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 with silent, physcially expressive absurdity, and bizarre fantasies emerge from the monotony of everyday office life.
Trygve Wakenshaw is the acclaimed physical comedian behind shows such as Kraken, while his Kiwi compatriot Barnie Duncan is the creator of passionate salsa DJ Juan Vesuvius. Together they have created the wonderful and unique world of Mad Office, in which the ennui of office life spawns absurdist fantasy.
The performance is a collaboration between Momentum Theatre and DYNAMO Workspace.
OBS The performance takes place at Theater Momentum.
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 breasts, thighs and buttocks in the right size. A grotesque greeting to the powdered wigs and delicate soap bubbles of the baroque in a unique mixture of modern dance and physical theatre.
Gunilla Lind Dance Theatre is a Copenhagen based performance group led by choreographer Gunilla Lind. With her playful performances, Gunilla Lind presents a unique mix of contemporary dance and physical theatre. Always with food for thought and a humoristic touch leaving the audience somewhat puzzled and curious. Consistent interests in Gunilla Linds choreographic work are identity projects, group dynamics, gender roles, self-promotion through social media and body image. Gunilla Lind puts a mirror up to society and through quirky characters, odd movements and surprising effects she turns every day tendencies upside down. This makes the audience see everyday topics from a new and different angle. Through unusual costumes Gunilla Lind often de-humanizes the performers in order to challenge the way we perceive other human beings and the way we look at ourselves.
The performance is a collaboration between Momentum Theater and DYNAMO Workspace.
OBS The performance takes place at Theater Momentum.
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 a duck are everything and nothing.
Rapid Eye was founded in 2010, and has since then managed to establish itself with a unique profile in contemporary performing arts. The company creates performances on the border between modern circus, dance and visual theater. It reflects a distinct Nordic style of minimalist elegance. The performances are characterized by a love for human beings and their wondering at the world. They explore the perception of reality in a playful way. Rapid Eye questions the big and small things in life. The relation between you, me, life, and the universe are put under the microscope. Humorous poetry, philosophical magic, artistic precision and timing, as well as charming personalities on stage constitute the fascinating uniqueness and quality of Rapid Eye’s performances.
The performance is a collaboration between Momentum Theater and DYNAMO Workspace.
OBS The performance takes place at Theater Momentum.
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 theatre that pulsates and dynamically shifts on the 500-kilo heavy balancing board ‘The Turmoil.’
DON GNU – Physical Theatre & Film is an artistic collaboration that focuses on dance and physical theatre. The company was founded in 2010 by the two choreographers Jannik Elkær and Kristoffer Louis Andrup Pedersen, who also constitute the artistic duo at the helm of DON GNU. Today the company is one of the most touring company in Denmark. In addition to extensive tour activities in Denmark, DON GNU has also toured in all the Nordic Countries, South Korea, Canada, big parts of Europe and Cuba. The company’s name is built around the paradox embedded in the name DON GNU. Don as an individual, and Gnu (wildebeest) as a herd animal, the constellation of both the individual and the collective creates the dynamism, experimentation and development-basis for the ideas that are the hallmark of DON GNU productions.
‘Human in balance’ is developed as part of the European Capital of Culture 2017 – in collaboration with the Cypriot Dance House Lemosos and Bora Bora – Dance and Visual Theatre.
The performance is a collaboration between Theater Momentum and DYNAMO Workspace.
OBS The performance takes place at DYNAMO Workspace.
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 thermos with hot coffee to comprise a whole and holy juggling-performance about everything that exists only because of the things that are absent.
Rapid Eye was founded in 2010, and has since then managed to establish itself with a unique profile in contemporary performing arts. The company creates performances on the border between modern circus, dance and visual theater. It reflects a distinct Nordic style of minimalist elegance. The performances are characterized by a love for human beings and their wondering at the world; it explores the perception of reality in a playful way. Rapid Eye questions the big and small things in life. The relation between you, me, life, and the universe are put under the microscope. Humorous poetry, philosophical magic, artistic precision and timing, as well as charming personalities on stage constitute the fascinating uniqueness and quality of Rapid Eye’s performances.
The performance is a collaboration betweenTeater Momentumand DYNAMO Workspace.
The performance takes place at DYNAMO Workspace.
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 groups, and as an acrobatic collective.
They all have approximately twenty years of experience as circus performers.
Det får bära eller brista is a beautiful, physical and impressive portrayal of the woman as the bearing figure in life. The show caters to audiences of all ages, but we recommended that smaller children come in the company of adults.
Nordic folkmusic
The music is based on the Nordic countries’ folk music and tradition. New compositions are inspired by traditional folk music from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.
The two musicians, the multi-instrumentalists Anna Cederquist and Anna Rynefors, illustrate and reinforce the performance with varied, warm, suggestive, happy, heavy and curvy modern folk music.
