DYNAMO Circus Festival ’25
Join us as Byens Ø is once again transformed into a circus galore of performing arts, music and parties! More than five stages – both indoors and outdoors – and two beautiful big tops form the setting for four days filled with wild experiences. DYNAMO Circus Festival is the place where we meet – artists […]
Stamina
Physical action theater with subtle poetry and a good dose of exhaustion.Do we endure to be embraced – or embrace to endure? Why do we keep going throughout life? And how long can you keep up? In STAMINA, we witness the encounter between two people. They are drawn to each other quickly, each doing their […]
Food
FOOD is an engaging circus performance by Michael Zandl, whom you may know from the show SAWDUST SYMPHONY. FOOD explores the impact of human consumption on our environment and society. This exploration comes to life through a blend of circus disciplines, including object manipulation, acrobatics, and illusion theater, all interwoven with physical storytelling. The performance […]
The Wandering Human
A completely different experience at DYNAMO focusing on Denmark as a colonial power! The year is 1978. A Greenlandic girl sits at a kitchen table in a suburban home near Aalborg, staring at the colorful flowers on the oilcloth. The Danish state has placed her in foster care to give her access to “a culture […]
Mulliville
A circus performance for the whole family. Three comedic acrobats and an electronic rodeo bull they try to tame. In this encounter, who is the docile one, who is the bull, and who is the most human? Mulliville is inspired by the black-and-white golden age of silent films, where physicality, timing, and music were everything. […]
Tornado’s eye
A journey from calm and stability to chaos and loss of control by David Eisele, known from SAWDUST SYMPHONY. Tornado’s Eye, the calm heart of the storm, the secure base for powerful external motion. The piece delves into the polarity and the struggle to maintain a peaceful and controlled center while whirlwinds rage around you. […]
Concert – S.O.S Symphony of Solitude
MØR band holds a concert in Katrina Neiburga’s impressive installation in connection with MØR collective performing Symphony of Solitude – S.O.S at DYNAMO. MØR band is a power boost that moves between electronic pop, performance, poetry, and battle cries. The music shifts from the raw and gritty to the fragile and beautiful. The lyrics explore […]
Symphony Of Solitude – S.O.S
Winner of the Reumert Special Award 2024! Symphony Of Solitude – S.O.S is a surreal and playful performance installation that, with humor and poignancy, illuminates loneliness, connection, and the curious dynamics of neighborhood life through sound and visuals. The performance takes place in a spectacular round installation, designed like a cross-section of a building reminiscent […]
Amble Fusion: Circus & Technology
Residency / Work in Progress Noah Schiltknecht has developed and created the Amble Fusion juggling balls, equipped with sensors and software that allow them to be programmed to behave in various ways during juggling. During his residency at DYNAMO, Noah is exploring how these innovative tools can be used artistically and what they might mean […]
Lilith – the first woman
Highly Relevant Performance About Gender and Power at Teater Momentum God created Adam and said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” So, He created Lilith. Lilith refused to submit to Adam and was cast out of the Garden of Eden. Branded a demon, she lived as an outcast among thorns and nettles […]
Matilda-effekten
A sensory and poetic puppet theater performance for adults. For generations, women’s scientific work has been systematically attributed to male researchers. This was observed as early as the 19th century by American activist and freethinker Matilda Joslyn Gage, whose name now lends itself to the phenomenon known as the “Matilda Effect.” Step into a sensory, […]
Grand Danois
A humorous and high-energy performance about utopias and the pursuit of freedom. GRAND DANOIS is an anarchistic circus performance that, through circus acrobatics, music, and devil-may-care humor, questions our concepts of freedom and our pursuit of material wealth. We meet a ragtag and slightly dysfunctional circus troupe living on the road in their quest for […]
The Last Supper
Discover or revisit the popular co-production between GLiMT Amager and DYNAMO, filled with circus, humor, and drama. Seated at long tables, we gather for the final meal — with five performers among us, who, through dizzying acrobatics, dance, live music, and plenty of humor, share their stories of being trapped in the spirals of life […]
Manifest – How Far are You Willing to Bend?
