AALBORG AARHUS ODENSE COPENHAGEN 9-12 JUNE 13-14 JUNE 15-17 JUNE 18-21 JUNE PROGRAM 01 CREDITS THE NORDIC PERFORMING ARTS DAYS THE NORDIC PERFORMING ARTS DAYS WE ALSO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR ARE ORGANIZED BY THE DANISH ITI CENTER ARE ORGANIZED IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH PARTICIPATION, PARTNERSHIP AND SUPPORT Director: Susanne Danig AALBORG AALBORG Coordinator: Jeremy Thomas-Poulsen Teater Nordkraft and The Danish National Sigrid Aakvik, Mikkel Flyvholm, Jayden Holm Conference Assistant: Annika Lewis School of Performing Arts – Continuing Education Text Assistance: Line Møller Blankholm Jakob Højgård Jørgensen, Kerstin Anderson, AARHUS IT: MiCo Miriam Fransen Aarhus 2017/Pia Buchardt, Teater Refleksion, Press: HAVE Kommunikation Christine Fentz, Annika Lewis, Nønne Mai Graphic Design: Nete Banke/Imperiet AARHUS Svalholm, Godsbanen/Katrine Hee Aarhus Performing Arts Center and Danseværket TEAM BRAZA BOARD OF DANSK ITI Kasper Egelund, Charlotte Mors ODENSE WELCOME Per Bech Jensen, Majbritt Mathiesen, Nordic Assitej Committees, Odense Kommune, The Days were last held in Reykjavik in met and the meetings we have had around Together, we have given you a caravan, Sanna Albjørk, Mikkel Flyvholm, ODENSE Den Fynske Opera, Teater Momentum, 2012, and, while we were in Iceland, we the world. We urged theater spaces to a unique chance to see, experience and Miriam Frandsen, Gritt Ulldal-Jessen Assitej Denmark and Nørregaards Teater Trine Sørensen, Anders Madsen, Karsten Nisbeth, were asked to host the next platform in invite performances to perform. And all learn, while meeting new colleagues Dirck Backer, Louis Valente, Carsten Wittrock Erik Wiinberg, Maria Suh Denmark in 2014. The Danish ITI Center of these bits of information, ideas, connec- from all over the world. I hope you will NORDIC PARTNERS is a small organization, and, as my luck tions and performances have formed the endulge in it, see some groundbreaking Performing Arts Iceland, Swedish Theater Union COPENHAGEN COPENHAGEN would have it, I was, at that moment, Nordic Performing Arts Days. We did not performances, gain new perspectives on & ITI, TINFO – Theater Info Finland, Leikarafelag CPH STAGE, Husets Teater and Republique Dramafronten, FDD, Independent Stage Artists, surrounded by my Danish collegues. It set out to do a caravan – it shaped itself by your own working methods, have fierce Føroya, Performing Arts Hub Norway/Dramatik- Morten Krogh, Simon Boberg, H.C. Gimbel KIT, Smag, Dansk Nycirkus/Anja Raagaard, was then that I realized that if we were the people who wanted to be involved. debates, meet new friends – and be ever kens Hus, Nunatta Isiginnaartitsisarfia Teater Grob, The Danish National School of to succeed in this we would have to do it It has been an eye-opening learning grateful to all those people who joined in Performing Arts – Continuing Education, together. So this amazing caravan of fun process for me to discover new ways and made it happen. Warmest thanks to IN GENERAL The Royal Library/Alette Scavenius, TIO, you will experience during the Nordic of working together on something like you all! Members of Dansk ITI, Center for Kulturel Wakeup Copenhagen and Warehouse9/ Performing Arts Days is completely a this. Working in a collective process has work of collaboration. At ITI, we have brought ideas and perspectives we would Udvikling for supporting the african participation, Nordic Queer Art Network not been producing, but facilitating and not have found otherwise. Co-creating has Den Inwersenske Fond, Teatercentrum, Teaterøen, communicating, and our motto has been been hard work, but mostly a lot of fun, Line Møller Blankholm, Line Jensen, radical openness stirred by transparency, and the result much more creative than Ása Richardsdóttir collaboration, sharing and empowerment. we could have done alone. Co-producing We invited both our Nordic and Danish has brought new resources: working in And all the many theater people, performers, collegues – the partners in the caravan, a shared economy has enabled us to do Susanne Danig speakers and volunters that make this possible! the members of ITI, and facebook connec- much more than otherwise possible. Director of Dansk ITI tions – to join us in forming the Days. We absorbed ideas from the people we have 02 03 THE PERFORMING ARTS FACING GLOBALIZATION, DIGITALIZATION AND CO-CREATION CPHSTAGE – PHOTO: COSTIN-RADU PANTA REI DANSETEATER The world we live in is challenged by the creative process in the performing For this year’s Nordic Performing Arts In Aarhus the focus is on new and emerg- And how can we engage them in perform- main theme, such as: How can the big both a pervasive digitalization and an arts? And for the way the performing arts Days, these are the questions we aspire to