't seen for a very long time. Kasper and grandmother become friends and together they embark on a journey back in time, searching for the cause of the family dis-pute.
http://www.teaterborderline.webs.com
Teatret HMF Brændende Kærlighed
The Hand
(Hånden)
Age: 6+
Duration: 30 min.
A detective story. Dick van Dutch head of the Bureau of In-tuitive Investigation is a keen
investigator with a nose for crime. But something, or some-one, obstructs his investigation - the mystery deepens! A comic thriller featuring Jens Kløft in the role as the private detective Dick van Dutch. Physical street theater served with Burning Love Theatre's flair for capturing life's paradoxes.
http://burninglove.eu/index.php/da/forestillinger/handen
Comedievognen
The Blue-eyed Pussycat
(Mis med de blå øjne)
Age: 3-8
Duration: 45 min.
The classic Danish children's book, charmingly dramatized. A story about a small, brave, blue-eyed kitten and it's adventures on the search for The Land of Many Mice. Proof that a blue-eyed cat is just as good as the cats with yellow eyes.
www.comedievognen.dk
Dansstationen
Tetris
(Tetris)
Age: 6-12
Duration: 60 min.
Who doesn't know the classic computer game Tetris! Various shapes consisting of four squares need to be interconnected with-out gaps – but what does it look like if instead of squares there are dancers? Four dancers form lines, squares and geometric shapes acrobatically, from new and surprising perspectives. They roll as a rectangle over the floor or pile on top of one an-other in a breathtaking tower before becoming a new shape. Unexpected combinations are created and by the end of the performance, even the audience is invited to have a go.
www.dansstationen.nu
Duckslap A Grotty Spoonful (Føj for en skefuld) Age: 10+ Duration: 20 min The scene is set in a modern ca-tering kitchen, where four chefs turn up the heat, when the fight for their relative positions in the hierarchy is fought. The tone is ruthless and hard-nosed, intelligent and humorous when the chefs literally throw knives and bodies. In 15 minutes Duckslap mixes dance, physical theatre, singing, live music, stunts and morbid humor in a raw but also elegant piece. http://www.duckslapcompany.com
Faster Pussycat
Finding Sophie
(Finding Sophie)
Dansstationen—
Tetris P
hoto: Imre Z
sibrik
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Age: 15+
Duration: 45 min.
Sophie is a typical teenager. She parties with her friends and ar-gues with her mum. The usual stuff. Then one day she vanish-es, and the race is on to find her. After all, sixteen year old girls don’t just disappear into thin air do they? Time is rapidly running out in this new play, based on the real-life nightmare that shatters thousands of fami-lies every year. Follow the po-lice investigation and the people nearest Sophie in their desper-ate attempts to unravel the truth. Humour, music and move-ment complement the spiky Eng-lish text to tell this twisted tale. All the parts are played by one actress. Performed in English.
www.fasterpussycat.dk
Teaterhuset Filuren
Old Love never Dies
(Karruselkjolen)
Age: 3-6
Duration: 40 min.
In “Old Love Never Dies”, we meet Ursula, a retired circus performer. She tries to act nor-mal and takes up knitting, but just can’t put her old life behind her. Suddenly, her living room turns in to a circus ring, where she swings from the picture frame, does handstands on her armchair and paints using her toes. A show about the body, creativity and how you're never too old to bring out your inner circus performer!
http://filuren.dk/karruselkjolen
Det Fortællende Teater
Ye Gods
(I Guder)
Age: 5+
Duration: 55 min.
Jesper la Cour, playing 11 differ-ent roles, guides you through the intrigues of the World of the Gods. This high caliber perfor-mance is one of The Telling The-atres signature productions.
http://www.detfortaellendeteater.dk/iguder
Forumteatret Prisme
Demos & Kratia
(Demos & Kratia)
Age: 14+
Duration: 60 min.
The Constitutional Act of Den-mark celebrates its 100th birth-day in June 2015. Hurrah! But who is coming to the party? An interactive, stand-up, commedia dell’arte performance, that arm-wrestles the Danish tendency to take democracy for granted and presents a heavenly love story between People and Power – 2500 years of democratic history
– on acid. Actress Birthe Blåbjerg Jakobsen turbocharges both Demos (the God of the Peo-ple) and Kratia (the God of Pow-er). She also plays the alter ego Birthe, who whole-heartedly wants the audience to meet de-mocracy in all its vibrancy, –even if it takes a military inter-vention to get her point across.
www.forumteatretprisme.dk/turnerende-forestillinger/demos-kratia
Freestyle Phanatix
Evolution through breakdance
(E-Boy)
Age: 10+
Duration: 40 min.
Through breakdance we experi-ence E-Boy's artists in their transformation from nature's organisms into cavemen and lat-er on from apes to Homo sapi-ens. We are millions of years back in time, when E-Boy starts telling their story about the origin of species, questioning concepts of herd behavior and
Freestyle Phanatix—Evolution Through Dance
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man's instincts - discovering how they work together in today's electronic time. Five traditional B-Boys are challenged to move into the modern world of elec-tronic sound with input from classical music. An athletic, ex-plosive and poetic interpretation of breakdance within a story of evolution and digital challenges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckYq6KVaeOw
Teatret Fyren og Flammen
H.C. Andersen
(Hos Andersen)
Age: 2+
Duration: 40 min.
"H.C. Andersen," is physical street theatre performance. A bouquet of Hans Christian An-dersen's fairy tales told in
pictures, text and dance for the little ones. It can also be played indoors. "H.C. Andersen" is about a man of indeterminate age who passes by with his story wagon. On the wagon is his house. The house is filled with doors, frames and all sorts of things that start various H.C. Andersen fairy tales.
www.fyrenogflammen.dk
Gazart
To be(long) or not to be(long)
(At Falde - Til og Fra)
Age: 13+
Duration: 45 min.