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 world has. When a new prop is finally introduced to the artistic community, the challenge becomes finding things to do with that particular shape that can’t be done with anything else in the world.
It’s equally easy to juggle with an apple and an orange, but quite another matter to find tricks that specifically need one instead of the other!
It’s harder to justify a certain design using traditional older juggling techniques because almost anything can be thrown into the air and caught. This is why a lot of new techniques end up using minimal throws, where the objects are more in contact with each other and physically interact. This physicality in the manipulation starts to blur the border between juggling and a lot of the other time-based art forms of puppetry, dance, mime, storytelling, and even music.
The show is closely related to all of these other arts, and yet stays true to juggling, though a form of juggling you may not have seen before.
The relation to music is furthered as a tribute to the world famous juggling troupe “The Flying Karamozov Brothers,” who observed: “Juggling is a series of events, throws and catches happening with respect to time. Music, similarly, is a series of events, notes as graphed against a continuum of time. This relationship between time and events in music is called rhythm. That same term, rhythm, can also be applied to the same relationship in juggling. So, as we’ve just seen, juggling is rhythm and music is rhythm. Now logic tells us that if A equals B, and B equals C, then A equals C… therefore, juggling is music!”
Jay Gilligan is an American juggler from Arcadia, Ohio, currently performing and living in Europe. He is one of the most creative and successful jugglers in the world. Jay is the main teacher of juggling and creator of the juggling program at the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, Sweden.
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 is fascinated by the way in which he is in contact with his body and with his audience.
Whether he tells a love story with his toes, performs a conflict situation with his fingers, or has trouble getting his head straightened, you are blown back by how intense and interesting he is to look at.
‘Only Bones v1.0’ has already played at the prestigious London Mime Festival and had two successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In a stage area centered around 1 m2, a humorous tale of the body’s possibilities for telling great stories is played out. On stage is an artist, a technician, a light, no words.
★★★★★ Broadway Baby – “His playful, hypnotising, deceptively simple part-clown-part-physical-theater act makes you forget how the human body is supposed to work”
★★★★★ Across The Arts – “Monckton’s ability to manipulate the smallest parts of the body, not just to do this expertly but while establishing a playful relationship with the audience, is mind-blowing”
“Only Bones” is a comic dogma performance developed by Thom Monckton and at the time of writing, counts four parallel versions, of which Thom Monckton’s v1.0 is the first suggestion of how a physical comedian and performer creates a universe using only simple lights and his body.
CANCELLED Fritt Fram
What does the world look like when I am upside down? Can I bee too old to play? What do I do when I’m not allowed to be a part in the game? What does Mari and Mikael do when Tamar invents her own rules? Have you ever thought about how much you can lift? Or even, how much we can lift together?
With Fritt fram we want to meet the younger audience, with a contribution to what playing can be. That we can continue to play all our life, that we can play with each other – and alone, that we can use the game to explore the possibilities our amazing bodies and our unlimited fantasy gives us.
KompaniTO was in residency at DYNAMO in 2019 with just this project. Meanwhile, the show has premiered in Norway and toured around Scandinavia and Northern Europe.
We look forward to presenting the performance to those audiences who, back in April 2019, watched a beautiful and impressive Work in Progress show, as well as new audiences who still haven’t seen this Norwegian company.
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 order…
(The show is sold out)
A modern fable of overcoming the monotony of repetition.
The performance is a poetic, sharp and funny interpretation of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, who is forever doomed to push a rock up a mountain, just to see it roll down again, so he has to start all over again. Here the myth is portrayed through a visually and physically powerful piece of contemporary circus.
We meet Sisyphus in his office with the oversized bookshelf, a table bursting with strange sounds, and heaps of uncontrollable papers. The strange office frames a modern Sisyphus dressed in a suit … and his bold attempt to break out of life’s eternal repetitions.
What must he overcome to endure his punishment? Can he find his freedom somewhere else?
NB: The performance is presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum and plays at their address: Ny Verstergade 18.
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 bow and arrow.
With danger, ingenuity and humor, the two brothers take the audience on an exploration of a masculine universe that is equally conditioned by competition and love.
DURATION 55 min. AGE For all
TICKET With DYNAMO-Card: 0 kr.* Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 21/22 (conditions apply)
Supported by Odense Kommune, Kulturpuljen, and Finlands kulturinstitut i Danmark
About the company
Luis Sartori do Vale is a performing artist and visual artist from Brazil, based in Helsinki, Finland. He is a co-founder of the Finnish company Nuua, which has won several awards and gained international recognition. When Luis is not working with performing arts, he develops projects as a visual artist, between illustration, video and animation.
