Platform Friday, December 11, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Research Station Featuring presentations of experiments from August through December 2026. If you’d like to participate, please sign up by December 1 at forsoegsstationen@gmail.com Platform Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in words and practice of experimental projects, where we…
Audience Participation with Voice-Based Audio Interpretation How can audience voices be incorporated artistically as performers who convey mood in narrative theater? How does the storyteller act to facilitate voice-based sound improvisations as a mood-setting element in a performance? The dramaturgy of this version of the 4,000-year-old Gilgamesh views the character of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk,…
Caribbean Literature and Cultural History—Cultural Encounters in the Eye of the Hurricane, with Lars Jensen Wednesday, October 14 and 21, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Research Station. The study group is free. Street Academy explores Caribbean cultural history as reflected in literature. The format is a kaleidoscopic exploration of some…
Explore your voice and its potential Voicework workshop October 3–5, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., 2026, focusing on breath, body, voice, and Shakespeare’s words—inspired by Nadine George’s groundbreaking voice work. Work is about realizing the potential of your voice. It was originally developed for actors, but in Angelina Kirchhoff’s work with the method, it has become…
Tak for a fantastic support party! On Saturday, September 12, the research station held a fundraising event to celebrate its work and support its future. Up to 300 people came to enjoy a spectacular program featuring talented artists who delivered a wonderful mix of jazz music, storytelling, cabaret, political satire, twelve-tone music, poetry readings,…
12.9. 6:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Come support the artists at the Experimental Station and their work in promoting experimental art and collegial solidarity! There will be plenty of musical and theatrical entertainment on our foyer stage, featuring, among others, Schwanzen Sänger Knaben, Vigga Bro, Josefine Cronholm, Peter Larsen & Anne Marie Helger, Jacque Lauritsen, TeaterPatrasket, and…
MY VESTERBRO: A CITY WALK ABOUT INEQUALITY, SPIRIT, AND QUIRKY STORIES Vesterbro has undergone a significant transformation, but behind the renovated facades, there are still traces ofthe neighborhood’s original way of life and social challenges. We invite you to join a city walk that focuses on inequality,poverty, marginalization, and the effects of gentrification.But despite the…
Embodiment of Sensory Exploration With this experiment, I aim to investigate whether and how sensory observations (visual, auditory, tactile) can be translated into bodily images or movement. I gathered these observations through a site-specific sensory investigation of a selected location on Refshaleøen in Copenhagen. My intention was to connect with the essence of that particular…
The Sound of Things and Set Design Inspired by the theory of evolution, we speculate about the past and the future. What might things have looked like if we had evolved in a completely different way? If we hadn’t looked the way we do today, what might we have looked like? What will our bodies…
The Experimental Theater ended the 25/26 season with a deficit of 100,000 kr., as a result of a grant that had not increased in the past 13 years. We responded by organizing this fundraising event and, at the same time, bringing the acute problem and the developments that could soon lead to the…
Piling Days is a choreographic project by Frida Billeskov and Magalí Camps that explores the actions of gathering, accumulating, and carrying through dance and choreographic accumulations. The project draws on the choreographic method “piling,” developed during previous residencies, which views choreography as a living structure that is continuously reorganized and transformed over time. Through repetition,…
PUPPET PARTY UNIMA invites everyone who is interested to a fun evening for puppet, figure, and animation theater. Come and meet others from the puppet theater community, Chat with like-minded people, exchange ideas and stories, and enjoy a casual evening in good company. We’ll be serving tapas and drinks. The event will take place…
Åbning af det nye bibliotek fredag den 12. juni kl. 16:30 I mange år har Forsøgsstationens bogsamling levet en ret usynlig og rodet tilværelse i hjørnet af foyeren. Men nu får den sit helt eget rum: Biblioteket. Bøgerne er ved at blive katalogiseret og opstillet efter flere end 40 forskellige emne, så det bliver…
Monuments, Power, and Resistance—When the City’s Statues CrackA Walk Through Copenhagen Street Academy invites you on a walking tour through Copenhagen—we’ll walk through the city together and delve into thestories that have shaped it.We’ll talk about colonial history and national mythology.About feminist voices and antiheroes.About the men we learned to call visionaries, entrepreneurs, and…
Dear performing artists The Research Station will begin accepting membership applications for the 26/27 academic year on June 8. The 26/27 season runs, as usual, from August through June (August 3 to June 30) and costs 2,000 DKK this year for individual memberships, 800 kr. for members living outside the Greater Copenhagen area, and…
Platform Saturday d. June 6, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the Research Station With presentation of trials from January to June 2026. If you’d like to participate, please sign up by May 29 at the latest at: forsoegsstationen@gmail.com Platform Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in words and practice of…
The Living Space—The Relational Field as Choreographic and Scenic Material We wish to explore the living space—the relational field—as choreographic and scenic material. We work with the ensemble as an organism, not as a group of individual performers. Through improvisational scores, we explore when and how a collectively experienced sense of presence arises, and how…
Street Academy: Samtalearrangement om aktivisme kl. 17.30–19.30 Street Academy inviterer til en aften med fokus på aktivisme som form og som drivkraft. Fra kl. 17.30 åbner vi for samtale og refleksion med oplæg og dialog. Vi har p.t. tilsagn fra en repræsentant fra Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, der professionelt rådgiver om aktivisme, samt en repræsentant fra…