A dance poem for teenagers about identity and affiliation. What determines where we be-long, and when we feel at home? Is it the same things that make us stand out? Is it a matter
of dialect, accent, or the way we look? Or is it subtle refer-ences to the past or the implied? Is it our scent or our sense of humor? To be(long) or not to be(long) wrestles with the feelings of belonging or standing out, with all the questions teenagers deal with when trying to under-stand themselves. The perfor-mance is aimed at young people from 13 years and their parents.
http://gazart.dk/at-falde-til-og-fra-5/
Gazart
Apple-App-Zap
(Æble-3-2-1)
Age: 2-6
Duration: 30 min.
Apple-App-Zap is for 2-6 year olds and their grown ups. A warm and playfully absurd per-formance featuring two dancers and live music. If I say apple, will you say tree-2-1, all right, good night? And if I ask, are you tough, will you say sure enough, fluff, chuff, not a bluff! And if I lie down and roll around, will
you break it down or skip town? Apple-App-Zap is a game of catch where associations chase each other and special rules ap-ply. There are no limits to the imagination – words, sounds and bodies twist and turn, stretch and strengthen. Everything is possible, because everything is a game.
http://gazart.dk/aeble-3-2-1/
Glad Teater
Heroes
(Helte)
Age: 10+
Duration: 100 min.
In a world hit by the financial crisis, depression and general discouragement, we need he-roes! Love Heroes, Revolution Heroes, Wellness Heroes and Daily Heroes - 11 of these every-day heroes have set themselves the task of making the world a better place, but they need help. YOUR help. Glad;Teater has created a unique Hero-boot camp, where audiences partici-pate in an intense, interactive
Gazart—Apple-App-Zap Photo:Thomas Petri
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theatre process. For nearly two hours you are involved in an in-spiring staged process consisting of film, music, words and Hero training. The line between audi-ence and actor disappears as everyone is an active part and makes the performance their own – no two performances are alike! Hero-boot camp is led by a group of heroes played by actors with disabilities from Glad Teater.
http://www.gladteater.dk
GLiMT
Empty Steps
(Empty Steps)
Age: 8+
Duration: 40 min.
"Empty Steps" shows a day in the life of a brother and a sister liv-ing on the street. From waking up in a huge pile of clothes, to desperate acrobatics on a wall. Enjoying their last treasure of food, and taking solace in paint-ing their own home on the wall. Choreographer and director Ca-mila Sarrazin uses dance, physi-cal skills, humor and drama, to
reflect on the reality for milllions of children around the world. The performance has both an outdoor version for site specific stages and an indoor version using film projections.
http://glimt.info/
Teater og Kunst-produktions-foreningen Graense-loes
Say Cheese
(Say Cheese)
Age: 13+
Duration: 60 mins. 1
A flat scenery of cardboard, in-
trusive projections and a too big actress on a too small stage. A melodramatic tale exploring the performance of ones self and ones surroundings.
http://graense-loes.dk/forestillinger/say-cheese/
Teatret Gruppe 38
The Darkness Rests Under the Bed
(Mørket Ligger Under Sengen)
Age: 4+
Duration: 40 min.
Goodnight, goodnight, my dar-ling, sleep tight / The wind has settled in the willow / The light has hidden in the pitch-dark night / The sleep has settled on the pillow / Come, come, settle down close to me / The kiss has settled on the forehead / The socks have settled separately / ´Cause the other one smells so horrid. Mom and dad have been put to bed but they do not want to sleep. They want to spend time with their son. However, he has no time for fun and joy. “I told you. Goodnight!” But how are they supposed to fall asleep when it feels as if the party is just about to begin?
http://www.gruppe38.dk/pages/program/moerket-ligger-under-sengen
Teater Gyda
Babusjka
(Babusjka)
Age: 3+
Duration: 40 min.
Babusjka is a big doll. She has a music hall under her skirt. Here you meet the artists "Mum and Dad", "Uncle Orla" and many oth-ers. Every day, Mrs. Severinsen winds her up like a music box with many surprises. This is a mix of Czech puppet theatre and Danish entertainment.
http://teatergyda.dk/forestillinger/babusjka-2/
hello!earth
Sensorial Adventures
(Sanse Udflugt)
Age: 6-11
Duration: 60 min.
An interactive experience in
Teatret Gruppe 38— The Darkness Rests Under The Bed
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3 acts of 45 min duration in the city space or natural environ-ments. “Sensorial Adventures” is about the playful and magic mo-ments that may happen when we are together right now, right here and together. Kids get trained to be "sensorial adven-ture guides" and guide other kids or adults and with the simple aim to discover their surround-ings, themselves and each other from new angles.
http://www.helloearth.cc
Hvid Støj Scene-Produktion
CUT//
((CUT//)
Age: 13+
Duration: 60 min.
Nanna cuts herself but she doesn’t really know why. Life insists on being lived, but how do you live your life when you feel like Nanna does? CUT// grapples with the problem of self-harm in girls. A sadly pre-sent issue in Denmark, as 1 in 6 teenage girls in has tried self-
harm. A line is drawn from the sensitive princess in H.C. Ander-sen’s, ”The Princess and the Pea”, to the young cutters, for whom it isn’t the small pea, but life itself that hurts. In a fusion between performance, dance, music, light and text CUT// gives the audience an insight in the life of a young self-harmer.
http://hvid-stoj.dk/w/?p=20
Hvid Stoj Scene-Produktion
CREATE
(SKAB)
Age: 2-6
Duration: 35 min.
A playful, musical and sculptural object performance, using bak-ing ingredients, dough and kitch-en utensils to tell the story of The Creation, including new mu-sic and the smell of homemade baked goods. At the beginning of the show, all the cookie jars are empty... "In the beginning there was nothing"... And just as God created light, the world and hu-mans in 7 days, the show follows a recipe with 7 instructions. The first instruction is to turn on the oven; "and then there was light"
http://hvid-stoj.dk/w/?p=30
Den Jyske Opera
At the End of the Tunnel
(For Enden af Tunnellen)
Age: 8-12
Duration: 65 min.