“we give you art not answers” MANIFEST is an insanely controlled and wildly chaotic performance exploring contemporary society from the perspective of the circus artists on stage. Five eclectic performers create their own rules in a colorful stage collage evoking more questions than answers. To the pumping beats of Milla Lahtinen we meet a crawling transformation, […]
Fragments
With circus, masks, and objects as tools, FRAGMENTS is an exploration of the dissolution and distortion of the boundaries of the body. A journey into the subconscious, memory, and the creatures that dwell in the dark corners of the mind. An invitation to shift your gaze, look inward, outward, and appreciate the small things in […]
Where night is not so far away…
Là où la nuit n’est pas si loin puisque le jour s’en va déjà / Where night is not so far away because the day is already leaving – part of a double bill with: Poetic German wheel and the body in fluid movements.“I am just a body under the waves, alternately revealing and hiding […]
Waiting for the Sea Eagle
‘Waiting for the sea eagle’ is an ode to life and all its sensations.It is a dance exposed at the edges of change, unfolding in a sonic abstract universe.A calling, challenging the limits of being to points of transformation. Multiple different energies and emotions accumulate to transcend daily life into a vibrant surrealist territory. Together, […]
Uncanny Valley
“Philosophical exercise from a robot performer” (Natasha Tripney) BY RIMINI PROTOKOLL (STEFAN KAEGI) AND THOMAS MELL We mostly think of robots as work machines, as efficient and precise executors of tasks. In German industry, they barely look like people, to avoid emotional complications. Unlike in Asia, where humanoid robots have already been developed for some […]
Open Stage Vol. 13
At OPEN STAGE, you have the chance to see the future of performing arts, still in development. Both established artists and emerging talents get the opportunity to test their ideas in front of you and other curious audience members. OPEN STAGE opens up a world of creativity where you can never quite be sure what […]
Tension
Work in progress Tension is a contemporary circus piece that explores the concept of limits. The piece is created from a political perspective to express the need to recognize limits, whether inherited from personal experiences or culturally acquired, and how they affect our lives. There are limits that evoke negative sensations and emotions, and if […]
A body and other objects
Work in progress Imagine approaching the human body with the same curiosity we apply to an unfamiliar object – exploring, sensing, and discovering boundaries. A BODY AND OTHER OBJECTS reimagines the body as both material and artifact, blurring the lines between animate and inanimate. The fascinating technique of hair-hanging conjures up the immense power hidden […]
60secondscircusfilm
We’re doing it again! For the second time around, DYNAMO joins forces with OFF – Odense International Film Festival, to present 60secondscircusfilm. A film competition for all interpretations of the theme ‘circus’, which is filmed and edited into a 60-second video. On Tuesday 27th August, we will reveal the winner at Kulturmaskinen during this years’ […]
THE GREAT CHRISTMAS CABARET
The globe is on fire, and we live in a dark time of war and crises – it gets darkest on these parts when the winter months hit and Christmas approaches. But that shouldn’t stop you from having a colossal cascade of light and heat break the darkness. In a monstrous and astonishing show – […]
CANCELLED! The pregnant circus cabaret
A celebration of female strength and a humorous and touching circus performance about pregnancy and gender, where the stakes are high and strong emotions are evoked. Karoline Aamås presented the solo work THE PREGNANT ROPE CLIMBER at DYNAMO in 2023 while she was 7 months pregnant with her first child. Seeing a heavily pregnant circus […]
CIRQUS HIALØS