Take Care of Caring The project is rooted in contemporary dance research and explores what an aesthetics of embodied care might look like. How can it be choreographed? Does such a choreography already exist, and do we need to challenge it? Taking as its starting point various improvisational and somatic scores centered on different practices…
MaterClass in Puppetry for TV and Film on March 21 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Research Station 5 free spots for members of the research station Through demonstrations and hands-on exercises, we will explore how to use puppets to best connect with fellow performers, the audience, and the camera. We work with “Muppet”-style…
RE-WILD Hvordan kan vi arbejde med danserens styrker og begrænsinger og lade både spændinger og konflikt, omsorg, kærlighed og ligeværd udspille sig mellem generationer? Hvilken forundring og poesi opstår der i mødet mellem dansere fra tre forskellige generationer? Hvordan kan spændingsfeltet mellem dansernes samhørighed og forskellighed, sætte publikums følelser og eftertænksomhed i spil? Forsøgets titel…
The Dig Our Forsog will be the first of three research and development residencies lasting a total of six weeks and taking place in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Helsinki. The project builds upon Madeleine and Aleksandra’s previous site-specific work, “City Layers” (which premiered in August 2024 at the KIN Festival, Sydhavn Teater). “The Dig” is an…
In Memoriam: Helle Fuglsang It is a great sorrow that Helle Fuglsang is no longer with us. Helle was an amazing person with incredible courage. She was curious, interested in others, and deeply committed to the world around her, which seemed increasingly unfair. Helle always took the time to pause and listen when we…
The Lamenters – Dancing into Tears In the project *The Lamenters – Dancing into Tears*, we explore how movement can be used to evoke and experience tears. The project is facilitated by Finnish music etymologist Tuomas Rounakari in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Antoinette Helbing and dancers Beck Heiberg, Max Wallmeier, and Tomas Janypka…
Lamenting Workshop, January 10, 2026 Laments are a global genre of traditional music associated with death rituals and other rites of passage. Laments often combine improvised melody, poetry, and natural tears. The workshop includes practical exercises designed to provide a hands-on experience of how to express grief. We will engage in group exercises to…
Platform Saturday, December 6, 2025 Lotte Faarup Hole without boundaries – mapping a paradox – Losing something you never had – what artistic form can this take? Maya Dalinsky & Keren Hoffman Two for sensation – How can we use sensation for improvisation? Karin Bergman & Joana Ellen Öhlschläger TO CULTIVATE A…
The human voice in connection with energy, the body, and acting. -An investigation into the impact that energetic, physical, and acting-related work can have on a singing voice Based on the work “Stripsody” by singer and composer Cathy Berberian, I will explore how energetic, physical, and acting-based work can influence the human voice. The…
A Hole Without Boundaries—Mapping a Paradox An exploration of artistic formats (choreography, objects, text) that can give form to the paradox of having lost something one has never had. One could call it an attempt to describe nothingness, rootlessness, absence, and, by extension, the emotions of grief and longing. Report THE TEAM BEHIND…
Platform Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in words and practice of experimental projects, where we try to get to the core of each individual’s experimental work, and subsequently, in a joint plenary, also seek to talk about trends and larger lines. All participants will have 40 minutes each to present their work, which…
Anti-musical: Sound work and characters – surveys The group will explore how to create an “anti-musical” that goes against common musical norms of the genre, but still has the dramaturgical form of a musical. We will work with intensive character, sound and voice work, as well as how to find songs/sound themes and a sound…
The Experiment Station Street Academy presents A late afternoon performance in the company of the documentary, Orsugiak/Greenland’s white gold. The documentary was screened on DR at the beginning of the year and all hell broke loose. A financial fig leaf argument became the occasion for a media campaign targeting the film, the directors and several…
THE HAND PUPPET AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL Sunday, October 5 from 10am-2pm 7 free seats for members of the Experimental Station. Sign up to Rebecca Arthy at rebecca@unima.dk Are you an educator, puppeteer or work with children aged 2-10 years? Join us for an inspiring workshop and learn how the hand puppet can become…
FEEL FREE The project will make visible the emotional deposits of an effective time. Conditions that often go unspoken, but shape our lives. The project is based on a somatic dance practice, a strategy for presence that stage and performance artist Tora Balslev has developed over a number of years. The method emerged as a…
The Dying Swan Song I will physically and vocally explore grief, loss, and transformation inspired by the myth of the Swan Song, and with a point of departure in Swan Lake. The project investigates how endings may hold the seed of something new. I will research movement, voice, and spatial proximity to the audience, creating…
two for sensation How do we source performance material out of sensation in real time, and where does that lead us? Keren and Maya explore different scores and frameworks for improvising with and out of sensation. We’ll use each other as partners for stimulating sensation in the body and witnessing its emergence into dance, performance…
Co-Weaving, Monophony During the research, I will transform my previous dance performance (2024) with five performers into a solo version, . I will weave my prose text, which is intertwined with personal memories of migration and friction, into the fabric of movement. By employing choreographic scores of repetition, amplification, and transformation, I aim to shift…
To cultivate a wild heart Coming from a fascination for large spaces and how their energy can be shifted by the appearance of dances that are here and gone we want to research on the question: How can dance take up space? What traces can it leave? How can it shift a space, a…