Tom is a 10 year old boy who isolates himself with his music box that plays Mozart. He with-draws into a fantasy world full of dragons and heroes, kings and queens. Here, he can forget the
demands of parents, school and friends. The audience is invited into a magic, sensory journey through the tunnel into Tom's lonely world of imagination. The story evolves through animated films by Kim Fast Jensen and music by Peter Navarro-Alonso and Mozart.
http://www.jyske-opera.dk/dk/oplev-opera/for-enden-af-tunnellen/’
Teatret Kimbri
Falling Leaves
Age: 6+
Duration: 45 min.
A personal and moving story about the death of a grandfa-ther told by his daughter and granddaughter, using puppets, music, humour and few words. Grandpa prepares for the forth-coming journey by emptying his suitcase, because he can't bring anything with him. It is a good day today. It is a good day to die. So that is what he does. But it is not the end; from the after-life, he whispers in the ear of his loved ones, giving them the courage to live life to the full-est. The performance is visual and musical and can easily be understood by an international public. It can also be translated into English or French.
Teatret Kimbri
A Meeting with a Stranger
(Pænt Goddag)
Age: 6-11
Duration: 45 min.
In a simple world inhabited by two friends, a stranger in a suit-case appears. The stranger does
Hvid
Stoj Scene P
roduktion
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not speak their language, and the three must overcome the problems this causes before they can be friends. A story about integration - Told with humour and poetry. An almost-wordless, physical theatre performance anyone can understand.
http://www.teatretkimbri.dk/forestillinger/paent-goddag.html
Teatret Kimbri
A Legend from the Cold Sea of the North
(Sælkvinden)
Age: 6-10
Duration: 45 min.
The tale about the seal woman who lost her hide, about the lonesome sealer Rasmus who stole it. About their child who carried the heritage of both the big salty sea and of the world of human beings. A beautiful and poetic performance about the beauty and pain of belonging in two worlds, exploring the call of the wild in the human being.
http://www.teatretkimbri.dk/forestillinger/saelkvinden.html
Teater Kompas
When It Cuts the Heart
(Når det skær I hjertet)
Age: 14+
Duration: 70 min.
A musical love story about self- harm. "When It Cuts The Heart" is a story of a self-destructive friendship, and the roles we play throughout our lives. It exam-ines how you can free yourself from the idea of the perfect life, something many young peo-
ple strive for. However, when it turns out to be unobtainable, the illusion of The Perfect Life is dangerous. How do you deal with chaos, worries, anger, grief and loneliness? Maybe you don’t know how to fill the void? Some-times, the only way to make the overwhelming emotion go away is to take the knife and cut into the skin…
http://www.teaterkompas.dk/forestillinger/nar-det-skaerer-i-hjertet
Teatret KrisKat
The Little Boat
(Den Lille Båd)
Age: 2-5
Duration: 35 min.
A cleaning man stumbles upon a book called The Little Boat. He is so taken by the story that he grabs his cleaning sponges and becomes a part of the tale imag-ining himself in the lead role. This leads to a big adventure with both fun and challenging experiences on the little boat. Until the day when a big wave carries him right up to Heaven – which becomes his new home. Everything is different there. It’s a paradise.
http://www.kriskat.dk
Teatret KrisKat
Fur
(Pelzz)
Age: 0-3
Duration:35 min.
A heart-warming adventure. A big pile of fur lies on the floor. We want to stroke it. Soft! It has no eyes. Is it an animal? And there is a woman in a fur coat. She is walking her fur creature. But now it is gone. We go look-ing for it… Theater KrisKat in-vites the smallest audience members on an adventure in a fabulous fur-covered world.
http://www.kriskat.dk
Teatret KrisKat
I Will Find It
(Jeg skal nok finde den)
Age: 1,5-4
Duration: 35 min.
A philosophical show for the smallest human beings (1½ – 4 years) About the pleasure of spinning around. About balls
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which are flying, disappearing, teasing, and climbing, and final-ly finding their way to the car-ousel. Teatret KrisKat has made theatre for the smallest children for the last 10 years. We have developed an intimate theater language based on a very direct contact to the children. During short moments they are invited to be a part of the show.I Will Find It is a performance with lots of physical expression and few words.
http://www.kriskat.dk
Teatret Lampe
The Border
(Grænsen)
Age: 4-10
Duration: 40 min.
The stage is set: a border with a barrier gate in sharp colours. On one side, we see a guard, border controller, police officer. On the other side, a stranger arrives - and the play begins: the stranger can go no further. "The Border" explores how, even though we need boundaries and rules, we would gain so much if we dared to be more open. A person, who manages to over-come her fear and reaches be-
yond herself, grows.
http://www.teatret-lampe.dk/show4.php
Teatret Lampe
The Mole and the House That Came and Left
(Muldvarpen og Huset der Kom og Gik)
Age: 2-6
Duration: 35 min.
The mole lives safely in its dark underground burrow. Until one morning, it wakes up to find that a house has landed on top of its molehill. The house is full of books, and inside the books are pictures and stories that the mole slowly begins to discover.
http://www.teatret-lampe.dk/show3.php
Det Lille Verdens Teater
The Giving Tree
(Drengen og Træet)
Age: 1.5-5
Duration: 30 min.
The first time we meet the boy, he is a child. Every day he looks
forward to getting to his tree. He throws leaves, he climbs, he swings in the branches and he rests in its shadow. The boy be-comes a young man, who wants to explore life, but no matter how long it is between the boy's visits, the tree is happy when he returns. The tree waits faithfully for his friend and his friend comes back and we end where we began. The boy, now an old man, rests happily, his tired body at the foot of the tree.
http://detlilleverdensteater.dk/drengenogtree.html
Det Lille Verdens Teater Between Heaven and Earth
(Mellem Himmel og Jord)
Age: 1.5-5
Duration: 30 min.