Pedro is specialized in acrobatics and Chinese pole, he has always been fascinated by the art of “displacement”, constantly developing a research about body movement in different areas, such as capoeira, gymnastics, tricks/kung fu and dance. Pedro is soon opening his own circus school, Brava Escola de Circo, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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 artists both dance, juggle and manipulate elements such as balls and lights that take them on a poetic and playful journey towards the unknown.
A journey worth taking on for both children and adults who love to use their imagination.
DURATION 45 min. AGE +4
TICKET With DYNAMO-Card: 0 kr.* Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 21/22 (conditions apply)
Supported by Odense Kommune, Kulturpuljen, and Finlands kulturinstitut i Danmark
About the company
Luis Sartori do Vale is a performing and visual artist from Brazil, based in Helsinki, Finland. He is one of the artistic forces behind Company Portmanteau.
Luis has performed in more than 25 countries worldwide. When not working with performing arts, he develops projects as a visual artist, between illustration, video and animation.
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 – the performance examines what happens in the meeting between two artistic expressions.
Together, the performers explore space, sounds, light and movement – a poetic and visual encounter between bodies and senses that entices and challenges the imagination.
Like in poetry, Portmanteau does not dictate a clear narrative, but rather allows the audience to bring in their own interpretations.
DURATION 55 min. AGE 5+
TICKET With DYNAMO-Card: 0 kr.* Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 21/22 (conditions apply)
About the company
Luis Sartori do Vale is a performing and visual artist from Brazil, based in Helsinki, Finland. He is one of the artistic forces behind Company Portmanteau, and, together with Mira Ravald, the creator of the award-winning performance that shares the company’s name.
Luis has performed in more than 25 countries worldwide. When not working with performing arts, he develops projects as a visual artist, between illustration, video and animation.
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, impressive and nerve-wracking moments.
There will be an artist talk after the performance.
A performance under artistic development. We are waiting to se if it is possible to do the performance due to the lockdown.
Ticket price on performance night at the venue: kr. 200 – buy your ticket in pre-sale. It is much cheaper!
OBS: The show is sold out!
ABOUT THE COMPANY
GLiMT combines circus, dance and physical theater into new, challenging forms that can express the issues that are most pressing in our time and society.
Sputnik & Wild Wonders is a contemporary circus company, creating sight-specific cabarets, cross-over art collaborations and perform slack rope, acrobatic and cyr wheel.
In a space of 20 m2, the world’s entire history takes place over a span of 8 billion years through expressive movement, magical illusions and puppet theater.
From cavemen in loincloths to the DJs in tracksuits – a visual journey through time that questions our meaning, or rather: Our insignificance, seen in a larger perspective of the concept of time.
DÉJÀ is inspired by Richard McGuire’s award-winning graphic novel Here. It serves poetic and a humorous expression that composes images from different eras.
A slide show of what was, what is and what may come.
The performance is presentet in collaboration with Teater Momentum, and is shown at Ny Vestergade 18, Odense C
The performance is postponed due to the lockdown.
Ticket price on performance night at the venue: kr. 200 – buy your ticket in pre-sale. It is much cheaper!
ABOUT THE COMPANY
The Krumple seeks to create visually arresting theatre without borders, characterized by a strong element of surprise. The human is at the forefront of everything they do, each show walking a fine line between sensitivity and stupidity, as they strive to look through both ends of the telescope for what usually cannot be seen.
You’ll never cross the street in the same way again!
DON GNU digs into the tediousness of everyday routines in search of poetry and humor in a performance with muscular physicality and edgy stunt tricks.
One ordinary day, four ordinary men take a walk through a city. They readily follow unwritten and strict rules of good behavior and norms of social etiquette until one of them suddenly decides to rebel…
With trademark DON GNU “everyday stunts” and raw physicality, WALK-MAN is a performance in which the ground is literally swept away from under the feet of four men walking. In a world where rules, norms and routines no longer apply, a pedestrian is not simply a person crossing the street and common understanding of “good behavior” falls apart.
The performance is presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum
DURATION 70 min. AGE All ages
TICKET Membership: 0 kr. Ticket: 200 kr. Group ticket, adult: 140 kr. (min. 6 pers.) Youth ticket u/25: 110 kr. Group ticket, youth: 80 kr. (min. 6 pers.)
About the company
DON GNU – Physical Theatre & Film is an artistic collaboration that focuses on dance and physical theatre. The company was founded in 2010 by the two choreographers Jannik Elkær and Kristoffer Louis Andrup Pedersen, who also constitute the artistic duo at the helm of DON GNU. Today the company is one of the most touring company in Denmark.
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 by Nordic women’s physical tasks over the last hundred years.
Here the cast are all bearers of their ancestral stories, which they pass on through their bodies and choreography. A testimony of generations of women who encompass contrasts such as heaviness and lightness, strength and vulnerability, joy and sorrow.