Cirqus Hialøs is an energetic and epic contemporary circus performance with live music that moves between the controlled and the chaotic. A traditional old Skåne party where physical, emotional and musical possibilities are explored. Cirqus Hialøs floats between life, dance and death. DURATION 60 min incl. artist talkAGE From 8 years oldLANGUAGE Non verbalTICKET Free […]
DYNAMO CIRCUS TOWN AT HCA FESTIVALS
A SPECTACULAR CIRCUS LAND FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY IN MUNKE MOSE DYNAMO Circus Town takes over Odense! Here you will encounter circus, wildness and crazy street performances for long stretches. Experience the sublime and moving acrobats high in the sky. DYNAMO Circus Town shows spectacular performances by Danish and international artists We celebrate those who […]
The Fall
An absurd, visual, poetic and moving performance. I am a circus performer and I am terrified of falling. My body stiffens at the thought of the dizzying sensation of freefalling through the air. I freeze at the thought of the loss of control and the humiliation of the small fall and feel the anxiety of […]
Meanwhile
LAUGHTER- AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING SHOW ABOUT TIME In a surreal and whimsical world, MEANWHILE holds up a mirror to all the pointless ways we spend our time in the modern world. With virtuoso object manipulation, juggling, visual theater and minimalist comedy, the performance explores and challenges what society places value on and what is considered meaningless. […]
Fail Away
You can start warming up your laughing muscles already, because M.P.A.C. is back with a new clown show on the way. The successful performance BREAST IN PEACE has played to full houses, tears of joy and fits of laughter several times at DYNAMO, and for the spring of 2025, the new performance FAIL AWAY! premiere. […]
Miss SBarbie
Work in progress. Punk, cyborgs, gender and body ideals. The Barbie doll allows children to dream away in other worlds, moments and places that these inanimate creatures can materialize and experience. The work MISS SBARBIE is a tale of play, and an invitation to repair yourself, and a focus on always moving forward, in a […]
Cancelled! Hertz
OBS: The performance is unfortunately canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at another performance soon. A circus performer and a floor covered in broken glass It is rare that DYNAMO can welcome a fakir on stage, but that is the case with Marcelo Nunes work-in-progress show […]
CANCELLED! Open Stage vol 12
OBS: The performance is unfortunately canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at another performance soon. Step into the performing arts laboratory! At OPEN STAGE you will have the opportunity to see the performing arts of the future, which are still under development. Both established artists and […]
Tapage
A dramatic, acrobatic and musical performance of chaos. The performers work with juggling, percussion, acrobatic lifts, music and dance, in a story about exhaustion, noise and the other chaotic things found in our everyday life. DURATION 60 min inkl. artist talk AGE From 6 years oldLANGUAGE Non-verbal TICKET Free entrance, or pay for the ticket […]
The Zero
A work focusing on the fool, the clown, the comic character known in French as the ‘bouffon’. Gabrielė Penčylaitė is an actress, dancer, and circus artist, and in this work in progress, she creates the character, the old bouffon Zero, in a play with visual effects, shadows, light, and darkness. Based on parts of the […]
Benched
THE SUCCESSFUL SHOW IS NOW COMING TO ODENSE! With 5 dancers and 3 benches on stage, the Reumert-winning choreographer, Stephanie Thomasen, creates a brutally honest performance about finding one’s place in life. About settling in. About daring to sit askew, about moving closer to one another, about being knocked off or being benched. A humorous, […]
The Mews
Work in Progress Circus legend Thom Monckton is back at DYNAMO! Imagine getting your news from the news agency The Mews, which is run by clowns. Real clowns! With a hopeful and innocent perspective on the world, the clowns offer a glimpse of a future filled with positivity and joy. THE MEWS explores our world […]
Ø Fest – Island party!