Every morning, when the sun rises, life begins again and new experiences await. The audience is invited into the Olivia’s intri-guing universe. A wonderful, strange world where everything is a little topsy turvy. Where fa-miliar everyday things are redis-covered in a game, and where curiosity is a part of life. Olivia’s eyes are open to all things new and old in the world. In Olivia’s universe, a big and tempting ap-ple hangs just out of reach. Oliv-ia tries to get it with her flute, with a basin and with a pair of field glasses, but... “Just imag-ine if I could fly, then I would simply fly right up there and pick the apple”. A funny, educa-tional and sensory performance, about patience and impatience, about wanting to but not being able to and, not least, about fantasy. http://detlilleverdensteater.dk/himmel.html
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Luna Park Scene-Kunst
The Memory Palace
(Hukommelsespaladset)
Age: 6-10
Duration: 40 min.
A performance and installation on wanting to do the impossi-ble... Zacharias Hjernø spent his childhood ill in his bed with an encyclopedia as the only window to the world. He decides that, when he gets well, he wants to remember everything. But how are memories best preserved? By pressing them as flowers or put-ting them on needles like but-terflies? Or do you package them in silence? Come inside Zachari-as Hjernø's marvellous collection of memories. Come and see the unique Memory Machine, the Alphabetical Box Archive and the secret room where it all be-gan...
http://www.lunaparkscenekunst.dk
Teaterværkstedet Madam Bach
World Images
(Verdensbilleder)
Age: 0-6
Duration: 30 min.
”World Images” takes the audi-ence on a journey from the beating heart of the city to chalk white salt flats that dry everything out. From frogs that croak and geckos that chirp to the northern lights and sleds that are pulled by dogs with snow on their tongues.
http://www.madambach.com
Meridiano Teatret
BAKU
(BAKU)
Age: 12+
Duration: 70 min.
A co-production between The Kio Company in Osaka, Japan and Meridiano Theatre, Den-mark. “BAKU” is a visual and musical performance about ’war and loss’ for ages 12 and up. “BAKU” is a spirit, in the shape of a tapir that eats evil dreams. No matter who declares them-selves the winner of a war, the
result of war is always ’loss’ for all parties involved. The biggest nightmare in the world is always about loss.
http://www.meridiano.dk/
Meridiano Teatret
Papermoon
(Papirmåne)
Age: 3-7
Duration: 35 min.
Even though Elliot is only a little boy, he has a lot of big things on his mind. So big, in fact, that he is very much awake when he should be asleep. Elliot has a goldfish … and a tiger and a lion made of plastic … He also has his favourite teddy bear that understands him and follows him wherever he goes. He also has a lot of books. Elliot loves his books. He can’t read any of the words in them, yet, but he can look at the pictures and these take him far, far away - to a world where, maybe, he can find someone to explain to him why his mother and father have decided that the three of them should no longer live together as a family.
http://www.meridiano.dk/papermoon/index.htm
Milton-Sand & Søn
Volapyk
(Volapyk)
Age: 4-10
Duration: 45 min.
A play in a universal language about two very different people who meet by chance and learn from each other's differences. The story takes place at the foot of an old tree, where they meet for the first time. They are both
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equipped with smart phones and games consoles, so there's no need for them to talk. But when their electronic equipment goes down, they're faced with si-lence, themselves and each oth-er. A comic and poetic play, about friendship, digital-health and well-being.
http://www.miltonsand.dk
MishMash
Romeo & Juliet
(Romeo & Juliet)
Age: 11+
Duration: 40 min.
MishMash has, in the style of storytelling, made a unique in-terpretation of William Shake-speare’s classic Romeo & Juliet. The play is filled with both com-edy and tragedy. Our diversity of skills has been mashed up to create a play where everything from corporal mime, tragic cho-rus, acrobatics and much more tell the story. Using only our bodies we create all the atmos-pheres, spaces, characters and objects in the play. We use no props, decor or any special cos-tumes. We don’t need to!
http://www.mishmashtheatre.com
miteater
The Camel Came at Last
(Kammellen Kom Til Sidst)
Age: 3-8
Duration: 45 min.
Based on Jesper Wung-Sung's beautiful picture book, “The Camel came at Last”- When God finished creating the earth, humans, animals and all plants,
he really looked forward to re-laxing …
http://www.miteater.dk
Teater My
Small Steps
(Små Skridt)
Age: 2-5
Duration: 30 min.
A string of short poetic sketches illustrate moments in a little person`s world. Mummy and Daddy. Granny and Granddad. A snail and a tree by the side of the road. Playschool filled with little friends. A bicycle, a small bed and a night-time story. An umbrella and the hope for rain. Little steps is the story of a small person in a big world. Wrapped in a universe full of memories the audience is sus-pended in a cozy, safe space surrounded by beautiful stories and moments of recognition told through music and lighting, pic-tures and poetry, puppets, ob-jects and sound. Specialising in plays for the very smallest of us, Teater My dedicate their charm-ing and magical performances to little people on their journey into the world.
http://www.teatermy.dk
Teatret Møllen
Malala – A Girl With a Book
(Malala – En Pige Med en Bog)
Age: 12+
Duration: 60 min.
The story of a Pakistani student, blogger and children's activist, who fought for the rights of Pa-kistani women and girls' right to education. On the 9th of Octo-ber 2012, Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban as she was on her way home in a school bus. In 2013, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, in honour of her tireless struggle for girls’ rights to education, and was considered by many to be the favourite. However, in-stead The Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons won the prize. On the 10th of October 2014 Malala Yousafzai was awarded Pakistan's first No-bel Peace Prize. Malala is the youngest winner ever.
http://teatretmoellen.dk
Teatret Månegogl
The Iceblue Song
(Den Isblå Sang)
Age: 2+
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The white snow glistens in the sun as far as the eye can see. Just now it is still. The only sound is the whispering wind and the creaking icebergs. And yet, far away, a faint song – as if it comes from the depths of the sea. What story does it tell? Where does it come from? In our search for the song, we move across the huge, white land where the polar bear lumbers slowly along, the seal swims cu-riously and stories from long ago are told during the long, dark nights. The Ice-Blue Song is in-spired by Greenland’s nature and mythology.
http://www.hannetrolle.dk
Teatret Månegogl
From Me to You
(Fra Mig til Dig)
Age: 2-8
Duration: 35 min.
