Øyvind Kirchhoff, Forfatter på Forsøgsstationen

Playing with ghosts, playing the decolonial; Humor, art, tech 23 & 24 May at Forsøgsstationen & it university, Copenhagen

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 9. April 2024

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,…

Voicework from May 14-17, 2024 is closed for more registrations

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 8. April 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 breath, body, voice and Shakespeare’s words – inspired by Nadine George’s groundbreaking…

3 new trial reports in 2024

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 3. April 2024

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…

Kolonihistorisk Center association meeting March 18 at 17-19 at Forsøgsstationen

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 4. March 2024

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…

VOICEWORK, THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANISH PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL’S CONTINUING EDUCATION

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 4. March 2024

and or with but on in to…

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. February 2024

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 21. February 2024

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 16. February 2024

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 10. February 2024

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’.…

PUPPET FESTIVAL ON MARCH 16 AT THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. January 2024

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:

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 26. January 2024

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 28. December 2023

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 does not see

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 18. December 2023

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…

Voice training as basic research

INTO THE UNKNOWNBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 8. December 2023

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 that Begin with ‘B’

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 5. December 2023

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 ON 9/12 2023 FROM 10-14:30

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 8. November 2023

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…

Moving Movies 20/11 and 11/12 from 18.30-22

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 8. November 2023

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.…

TOOLBOX WORKSHOP 25/11 2023

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 8. November 2023

TOOLBOX – The Experimental Station 25 Nov TOOLBOX is a choreographic method developed by dancers and choreographer Tim Matiakis in 2022-23, in collaboration with Forsøgsstationen and supported by the Bikuben Foundation. On November 25, Tim invites you to a TOOLBOX workshop. TOOLBOX is a choreographic method consisting of five circularly related parts.…

If anything is not

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 6. November 2023

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 26. October 2023

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…

Debate on decolonization and representation

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 24. October 2023

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 9. October 2023

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 9. October 2023

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 27. September 2023

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 26. September 2023

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 – research into caring choreographies

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 20. September 2023

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 19. September 2023

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

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 17. September 2023

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

Trial 23/24By Øyvind Kirchhoff 14. September 2023

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…

ARTISTS ARE LOSING POWER

Press, UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. August 2023

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…

Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance Improvisation starting on 17 of September

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 25. August 2023

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 EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 9-10:30 AM STARTING ON 6. SEPTEMBER

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 25. August 2023

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…

Thank you for this year

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. June 2023

The research station will be on summer vacation from July 1 through August 6, 2023. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER VACATION

FEW PLACES LEFT ON THE VOTING WORKSHOP ON 13. AND 14. MAY 2023

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. April 2023

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…

Few places left in the Study Circle on European Avant-garde Theater on 10, 17. and 24/5 2023 from 19-22

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. April 2023

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 and Activity Calendar at the The Lab station 2023

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 23. January 2023

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” on 26 April from 19 – 21

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 18. January 2023

“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…

Jubb guest performer at the The Lab station on 27 April at 7pm

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 11. January 2023

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…

Platform

Happy New Year and new times for voice training

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 3. January 2023

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…

Platform at the experimental station

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 12. December 2022

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…

Thank you for the knowledge sharing seminar with Tim Matiakis at the The Lab station

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 6. December 2022

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

22/23By Øyvind Kirchhoff 3. December 2022

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 25th and 26 November at the Forsøgsstationen

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 3. November 2022

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…

Declaration of support to The Lab station on preparing financial conditions

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 10. October 2022

Thank you for your declaration of support for the The Lab station

Study group on European Avant-garde Theatre on 10.,17. and 24/5 2023 from 19-22

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 3. October 2022

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…

VOICE WORKSHOP SPRING 2024 IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCE PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL’S CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 1. September 2022

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…

The Lab station August – December 2022

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 10. August 2022

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 -…

TEOM Season Finale with Margaret Dragu

Events, UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 10. June 2022

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 is back!

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 22. April 2022

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…

Teach Each Other Mondays Continue

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 23. February 2022

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…

Member meeting on. 28/1 cancelled due to corona

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 28. January 2022

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!

Members’ meeting Friday 28 January 2022 from 17-20

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 12. January 2022

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…

cancellation of Christmas event on 17 December 2021

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 13. December 2021

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

Platform on 10 December 2021

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 13. December 2021

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…

Performing Arts Sector Council on 2 December 2021

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 12. December 2021

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…

Industry Council for Stage Dance on 2 December 2021

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 12. December 2021

King Kung Fu at TEOM

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 17. November 2021

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…

New names on Dance platform

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 2. November 2021

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…

NEW FRONTIERS, Thursday 28th of October from 17.00 to 19.00

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 25. October 2021

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,…

Dance Platform

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 7. October 2021

Teach Each Other Monday: Draw Your Family Tree with B&W

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. September 2021

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…

Teach Each Other Mondays Return!

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 29. September 2021

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…

New members evening on 7/10 17-20

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 13. September 2021

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…

Pop up PhiloPhysical Dance performance readings by and with choreographer and dancer Birgitte Skands

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 2. September 2021

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…

Four Sundays with the Storytelling Workshop

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 27. August 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…

The Dance Platform starts up on Wednesday the 1st of September ´21.

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 25. August 2021

Newsletter June 2021

NewslettersBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 13. August 2021

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.…

News at the experimental station August 2021

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 10. August 2021

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…

Member of the Experimental Station season 21/22

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 4. June 2021

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…

The Shape of the Audience experiment presented at CPH STAGE

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 21. May 2021

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 …

Film screening and performance during CPH. STAGE

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 21. May 2021

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…

Teach Each Other Mondays every Monday in May!

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 10. May 2021

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…

Voice training starts on 12 May

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 9. May 2021

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

Silence – Pause – Reverberation

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 16. February 2021

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 take part in a choreographic experiment?

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 8. February 2021

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…

Shutdown to 6 May 2021

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 8. December 2020

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.

Fully booked

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 6. December 2020

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.

teach each other on monday december 7th

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 17. November 2020

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…

The Olske Orchestra presents a new performance

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 3. November 2020

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…

Teach Each Other, on November 2nd

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 23. October 2020

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…

Premiere on 9 October 2020

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 1. October 2020

SILENCE – PAUSE – REVERBERATION VIDEOTRAILER Download image Read the press release here

TEACH EACH OTHER in October

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 30. September 2020

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

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 28. September 2020

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…

Fully booked

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 20. September 2020

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.

Voice training starts on 2 September

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 31. August 2020

The voice training with Angelina Kirchhoff will start on 2 September from 9-10.45. Remember to sign up.

Teach Each Other Mondays

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 26. August 2020

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…

Training offer at the Experimental Station 2020/21

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 18. August 2020

Read here about our training offers. Please note that there may be restrictions on the number of participants per team due to coronary rules.

Here we go again

UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 17. August 2020

First choir rehearsal 14 August 2020. Next time is on Friday 21 August.

EMBODIED IMMEDIACY

Trials 16/17By Øyvind Kirchhoff 12. March 2016

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”

Trial 15/16, UncategorizedBy Øyvind Kirchhoff 13. October 2015

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…