A beautiful, physical and impressive portrayal of the woman as a supporting figure in life.
DYNAMO AFTER DARK event after the performance – more information to come!
ABOUT THE COMPANY
CIRCUS BY ME offers contemporary circus with acrobatics as a specialty, crossing various art forms such as contact improvisation, modern dance, ceramics and theater. It employs culture as a means for building a better world. In the performance, six female acrobats work together as three duo pairs, as two trio groups and as one acrobatic collective. They all have about twenty years of experience as professional new circus artists.
Read more on their webpage Follow the performance on Facebook
Photo: Alex Hinchcliffe & Kristian Wanvik
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 quirky universe. A thoughtful performance based on the censored Soviet avant-garde poet, Daniil Kharms.
“There was a red-haired man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called red-haired arbitrarily. He couldn’t speak, since he didn’t have a mouth. He didn’t have a nose either. He didn’t even have any arms or legs. He had no stomach and he had no back and he had no spine and he had no innards whatsoever. There was nothing! Therefore we don’t even know whom we are even talking about. It’s better that we don’t talk any more about him.”
-Danjil Kharms
Red Haired Men is presented in collaboration with CCAF!
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Following his previous work such as solo ANECKXANDER (2015) and duet The Ceramic Rose (2018), Red Haired Men is Alexander Vantournhout’s first group choreography. It forms the next step in the development of a distinctive and idiosyncratic dance-acrobatic vocabulary.
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 they should obviously fail – but surprise with the success.
The audience does not know what to believe anymore and has to face a demonstration of tricks that belongs to a myths.
In a chill and meditative atmosphere with a pinch of some Monty Pythonesque humour, we are witnesses to random up and down-moments, when experiments either lead to unconditional success or ultimate failure.
100% Circus was set to perform in the spring season 2021. Unfortunately we had to cancel due to Corona. But now they’re back, and looking forward to meeting the audience!
DURATION 50 min. AGE For all
TICKET With DYNAMO-Card: 0 kr.* Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 21/22 (conditions apply)
Blik
Welcome to the new circus in the physics room that challenges the laws of nature
Artists Jay and Erik link science and performing arts. With an emphasis on observation, they explore on stage where ideas come from: Equal parts physics experiments, brainstorming, magic and creation through juggling and manipulation of everyday objects, leaving the audience gaping and hungry to explore the limits of physics – and see if it can be moved further.
Presented in collaboration with Nørregårds Teater
AGE 5 + DURATION Approx. 45 min. TICKET From kr. 140 / kr. 40 – kr. 0 with Nørregårds Teater card or DYNAMO-card
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 the holes that surround them. A surprising and absorbing interest which has led them from buttonholes to the deepest hole in the world, which is situated in Murmansk.
No hole is too big or small to contain their wonder – the holes they discover, the holes they fill and the holes they create as they go along.
From the taciturn relationship between these two anti-heros, and from their unorthodox choice of juggling objects, a wholehearted and hare-brained performance emerges. Combining deadpan comedy with their delicate sense of nerdy perseverance.
In their down-to-earth, do-it-yourself fashion, they employ shovels, buckets, ropes, sand and scaffolds to create a juggling show which is fully-formed, though full of holes; a piece about all of the things which are only there because other things are not. They remind us that in order to descend, one must sometimes step up.
In the end, we human beings are no more than the collection of matter around the hole which, in our own singular ways, we leave behind in the world when we die.
‘W/hole’ combines spectacular and visual qualities with the experience of two new circus artists of exceptional class.” – Teateravisen (Danish)
DURATION 55 min. AGE 7+
TICKET Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 21/22 (conditions apply)
About the company
Rapid Eye creates performances that combine new circus, dance and visual theater. The performances are characterized by a love for humans and their questions toward the world, and explore the perception of reality in a playful way.
A co-production with Aaben Dans
Home
A wordless performance about finding a place to belong.
Two clowns – two realities. One’s a homebody, taking care of his house, which has belonged to his family in generations. Here he’s safe, here he belongs – though he has dreamed of going out with his guitar and experiencing the great, big world. The other has run off from a place of conflict and dreams of finding a nice and quiet place to settle down.
Can the two reconcile each other’s differences and strange habits? And could they perhaps help each other’s dreams come true?
AGE 5 + DURATION 55 min. TICKET From kr. 200 / kr. 60 – kr. 0 with Momentum årskort and DYNAMO-kort
Presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum
CHAMPIONS & MASS EFFECT
Double bill in collaboration with Teater Momentum
Two dance performances full of contrasts by HIMHERANDIT, which explore the psycological and physical aspects of endurance. Both performances are on both nights
CHAMPIONS washes away the fine lines between intimacy and wrestling, and challenges themes of homosexuality, family and home in a deeply personal performance. In this autobiographical work Andreas Constantinou searches the borders of contemporary storytelling through video, sound, installation and performance. An exploration of the psychology behind human resilience and tenacity.