About living in a country far away and then suddenly having to move far away, to a foreign country where everything is dif-ferent. A poetic performance about integration inspired by Middle Eastern Culture.
http://www.hannetrolle.dk/forestillinger/fra-mig-til-dig
Teatret Neo
The Stones
(Et Stenkast Herfra)
Age: 12+
Duration: 60 min.
In the play we meet two boys, aged thirteen and fourteen. Dur-ing an increasingly anarchic day they break into a warehouse to steal car badges, try to set fire to a cat and eventually end up on a motorway bridge daring one
another to throw stones at the cars below. The law (in the shape of two Detectives) is nev-er far behind, but only catches up when the youngest boy de-cides to turn himself in following the fatal accident. The second half of the play follows events after the boys are arrested, from being interviewed by the police, to the final verdict of the court. The play explores teenage criminality and atti-tudes to the law, as well as looking at the specifics of what happens to these two particular boys when they become involved in the criminal justice system. Based on a true story. http://www.teatret-neo.dk/stenkast.htm
Teater NoCanDo
Sa Tu Sai
(Sa Tu Sai)
Age: 5-12
Duration: 40 min.
Sa Tu Sai loses contact with her parents when she tries to save a little boy from drowning in a flood. The only thing she has left is a flute her father made for her. The children are taken to a city where they are forced
to work at a silk factory. They work so hard that they almost forget life outside. At the facto-ry, you are not allowed to play, you are not allowed to play the flute, and you are definitely not allowed to dream you were somewhere else. The play is in-spired by an old classic in chil-dren’s literature, The China Girl from 1950 by Maria Gleit.
http://nocando.dk/?id=52&sid=58
Teater Nordkraft
Fascinated by Apples
(Besat af Æbler)
Age: 2+
Duration: 35 min.
A half-eaten apple. An apple core. A musical game played with ordinary things. Before the audience´s eyes and ears, they are transformed: a plastic bag becomes a sigh; a fishing net turns into a dream catcher and feelings are changed by the col-ours of the light. The sounds of apples open the theatre - and so we begin...
http://teaternordkraft.dk/turn%C3%A9/besat-af-aebler.aspx
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Det Olske Orkester
Once We Got Lost
(Dengang Vi Blev Væk)
Age: 10+
Duration: 75 min.
A story about being a child in the middle of a divorce and the losses it leads to. Watching a parent's divorce can have a strong influence on how the child views love between adults and their own choices later on in life. We want to investigate the, diverse, often inappropriate roles the child takes to bring order to chaos. Most important-ly, however, with love and re-spect, we want to tell a story about four people who didn’t succeed in staying together. The performance is created by con-crete words, abstract choreogra-phy and manipulation of space.
http://www.detolskeorkester.dk/dengang.html
Det Olske Orkester
The Concert
(Koncerten)
Age: 10+
Duration: 70 min.
Here they come! The Orchestra. Exalted, focused, yearning, searching, doubting, wobbling... The nostalgic conductor, the young rebellious percussionist , the bassoonist with impaired hearing, the widow with dog and trumpet, the alcoholic tubist and the ambitious saxophonist with severe asthma. They are to perform a concert. A well-known classical work, written for wind and percussion, with a difficulty level far above their ability. Genuinely being in the failure of the moment and exposing one's vulnerability, requires great courage from the actor. The ac-tor does not act their mistakes, but actually makes them.
http://www.detolskeorkester.dk/ Teatret OM
Song of the Whale
(Hvalens Sang)
Age: 6-9
Duration: 35 min.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the song of the whale. "Song of the Whale" takes place inside a mighty whale. The jour-ney into the belly of the whale is a journey into a curious story of whales, whale song, the
friendship between a girl and a whale and the meeting with Pi-nocchio. A sensory and spectac-ular experience that creates wonder and close contact with the audience. The performance looks at friendship as a treasure we need to protect, at the same time exploring mankind's thoughtless way of throwing out waste which makes life danger-ous for the ocean's creatures. A unique experience for the young and young at heart. This perfor-mance is also available in Eng-lish
http://www.teatretom.dk/dk/forestillinger/hvalens-sang
Paolo Nani Teater
Jekyll On Ice
(Jekyll On Ice)
Age:10+
Duration: 60 min.
Paolo Nani’s fun, round figure Jekyll, is an ice cream salesman with his very own way of doing business. Whether the ice cream melts, or the air leaks out of the balloons, the audience is guar-anteed surprises and laughter! Paolo Nani brings a fully equipped ice cream cart with giant speakers, smoke machine and air pump that can shoot 2.000 litres of air per minute. The heart of the performance lies in the playful way in which Paolo Nani and the audience in-teract to create the magic to-gether.
http://paolonani.com/Dansk/
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Paolo Nani Teater
The Shocking Puppet Show
(The Shocking Puppet Show)
Age: 8+
Duration: 50 min.
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A unique visual performance that blends puppets and actors, drama, comedy and live music, retro and kitsch, in search of an extraordinary theatrical expres-sion. The story begins at the old railway station in Paris, Gare de L'Est, where an upper class woman has her purse stolen and accuses a homeless accordionist of being the thief. This leads to a report to the police, and the homeless accordionist doing everything he can to prove his innocence. Shocking and funny experiences await ahead... The performance's universe is built around the scenography, which is a work of art by itself: a 2 me-tre high red box in 3 levels, which can turn, open and close the shutters and transform itself from a railway station to a shocking puppet show for hands only.
http:/ /paolonani.com/Dansk/
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Passepartout Theatre Production
Why me?