ing platforms, new methods and possibil- ing arts at their schools? PULSE takes the theatre institutions find a new social increasing crisis of values regarding are communicated to a larger audience? Is challenge through the large program during ities and their impact on performing arts pulse on new tendencies in performing identity and delevop a new language for Europe’s self-image. There are major shifts co-creation a method or a means, a watch- the festival caravan through Denmark. – primarily within the field of dance and arts for children and young audiences. communicating with new audiences?, in the way we perceive the world and in word for the future or a passing fad? The cities of Aalborg, Aarhus, Odense and performance art. Topics will be: Re-valuing The Nordic caravan will end in Copen- How can theatres co-produce or co-create the fundamentally new ways we interact European identity is under pressure. Copenhagen each will present their focus the Artist in the New World Order – The hagen in conjunction with the Danish in more open work pratices?, How can with each other. How should we deal with New agendas are not always understand- and point of departure. You can go for a paradigm of exchange and relational theatre festival CPH STAGE, with over we make place for incubators and artist- the challenges and opportunities offered able, as our ways of perceiving the world specific topic or be inspired by the variety co-creation and its impact on the field of 115 performances from all over Denmark run performance spaces?, What strate- by globalization and digitization? Will the are no longer evident. Does the colonial of performances and discussions. performing arts – How can we best trans- and abroad. At the same time, the Nordic gies have been launched in the Nordic performing arts stick to outdated forms of past continue to hit us like a boomerang, In Aalborg, theatre Nordkraft and late the excisting and emerging possibili- Drama Train will be presented as a part countries towards internationalization?, production and expression, or will it seize because we have still not understood its Continuing Education of the Danish ties of the ”new reality” to benefit our work of the 6th FESTIVAL OF EUROPEAN Which Nordic projects and networks can the opportunity to be revitalized? implications? Theatre’s modern history National School of Performing Arts – Contin- and efforts? – Creating slow (food) perfor- CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS at we be inspired by?, Which role does the We perceive the world in radically is linked to the European conception of uing Education have put together a program mances – and – How can we best make use Husets Teater. dramaturge play in contemporary theatre new ways using digital social platforms. democracy, enlightenment ideals, and an to create a network of young performing of residencies? A small program of related Copenhagen will also launch the final production?, How do performance artists We are increasingly aware of global increasingly centralized power structure. artists interested in working in collective performances will be shown. debates of the caravan. The overall theme work with queer, feminist and gender events and are more connected across Will theatre hold on to this story, or will processes under the title New Communities. Odense launches their festival NORDIC will be addressed at the big opening political art?, and How can theatres play vast distances. We are online around the it seize the looming crisis as an opportu- Three Nordic theatre collectives have been PULSE, on performing arts for children event on the 18th, organized as a Reumert a role in the understanding of the clock, we communicate continuously with nity to take the lead in reinterpreting our invited to do workshops with the 36 young and young people. The festival presents Salon. On the following days, there will globalized world? the entire world, we engage each other identity and be on the frontlines for an artists chosen, and there will be an open 16 performances from the Nordic coun- be debates and workshops organized in through new mediums, and we demand opening towards real global responsibility, showing of the outcomes of these work- tries, as well as, seminars with a focus on collaboration with different Danish It will all end in a great Nordic Midsummer to be taken seriously as citizens and while giving the performing arts a new shops. The program in Aalborg will also communication and engagement, such as: theatre organizations – mainly taking Night’s party, on Saturday, June 21. consumers and to participate in creating social significance? present performances by these three theatre How can we develop children’s and young place at the theater Republique – address- our own world. What does this mean for collectives,