CANCELLED – Mad Office
In the simple sales office of the furniture store Rucks Leather Interiors, Mr. Grareth Krubb (Wakenshaw) and Mr. Dennis Chang (Duncan) are going about their hectic business day after day. In their paltry “from 9 to 5” office atmosphere an extravagant world of fantasy unfolds. With little dialogue, Wakenshaw and Duncan fill their little world […]
Piste, piste, piste
A playful dance with light “One day a kid planted three little dots. And they grew into lines…” Welcome to an adventurous universe where a blank canvas forms the background for imaginative stories. Piste, piste, piste is an interdisciplinary performance for children and young audiences, combining contemporary circus, dance and visual arts. Here two whimsical […]
Just in time for tea
Take a break from nice manners and your Sunday finest! Inspired by the customs of the 1940s – and the rebellion against it – Vice Versa Circus invites you to an alternative tea party. Time in isolation has led the two women in the sitting room into an imaginative universe where they play by their […]
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 […]
Beyond the End of Your Nose
BEYOND THE END OF YOUR NOSE explores the difficult ambivalence of life between responsibility and fear. Three performers interact with each other, with the set design, and with the audience. The struggle to find balance unfolds both physically and acoustically through scenarios that are fragile, shifting, and ever-changing. Everything is interconnected, and if one element […]
V.O.M.P
Slimmer, fairer, tighter, stronger. The play ‘Vanity of Modern Panic – V.O.M.P.’ holds up a mirror against the beauty-obsession’s botox-hardened face. How far are you willing to go to keep your body younger, than what your birth-certificate suggests? A silicone-pumped play about the hunt for the perfect body; a proportion-distorted comedy about the longing after […]
CANCELLED: Portmanteau
The performance has unfortunately been cancelled A poetic meeting To the deep tones of a double bass, two performers move around the stage. One is a dancer, the other is a visual artist. Both with rooted experience as circus performers. Based on a portmanteau – a linguistic term for new words that combine two meanings […]
Fineline
A work in progress showing Fineline is a delicate study of balance – as a physical, mental and spiritual concept. A tightwire piece created by Finnish Lumo Company, whom, in their own words, are obsessed with balance. The senses sharpen when the performers move around on a thin steel wire in free fall. Join us […]
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 […]
Droplines
In DROPLINES, the audience is presented with what is not usually seen – all the mistakes behind the success. In a series of choreographies filled with hypnotic juggling patterns, the mistakes of three jugglers are at the center. The juggling balls become powerful metaphors for how we deal with pressure and failure. DROPLINES is a […]
The Moon Illusion
A stuffed duck and 70 juggling rings is all they need. With a subtle sense for each other’s presence, the two jugglers employ equal parts artistic skill and simple chance to conjure up situations which are both surprising and touching. With each juggling throw, a new moment begins. A show in which a moon and […]
SOLD OUT! CameliOrquestra
Circus concert for the whole family CameliOrquestra is a show where anything can happen, where the musicians literally fly around while playing. In a mix of concert and a contemporary circus narrative, the whole family is invited to an interdisciplinary experience. The musical fusion of Nordic folk-punk-gypsy-funk gets the blood pumping, while acrobatics create humorous, […]
OPEN STAGE
Be the first to spot new talent OPEN STAGE is an informal, free-space where performing artists can try out their ideas in front of an audience. The performers are performing artists who work with circus, dance, theater, puppet theater, or mix of all and any in between. As an audience, you get access to the […]
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 […]
Series of
‘Series of’ is a concert-like duet by the tightwire dancer Mira Ravald and the musician-composer Antonio Alemanno. Blurring the lines between movement and sound, the performance transforms a tight wire into a musical instrument, resonating through balance and physical contact, combined with the sounds of a cello and electronics. Live music, circus, dance, and soundscape […]
Human in Balance
Europe is at a critical juncture. At breaking point – some believe. Its borders are challenged, and its dream of unification is under pressure. DON GNU and Dance House Lemesos present an exploration of the European citizen’s condition with Humans in Balance, in which they explore the current situation in a work of physical dance […]
Det får bära eller brista
Acrobatic circus collective With stoic calmness and physical strength, six female acrobats lift, fall and move across the stage to the sound of evocative and quirky folk music. Throughout history women have always engaged in physical work associated with housekeeping, child care and life in general. The performance Det får bära eller brista is inspired […]
OPEN STAGE
Be the first to spot new talent OPEN STAGE is an informal, free-space where performing artists can try out their ideas in front of an audience. The performers are performing artists who work with circus, dance, theater, puppet theater, or mix of all and any in between. As an audience, you get access to the […]
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 […]
AXIAL FIGURES
Experience dance taking on new heights, as five strong rope artists create an alluring, vertical universe. In the critically acclaimed “Axial Figures,” a weightless choreography unfolds on stage. Inspired by the playful axes of architecture, the artists create shifting, acrobatic formations as they merge into one synchronous body. The result is an ever-changing world of […]
W/hole