(Hvorfor lige mig?)
Age: 9+
Duration: 50 min.
A Danish/Croatian performance about human behavior, fate and real friendship! ’The three mus-keteers’ have grown up. Once a year, they meet at the fencing club and return to the good friends and musketeers they once were. However, they each have their own personalities, hopes and dreams, so old rival-ries reappear! A nonverbal per-formance in a tragicomic uni-verse of absurd situations, inti-macy, performed by three, young Croatian actors. A co-production with Mala Scena, Croatia.
http://passepartout-theatre.com/
Passepartout Theatre Production
But They Started!
(Men De Begynte!)
Age: 5+
Duration: 50 min.
A Danish/Lebanese performance about friendship and overcoming prejudice. The play unfolds in a cylindrical family that doesn’t like anyone square. Well… those square people just can't be trusted! One day, new neigh-bours move in, that just happen
to be square… Prejudice keeps the boys on either side of the fence from their friendship, and they decide to journey out into the world and uncover the root of the conflict. The story is told without words, but with music, physical actions and situations that everyone understands re-gardless of language. Despite its serious subject, the story is light and tragicomic in its form.
http://passepartout-theatre.com/
Teater Patrasket
What Nobody Knows
(Det Some Ingen Ved)
Age: 10-14
Duration: 45 min.
Four old classmates with four secrets. They haven't seen each other in more than thirty years, but are now to meet again. It brings back to light all the things that were thought to be hidden and forgotten, memories from the years when everything hap-pened. Are all secrets to be re-vealed? And what happens to them, if they are never told?
http://patrasket.dk/forestillinger/det-som-ingen-ved
Teater Patrasket
Smash
(Smash)
Age: 10+
Duration: 50 min.
Thomas plays tennis all the time. He wants to be the best, just like Bjorn Borg. One day Frederick comes along and Thomas teaches him to play, just for fun. But then Frederik
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proves himself a little better than Thomas expected... What happens when competition and jealousy mingles with friend-ship? Is it true that you have to learn to lose before you can win? The performance is for the young people aged 10-14 and is based on the performers' own experiences as young boys with the noble sport, when Bjorn Borg and McEnroe was on the top of their career.
http://patrasket.dk/forestillinger/smash
Quasi Teater
Skammelson
(Ebbe Skammelsøn)
Age: 6+
Duration: 45 min.
A modern street performance
based on a Danish folk tale
about a knight and his beloved. A story of jealousy, family rela-tions, revenge and honour. Pup-pets, large and small; live music and a lot of songs help us to en-joy the wedding party that ends up as a bloodbath. It is a family show for children, young people and adults! The van arrives and the show starts - just as in the Middle Age when the theatre groups came to town.
http://quasiteater.dk/
Dansk Rakkerpak
Psycho – Street Cut
(Psycho – Street Cut)
Age: 6+
Duration: 50 min.
Marion, a nightclub singer, steals a diamond necklace from a rich man and runs away. The weather turns stormy and she decides to stay in a random mo-tel. But the motel owner, Nor-
man Bates, is raving mad and kills her. Marion’s sister, Lila and private detective, Milton, appear on the scene of the crime and together decide to find the murderer… Dansk Rak-kerpak pay homage to the mas-ter of suspense, Alfred Hitch-cock, with a remake of his un-disputed masterpiece, “Pyscho”. All, of course, in true Rakkerpak-style with heaps of hilarious slapstick, physical humour, mu-sic and, of course, with a slow-motion, finale.
http://www.danskrakkerpak.dk
Randers Egnsteater
A Small New One
(En Lille Ny)
Age: 1,5-4
Duration: 35 min
A sensory and visual show for the youngest audience. A humo-rous and poetic tale of the great gift it is when one's worldview changes. Because suddenly there is a new baby, which has its own color, its own sound and its own space.
http://www.randersegnsteater.dk/forestillinger/familie/en-lille-ny/
Randers Egns Teater
The Elephant Man
(Elephantmanden)
Age: 10+
Duration: 55 min.
Inspired by the true story of Jo-seph Merrick, who due to his physical deformities also was called "Elephant Man". He is mocked, humiliated and exhibi-ted in a traveling circus, a "freak show". His fate takes a sudden unexpected turn when the freak show is closed by the police and the doctor Frederick Treves. Treves is fascinated by Joseph disfiguration and has great am-bitions to make the "Elephant Man" into a medical celebrity.
Joseph is again shown to the ga-ping crowds - this time in the name of science... A moving sto-ry about being different.
http://www.randersegnsteater.dk/turne/elefantmanden/
Teater Refleksion
The Way Back Home
(Vejen Hjem)
Age: 4-8
Duration: 40 min.
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Danish Premiere. A co-production between Branar Téatar, IE and Teater Re-fleksion, in association with Barboró International Arts Fes-tival for Children. Based on Oli-ver Jeffers’ picture book, ”The Way Back Home". When a boy discovers a single-propeller air-plane in his closet, he does what any young adventurer would do: he flies into outer space! Millions of
miles from Earth, the plane begins to splutter and quake. The fuel tank is empty, and the boy must execute a daring landing on the moon. But as it turns out, he is not alone up there … The Way Back Home is a simple yet profound tale about conquering the fear of the un-known. http://www.refleksion.dk/program/aktuelle-forestillinger/vejen-hjem.html
Riddersalen
Open House
(Åbent Hus)
Age: 1,5 – 4
Duration: 35 min.
Ragnhild recalls a birthday long ago, when her cloth dog Hunni got lost in the big doll’s house. Ragnhild and Hans, the cloth doll, look through one room af-ter the other, each filled with music and surprises. All will be well again before the day is done.
http://www.riddersalen.dk
Det Ripensiske Teatersel-skab
Hotdog
(To Med Det Hele)
Age: 6-12
Duration: 60 min.
