TRIAL SEASON 10/11 “Yoga and Presence” v. Line Loklindt Christensen The experiment is based on yoga and mindfulness, and the communication of these to be used as mental preparation before or during a stage performance. Language and expressions are developed over the ten times the experiment takes place. “The choreography of communication” v. Ellen…
TRIALS 11/12 Week 32 and 33 Showing Godiva An experiment led by Quim Bigas. Week 37 and 38 “Causal Juggling Vol. 2″ Led by Samuel Gustavsson Week 45 and 46 “A lamp and two dancers” Led by Ellen Kilsgaard. Read the report here Week 48 “Antimusic vol. 2″ The experiment is led…
WHO IS ORIGINAL? WHO IS ORIGINAL? – a collaborative project between Forsøgsstationen and Glad Teater. April 29 to May 16, 2013, Mon. – tors. from 11-16. An experiment in which actors trained at the State Theater Schools and the Theater School “Teater Glad” for actors with disabilities meet in search of new terrain and artistic…
TOTAL! DANCE! FOR CHILDREN / ELLEN KILLSGAARD In the attempt TOTAL! DANCE! children are free to move around the space between the dancers, mirror the dance or simply observe. The traditional stage-hall division is suspended and the children are audience, participants and active co-creators as we explore ways in which the dancers can integrate and…
TALKBOX // ERIK POLD The thesis behind the experiment is that it is possible to create a performance that in its finished form is in dialog with a young audience, where the young people themselves are in focus, and where the themes are unfolded for them and with them. In other words, where I as…
STORY PLAY // JESPER LA COUR Stories that live – both for the listener and the teller – are – and have always been – central to Jesper la Cour’s work as a storyteller and actor. From this springs his interest in the underlying conditions, structures and mechanisms that make for good, long-lasting and relevant…
SHAKESPEARE // RIKKE LILJENBERG An attempt with Shakespeare – the actor’s path! Shakespeare – interactive & accessible! Rikke Liljenberg, Morten Andersen Thunbo and Maria Stokholm are busy exploring how Shakespeare’s play text can be made more accessible to young audiences. Read the trial’s statement of intent here
SCENIC BODY MANIPULATION // ARRIEREGARDEN Teater Arrièregarden’s experiment “Scenic Body Manipulation” is based on a wonderment about the basic human tendency to want to look like the people around us. In the experiment, we will take a hands-on approach and soberly test and invent different methods to create physical equality: To what extent can we,…
BREATHING // LIFE PLOW The project stems from a need to explore the theater’s potential for intimacy in contrast to today’s fast pace and high noise levels. To do this, we go all the way back to the starting point of life: inspiration – pause – expiration – pause Breathing is created by the physical…
ABOUT COLLECTING // THEATER BLOOM The phenomenon of “collecting” was not only the subject of Theater Bloom’s investigation, but also a dogma of the experiment. It became the through-line of process, form and content in an attempt to understand the mindset of a collector. Read the trial’s statement of intent here
LIKE NOT LIKE // BÄCKVALL & ROSSIL A year of unbridled and untamed creativity, influenced by and shared with the world, culminates in a performing arts experiment that blurs the boundaries between stage and internet audience in a new kind of creative process. A process where every step, from the first step in January 2012…
LESSONS IN MELANCHOMANIA // KATRINE WEIGELT The experiment is a kind of theater lab where we will create a series of innovative solos, all created within the same time frame (approx. 7-10 min) and the same minimalist set design. They will all be played by different actors from different countries, so each actor brings their…
WHAT CAN I BECOME? // PRISM FORUM THEATER SPLICING FORUM THEATER AND GAME DESIGN Forum theater, with its special mix of live elements and blend of fiction and reality, has a fantastic potential to innovate and create new contracts with the audience. Forum Theatre Prism’s attempt WHAT CAN I BECOME? aims to fertilize the forum…
KITCH The main experiment in 13/14 focuses on Kitsch. Throughout December, around 25 performing artists will be exploring what happens when you consistently and persistently work pathetically, banally and sensationally with performing arts. To mark the occasion, we invite all interested parties to screenings, seminars and a Christmas ball in Santa’s Land in the days…
FELIX // ALICE MARTUCCI In the Felix experiment, we will use different working methods. The starting point is a desire to explore the tension that exists between freedom and constraints, between conscious choices and randomness, and between rules and intuitions. The result of the experiment will take the form of a choreography for people and…