Come to Ø FEST!!! Join us in a celebrating of the harbour, culture and the community together with the neighbours, artists, entrepreneurs, associations, institutions and companies that create life and bring people closer together on Byens Ø in Odense Harbour. Ø Fest takes place on Byens Ø, along the beautiful harbor quays that still exude […]
Sawdust Symphony
Circular saws, hammers and wood shavings fly through the air Why is hammering nails in wood so satisfying, and how does the hammer feel? Sawdust Symphony is about the urge to create: the process from vision to construction, the smell of wood, the joy of work and the relationship between man and tool. With object […]
Prelude
Work in progress. Prelude – a show with a beginning that never ends. The main character is “the actor Liudas”, who struggles to start his show.Preparation, anticipation and postponement are the main axes of the performance, which unfolds as an absurd comedy in front of and behind the curtain. DURATION 60 min incl. artist talkAGE […]
Gandras / Stork
Work in progress Gandras is Lithuanian for stork.The stork, with its elegant yet raw appearance, is always moving between several homes.It reminds the artist of her own life, where she travels and performs with the circus, without having a permanent home.The set designs a stork’s nest, and tells the story of the stork from a […]
Dear pressure
Life is a circus! Using humor and circus, everyday pressures and the personal challenges we face are explored.On stage, we follow two people who each have their own things to contend with, and discover the importance of the strengths of community.The audience is invited to reflect on their own challenges and possibly gain new perspectives […]
iRRooTTaa
A work in progress presentation. Do you have too many balls in the air? Small white balls fill the scene. They rattle and roll in all directions, and are neither to be caught nor understood.iRRooTTaa is an invitation to try NOT to have too many balls in the air. Who knows, maybe life will be […]
TENNIS
The match we’ve all been waiting for! The two tennis gurus DON McEnroe and Björn GNU face each other once again in a decisive duel. They take the audience on an action-packed, sweat-dripping, comedic and poetic hunt for the truth of true fighting spirit. The training has been hard and inhumane, because NOTHING stands higher […]
CANCELLED! Open Stage vol. 11
Join the behind-the-scenes of creativity! OPEN STAGE is an informal free space where professional stage artists and new talents test their ideas in front of an audience. Here you get the opportunity to sneak a peek at the newest and freshest stage art, which is still under development. A unique opportunity to get an insight […]
W.O.M.B (Worth of my body)
A tribute to the life-giving female body. What does it mean to become a mother? W.O.M.B illuminates the pain, the change, the happiness and the inner and outer transformation that motherhood entails. On stage is a percussionist and three dancers and mothers, each from their African and Afro-diasporic cultures. Through dance, they show both vulnerability […]
RAAF
Performance for the entire family, about having each other’s back – even in the heights. RAAF means raven in Dutch. The raven is the mysterious and intelligent messenger that hovers between heaven and earth, living in pairs for most of their lives. RAAF is a technically demanding high-wire performance for the whole family. The traditional […]
Making Space
Handstand and metal structures. Two women and a scenography of movable metal constructions, and an exploration of the relationship between body, architecture and space. Through handstands, circus and movements, the artist’s body examines the room both horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Making Space is a poetic circus choreography that examines the circus body in changing spaces. […]
The Last Supper
5 characters unite during a final meal. This modern circus performance combines dance, physical theatre, music and humor in a heartbreaking exploration of the dark spiral that can occur after a personal or societal tragedy. The actors are all physical performers who each specialize in a unique circus discipline. In The Last Supper, they come […]
V is a performance dealing with the decision to break away from what was before. It is a personal diary blurred with imagination, showing moments of one moving onwards, and backwards, on the path of change. The genuine, sensitive and highly physical performance by Viivi Roiha takes place on an empty stage. Permeable live music by Mika […]
Alun ja lopun keskellä // In the middle of the beginning and the end
Work in progress In a combination of aerial acrobatics and sweaty moves from the dance floor, circus art’s ideals about the female gender are questioned. The work is accompanied by meditative sounds and atmospheric lighting. It explores aspects of circus which are in constant motion, turning, changing and mental and physical transformation. DURATION 60 min […]
Piti Peta Hofen Show