On all the holes in the whole world. Holes are both scary and exciting. Holes are possibilities and some holes are incomprehensible. So many holes exists, that we will never get to the bottom of it. In a simple ‘do-it-yourself’-manner, two jugglers get 9 shovels, 11 buckets, 76 meters of rope, 3 ladders and a […]
Red Haired Men
Wonderfully weird Are they beautiful or insane? Do they live by logic, or do they exist in pure absurdity? A mass of questions emerge as the Red Haired Men take the stage. In this performance you can experience meaningless, funny and almost magical characters who use dance, acrobatics and theater to create a unique and […]
Fast food emotion
MEETING BETWEEN HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENT A multidisciplinary take on humankind and the environment. Told through its very own scenic habitat of aerial circus, plastic waste and sonic explorations of the rhythms of the sea. FAST FOOD EMOTION explores the boundaries between the beautiful and ugly as well as the quiet and stormy ocean, which can […]
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 […]
The Receptionists
THE RECEPTIONISTS is a physical comedy about customer service in the hotel industry. The fast-talking receptionists are two charismatic female Finnish clowns who speak many languages - just not one you can understand. Through acrobatics and charming smiles, the clown duo shows how comical and absurd customer service can be.
Melodic Objects // Jay Gilligan
A century ago jugglers used to first think of a trick and then build a unique prop to accomplish that goal or concept. But in modern times, juggling props are mass produced and it all becomes a matter of what different tricks one can do with the exact same prop that everyone else in the […]
W/HOLE
On all the holes in the whole world Holes are frightening and holes are fascinating. Holes represent possibilities and some holes are completely impossible to grasp. There are so many holes that we can never hope to get to the bottom of them all. W/hole follow two jugglers in their shared fascination with all of […]
OPEN STAGE
Be the first to spot new talent OPEN STAGE is an informal, free-space where performing artists can try out their ideas in front of an audience. The performers are performing artists who work with circus, dance, theater, puppet theater, or mix of all and any in between. As an audience, you get access to the […]
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, […]
Fail Away
Get ready to warm up those laugh muscles, because M.P.A.C. is back with a new clown show! FAIL AWAY invites the audience to a multitude of mistakes and failures. The show cuts to the core of the struggle to maintain femininity and achieve success, in a society where there are sky-high demands for constant perfection. […]
Arcade Delight
What do you do as a nostalgic when, do to 20 years of unstoppable technological advancement, the arcade machines have had to see themselves banished to the darkness? – When kitsch is no longer cool and we have gradually forgotten how to move on roller skates? One option is undeniably and insistently to force breath […]
CANCELLED: The Indifference Point
DYNAMO presents Due to Covid-19 restrictions this work-in-progress showing has been closed for the public. We can’t wait to see you again soon! Stay safe. A work in progress-showing of the way we live our life. A contemporary circus performance about regret and the non-linearity of life. A hopeful ’maybe’ and a timid ‘what if. […]
I Was Told.
World premiere at DYNAMO. I Was Told. is a 50-minute, interdisciplinary piece involving ring juggling and slam poetry, which deals with the influence of language, in the literal and metaphorical sense, on the perception of oneself and others. The artist Kathrin Wagner resolves the emerging identity conflict in an authentic, honest, humorous, and empowering manner. […]
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 […]
Circus art at the windmills
Something is stirring in the mill. Creatures never seen before have moved into the old buildings. They wind their way through and examine the ancient tools.What are the tools to be used for now?What will hang from the hoist, now that flour is no longer being milled? Circus artists Fridamy Roth and Signild Thygesen put […]
Work in Progress – Object Manipulation
Note: This is a Work in Progress showing, which means that this is not a finished performance. By contrast, this presentation is a display of ideas and material that may form the basis for a finished performance. Rhythm performers Villads, Ilmo, Livya & electronic composer Lasse Munk will work together throughout October on the basis […]
100% Circus
Raw strength and banalities Is it possible to stand head down in a bucket of water? Or can you hang from the ceiling by your hair? Two men wearing skirts are going through weird experiments. Sometimes they obviously play with the nerves of the audience. Sometimes they clearly do their best – and fail. Sometimes […]
Circus without circus
WORK IN PROGRESS Experience the result of an exciting, international research project at DYNAMO. Circus artists and artists from other fields, architects, visual artists, filmmakers etc. have been selected and put together in teams of two. Together, they must explore how they can inspire each other and lead to new artistic expressions. DYNAMO hosts two […]
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 […]
Grapes & Glory – A fine-dining catastrophe
Bring the older kids along to DYNAMO for a youth performance that presents a future full of hope—one you can help create yourself. This inspiring and dreamlike show is created by the company The Vessel Productions, who previously performed their magical debut production at the DYNAMO Circus Festival. A tour de force through circus disciplines […]
Pendulum
Boldly progressing backwards Pendulum is two aristocrats’ cavalcade of self-reinforcing idiocracies and a peculiar fascination with everything that sways, cradles or swings. Well-equipped with pocket watches, monocles and promising ingenuity that had previously led their peers to ground-breaking discoveries, two noblemen set out on a journey of inexplicable importance. In the familiar surroundings of upper-class […]
The End is Nigh !