MASS EFFECT is a show of collective durability and group perseverance. How people in a group push themselves to overcome extreme circumstances and exceed physical exhaustion together and as individuals. MASS EFFECT is an artistic commentary of the current socio-political landscape, where society often resolves, is disassembled and has its differences exposed in order to create separation.
NOTE: The performances play at Teater Momentum, Ny Vestergade 18, 5000 Odense C
AGE 16 + DURATION 2 hoours TICKET From kr. 200 / kr. 60 – kr. 0 with Momentum årskort or DYNAMO-card
ITALIAN PUPPET THEATER: MANOVIVA & ANTIPODI
An afternoon of Italian puppet theater at DYNAMO – two performances for the price of one. For both children and adults, bring the whole family to DYNAMO for a magical afternoon with international performing arts.
Experience the performance MANOVIVA by Girovago e Rondella (IT) at 15 to 15.20 followed by 30 min. intermission.
After the intermission, the performance ANTIPODI by Compagnia Dromosofista (IT / AG) will perform from 15.50 to 16.15
MANOVIVA by Girovago e Rondella (IT) Magic hand puppets in a mini-manege. In a dark and magical microcosm, Manin and Manon invite us into their amazing little world, where hands give life to two little circus performers.
Manin is a line dancer and walks on stilts. Manon is both a juggler, fire eater and orchestra in the small circus. Manonviva is a puppet show that creates a fabulous miniature world with just five fingers and without words.
DURATION: 20 min AGE: From 3 years CREDITS: Marco Grignani, Federica Lacomba and Timoteo Grignani
ABOUT THE COMPANY Girovago and Rondella met at a boat theater in Greece 35 years ago. Since then, they have developed popular and poetic performances, which have been shown in more than 25 countries.
ANTIPODY by Compagnia Dromosofista (IT / AG) Puppets and live music on a journey around the world. An enchanting performance where ideas are on the rise, and shadows, bodies and dolls unfold a whole world.
Take on a journey around the world where nothing is out of reach. Accompanied by live music, we take on the globe together.
DURATION 25 min AGE: from 7 years CREDITS: Tommaso Grignani, Facundo Moreno and Rugiada Grignani
ABOUT THE COMPANY Compagniai Dromosofista was founded in 2007 when the sibling trio Rugiada, Timoteo and Tommaso Grignani, met the Moreno brothers in Italy. Together they create street poetic theater, where they combine live music, puppets and physical theater.
Price: From DKK 120 / DKK 40 (DKK 200 at the door) Buy your ticket in advance – it is much cheaper.
Ternura y Chocolate
Peculiar performance from Latinamerika
The good thing about being dead is that it reminds of that we are alive.
It is a birthday, and he sits there this lonely man waiting for his guests, but no one will come. Balloons are inflated, candles are lit and everything is prepared.
A thriller of a performance with dark humor about the complicated relaton between two caracters.
Presented in collaboration with Feral Festival
AGE 15 + DURATION 35 min TICKET From kr. 200 / kr. 40 – DYNAMO-card kr. 0. Buy you ticket in advance it is much cheaper
GRÅTT / SURVIVORS
Two choreographic works as part of LOCATION X 10 year anniversary. Double bill with two performances
The dance solo GRÅTT is a choreographic exploration of the experience of stress and how it affects us mentally and physically. The audience is invited into a space where the dancing body and music are intertwined into an intense introspection of the flesh – confronted with a body that gradually breaks the cycle between excitement and collapse.
With SURVIVORS, a dance performance for two actors, the audience is invited into a tragicomic and choreographed tour around the rat race. This game where we all wearing and tearing ourselves. Without really why, we are doing it – and for whom.
Taneli Törmä’s movements and Finnish Anna Lipponen’s text forms a 60 minutes poetic marathon. Through the two actors’ constant and simultaneous flow of speech, and through movement, voice and text, the audience is brought step by step into a manipulative landscape.
FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT!
Choerography and concept: Taneli Törmä Performers: Troels Hagen Findsen, Anna Lipponen Text: Anna Lipponen/Studio total
AGE 12 + DURATION Approx. 2,5 hours TICKET From 40 kr. – DYNAMO-card 0 kr.
BREAST IN PEACE
Breasts, beloved blend of fat, connective tissue and glands! As clowns, in the tension between cringe and virtuosity, M.P.A.C. explores breasts. What does breasts say about the human condition? Who can show what, where, how?