Object and table theater – for children in a world in crisis An object placed on a table can create a strong focus and set a story in motion.Or the object can create a contrasting meaning to the text being spoken.Objects can also visualize a situation or a location, which is further developed in the…
Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in words and practice of experimental projects, where we try to get to the core of the individual’s experimental work, and subsequently in a joint plenary also seek to talk about trends and larger lines. All participants will have 40 minutes each to present their work, which can…
Mask workshop with Matteo Destro Workshop on June 14 or 15 from 10-17 at the Experimental Station. 5 free tickets for both days are offered for members of the Experimental Station. The workshop is supported by Kunstfonden in collaboration with Passepartout Teatre production, UNIMA Denmark and Forsøgsstationen Sign up to Sif Jessen Hymøller…
PUPPET PARTY Dear doll lovers, doll enthusiasts and doll maniacs On Saturday, May 17 from 19-22, we will once again celebrate puppet and animation theater at Forsøgsstationen with a Puppet Party. There will be an Open Stage, the opportunity to build puppets, time for small talks and to meet other puppet enthusiasts over a…
A shared relief The three dancers Paulina, Roula and Maxime, take a closer look at techniques of relief.From different angles, all three worked with the concept of ‘releasing tension’; through music and vibrations, through touch and senses and through the expression of anger. How do techniques of relief, the feeling of reassurance and relaxation following…
The Life of Plants With the help of sunlight, the leaves of plants supply the atmosphere with oxygen, our lifeblood, right under our noses, and yet it’s as if we barely notice it. What are we missing out on – and how can we get closer? Based on our knowledge of the different plant…
Aftermath is an in-progress black-box performance initiated by Madeleine Cole, Enzo Hacquin and Sarah Olivia Klitgaard, in which the Fountain as a concept emerged following a residency at Pavillon K. The Fountain encapsulates themes of fluidity, circularity, ornamentation and the passing of time. A fourth performer in the piece, a fountain installation is present on…
Artistic talks and Friday Bar See You, scenes from a refugee camp. Time: Friday, March 28, 2025, 16:30 – 19:00.Location: Experimental station Sdr. Boulevard 81, 1720 Kbh. V Mime artist, director and filmmaker Helle Fuglsang screens the documentary See You, a portrait of life in a refugee camp, where Helle has captured wordless scenes of…
INTRO WORKSHOP TO WORKING WITH PUPPETS On March 22 from 12-16 at Forsøgsstationen there is a unique free offer for all Unima members and members of Forsøgsstationen. Katrine Karlsen and Rebecca Arthy invite you to: Intro workshop for working with puppets. In the workshop we will work with the basic principles of animation and…
Explore your voice and its potential 4-day workshop focusing on breath, body, voice and Shakespeare’s words – inspired by Nadine George’s groundbreaking voice work. Work is about realizing the potential of your voice. It was originally developed for actors, but in Angelina Kirchhoff’s work with the method, it has become clear that it is also…
Shaped is an ecological exploration of home; home as body, environment and earth. The theme of the experiment plays on the connection between “eco” and the etymological root “oikos”, which means household. It thus explores the ecology of home and how creating home is a constant change and shaping between body and environment. The experiment…
Join us for the Danish premiere of the documentary film Så vidt er vi kommet by Helle Stenum: Thursday d. January 23rd at 19:30 at the Experimental Station The film is about the deportation of refugees from Denmark – past and present. It is about the deportation of Jewish refugees in the 1930s…
Images from platform December 2024 PLATFORM Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in words and practice of experimental projects, where we try to get to the core of each individual’s experimental work, and subsequently, in a joint plenary, also seek to talk about trends and larger lines. All participants get 40 minutes each to…
AN ARRAY In 2012, I embarked on a solo project called “All I Need Is Here” that worked with emotion and affect as kinesthetic input. I was curious about how the effect of being seen–and ‘affect’ as a personal response to environment–might become sensory material for live composition. With “An Array”, 10+ years later, I’d…
Platform Saturday, December 7, 2024, 10 am – 2:30 pm at the Experimental Station Presenting trials from August to December 2024. If you would like to participate, sign up no later than December 4 to forsoegsstationen@gmail.com The narrative theatre Improkor – A joint exploration in shared sound creation – What bodily, communal…
CRITICISM FOR DEBATE THE GOOD CONVERSATION: Can we talk about artistic quality concepts in new ways? Can we meet the performing artist’s work more openly with curiosity, wonder and inquisitiveness? Instead of killing it with stars, can we think about the work, reflect on it together with its creator and thus give it a…
VOICE TRAINING EXPLORE YOUR VOICE AND ITS POTENTIAL 2 voice training sessions focusing on breath, body, voice and Shakespeare’s words – inspired by Nadine George’s groundbreaking voice work. The first two sessions are an introduction to the work, where we work with breath, texts and individual voice work for members who have not tried…
CRITICISM FOR DEBATE THE GOOD CONVERSATION: Can we talk about artistic quality concepts in new ways? Can we meet the performing artist’s work more openly with curiosity, wonder and inquisitiveness? Instead of killing it with stars, can we think about the work, reflect on it together with its creator and thus give it a…
Improkor – a collaborative exploration of collective sound creations The basic form of the experiment is that we – a group that can vary from time to time – stand in a circle with our eyes closed and create a common, oral sound process. The improvisations are explored through frames that change from time to…
Puppeteer and object art director Kang Jian (CHN) gives an insight into Chinese puppetry, his work with objects and puppets, and also shows excerpts. There will also be workshop elements, so her visit will include several different aspects: presentations, viewing and workshop elements. Kang Jian has a residency under the auspices of Nydanskeren Jimbuts Kulturforening,…