A work in progress-presentation A beginners guide to the end of the world. Based on the premise that everything is fucked up, but nothing is lost yet, they take us on a post-apocalyptic acid trip where everything is crucial, but nothing is serious. It is the end of the world as we know it, of […]
It’s winter, the sky is blue
WORK IN PROGRESS A duet about loss, sensitivity and peaceful grief. A tale of people in a postmodern world trying to talk about the connections and emotions under one roof. VARIGHED 60 min. Dørene åbner en time før forestillingen. Kom i god tid og nyd en drink i vores bar.ALDER fra 13 år BILLET Gratis […]
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, […]
Nos jardins
In this work, bodies, materials, and relationships are explored – always deeply rooted in the area in which it unfolds. For each performance, the three performers – two acrobats and a dancer – collaborate with two older guest performers from the local community, who take on a central role in the piece. From their movements […]
Det får bära eller brista
An acrobatic performance telling the story of women’s strength The research has its focus on Nordic women’s physical tasks during the last hundred years. It originates from interviews with the artists mothers, grandmothers, and great grand mothers. In Det får bära eller brista six female acrobats work together as three duo pairs, as two trio […]
POSTPONED – 080
Out of thin air 0 can be both a starting point and a point of completion. Between these two extremities: an existence, an infinity of possibility. Over 80 minutes 080 traces, educes and narrates the story of an imaginary being with humour and tenderness: neither woman nor man, having neither genitalia nor mouth, without value, […]
FUCKD
New boundary-pushing performance for children and young people with humor, seriousness and neckbreaking acrobatics “If we are to experience continued growth in Denmark so that each generation becomes richer and can consume more than the previous one, the Danish youth must run faster and perform better. But at the same time, we also need creative […]
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 […]
Shrouded
Shrouded is a physical–poetic exploration of depression – raw, sensitive, and intense. Triority Circus uses the language of trio acrobatics to give visibility to an inner state that often exists only in hiding. Through lifts, falls, and physical strength, they create an expression that resonates with the audience and invites them to feel the intensity […]
Kulovalkea
Kulovalkea is the Finnish wildfire, that eats its way through the landscape. The uncontrollable and meaningless force that leaves nothing behind but a blank canvas. Kulovalkea is a tribute to the loss of meaning and a circus shaped argument for the value of the unnecessary. The performance is created by a young and talented ensemble from […]
The ANTI-ISM Project
In collaboration with the cultural institution Katapult (Berlin), DYNAMO invites a circus company or an artist to explore the subject of inclusion. The two selected artists, Kathrin Wagner and Emma Hornell, receive a week’s time production support in Berling and Odense, which will culminate with work in progress showings and artist talks. So far, we […]
Det får bära eller brista
ACROBATIC CIRCUS COLLECTIVE With stoic calm and poetic raw power, six female acrobats rise and fall across the stage to the sound of evocative and curly folk music. They are all bearers of their ancestors’ stories, which they pass on through body and choreography. A testimony of generations of women who carry on contrasts such […]
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 […]
Tout | Rien
How do you catch time as it slips away? And can you seize it in the middle of a movement? With simple objects like yarn, chains, and stones, Alexis Rouvre creates a universe where time seems to stop, even in complete darkness. A magical contemporary circus performance unfolds with object manipulation, humor, and poetry, where […]
CANCELLED: Only Bones v1.0
Due to Covid-19 restrictions this work-in-progress showing has been closed for the public. We can’t wait to see you again soon! Stay safe. Some of you already know, the rest of you will discover it soon; Thom Monckton has an incredible ability to tell stories with his body. He is charming and present, and one […]
Sawdust Symphony
What exactly is the satisfaction to hit a nail into wood? What is the sensation when sanding a surface and how does it feel for a machine to work? In this creation the performers share the stage with tools and machinery in a unik circus experience. Sawdust Symphony talks about the human desire to create: […]
The Balance
A MODERN TAKE ON THE ESSENCE OF BALANCE The Balance is a whimsical balance laboratory where poetic circus illusions meet scientific biomechanics. Feel the concentration and immersion in handstand artist Signe Løve Anderskov’s quest for the magical balance point. Watch the weight meet the lightness in fragile positions, laugh at the failed attempts and hold […]