Is Ejner not quite right because he limps? What about Vagn who has lived in a mental hospital all his life? Is Ejner a dog-cannibal because he sells hotdogs and keeps dogs in the freezer? Ques-tions that you wouldn’t believe could come up in a family show. “Hotdog” is a drama that takes place in and around the world’s smallest hotdog cart, filled with thrills, spills and two pathologi-cal liars.
http://drt-ribe.dk/to-med-det-hele.html
De Røde Heste
In the beginning was the be-ginning
(I begyndelsen var begyndelsen)
Age: 4-8
Duration: 45 min.
First the word … "Oops!" A starry sky and a planet. Light and dark-ness. Earth and water. A card-board box. And something that grows. And something that barks. And somebody who quar-
rels. And somebody who holds everything carefully in a hand … A journey through space to a place not far from here.
http://www.deroedeheste.dk/
Sofie Krog Teater
Circus Funestus
(Circus Funestus)
Age: 13+
Duration: 50 min.
Mr Funestus the magician has entertained children and adult with his magical circus for dec-ades. With his amazing magical powers, Funestus brings things to life, turns huge into tiny and rules over time and space. But, one fateful show, things go hor-ribly wrong. A nasty bunch of Funestus’ own creatures take over the circus. And so begins a frantic battle between good and bad; a struggle for the magical power which keeps them alive… Welcome to the comic and dark-ly humorous universe of this cir-cus, filled with whimsical ef-fects. Circus Funestus - a cine-matic puppet show for teens and adults.
http://www.sofiekrog.com/Circus_Funestus.html
Sofie Krog Teater
The House
(The House)
Age: 13+
Duration: 55 min.
The House tells the story of the Warehouse Family Funeral Home. On her deathbed the un-dertaker changes her last will and testament, a secret begins to unravel and an evil plan is formed. Sofie Krog and David
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Faraco lead you behind closed doors and into rooms which hide unspeakably dark deeds. This complex puppet performance takes place in a revolving set featuring intricate lighting, strange contraptions and scary to unravel and an evil plan is formed. Sofie Krog and David Faraco lead you behind closed doors and into rooms which hide unspeakably dark deeds. This complex puppet performance takes place in a revolving set featuring intricate lighting, strange contraptions and scary sound effects; the perfect set-ting for this comically chilling journey.
http://www.sofiekrog.com/The_House.html
Svanen – Dansk-Tjekkisk Dukke Teater
The Puppet Showman
(Marionetspilleren)
Age: 3+
Duration: 40 min.
The Puppet Showman is a musi-cal, humorous and almost word-less puppet performance with marionettes. We meet a very tired circus director who has a dream of being director of a real life theatre with real life actors. We meet a clown on a unicycle, a clown on stilts, clowns on roll-er skates and a beautiful circus princess. A puppet performance inspired by "The Puppet Show-man" by H.C. Andersen
http://www.svanen-dukketeater.dk/Webnodes/da/Web/Public/Forestillinger/Marionetspilleren
Teater 2 Tusind
Norbert Fatnoggin
(Tage Tyknakke)
Age: 7-12
Duration: 50 min.
Everyone is afraid of Norbert Fatnoggin. He drives away all the animals from the African savannah. Only one little bird dares to stay, the red-billed ox-pecker, Charles Clingfoot. Charles advises the rhinoceros to erect a monument in memory of himself, as is custom among all great rulers. Enthusiastic about the idea Norbert decides to be his own memorial. He stands immovable on his plinth. Then, one stormy day he falls out of his armour, emaciated and hag-gard. Lightning lights up the sky, and in a flash Norbert sees something he has never seen before…
http://teater2tusind.dk
Teatret Thalias Tjenere
Dracula
(Dracula)
Age: 10+
Duration: 60 min.
Gripping drama and gothic chills meet the visual power of the mask in this striking version of Bram Stoker’s melodramatic masterpiece, created to cele-
brate the 100th anniversary of his death (or…?) Fascinating, not-for-the-faint-hearted fun: when the gore of the Grand Guignol meets the no-holds-barred ac-tion of the Commedia, there WILL be collateral damage. There is no doctor in the house! Note: This performance uses full mask, half-mask and plenty of movement as well as spoken words. A basic synopsis will be made available for those who are not familiar with the story.
http://thaliastjenere.dk/forestillinger/dracula/ Tidsrum
Beatrice
(Beatrice)
Age: 13+
Duration: 70 min.
Beatrice is a steampunk puppet show, based on the award-winning author Karin Tidbeck's short story. The physician Franz Hiller falls madly in love with the airship Beatrice at an exhibi-tion in Berlin. Unable to buy her, he orders a copy and names her Beatrice II. At the same time, Anna Goldberg, a printer's daughter, falls in love with the steam engine Hercules. She buys
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him on the spot and rents a warehouse for him, but it is al-ready occupied by Franz and his airship. Two puppeteers orches-trate the story of Franz and An-na and their machines. They bring a sensory, poetic steam-punk universe to life with the help of puppets, shadows, re-purposed record players and throbbing engines.
http://tidsrum.org/beatrice/index.html
Teater TT
The Shadow
(Skyggen)
Age: 5-10
Duration: 45 min.
A wordless performance about coming to terms with your dark-er side. Using video technology and animations, we ask: what if one's shadow suddenly had its own life and did all the things you really wanted to? And if the dark side first is unleashed how do you catch it again? A comical poetic performance about a man who discovered his own shadow and learned how to live with it.
http://teatertt.dk
Uppercut Danse-Teater
360°
(360°)
Age: 9+
Duration: 50 min.