Never The Sam Selves In its simplest form, memory is a continuous process of storing information over time. It allows us to remember and draw on past events to frame our understanding and behavior in the present. Thus, our existing views of ourselves are influenced by what we remember about our own past – and…
Pardon my French? Three movement artists speaking 8 different languages come together to research communication. How do the languages they speak influence their thinking, their use of metaphors/aphorisms and their movement language? Artists Iannes Bruylant, Gabrielle Emily Aidulis and Keren-Or Ben Shachar will research the impact of language on dance, investigating how elements like metaphors,…
On/Crying – The Gravity of tears Our experiment explores the act of crying itself. We want to develop choreographic ideas and a sketch for an installation that invites you to spend time in the landscape of crying in a collective crying space – with everything that lies before, inside and after crying. What would a…
Artistic talks and Friday bar Forsøgsstationen and Uafhængige Scenekunstnere have joined forces to facilitate a series of artistic conversations followed by a Friday bar on the last Friday of each month at Forsøgsstationen. The event is both for members and anyone else interested and the first takes place: Friday d. 30. August ´24 at 16.30…
Re-wilding – a relatinonscape Wild with Will – a relatinonscape I want to gather a group of people of different ages, genders and movement/dance backgrounds, about 10 people – it could be a couple of children aged 8-12, a couple of teenagers, a couple of young professional dancers, some mature professional dancers and physical actors…
The way we… Language and body language are the intricate threads that weave our identities. They unravel our stories, revealing the depths of our past and the essence of our being. In The way we… we look into how we are shaped by others as we would like to deconstruct our identity as it is…
You can now apply for membership of FORSØGSSTATIONEN WORKSHOP FOR PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS To work towards this goal, Forsøgsstationen has established itself as an open workshop for all professional performing artists in the old cinema Boulevarden in Vesterbro, where continuous training courses are offered, research projects are developed, workshops are organized and a library with…
Platform June. 8 new trial projects in spring 2024 You are hereby invited to Platform Saturday, June 8, 2024, 10 am – 2:40 pm at the Experimental Station PLATFORM Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in words and practice of experimental projects, where we try to get to the core of each individual’s…
‘StORM’ is an exploration of what stuttering can choreographically/scenographically/dramatically do in a regenerated mindset. The dramaturgy from Shakespeare’s THE STORM is the framework for the experiment with 12 participants, aged 10-70 years, who work regeneratively based on the Story Play model’s narrative theater principles. Each participant has one stick each as their only prop.…
Hreyfð is a wearable electronic instrument that creates sound with movement. The instrument uses microphones and speakers to create audio feedback, which is processed with sensors, such as gyroscopes, attached to the performer’s body and dancers play the instrument through movement. The trial focuses on how a wearable device can affect the way the body…
PLAYING WITH GHOSTS PLAYING THE DECOLONIAL; HUMOR, ART, TECH 23 & 24 May 2024 at Forsøgsstationen & IT University, Copenhagen Convened by Britta Timm Knudsen & Miguel Sicart, With the Support of The ‘Playing With Ghosts’ AUFF Nova Research Project, http://decolonisingplay.com/ The Cultural Transformations Research Programme, IKK, Aarhus University The Centre for Digital Play,…
This workshop marks the start of a new collaboration with the Danish National School of Performing Arts’ continuing education program, dedicated to the development of new artistic formats, exploration and experimentation. VOICEWORK EXPLORE YOUR VOICE AND ITS POTENTIAL 4-day workshop focusing on breath, body, voice and Shakespeare’s words – inspired by Nadine George’s groundbreaking…
3 new trial reports in 2024 The experiments Ode to Alone by Maya Dalinsky, SLIM by May Rafferty and Emotional Landscapes by Nina Hansen have been completed. Three reports have been made about the trials, which can be read on the Experimental Station’s website. Read the reports here: Ode to Alone SLIM Emotional…
Adoption. The past few months have been dominated by headlines, news reports and debates about adoption. Kolonihistorisk Center association has invited three people with adoption backgrounds to shed light on the background and consequences: Frederikke Slotsager, who recently performed at Mino Ung’s Røst event at Glyptoteket; Kâlánguak Absalonsen, who has told her adoption story at…
This workshop marks the start of a new collaboration with the Danish National School of Performing Arts’ continuing education program, dedicated to the development of new artistic formats, exploration and experimentation. VOICEWORK EXPLORE YOUR VOICE AND ITS POTENTIAL 4-day workshop focusing on breath, body, voice and Shakespeare’s words – inspired by Nadine George’s groundbreaking…
and or with but on in to… This exploration in writing and dance is inspired by the work of Gianni Rodari, an Italian teacher and children’s book writer whose pedagogy valued children’s innate playfulness and nurtured their imaginations as writers through collective processes. In Grammar of Fantasy (1973), his ‘introduction to the art of inventing…
Abrupt Disorientation of the Self “I will try to describe the physical stage of being between two places in life or stages in the body or thoughts etc. etc. Through the spoken and unspoken words or sounds of the voice, through a bodily search based on inner rhythm and response to the sounds of the…
Sign language – an artistic approach How do you create theater in an artistic group consisting of deaf and hearing people with different knowledge and ability to use verbal and sign language? And how can personal attachments to identity and language form the basis for a theater performance that includes both deaf and hearing people?…