Ludicrous slapstick and galloping madness. 3 circus artists open a world full of humour, wildness and crazy tricks, where juggling is the mother tongue. Their different styles are a mixture of juggling, theater, improvisation and playing with different objects that completely blows the audience away. The show has played more than 108 times in over […]
HÄPPY HOUR
A circus performance about the morning after the night before.Has anyone ever been to a bar and only had one drink? And what do you do in the morning after a late night when work calls? HÄPPY HOUR is an ode to the cold North and its social (drinking) culture. It struggles with conflicting relationships […]
Going Nowhere
A funny and grotesque story about the individual’s struggle to put the mobile phone away. We live in the age of acceleration, where progress and constant motion are at their peak. What is more urgent (yet so unthinkable) than to stop and stand still for a moment? GOING NOWHERE is a humorous contemporary circus performance […]
LIBERTY
★★★★★ High-octane body extravaganza… – ISCENE LIBERTY is a performance about the search for the original idea with creativity as the driving force, about the desire to express oneself and the necessity to be true to the original idea. About art, play and a loose approach to reality. LIBERTY is a cacophonous journey through Kristjan’s wildest, most […]
TVÄRSLÖJD
A family show with impossible and magical tricks! In TVÄRSLÖJD, you meet two circus performers who do impossible magic tricks and choreographed experiments that arouse laughter, curiosity and creativity. It is a performance about how the imagination can turn nothing into something, from nowhere to anywhere. An inspiration for children to learn new things – […]
Vegan Climate Panel Dinner Party
Welcome to a fearless, constructive and festive space for discussion! In collaboration with Relearn Suderbyn Ecovillage, Café Kosmos, Acting for Climate & DJ Bitch Muchannon, DYNAMO invites you to an evening where we meet, talk, debate, eat and dance our way through current and urgent topics within CLIMATE as the overall agenda. The big question […]
DYNAMO Circus Town / H.C. Andersen Festivals
A STRANGE AND WONDERFUL LAND FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. DYNAMO Circus Town takes over Flakhaven! Here you will encounter circus, wildness and crazy street performances, over four days of festival. Experience the small circus tent with curiosities, the circus playground that never sleeps, and the sublime acrobats high up in the sky. DYNAMO Circus Town […]
Croquette, corps, cornichon
“Croquette, corps, cornichon” mixes handstands, acrobatics and dance, in an 80ies/90ies retro kitsch aesthetic! From the imagination of the monster and its representations, this piece explores the transformation of bodies. It is through the research of the hybrid choreographic body that “croquette, corps, cornichon” deals with subjects such as: the representation of beauty, domination, gender […]
Onkel Rejes Skøre Gameshow
Will you be the lucky one who gets on stage and wins one of Onkel Reje’s Crazy Competitions? It will surely be crazy when Ramasjang’s cheeky and inappropriate uncle takes up the role of a game show host who does magic tricks and sings. As usually, the mood is unusually high when Onkel Reje is […]
The Pregnant Rope Climber
Gender, strength and virtuosity explored with the pregnant body. In The Pregnant Rope Climber, Karoline Aamås explores the female aerialist body during her 7th month of pregnancy. Blending artistic and technical research, Karoline will investigate how cultural ideas of gender, strength and virtuosity are constructed, and how they connect with physicality, embodiment and lived bodily […]
Riot Days
Legendary activists in Odense An explosive cocktail of theatre, concert and political happening! Legendary Pussy Riot is in Odense, and can be experienced in one single evening with the performance Riot Days. RIOT DAYS is based on Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina’s book of the same name. It is a tale of resistance, oppression and […]
CANCELLED/REPLACED! Stereocilia
OBS! This performance has been replaced with Croquette, corps, cornichon In our ear, from where we hear. There is a bundle of small hairs called stereocilia. Together they create something that looks like a forest. Stereocilia is a sound installation and a site-specific performance. Loudspeakers hang from the ceiling along with light bulbs that create […]
Memoirs of Mud
Two women and 1500 kilos of earth “I was forgiven and forgotten, in this world so rotten, Dropping like a hot potato, don’t call me a tomato.” MEMOIRS OF MUD is a comical and moving tale of two women exploring their place in this clinical and sterile world. With absurd everyday depictions, they take us […]
CANCELLED! Sawdust Symphony
Sawdust Symphony is cancelled this time around, due to illness. We are working to find a fitting solution to re-book the show, and hopefully we’ll be able to present the performance in 2024. Circular saws, hammers and sawdust fly through the air Why is hammering nails in wood so satisfying, and how does the hammer feel? […]
FUCKD
