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…
MEMBERSHIP TRIAL DARKNESS Led by performing artist Julie Kunz and together with lighting designer Michael Breiner, the experiment explores the fundamental question: “Can we learn to accept the darkness as part of our being and thus achieve a more nuanced and reassuring relationship with the world and ourselves?” Excerpt from the intention report: “Darkness has…
TRY “CIGAR PIMPLE NOSE” – A musical paper theater experiment WunderVerk v/Anette Asp Christensen leads this experimental project that works with musical paper theater. The experiment has a duration of 4 weeks between September 26 and November 4, 2016 and is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation’s Project Support Committee for Performing Arts. The work…
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…
The Aesthetics of Death between actor and puppet, between life and death “The ideal is not flesh and blood but rather the body in a trance state. The body must be clothed in mortal beauty, while radiating its living spirit.” Edward Gordon Craig The Aesthetics of Death is a 5-day development project and a knowledge-sharing…
TRY ‘THE RACE TO ZERO’ – an artistic attempt on the financial markets Kristian Husted has been working on ‘The Race to Zero’ experiment since 2014. The third experimental period at the The Lab station is underway d. October 1 to 5, 2016. Overall, the experiment is about what language the experts – programmers and…
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…