M.P.A.C. plays with perceptions of breasts to surprise, remove shame, arouse laughter and broaden the view on breasts both in the public and the personal intimate. Through clown, dance and circus M.P.A.C. builds a space of humor and vulnerability, rapture and resistance, tricks and reflection.
Who can show the nipples on the beach? On social media? Elevated on stage in the spotlight? Breasts are too big, too small, too saggy, too sexy, too heavy, too flat, too muscular. Are you breastfeeding here?! Breasts are hidden, missing and mourned. Breasts are a goldmine for four clowns with a punk circus attitude!
Presented in collaboration with Feral Festival
AGE 15 + DURATION 70 min TICKET Ticket sale at the venue kr. 200 – Presale kr. 120, young/stud/senior kr. 80, child kr. 40, DYNAMO card kr. 0. Buy you ticket in advance, it is much cheaper
DYNAMO After Dark
DYNAMO AFTER DARK is a series of special events where we, in collaboration with Fyens Stiftstidende, invite you to talk, immerse yourself and reflect. This is based on performances that play at DYNAMO.
Breasts – in public and on stage
This is an After Dark event following the show Breast in Peace on October 15th.
Where do breasts belong, what should they look like and who really decides over them? We put an activist and lawyer in a meeting with the artists for a talk about the female body on and off stage. Because they are not to be missed. Neither when looking in the mirror nor opening the newspaper. Breasts – or the female body – adorn well over half of all mirror images in the world. Why do we talk so much about breasts?
IN CONVERSATION:
The conversation is moderated by Lene Kryger, theater editor and cultural journalist at Fyens Stiftstidende and Fyns Amts Avis, as well as a member of the Reumert jury.
Kajsa Englund and Karin Svensson are artists and are, among others, behind the performance collective Mighty Performing Arts Collective, which creates original performing arts in collective processes based on a norm-critical and feminist approach.
Liv Navntoft Henningsen has a Master’s degree in law. from the University of Copenhagen and has in connection with her education dealt extensively with minority protection and women’s rights. In addition, she has written a thesis on human rights perspectives on breastfeeding in the public space.
Asja Karkov is a student and has been doing feminist activism for the last many years. She has largely used Instagram as a platform to show the female body in a desexualized and unedited way. Asja has also helped start the feminist festival Femi Festival and made boob t-shirt workshops.
INFO:
FREE SPECIAL EVENT in continuation of the performance BREAST IN PEACE on 15 October. Requires ticket for performance, which is shown 20:00. Duration approx. 1 hour.
Welcome to the blood-red imagination of the porker! A samba arena, a show ring, a hotbed, a pigsty. A circus of festivities, fellowships, secrets and seduction.
SAMBA is raw and urban. SAMBA pulsates. SAMBA is sensual. SAMBA is dastardly deeds and connectedness. SAMBA is everything that arises in the space between us. SAMBA gets under our skin, behind our masks, into the ring; it embodies and makes space for everything we are.
With our snouts in the trough and our tails in the air we will grub deep into the mire and hurl ourselves into the human fellowship.
SAMBA is part of Uppercut Dance Theatre’s trilogy WHAT WAS MUST DIE.
AGE From age 12 DURATION 75 min.
TICKETS: Membership: 0 kr. Ticket: 200 kr. Group ticket, adult: 140 kr. (min. 6 pers.) Youth ticket u/25: 110 kr. Group ticket, youth: 80 kr. (min. 6 pers.)
Presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum
Trailer: SAMBA by Uppercut Danseteater
TOURIST
A vacation, you can’t wait to get home from
Do you also dream of paradise? Of packing your sandals, bandana and sun cream and heading off towards distant shorelines and new worlds? Of coming home renewed and empowered, with a pocketful of life-affirming and unforgettable memories?
So come along, citizen of the world, back-packer, charter-tourist, on the journey of your life to the land of holiday wishes, dreams… and nightmarish scenarios! Because something is wrong, and three loveable individuals are forced to realize that in reality it’s not a question of the destination but of the road that leads to it… for fate has it that their unique dream voyage turns into a chaotic battle ground over their claim to beautiful, uninhabited landscapes, swimming pools and roasted suckling pigs or croissants and cortados at a sidewalk café in Nice.
An action-packed, physical comedy about life as a tourist and about how encountering others can bring both the best and the worst out in us. Welcome to DON GNU’S fantastic island of dance.
Presented in collaboration with Momentum. NB: The performance takes place at Momentum, Ny Vestergade 16, Odense C
DURATION 70 min. AGE 14+
TICKET Membership: 0 kr. Ticket: 200 kr. Group ticket, adult: 140 kr. (min. 6 pers.) Youth ticket u/25: 110 kr. Group ticket, youth: 80 kr. (min. 6 pers.)
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, when you turn the light on, the light goes out somewhere else? When you travel up with an elevator, someone else has to travel down? And when you fall, someone else starts flying…?