The storm is howling, the snow is whirling, the ice is creaking and the explorer is fighting his way across the Arctic. Inspired by the nature of lying and the explorers amazing tales, brought home from Greenland, Uppercut
Dance Theater dives into a tale of lies and fantasy. What hap-pens when no one believes all the amazing things you have seen? What happens when your stories take flight and you lose control? Can you take it back? Do you want to?
http://www.uppercutdance.dk/#!360/c1cq9
Uppercut Danse-Teater
Body Parts
(Body Parts)
Age: 4-8
Duration: 30 min.
A brother and sister are lying in their bed, trying to fall asleep. But it’s so hard when you would rather play. They start telling each other stories. The game escalates, and all of a sudden the dresser turns into a monster, and daddy’s glove becomes a claw! All by itself… well, almost. What happens when your body begins to live its own life? When the hand “accidentally” hit little brother, and your feet go, where they are not supposed to. A dancing tale of coming to terms with the bad things we do, when the lights are out and the games begin.
http://www.uppercutdance.dk/#!bodyparts/cvi7
Uppercut Danse-Teater
I Am
(I Am)
Age: 9+
Duration: 40 min.
An adventure investigating iden-tity. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in wonderland', Uppercut Dance Theatre invites you to participate in a compelling jour-ney.
http://www.uppercutdance.dk/#!iam/c1ugq
Vitus Bering Teatret
And Here I Lie, Like Some Idiot…
(... og her ligger man så som en anden idiot)
Age: 16+
Duration: 60 minutes.
The last hour of Vitus Bering's life: Gangrene has taken his legs – and scurvy has taken the rest of him. He sits there, buried in his hole on the beach to keep warm and with only got the stars to talk to... And the arctic fox-es, of course, but they are look-ing for proper dead bodies, not half dead ones. The painful pu-trefaction which overtook ex-plorer Vitus Bering in 1741 is the
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point for Gregers Dirkinck-Holmfeld’s solo "And here I lie like some idiot… ". Sejer Ander-sen plays the 60 years old Vitus Bering with cadaverous hands, frost chapped cheeks and stom-ach cramps with hardened macho pains in the corners of his mouth. His torso emerges from the snow covered sand; here even a wolfskin coat will not protect you from the deathly wind.
http://sejerandersen.com/rep/vitus.html
We Go
Music From Movement – Mini
(Music From Movement – Mini)
Age: 7+
Duration 40 min.
Music From Movement is a humor-ous music and dance performance for children and youngsters about experiencing the music through the body and the body through the music. If Björk and Blue Men Group had children, they would undoubtedly look like WE GO in their tight red full body suits.
The four members melt together in a curious and extraordinary machinery of bodies and instru-ments. Every movement small or big produces sound on the instru-ments and out of the choreogra-phy music arises in a humorous tightly composed mechanism. Through the choreography the audience can visually follow the musical compositions and get a look into the heart of the music.
http://cargocollective.com/WEGO#.Uqrux426tcw
Why Not Theatre Company
Remembrance
(Remembrance)
Age: 14+
Duration: 60 min.
"Remembrance" is a collection of readings of English poetry, ex-tracts from diaries and letters written during the First World War and maybe even a song or two. It is a tribute to the soldiers who gave their lives while fighting for their country and for freedom. We hope to recreate memories and images of a critical
piece of history. World War 1 or, “The Great War” was the world’s first global conflict. It resulted in unprecedented carnage and de-struction with more than 9 mil-lion soldiers killed by the end of the war in 1918. As the philoso-pher Santayana said: ”Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
http://www.whynottheatre.dk/remembrance/
ZeBU
The Under World
(Landet Under)
Age: 6+
Duration: 45 min.
Seven-year-old Rose, who lives in a house in the country, has lost her twin brother Milo in a tragic accident. Her parents try to dis-pel her grief, but Rose cannot forget her brother. She creates an imaginary world around Milo’s toys which her parents have told her not to play with. The toys tell her that there is a secret world underneath the house where her brother has been taken against his will by the Mistress of the Night. One night, Rose travels to the Under World to free her brother. The Under World is a warm narrative about grief from a child’s perspective. Taking a child’s universe as its starting point, it addresses the heavy is-sue of grief in a playful tone. As only children can, Rose incorpo-rates imagination and reality into her play and, in doing so finally learns to live with the loss of her brother.
http://www.zebu.nu/forestilling/landet-under/
ZeBU
True Confusion
(Sand Forvirring)
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Age: 8+
Duration: 45 min.
Night follows day. Time can’t go backwards. We can all agree on that. And you mustn’t steal and you can’t walk naked down the street … right? But who decides what is right? And what happens when we disagree? Who is right then? Truth is often connected to authority. God, parents and au-thorities have many answers to what is right and wrong. Some things we can all agree on. Other rules we make up ourselves as we go along. But how much can you disagree and still be friends? How far do you have to go to give friendship a common ground? “True Confusion” is a co-production between ZeBU and friends Loa Carlslund and Frej Stenholt Mortensen – two newly qualified dancers who use dance as a physical, challenging and playful stage language. In this production for older children, they are allowed to romp around even beyond the edge of stage.
http://www.zebu.nu/forestilling/sand-forvirring/
Aaben Dans
Babyspace
(Babyspace)
Age: 0,5 – 1
Duration: 30 min.
Dance installation for babies age 6 - 12 months.
http://swopfestival.dk/babyspace
Aaben Dans
HEn and SHEep
(HANe og HUNd)
Age: 4-10
Duration: 40 min.
A dance performance for children age 4-10. In the beginning before anything existed, before the be-ginning, everything was One. Then, One split into two. A boy and a girl. A man and a woman. A he and a she. And in between there was mystery of life. Based on the sounds and movements of animals and their strange yet fa-miliar behaviour, the artistic team consisting of director Cath-erine Poher, chorographer Thom-as Eisenhardt and composer Peter Bastian, made a performance which charmingly plays around the meeting between a HE and a SHE.
http://www.abendans.dk/haneoghund.php
Aaben Dans – Babyspace Photo: J. Wittchen