Ministry of Education and Research – Center for Chaos & Disruption A circus show for tomorrow’s rebels before the performance trap snaps. Right down to child height, the pressure to achieve perfection increases. The big responsibility apparently rests with the smallest. Generation Thunberg must be climate warriors, career people and good classmates already before the […]
Ici et là
A tribute to our five senses This is a story without a story. A poem. Images, sounds and objects create a dreamlike space.About a ho use that goes through the four seasons with the help of its resident. Inuit goddess, druid, antique caryatid or forest fairy – this unusual woman paints history in three dimensions […]
TIRA
Work in progress TIRA is a universe of different ropes and cords – vertical ropes, diabolo cords and more. The ropes are part of the story of the meeting between two apparently similar but very different people, the tensions, interactions and conflicts that arise in everyday life. TIRA pulls the strings of this great incomprehensible […]
Open Stage
OPEN Stage is an informal free space where stage artists can test their ideas for the audience. As an audience, you get access to the newest and freshest stage art, which is still under development. You get a unique insight into the artistic process among both professional artists and the growth team – and then […]
20 Years Later, Still Here
ABOUT CIRCUS, BODY POSITIVITY & WOMEN IN SHOWBIZ An autobiographical two-woman show about two circus performers’ 20-year journey and a nostalgic, and realistic, insight into life in showbiz. Behind all the glitz and glamor lies countless hours of repetition, blood, sweat and tears. The performance combines circus and theater and tells the story of two […]
Happy Together
Togetherness for two and foot juggling Come and experience the unconventional relationship between a juggler and her juggling object. Together they have travelled the world and are now coming to Odense with their brand new duo show HAPPY TOGETHER. But working with someone who doesn’t have a heartbeat isn’t always fun. No mouth means no […]
BARK
Poetic new circus in the forest floor and between the treetopsBARK is a poetic, spectacular and thought-provoking new circus performance for a forest, an audience and five artists. BARK will be built site-specifically in and around Åløkkeskoven in Odense. The forest, the earth and the trees are the show’s main characters, and they create the […]
Odeology
Electronic music meets circus ODEOLOGY is a safe space for musical experiences and visual expression. An evening of electronic music, acid techno and dance, where inclusion is paramount and personal expression appreciated. In 2023, the team behind ODEOLOGY is collaborating with DYNAMO on a series of events under the overall title ‘IMMERSION’. DATE & PLACESat […]
The Mirror Project
Meditative and experimental dance with mirrors The Mirror Project is a choreographic work that deals with the relationship between the body, as we can see and sense it, and images of the body. A dance between two oversized mirrors and two performers that unfolds the relationship between body images, imagination and the sensual potential of […]
Lei-LÀ
Lei-LÀ is a performance that explores walking as a symbol of human resistance. Through simple and everyday actions, a human being and 20 meters of fabric tell us the adventure of a woman who dreams of freely exploring a world without borders. The artist on stage uses the circus technique of aerial silks to tell […]
DYNAMO Circus Festival 2023
Welcome! Welcome to enterprising circus punks, to poetry and body-equilibrism! To circus shorts, performances and party tricks! To film screenings, workshops, seminars, concerts, DJs and everything the circus has to offer! Dynamo Circus Festival celebrates contemporary circus in all its forms, and returns will full force in June 2023 as a biennial, i.e. an event […]
Snowdrops
Yeties, radioactive fallout or bloody intrigues. Snowdrops is a new circus interpretation of a true and eerie mystery, a journey into horror and a loss in the uncanny. A mystery that left 9 people dead inexplicably during a winter expedition in the Dyatlov Pass in the Ural Mountains, 1959. With the magician’s dexterity, the archive […]
The King of taking – in essence
We know him from DYNAMO as artist in residence, and rocking aristocrat in the co-production, Pendulum. Now Thom Monckton returns to work on another performance that is close to completion: Here he plays a king who asks his audience to gift him. As part of the performance, the gifts are opened and incorporated into the […]
Kiseldalen
SOLD OUT SATURDAY! – There are still a few available tickets for Sunday at 15.00.Your can also try you luck at the door. A circus excursion to an unknown landscape, where things and memories can be tamed. Two jugglers meet in the borderland between dream and reality. Strange objects are brought to life and time […]
L’ombre de Kruskelusk
Does a cat chasing its own tail realize that it is part of its own body? L’ombre de Kruskelusk – in English: Kruskelusk’s shadow – plays with the metaphorical paradox of being alone in one’s own world, without being fully aware of one’s own loneliness. About the relationship to one’s own body, which tells a […]
UPROAR!