BYEBYE BABY // THEATER SIGNATURE Theater Signatur has moved into The Experimental Station with the experiment “ByeBye Baby. The experiment is based on the theme: ‘losing’. Targeting children aged 9-12 years, the Bye Bye Baby experiment explores how children can be integrated into the scenic narrative through music and also works to put music and…
THE RACE TO ZERO In December 2014, Kristian Husted was responsible for the experiment, “The Race to Zero”, about the financial sector’s use of stock robots. He writes about the experiment: “It is an investigation into the possibility of acquiring a stage language about the financial markets with a focus on speed and composition. How…
THE MOON ILLUSION In the period March 2-13, 2015, the experiment “The Moon Illusion” was held by Rapid Eye. Samuel Gustavsson from the group talks briefly about the experiment here. Experiment station: What did your experiment consist of? We started from the question of how an illusion is experienced. What it consists of and how…
SPLASTIC Daily Fiction by Tora Balslev started the “SPLASTIC” experiment in September 2014. It is a study of consciousness and movement based on spasticity. Here’s a short excerpt from their statement of intent: “Cath is spastic. If she wants to walk, she has to accept that she will get tired and hurt herself. Cath walks.…
AUDIENCE AND SINGERS Instructor Nils. P. Munk and “The Human Theater” are in November 2014 for the experiment “Audience and singers – interaction and fusion”. Here’s a short excerpt from his statement of intent: “Four singers and I explore all the different elements that could be hiding in the ‘ensemble’. Audience and singers are in…
“I WOKE UP TO THE SOUND OF DRIPPING WATER” Performer, Naja Lee Jensen, performer, Emelie Trossö, and scenographer, Hanna Reidmar, are responsible for an experiment “I woke up to the sound of dripping water” in March 2015 at Forsøgsstationen. Gerd Schottländer, a member of the Experimental Station’s board of directors, is involved as dramaturge for…
PHYSICAL TRAINING The artistic directors of The Experimental Station, Lotte Faarup and Øyvind Kirchhoff are responsible for a main experiment in the current season 14/15 “Physical Training”, where they ask the question: What does it take to give the performer’s physical training an artistic dimension? This question was the starting point for three weeks of…
ALBERT UPSIDE DOWN In January 2015, Kine Marie Hansen and Johannes Starke lead the experiment, “Albert upside down”. Here they use Albert Einstein’s thoughts and ideas as artistic material. The experiment is part of an upcoming contemporary circus project.
MAIN EXPERIMENT “THE SOUND OF THE AUDIENCE” The Sound of the Audience is an experimental project created by Forsøgsstationen in the 2016/17 season, as a micro event under the EU project Caravan Next; a large European artistic and social collaboration project with Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium – Odin Teatret from Holstebro as initiator. This project focuses on…
MEMBERSHIP TRIAL “SANDY ISLAND” The experimental project Sandy Island – A cross-artistic, immersive performing arts experiment, explores how to involve the audience in an immersive theater form and create a meaningful exchange between audience, stage space and performer, which contributes to the audience’s active co-creation of the work based on the Sandy Island phenomenon. The…
MEMBERSHIP TRIAL “THE CORE” (WORKING TITLE) Where do you draw the line? In this experiment, we explore the concept of ‘boundaries’. We will take our circus specialty – partner acrobatics – and explore the boundaries we encounter here. The physical limitations we face, the fears we are confronted with and how this can affect the…
CELL During the residency, we will explore how physical states and visuals can illustrate the inter-relation between inner and outer worlds. Oliver Sacks work in general and more specifically his book ‘Hallucinations’ inspires both the visual and the choreographic elements. In the process, we will investigate the contrasts between contact and sensing versus isolation and…
V FIGURINES, PART 3 The starting point for the experiment V Figurines, led by choreographer Julie Schmidt Andreasen, is a desire to work with a female ensemble and explore the qualities that lie within it. After meeting and visiting the artist Marit Benthe Norheim, Julie Schmidt Andreasen was inspired to create choreography that relates to…
LYDBILLEDER The experiment “Sound Images” is an investigation of sonic narrative forms on stage, which runs from Monday 15/8 to Friday 26/8 2016. Vild Kammerat and Theater AbstraX will investigate this with the question “How can we – based on Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s novel universe – intensify the aural forms of narration on stage?” Participants…
WRITING HOLIDAY Peter Kunz and Sofie Alhøj are at The Experimental Station to write a book about the actor’s work. A kind of “manual for the actor”. The aim of the work at the Experimental Station is to achieve greater clarity and precision in the wording of the book, so that it can be used…