YOUR HEART OUT is a dance work initiated by Ella Östlund and Ottavia Catenacci, in collaboration with the sound designer Eliza Bozek. YOUR HEART OUT is working with the concept of fandom. According to Cambridge dictionary Fandom is intended as ‘the state of being a fan of someone or something, especially a very enthusiastic one’.…
Dear doll lovers, doll enthusiasts and doll maniacs Saturday 16. March 19-22 we celebrate puppet and animation theater at Forsøgsstationen. There will be an open stage, the opportunity to build your own doll, time for small talks and the opportunity to meet other doll enthusiasts over a small glass. Anyone with a doll…
The INTO THE UNKNOWN site has expanded to include presentations of two new experiments: – Voice training as basic research What is the artistic and human potential of a lifelong basic research with voice training? Angelina Kirchhoff / The Experimental Station – Toolbox A choreographic method development Tim Matiakis / The Experimental Station…
A Research on Art and Earth Jurisprudence – for The Forests Trial I am working on a 4 years research-performance, divided in 4 parts, one each year, investigating different forms of mining of nature and forests in the world, and the interconnection of these destructions at a local and global scale. During these years I…
What the eye doesn’t see We will explore how we can communicate dance, movement, music and song in the dark – through all senses other than sight. We will work with our poetic/aesthetic perception of space and direction, intensity and mood, dance and music when we are not using sight to experience the work. The…
What is the artistic and human potential of a lifelong basic research with voice training? This basic research is based on the technique of voice teacher Nadine George and has been developed since 1989 in countless workshops, teaching, performance processes and, not least, at the Experimental Station in experiments and as part of the weekly…
Beatrice Visits Islands Beginning with ‘B’ In the experiment and project I will develop my multifaceted artistic practice consisting of acting, text, performance, video, drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, etc. Compile and fuse these different artistic approaches, forms and fields and bring them into a new context to: Beatrice Visits Islands Beginning with ‘B’. I will…
Platform December 5 new pilot projects i fall. Experimental station site INTO THE UNKNOWN has expanded with presentation of two new trials. You are hereby invited to Platform Saturday d. December 9, 2023, 10 am – 2:30 pm at the Experimental Station PLATFORM Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in words and practice…
Invitation Moving Movies is an urge to get together in the November darkness to eat soup and watch movies that appeal to movement. The idea of enjoying a hot meal and then watching a movie where you can both sit comfortably and get up and stand or move, maybe dance if that takes your fancy.…
If anything is not The project “If anything is not” is a research around holes. Holes as entities made of nothing. We can define them as an absence or a trace of what it was, as well as the structure and identity of the entity that supports it. Holes talk about what it is through…
Ode to Alone is a celebration of solo practice that I will carry out for two consecutive weeks at Forsøgstationen. Over the past decade and a half, I’ve been going to the studio regularly to just dance by myself. To practice. To be alone. You could say that the studio became a unique body given…
Panel debate and discussion with participation from Julie Edel Hardenberg, Svend Hardenberg, Turid Nolsøe and Kuku Agami. The panel discussion is based on representation in the TV and film industry. This is an area that has been debated in Denmark in recent years. Here there is a need to look critically at the lack of…
SLIM S Question: Is it possible to write a script and perform a play in a gender-neutral way? – and ethnicity neutral? SLIM is a performative investigation about identity politics. The experiment looks at hhow much can be liquefied in one piece without losing its shape? How to play a snail snail, and how to…
Smooth Oscillator With Smooth Oscillator we are inspired by Jane Bennet’s definition of assemblage as a gathering of materials that are distinct but inseparable. The elements of an assemblage are never fully independent, constantly affecting and being affected by one another in a way that resists clear hierarchies. We want to explore the potential of…
Us Us / Us Else / Else Us / Else Else Else From our creation as humans, our heart rate defines our manifestation in the world. The heartbeat of an unborn human in the womb is 135 beats per minute. This is the same number of BPM (beats per minute) that DJs use to bring…
Anorexia; my best friend, my worst enemy Key question: How do we investigate the physicality of eating disorders based on autobiographical material to uncover and elucidate the psychomotor roots of body dysmorphia. The purpose of the experiment is toresearch methods for performing arts bodily work with vulnerable life experts on their terms, focusing on the…
TENDER is a research project and performance initiated by Beyond Darkness, the choreographic duo of Nadja Mattioli and Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen. During the “forsøg”, we are collaborating with dancers Cecilie Kjær, Anna Stamp and Camilla Schnack, sound artist Eliza Bozek, as well as invited dialogue partners such as Solveig Gade and Cath Borch Jensen. In…
Between Strings In the experiment Between Strings – the audience and the space, I work with the string installation, Between Strings. It is a large spatial sound installation that basically consists of seven strings in different materials, stretched out in space over 5-10 meters. In the experiment, I will expand the sound installation to include…
The Impro Jam is a space where the Copenhagen dance community can get together and improvise in a safe and open space with each other. Marco Payer is organizing and hosting the evening but he is not teaching, guiding or in charge of the content during the jams. Which content and how the jam is…
Emotional landscape How can I as a player navigate my emotions in an improvisation? Emotions are abstract, constantly moving and hard to pin down. How can I be concrete and approach the work without getting lost in the flux? Able to capture the feeling, make it clear, but still alive in the moment? Hopefully the…