With acrobatics, live music, ingenuity and a spark of madness, four circus artists climb, balance, and tumble through a contemporary circus performance inspired by games theory, physics and energy consumption as they explore the consequences of human behavior.
DURATION 50 min. AGE 15+
TICKET Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 21/22 (conditions apply)
1 1/2
A notion of loneliness
Just as a blank piece of paper, the doll-man Antero gets a fresh start in an unfurnished room. Here he can be exactly as he is, without interruption. But he needs someone to dance with! Maybe it could be a pair of juggling balls? Perhaps a romantic interest?
Frida Odden Brinkmann is a juggler, circus artist and puppeteer and she has toured with ‘1 ½’ in Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, France, Spain, Latvia and Denmark. The performance is recommended from 6 years and up, as the doll can seem scary to smaller children.
Presented in collaboration with Nørregaards Teater
DURATION 60 min. AGE 6+
TICKET DYNAMO-card: 0 kr.* Normal ticket: 120 kr. Children, youth, students and more: 45 kr.
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 21/22 (conditions apply)
Manoviva & Antipodi
ITALIAN PUPPET THEATRE AT THE HARBOUR
Experience a magical circus atmosphere at Odense Harbour when the Italian Teatri Mobili come to town with circus trucks and theaters on wheels. Teatri Mobili is a whole circus family for 3 generations traveling together around Europe.
Experience the enchanting performances of MANOVIVA and ANTIPODI, experience mime and puppet theater, performed in cosy travelling theatre wagons, and hear music in the open air, with lots of nostalgic circus magic.
AGE: From 3 years old (MANOVIVO) and 7 years old (ANTIPODI)
TIDSPUNKTER: MANOVIVA Fredag d. 5/8 kl. 15.30 17.30, 19.30 Lørdag d. 6/8 kl. 11.30, 15.30, 17.30, 19.30 Søndag d. 7/8 kl. 11.30, 15.30
ANTIPODI Fredag d. 5/8 kl. 16.30, 18.30, 20.30 Lørdag d. 6/8 kl. 12.30, 16.30, 18.30, 20.30 Søndag d. 7/8 kl. 12.30, 16.30
DURATION: 35 min per performance with a break in between. TICKET: 50 kr. per performance; free entrance for kids under 3 years old (free entrance for all to outdoors activities)
Presented in collaboration with Passage Festival and GLIMT Amager.
(Un)limited liability for a physical concert
CONCERT ON GENDER, CLICHES, AND FEMALE EMPANCIPATION
It’s not just music. It’s not just theater. It’s not just circus.
Phonophobia possesses equal parts bambi eyes and brutality. With great physicality and strong musicality, Maristella Tesio and KaritaTikka challenge gender clichés and female bodies in a bang of a contemporary circus concert.
DURATION 50 min AGE From 7 år
TICKET Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 22/23 (conditions apply)
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.
In I Was Told., the artist plays with, questions, and manipulates how the audience and the artist herself perceive her as woman and performer on stage.
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE Thursday 18th August 13.00. The performance for school groups is for free. Booking is necessary at contact: ida@dynamoworkspace.dk
I WAS TOLD is presented in collaboration with Spoken Word Festival and plays in Vollsmose Kulturhus. Many thanks to Nørregårds Teater for loan of venue in Vollsmose. ‘
DURATION 50 min. AGE From 12 years old LANGUAGE English
TICKET DYNAMO Card: 0 kr* Green ticket: 40 kr – discounted ticket for those who come by foot, human-powered two-wheel vehicle, or public transit! Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 22/23 (conditions apply)
Supported by: Odense Kommune, Kulturpuljen and the Danish Arts Foundation.
Beboer
Everyday life turned inside out!
DON GNU turns life upside down in an ordinary apartment block, where the neighbor’s feathers turn into ten chickens and what you thought were ordinary and boring everyday actions turns into some of the most touching and humorous you’ve ever seen!
In close collaboration with the residents of Høje Gladsaxe, BEBOER put the deepest secrets of ordinary life on public display.
BEBOER is presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum and plays at Teater Momentum.
DURATION70 min. The doors open an hour before the performance. Come in good time and enjoy a drink in our bar. AGE From 14 years old.
TICKET DYNAMO or MOMENTUM Card: 0 kr* Adult: 200 kr. Group ticket: 140 kr. Students and youth u/25: 60 kr.
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 22/23 (conditions apply)
Moon – A weightless cabaret
A poetic and musical moonlanding
What if you could land on the moon with a sailing ship and sail from the Sea of Silence to the Border Sea? How would the moon dust change you on the journey?
In MOON, dancer and actress Tilde Knudsen and musician and singer Klaus Risager go on stage together in a weightless cabaret about longing, desire and changeability. A song cycle in ten stages directed by Peter Kirk.
Presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum and plays at Teater Momentum. Ny Vestergade 18
DURATION 60 min. The doors open an hour before the performance. Come in good time and enjoy a drink in our bar. AGE From 14 years old.
DYNAMO or MOMENTUM Card: 0 kr.* Adult: 200 kr. Group Adult: 140 kr. Youth u/25 år: 110 kr. Group Youth u/25 år: 80 kr. School ticket: 60 kr. Children: 60 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 22/23 (conditions apply)
Stone – face – book
ROCK-HEAVY FANTASY ON STAGE
A performance about a man and his attachment to stone.
Granhøj Dans always uses its own method for creating new works – in this case it is with the stone as a starting point. Stones of all sizes, shapes and weights. Through whimsical animation, the award-winning dancer Mikolaj Karczewski breathes life into the stones, and they almost get their own personality.
Presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum and plays at Teater Momentum, Ny Vestergade 18.
DURATION 60 min. The doors open an hour before the performance. Come in good time and enjoy a drink in our bar. AGE From 12 år
DYNAMO or MOMENTUM Card: 0 kr.* Adult: 200 kr. Group Adult: 140 kr. Youth u/25 år: 110 kr. Group Youth u/25 år: 80 kr. School ticket (min. 20 persons): 60 kr. Children: 60 kr
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 as heaviness and lightness, strength and vulnerability as well as joy and sorrow.
DURATION 50 min. The doors open an hour before the performance. Come in good time and enjoy a drink in our bar. AGE From 9 years old.
TICKET
DYNAMO Card: 0 kr* Adult pre-sale: 120 kr. Adult at the door: 200 kr. Retired, poor, students and youth u/25: 80 kr. Children u/15: 40 kr
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 22/23 (conditions apply)
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 your breath, when you feel like balance is just about to be reached.
Presented in collaboration with Nørregårds Teater.
Join us for a creative Christmas workshop on Saturday 3 December!
In collaboration with Kunstmuseum Brandts and Tingcentralen, we invite you to a workshop in the spirit of balance, where you can make your own mobile. It costs only DKK 15 to join, and the ticket can be purchased additionally when you also order your ticket for the performance.
DURATION 45 min. The doors open an hour before the performance. Come in good time and enjoy a drink in our bar. AGE From 8 years old.
TICKET
DYNAMO card: DKK 0.00 * Children and young people: DKK 45.00 Accompanying adult, pensioner, student: DKK 45.00 Group ticket: DKK 45.00 Adult ticket: DKK 140.00
*Buy your DYNAMO-card to see tons of performances and save tons of money! 350 kr. for the entire season 22/23 (conditions apply)
Supported by Odense Kommune and the Danish Arts Foundation
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.
Presented in collaboration with Teater Momentum
AGE From 10 years Duration 75 min. TICKET DYNAMO card DKK 0 Adult DKK 200 Stud. + youth DKK 110
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 the body. “In any case, the work is a tribute to the human body as part of the planet’s overall biology.” Anne Middelboe Christensen, Information
The performance is presented in collaboration with Theater Momentum and plays at Momentum, Ny Vestergade 18.
AGE From 14 years old DURATION 70 min PRICE ADULT 200 YOUNG U. 25 YEARS / STUD 110 DYNAMO CARD 0
BARK
Poetic new circus in the forest floor and between the treetops BARK 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 piece together with the artists. The play is physical and combines acrobatics, vertical dance, modern clowning and physical theater with integrated sound images and poetic text; all erected in, between, with and around the trees.
NOTE: The performance takes place in Åløkkeskoven, in the part of the woods named Snapind Skoven. See Google Maps coordinates here. As audience you should wear appropriate attire, be prepared to walk around in the woods and remember that we are in the mosquito-season.
Extra event: Climate panel debate and dinner in collaboration with Cafe Kosmos – 16. sep kl. 19.00 in DYNAMO (requires separate ticket)
BARK is co-produced by DYNAMO. The performance is presented with support from Odense Municipality’s Culture Pool, The Danish Arts Foundation and the Fund for Danish-Swedish Cooperation
AGE All DURATION 75 min PRICE Free entry – ticket must be booked in advance
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 – things they didn’t know they could even learn.
With handstand, juggling, object manipulation, acrobatics and magic. Lots of magic.
DURATION 30 min AGE from 3 years old LANGUAGE Non-verbal
TICKET DYNAMO Card 0,- Child/youth; accompanying adult 45,- Pensioner, Groups, Students 45,- Door sale 140,-
Presented in collaboration with Nørregård Theater.
Accessibility All seating spaces (including audience seating) in DYNAMO are accessible for wheelchairs, canes, crutches or other mobility aids. Read more about accessibility in DYNAMO here.