TRIAL BIRTH/BREATH – IF The experiment Birth/Breath evolved into the project IF – which premiered at Bådteatret in 2017. Quote from Othernessproject.org website “What would you do if you could be reborn in any body at any place? What would you do if you could choose your gender? Your lifespan? From one minute to eternity?…
TOTAL!IN! The experiment has 2 phases. The first phase is in week 20 and the second phase in week 36 In week 20: TOTAL!DANCE! – back to basics – exploring the essence of the practice that forms a living foundation for TOTAL!DANCE! – an interactive dance and music performance for children, is explored. In week…
“THE POWER OF LIES” TeaterRICH explores the power of lies in this membership attempt: “Through a concrete story, we have explored how lies can create a different reality – a new normality. Are curious about the fact that societal systems can amplify the lie and even legalize it. The truth can suddenly become dangerous and…
THE VISUAL WILDNESS EXPERIMENT A study of style shifts and live projections of objects on stage. We would like to develop a Stylistic Cacophony for the scenic expression in a possible future children’s show Slut Starut. The style of the performance will be a mix of object theatre, interactive video installation and comic performance. How…
DREAMING IS SOMETHING WE DO WHILE WE SLEEP The experiment is subtitled: “research towards the creation of a participatory artwork: the night-visioning a post capitalist society while we sleep”. The hello!earth group launched this project in 2015 and had its first trial round at the Experimental Station in April 2016. The project now back…
HOME From September 1-13, 2015 , Boaz Barkan and Seimi Nørregaard were responsible for the experiment “HOME – building and rebuilding from the known to the unknown”. It was an experiment around audience involvement and ownership of a work, and through that, opportunities for a co-poetic presence. It was in preparation for their project of…
“SECOND SKIN EXPERIMENT” In November ’15, Anette Asp Christensen is leading an experiment at The Experimental Station. It’s called the “Second Skin Experiment”. The experiment is based on the idea of the doll as a second skin. She writes about the experiment: ‘Using body fragments based on casts of our own and each other’s bodies,…
“THE ACTOR AND THE ÜBER-PUPPET” For the 15/16 season, Øyvind Kirchhoff of the Research Station is in charge of the main experiment “Open exploration of the actor and the über-puppet”. It is a study of the theatrical expression of the actor and the puppet theatre and the fusion of both forms into a new theatrical…
STORY PLAY ’15 Jesper La Cour from Det Fortællende Teater is in charge of the November ’15 experiment “Story Play”, which is about developing oral narratives as a performing arts expression in a non-competitive context. It draws on the experience of audiences in different age groups. Jesper La Cour writes about his attempt: “An audience…
TRY “BACCHANTER XO” In 1996, three actors and physical performers played together in Anne-Lise Gabold’s production of “The Bacchantes” by Euripides. In August 2015, Angelina Watson, along with the other two actors, led the “Bacchanter XO” trial. The experiment investigates whether years of work with the Suzuki Method and Nadine-George voice training are stored in…
DAILY DANCE Ellen Kilsgaard, Anu Rajala-Erkut, Birgitte Lundtoft and Rosa Isaldur DAILY DANCE – a weekly exercise group and physical think tank. Development of sensual dance practice. Read the trial’s statement of intent here
EARTH YEAR Playwright and stage director Kristian Husted and Burkinabe actor, playwright and director Kiswindsida Thierry Hervé Oueda have teamed up for the experiment, EARTH YEAR. The experiment addresses the following question: “Is there a certain perception of time in the European drama, a chronological perception of time that underpins and reflects the economic notions…
QUARTERLIFT Based on the urban renewal of Vesterbro, the concept of renewal is examined in relation to city, home and identity. The experiment is made by Theater 1760. It is led by Ida Kenskov.
LIVINGSTONE’S CABINET “RANDOM PERFORMANCE GAME” Livingstone’s Kabinet was responsible for the experimental work entitled R.P.G (Random Performance Game) from November 16 – December 4, 2015. Livingstones Kabinet worked with the following question: Is it possible to develop a hands-on board/card game that can be used as a structuring and inspirational tool in a performing arts…
QUIET A study of a performing introvert form of expression. Experiments by director Nina Kareis, composer/theater maker Pete Livingstone and set designer Julie Forchhammer, Livingstone’s Cabinet. Read the trial’s statement of intent here
V FIGURES V Figurines – What do women share and in what ways can we empower and understand ourselves and each other? What exercises in empathy are there through breathing, contact, sound and movement? Experiment by choreographer Julie Schmidt Andreasen together with dancers Marie Andersson, Birgitte Lundtoft, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, Meleat Aster Helena Fredrikson, Sandra…