Music theatre with a call to overthrow the system. In UPROAR we meet a group of revolutionary preachers who, through a ritual, invoke the great DADA spirit, which announces its arrival by speaking gibberish to us from a urinal. With dance, sound poems, wild music and nonsense rituals, a force is evoked that is hopefully […]
ODEOLOGY
ODEOLOGY is a safe space for musical experiences and visual expression. An evening of electronic music, acid techno and dance, where inclusion is paramount and personal expression appreciated. In 2023, the team behind ODEOLOGY is collaborating with DYNAMO on a series of events under the title ‘IMMERSION’. Line-up d. 20 may: Miss Puppy (she/her) and […]
Phobetor
In a dark and dreamy universe, the audience is invited to open their eyes to the unknown and reevaluate their view of the normal. Inspired by David Lynch, old black-and-white films and grotesque, Phobetor embraces everything that challenges the norms. With ‘contortion’ as a central discipline, the artists weave their way into our consciousness – […]
Small miracles of life
See the legendary clown, Paolo Nani, who has made audiences around the world laugh and cry. In Small miracles of life we meet an artist who has shut himself up in his studio. Unable to abstract from the surrounding world, his concentration is disrupted, and a moving story emerges in the interaction between reality and […]
OPEN STAGE
OPEN STAGE is an informal free space where artists can test their ideas for the audience. As an audience, you get access to the newest and freshest performing art, which is still under development. You get a unique insight into the artistic process among both professional artists and the new talents. As always, we are […]
Going Nowhere
A brand new and experimental performance of the age of acceleration and the collapse of attention. The audience is invited into a universe full of humorous poetry and artistic precision that can put feelings into words without using words. A universe that, with its own inexplicable logic, reflects on the critical attention crisis we find […]
CAMELIORQUESTRA 2.0
A combined concert and contemporary circus performance. Anything can happen and the musicians literally fly around while playing. They are all acrobats, and their fusion of Nordic folk-punk-gypsy-funk gets the pulse going, while the acrobatics create humorous and nerve-wracking moments. A performance everybody can enjoy. Presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum AGE For everybodyDuration 55 […]
20 years later, still here!