Speech by Lotte Faarup (artistic director of The Experimental Station) Monday d. August 21, 2023, at the industry day at the Wawes festival, Vordingborg. Artists are losing power Thank you for inviting us to this industry day. I’m here today representing The Experimental Station – a workshop for practice-based performing arts research for professional performing…
Every Sunday from 15-18 starting on 17 of september 2023 at FORSØGSSTATIONEN Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance Improvisation Our practice offer tools and ideas for partner-work and creative movement discoveries, supporting dancers and movers in their own path. An approach to expanding awareness, being present, engaging with space and gravity. Practice is usually guided…
VOICE TRAINING Finding your voice by working with the breath, the body and the voice and the word. Nadine George’s voice work is about finding your voice’s potential. It was actually developed for actors but in my work with the method it has become clear that it is about the general human relationships. Finding your…
The research station will be on summer vacation from July 1 through August 6, 2023. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER VACATION
VOTING WORKSHOP AT THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION ON 13. AND 14. MAY 2023 Finding your voice by working with the breath, the body and the voice and the word. Nadine George’s voice work is about finding your voice’s potential. It was actually developed for actors but in my work with the method it has become clear…
THE GREAT RENEWAL WITH MARC VAN DER VELDEN What shoulders do we stand on when we think we are inventing the wheel in our rehearsal room? Is the modern performing arts in a state of rapid evolution or nothing more than a motley collection of variations and cross-cuts of what was new and modern more…
WEEKLY TRAINING Monday 9 – 11 Teach Each Other – starts 6 March – see more: www.burmesterwium.art 18 – 21 Stands & Dance – see more: www.standsogdans.dk Tuesdays 8 – 11 Free morning training in common room 19 – 21.30 Gaga training Wednesdays 9.15 – 11 Voice training (text registration by 21 the evening…
“The Perfect Theatre” Lecture and Workshop with Thorsten Bihegue & Junge Bühne Bochum on April 26. at 7 p.m Registration for the workshop by email: forsoegsstationen@gmail.com no later than April 26. The workshop is free of charge. Based on the ideas we developed for our play “SUCKS!” in 2021, we’ll ask: What…
The German experimental theatre collective Junge Bühne Bochum will perform at The Lab station on 27 April with the show “Silence” at 7 pm in connection with a residency at The Lab station. Tickets are free of charge and must be booked by April 27 at pr.forsoegsstationen@gmail.com Junge Bühne Bochum – JuBB for short…
VOCAL TRAINING AT THE LAB STATION: Start Wednesday d. 4 January 2023 from 9.15 -11.00 Finding your voice by working with the breath, the body and the voice and the word. Nadine George’s voice work is about finding your voice’s potential. It was actually developed for actors but in my work with the method it…
Saturday d. On 10 December, the The Lab station held its biannual Platform with the presentation and knowledge sharing of the following 8 experiments: Inner Landscapes (Lise Aagaard Knudsen and Karen Eide Bøen), Choreographic Practice and Method Development (Tim Matiakis, Rachel Tess and Karen Vedel), In Ter Weave (Roosa Törma, Theresa Fogh Schou, Madeleine Cole…
On 25 and 26 November there was a workshop and sharing seminar with Tim Matiakis, in collaboration with The Lab station, about creating choreographic method.Tim Matiakis is a former solo dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet. Ballet and former artistic director of the company’s autonomous modern group “Corpus”. At the seminar Tim Matiakis talked…
A “Pure” Tragedy To process, develop, opt out and explore what can and cannot be used from the play ‘A “CLEAN” TRAGEDY’, to test and try out the text material in the stage space, together with own video and visual art, in a pop sound universe. In the summer of ’22 I was in Athens…
Physical knowledge sharing seminar with Tim Matiakis at the Forsøgsstationen 25th and 26 November 2022 This physical knowledge sharing seminar is a sharing of Tim Matiakis’ choreographic methodology and practice development experiments at and in collaboration with the Forsøgsstationen, supported by the Bikuben Foundation. The starting point for this choreographic method and…
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THE GREAT RENEWAL study of european avant-garde theatre between 1890 and 1930 What shoulders do we stand on when we think we are inventing the wheel in our rehearsal room?Is the modern performing arts in a state of rapid evolution or nothing more than a motley collection of variations and cross-cuts of what was new…
VOTING WORKSHOP AT THE TEST STATION FROM MAY 14-17, 2024. This workshop marks the start of a new collaboration with the Danish National School of Performing Arts’ continuing education program, dedicated to the development of new artistic formats, exploration and experimentation. VOICEWORK EXPLORE YOUR VOICE AND ITS POTENTIAL 4-day workshop focusing on…
WEEKLY TRAINING Monday 9 – 11 Teach Each Other – starts 26 September – see more: www.burmesterwium.art 18 – 21 Stands & Dance – see more: www.standsogdans.dk Tuesdays 8 – 11 Free morning training in common room – starting 9 August. 19 – 21.30 Gaga training – start on. August 9. Wednesdays 9 -…
Teach Each Other Mondays celebrates the end of the season with a week packed full of art making with guest artist Margaret Dragu from Vancouver/Canada. The week starts with TEOM this coming Monday, June 13, 9-11am. We’d like to sit down with everyone who engaged in TEOM over coffee and croissants, talk about what we…
Teach Each Other Monday: Helene Kvint: The Personal Narrative, Vol. 2 ENGLISH text below. Next Monday, Helene Kvint is back for a second TEOM this season. Once again, she invites you to work with your personal stories, inside her personal space and her long standing performing arts practice. How can we transform a personal story…
Dorte and Jörn Burmester Wium from B&W Art and Support are excited to let you know that the second part of the 2021/22 season of their open knowledge sharing platform Teach Each Other Mondays is about to begin! All mebers and other interested people are welcome to catch a quick glimpse of the practice of…
Our planned members’ meeting on Friday 28/1 has been cancelled due to corona, but we look forward to seeing you at the next meeting on 25/3 at 5pm, where there will also be a release of the report on the Shape of the Audience season trial!