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 […]
Yes Person
Yes Person is a circus performance that celebrates all the ideas that are too peculiar to realise, yet too wonderful to bury. Inspired by the expression “kill your darlings,” circus artists Imogen and Inka have decided to start saying yes to the ideas they once rejected. Together, they breathe new life into their odd, crooked, […]
Sisyphus Ascending
Like the hero of Greek mythology, this office-rat is tied to his workstation of grey nuances. The modern Sisyphus at first tries to come to peace with his predicament, but then rebels. In an office dominated by a high bookshelf, filled to the brim with folders and documents, Sisyfos endlessly tries to bring chaos to […]
BARK
REMEMBER YOUR CORONA-PASSPORT BARK is a poetic, spectacular and thought provoking contemporary circus performance for a forest, an audience, and five performing artists. Played site-specifically in and with your local forest, BARK is about reconnecting with each other and with nature. The forest, the soil and the trees are the main characters of the performance, and co-create […]
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 […]
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 […]
Grand Danois
“★★★★★ – a poetic blast that is sure to delight and move many a circus-loving heart” – iscene.dk Grand Danois is a breathless, anarchistic circus performance filled with circus virtuosity, music, and devil-may-care humor. We meet a ragged and slightly dysfunctional circus troupe living life on the road — a life scented with sawdust and […]
Tutti Frutti – a work in progress presentation
Tutti Frutti is a swirling mix of four talented, imaginative and creative artists. With acrobatics, juggling, dancing, magic, martial arts, hypnosis, climbing, cycling, graffiti, movies and waterfalls, they create a hectic and entertaining tangle. And yes, there will be fruits, but the title also refers to the mix of styles, characters and eclectic poetry. With […]
Reopening celebration
Welcome back! The lockdown is over and finally theaters and stages can open again. We must celebrate it – with circus and beer! Join us for the reopening of DYNAMO The bar is open and to celebrate the day we have selected a delicate festive potpourri of DYNAMO’s best circus friends, to perform for you. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Korus
Below Zero presents Korus – a work in progress production. Korus is the Swedish word for choir or“collective voice”which is also the theme of the piece. In selected parts of the play the artists challenge the idea of what coming together truly means.Through hand to hand acrobatics, tight wire walking and teeterboard they explore the […]
SOLD OUT! Sharks on Board
Sharks On Board is a Danish contemporary circus production, suitable for children and childish souls of all ages. The performance takes place in a universe where anything can happen and only the imagination sets the limits. A world where audiences can sit back and enjoy an acrobatic journey full of stories, surprises and breathtaking circus […]
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 – […]
Hack the circus
Work-in-progress presentation by circusnext finalists, the company Faro Celeste. Hack the Circus is a low-tech science fiction show where technological devices are handmade—just like something you might create in your own backyard. In a post-apocalyptic future, three women have survived by seeking refuge in a dark space filled with electronic materials and plants. They do […]
Circus from the Nordic Sea
The wooden sailboat Johanne has sailed thousands of natutical miles from the North Sea through insidious Skagerrak, to the open Baltic Sea. Her hull has experienced madness and scurvy, and under the cover of the night, her crew has conspired, been drinking and taught themselves new tricks! In strong gale the sea fog’s heroes stand […]
DOIS
Archery and brotherhood Luis and Pedro are brothers. In addition to their genetic origins, they share a passion for contemporary circus and archery – a combination that unites in the performance DOIS, which in Portuguese means ‘two’. Touching on topics such as empathy, intimacy, brotherhood and rivalry, together they explore the deeply symbolic weapon of […]
CANCELLED: The Third Law
Physics turned upside down Have you ever tried flicking a switch and the lights comes on? Of course, you have. It’s a commodity we see as natural in today’s society. But what if it wasn’t? Newton’s third law of motion states: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction…” What if that meant that, […]
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 […]
Death From Laughter
DEATH FROM LAUGHTER is an award-winning clown performance about disruption and entertainment. Melon, Mardi, and Rossinyol face an unexpected conflict that spirals into farce. Their untamed and clumsy nature sets the stage for this madcap show, where they freely explore every form of cruelty with both humor and chills. An improbable crime, a suspicious trial, […]