WHAT IS AN EXPERIMENT? – creation of a working demonstration in word and practice based on the experimental series “The Actor and the Übermarionette”. The experiment is a study of the stage expression of the actor and the puppet theatre and the fusion of both into a new stage expression. The experimental team will develop…
THE LAUGHING GAME The experiment “The Laughing Game” by Antoinette Helbing is based on the phenomenon of laughter. She uses already generated material from research on this in an exploration of how the many forms of value of laughter can be conveyed through a dancer in a solo. I see a great artistic and physical…
GESTURES The GESTURES experiment aims to explore how, through our formal language of dance and music, we can work with, relate to, use, translate, record and understand processes and self-organising principles observed in nature. How can this inform strategies for generating choreographic and compositional form? We work partly in duos and partly in groups, exploring…
ACTOR’S VIBRATIONS The experiment “The actor’s vibrations” builds on the Olske Orchester’s recent experiment “The actor as shaman” on transformation and presence. In this attempt, the actor’s body and voice and habits are challenged to an extreme degree, in order to amplify the vibrations of the players so that they can propagate in the audience…
THE CIRCULAR SELF The experiment “The Circular Self” is led by choreographer Sara Gebran and explores how concepts like intimacy and inclusion can be established on stage. It is an elaboration of concepts and practices in her book “ANOTHER HOLE” (2019). Read the experiment’s purpose statement here HOLD BAG The experiment is led by choreographer…
THE FOXCAVE The Foxcave Development Project by Sew Flunk Fury Wit, explores the immersive theatre genre and attempts to answer the question of how to tell a sensory story that envelops its audience in interaction, sensing and narrative. The trial will take place in autumn 2019. “Our study has a thematic framework that the creative…
VOICES FROM ENGHAVE PLADS After 8 years of metro construction and the closure of a square that is the setting for much local life in Vesterbro, Enghave Plads is alive again. Singer and composer Anna Kruse wants to give voice to those who were affected, and act as a poetic mouthpiece. Anna Kruse will explore…
SOMEWHERE, SOME TIME The experiment is based on the question “If we resist to attach a certain function or purpose to dance, and instead reinforce dance as something in itself by insisting on form, aesthetic and craft – what sort of experiences can unfold?”. The study at the Experimental Station is part of an ambitious…