Work in progress! An autobiographical work about the 20-year journey of two fearless artists.Get a nostalgic, realistic, glimpse of life in show business. The audience is invited on a magical journey behind the scenes: from the hustle and bustle of fame, to the nightmare-like reality that, among other things, features sinister ringmasters and drunken clowns.A […]
DRIP DROP DEAD
How is art created? Through pain? Through love? Through a need to create? Or simply by running on a treadmill until your lungs explode. Drip Drop Dead is a contemporary circus performance that combines treadmills, paint, circus and comedy; all on a white piece of paper. An intimate and sweaty experience that pushes the boundaries […]
HOMAN
Two men in a serious and humorous exploration of what it means to be human. Or not being human. With cyr-wheel, integrity and awkwardness, the artists Vejde Grind and Vincent Bruyninckx exhibit themselves; their limitations and artistry. A contemporay circus gem full of surprises, suspense and physical expression, which, among other things, has come about […]
DÉJÀ
Experience world history unfold over a span of over 8 billion years through expressive movement, magical illusions and puppetry. From the cavemen of the past in loincloths to the DJs of the 2010s in tracksuits. A visual journey through time that questions our importance, or rather: Our insignificance, seen in a larger perspective of time. […]
CANCELLED Series of
Combining live soundscape, contemporary circus and dance, ’Series of’ is a collaborationbetween the circus artist-dancer Mira Ravald and the musician-composer Antonio Alemanno.Researching the possibilities of a tight wire structure as a musical instrument, the projectexplores connections and conversations between physical movement, soundscape and rhythm tocreate a musical performance. AGE From 14 and upDURATION Approx. 1 […]
Breast in Peace
It is back! The successful performance Breast in Peace by Swedish M.P.A.C was a big hit at DYNAMO in autumn 2021, and since then the clowns have toured Denmark and Europe with their performance about breasts. Breasts that can be too big, too small, too saggy, too sexy, too heavy, too flat , too muscular. […]
The Vessel
Jump on board when the utopian circus project, The Vessel, leaves the dock! The journey goes to new dimensions and universes, where gravity is lifted, creatures arise and time is a flexible dimension. Through physical theatre, acrobatics and cyr-wheel, three artists take us on a discovery expedition – and make sure that we return home […]
Concert with Chelsea Carmichael
Chelsea Carmichael grew up in Warrington, England, with her parents who were both dancers on the northern jazz and funk scene in England. Here she grew up with her ears deeply planted in her parents’ record collection and thus got everything from funk and jazz to her father’s Jamaican roots massaged in from an early […]
Concert with Flock
Five leading musicians from London’s jazz and experimental scene Flock met at The Fish Factory in London in the summer of 2020 with the aim of trying to create something completely fresh. “Improvisation is a composition in itself,” says Bex Burch, “so even though the music was freely improvised, we sometimes chose to keep the […]
Concert with Michelle Gurevich
Canadian Michelle Gurevich guests DYNAMO Michelle Gurevich’s sixth album, Ecstasy in the Shadow of Ecstasy, from 2020, deals with the raw and the vulnerable in a collection of songs about endless longing. In November, she will pay a visit to DYNAMO. Gurevich unites vintage keyboards, synths with bass guitar and drums for a solitary rendering […]
O U T
Work in progress. O U T explores, and invites the audience to discover, the infinite possibilities of buckets. On the ground and in the air; with different shapes, sizes, and materials. The two artists create an absurd universe where fragility and playfulness are central. The energy travels, transforms and is shared. This piece wants to […]
Odeology
An evening of electronic music and visual arts ODEOLOGY is a safe space for musical experiences and visual expressions.An evening of electronic music, acid techno and dance that agrees on peace, love, unity and respect. ODEOLOGY er et safe space for musikalske oplevelser og visuelle udtryk. September: Sugar, Pernille Krog MortensenDecember: TBC
Going nowhere
WORK IN PROGRESS GOING NOWHERE is a new, experimental and humorous new circus performance along the way. In GOING NOWHERE body percussion, object manipulation and acrobatic dance meet the absurd, funny and grotesque through an individual’s struggle to gain calmness, focus and contemplation back in his life. The performance is co-produced by DYNAMO with support […]
Axial figures
WORK IN PROGRESS Axial Figures is a collaboration between choreographer Simone Wierød and Hugh Diamond from the architectural firm Standard Practice. An interdisciplinary study of systems and geometric shapes that activate the entire stage space and release the dance from the stage floor. The starting point for their study is the interplay between community and […]