Dear member of the Experimental Station. Come to the first members’ meeting of the new year on Friday 28 January from 5-8pm with the release of the trial report “The Shape of the Audience”. “The Shape of the Audience” is the third attempt in the series of the basic research project “Audience in an Artistic…
Dear all members. Unfortunately, we have to cancel the Christmas event on 17 December 2021 at the Experimental Station. We follow the recommendations of the health authorities and postpone the celebrations until spring 2022. The administration will be closed from 22 December 2021 to 4 January 2022. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. EXPERIMENTAL STATION
On 10 December, we held the last Platform at the Experimental Station in 2021. Platform is an artistic exchange of experience in word and practice between experimental projects, where we both exchange in small groups to get to the core of the individual experimental work, but subsequently in a common plenary also seek to…
The professional council for stage dance had on Thursday 2.12. invited to a salon at the Experimental Station. 15 people from very different backgrounds gathered to discuss what the Industry Council could do for the environment and the issues they saw. Lotte Faarup and Charlotte Rindom from the Experimental Station welcomed the…
The professional council for stage dance had on Thursday 2.12. invited to a salon at the Experimental Station. 15 people from very different backgrounds gathered to discuss what the Industry Council could do for the environment and the issues they saw. Lotte Faarup and Charlotte Rindom from the Experimental Station welcomed the participants…
We are excited to invite you to yet another very special Teach Each Other Monday. Our guest next Monday is Henrik Vestergaard, who you know as one of the masterminds of Live Art Danmark. But did you know that Henrik has also studied Kung Fu for the last 20 years or so? With King Kung…
Dear dancer/choreographer/physical performer at Forsøgsstationen. The Dance Platform is an initiative for members at Forsøgsstationen, with the aim to give dancers, choreographers and physical performers a weekly platform dedicated for training, artistic exchange and networking. Every Wednesday between 7 and 10 pm the hole year through, a studio is set aside for this purpose. Dancers…
In collaboration with Forsøgsstationen / The Lab Station, Glad Theatre and Complicité invites you to the sharing of the investigations and explorations made in the Artistic Development Workshop NEW FRONTIERS The sharing takes place at Forsøgsstationen, Thursday 28th of October, from 17.00 to19.00 What happens if artists approach creativity like they are explorers, astrophysicists,…
Dear dancer/choreographer/physical performer at Forsøgsstationen. The Dance Platform is an initiative for members at Forsøgsstationen, with the aim to give dancers, choreographers and physical performers a weekly platform dedicated for training, artistic exchange and networking. Every Wednesday between 7 and 10 pm the hole year through, a studio is set aside for this…
Stammbaum is the German word for family tree and the title of a fairly complex and confusing bundle of issues Dorte and Jörn Burmester Wium, hosts of Teach Each Other Mondays, are presently interested in. Thinking about family trees touches concerns of class, gender, visibility, appreciation and performance as art and in everyday life. The…
A new season in the performing arts begins without any Corona restrictions! B&W Art and Support are as excited as you are, and busy planning and preparing the second season of Teach Each Other Mondays. Regular Monday morning knowledge sharing will start up again in October. At 9 a.m. on Monday mornings, we will meet…
Dear member. Join us on Thursday 7 October from 5-8pm for the first members’ evening of the 21/22 season, where you can exchange artistic ideas and thoughts with other performing artists at the Forsøgsstationen. Hear about the latest news at the Experimental Station. Watch a film about recent attempts. Talk about yourself and what you…
Saturday d. 11/9 at 17-18 Sunday 12/9 at 17-18 Dear all. You are hereby invited to a performance of the work In Duo with Earth , which is a 40 minute dance and performance created and danced by Birgitte Skands . In duo with Earth, is a solo work formed in 2021…
We hereby invite those interested in telling and taking part in telling stories to join the experiment, Telling Workshop, at the Experimental Station At the Telling Studio we want to look at storytelling with fresh eyes. We will create a dynamic storytelling workshop with exercises and games, where we share our own stories…
Dear dancer/choreographer/physical performer at Forsøgsstationen. The Dance Platform is an initiative for members at Forsøgsstationen, with the aim to give dancers, choreographers and physical performers a weekly platform dedicated for training, artistic exchange and networking. Every Wednesday between 7 and 10 pm the hole year through, a studio is set aside for this…
The INTO THE UNKNOWN site has expanded to include presentations of two new experiments: The Shape of the Audience – study of audience movements, seen as choreographic patterns. Katrien van der Velden and Antoinette Helbing/ Forsøgsstationen The sound of the audience and silence-pause-reverberation – study of the auditory identity of the audience in the theatre.…
The INTO THE UNKNOWN site has expanded to include presentations of two new experiments: The Shape of the Audience – study of audience movements, seen as choreographic patterns. Katrien van der Velden and Antoinette Helbing/ Forsøgsstationen The Sound of the Audience and Silence-Pause-Echo – study of the auditory identity of the audience in…
The experimental station is looking forward to season 21/22 and crosses fingers that it will be possible to make a lot of wonderful performing arts without interruptions. The FS therefore asks all interested parties – new and old members – to submit their CV and membership application for the 21/22 season. If the…
Two choreographers and 21 volunteers are busy developing The Experimental Station’s seasonal experiment “ The Shape of the Audience” See pictures from the process and read more about the content and presentation under CPH. STAGE here. “The Shape of the Audience” A study of audience movement patterns in the theatre …
The choral work “Silence – Pause – Reverberation” and the performance “The Driverless Man” presented during CPH. STAGE. Read more about pre-stories, content and ticketing here. “Silence – Pause – Reverberation” A choral work of audience sounds For the past 5 years, the research station has focused on “audience relations…
Finally! Corona restrictions were lifted (a little) and B&W Art and Support are able again to offer their knowledge sharing series Teach Each Other Mondays for you to participate in. Yes, there will be live and in person meetings at Forsøgsstationen on every Monday this May. B&W are proud and happy to present an exciting…
Then we open again for voice training. 12 and the. 26 May before the summer holidays. Remember to sign up by texting 20150949 the day before. Remember coronapas. more info about voice training
The experiment Silence – Pause – Reverberation was held and presented in autumn 2020 – here you can watch a trailer from the process and premiere. Silence – Pause – Reverberation is a choral work that focuses on transforming the sounds and actions of the audience into an artistic sound work. What does expectation sound…
Would you like to participate in a project based on audience movement patterns in the theatre together with 15-20 other volunteers? The Shape of the Audience is an experimental project initiated by Forsøgsstationen and shaped by choreographers, dancers and performers Antoinette Helbingand Katrien van der Velden, which focuses on the movement patterns of…
The experimental station follows the guidelines and instructions of the authorities to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The experimental station will therefore be closed until 6 May 2021.
We have closed the registration for new members at the Experimental Station for the 2020/21 season.It is great that there is so much interest in our halls, activities and experimental opportunities and therefore we must unfortunately say no to more members.
Welcome Live Art Denmark for the fourth Teach Each Other Monday B&W Art and Support invite you to take a look inside the creative mind of a different artist on 12 Teach Each Other Mondays during the 2020/21 season. On the fourth Teach Each Other Monday we are looking forward to learn about the work…
Due to coronary restrictions and cancelled performances, this season we have given space to The Olske Orkester and Akut 360 can present their performances and subsequent Artist Talk at the Experimental Station. Who’s knocking plays from 9-21 November 2020 weekdays at 19.30 Saturdays at 16 in Boulevarden. Zenobia plays from 5 – 6 February 2021…
B&W offer Teach Each Other Mondays throughout the 2020/21 season. Come and take a look inside the creative mind of a different artist on 12 Monday mornings during the 2020/21 season. For our third Teach Each Other Monday we are happy to welcome performance artist Tove Vestmø. She will offer you a practical look into…
SILENCE – PAUSE – REVERBERATION VIDEOTRAILER Download image Read the press release here
B&W offer Teach Each Other Mondays throughout the 2020/21 season. Come and take a look inside the creative mind of a different artist on 12 Monday mornings during the 2020/21 season. For our second Teach Each Other Monday we are happy to welcome Columbian performance artist David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo. He will offer you a…
Silence – Pause – Reverberation is a choral work that focuses on transforming the sounds and actions of the audience into an artistic sound work. What does expectation sound like? Breath holding? What do people do during breaks and what does it sound like? And what are the impressions that remain in the memory and…
We have now closed the registration for new members at the Experimental Station for the 2020/21 season.It is great that there is so much interest in our halls, activities and experimental opportunities and therefore we must unfortunately say no to more members.
The voice training with Angelina Kirchhoff will start on 2 September from 9-10.45. Remember to sign up.
Monday morning: art and coffee Start your week with other artists and get an insight into their creative practice, get coffee, conversation about artistic processes, knowledge sharing, networking and free croissants. It all starts on. 7 September 2020 at 9am, where B&W invite you to their inaugural event of their brand new series of Teach…
Read here about our training offers. Please note that there may be restrictions on the number of participants per team due to coronary rules.
First choir rehearsal 14 August 2020. Next time is on Friday 21 August.
EMBODIED IMMEDIACY The experiment is a first step into a working partnership between movement and experience facilitator Rikke Jeppesen Rod (DK) and dancer-poet Catherine Magill (AUS). The project was born out of a shared curiosity about the synergy that arises when dance and words are simultaneously listening to each other’s stories. Can particular approaches to…
Watch video from the experiment “The actor and the über-marionette” The experiment “The actor and the über-puppet”, which has been running at the Experimental Station since September 24, 2015, is an investigation into the scenic expression of the actor and the puppet theater and the fusion of both into a new scenic expression. It is…
