5.9. May 2022
SWOP – International dance festival for children and young people
Every other year is SWOP year – when spring is colored by the festival’s blooming of dance performances and activities. When streets, stages and squares form the basis for festive gatherings in Roskilde – for children, young people and adults who meet for high-quality artistic experiences. When Roskilde is the heart of an international, unique event. .
Please read more here…
Thursday december 9th 2021 at 20:00
Friday december 10th 2021 at 20:00
OCEANIC
It is a reflection on listening and hierarchies within sound. It is a landscape of singing bodies, sustained sound and soft structures.
It is a reflection on listening and hierarchies within sound. It is a landscape of singing bodies, sustained sound and soft structures. It is a stream moving through humans, materials and environments. It is words being shaped by forces. It is Oceanic by choreographer Marie Topp and composer Julia Giertz.
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November 13th – 26th 2021
CRACKS
A punch of a dance performance from choreographer Thomas Eisenhardt and director Catherine Poher – inspired by both science and nature.
Hal 9 is a 90 meter long, cold concrete hall, embracing SPRÆKKER (Cracks). A performance and an art installation that open up a new sensitivity to life in all it´s forms
Moving bodies in space, electronic soundscape, projections and rocks invite the audience to an embodied experience of togetherness, compassion, and a new beginning.
Please wear warm clothes and shoes and be prepared to stand and move for app. one hour.
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Thursday September 30th 2021 at 14:00
Friday October 1st 2021 at 14:00
Thursday November 16th 2021 at 14:30 – cancelled
Friday November 17th 2021 at 14:30 – cancelled
HAPPY END -ROSKILDE
Dance, aesthetics and narratives of the aging body
Together with the residents of two nursing homes in Roskilde, we examine the dance, aesthetics and narratives of the old body. We invite to an honest and life confirming dance performance about life under the aging skin.
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Thursday, September 2021 16th from 16:30
AABEN DANS, HAUT AND INSTITUTE OF INTERCONNECTED REALITIES PRESENT AABENT LABORATORIUM
Part 1: 16:30 – 18.00 – Part 2: 18.45 – 21.00
Aabent Laboratorium presents a collection of 4 different and special works all curated by Institute of Interconnected Realities. All the works move in the field of performativity, spirituality, and community. We urge the guests to participate in both part 1 + 2 and there is food available for purchase in the break.
The tickets are for free but have to be booked in advance. The bar is open, and after the programme you will have the opportunity to digest the experienve in the theatre either by your self or in a non-formal chat with the other guests and performers.
Please come and join us. Further information here…
3rd + 4th of June 2021
JUST OK
Just ok is the second performance in a trilogy addressing how dance can hold a space for loss. The trilogy attends to notions of emptiness referring to grief, and how something can be so achingly present and at the same time so utterly gone.
The performance engages in a kind of horror that is neither spectacular nor immediate, but suggests a mood of subtle and gradual unease; something ominous, formless and obscure.
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May 20th – 22nd of May 2021.
pour it
pour it is a riverine dance performance and stream of friendships and shorelines portraits. A piece that floats between ecosystems, lingers by bodies of water and dances with ever changing aspects of love.
pour it is an extension of the piece drivtømmer (eng. driftwood) from 2019 and continues the inquiry into intimacy, watery habitats and thresholds. The work circulates around transformations and portals – choreographic actions that serve as portals into other stages of being, the possibility of assuming the shape of the other and giving in to transformation.
Please read more about the performance here…
March 20th 2021.Cancelled because of Covid-19
BETWEEN THE SENSES
Sensory forest walk with choreographer Thomas Eisenhardt
Every meeting with nature is a possibility for a deep experience of presence. On these sensory forest walks, we indulge in the physical and aesthetic abundance of the forest, by connecting us to our experiences through 10 senses. Please read more here…
March 17th + 18th + 19th 2021 at 9:00 + 10:30.Cancelled because of Covid-19
THREE LEGS
A performance about support for the youngest children from 1,5 years old and elderly people
We need all the support we can get when we enter into life
exactly as we need support when our body´s abilities fade out by the end of life
And throughout life, we need each other to keep our balance.
Please find more information here…
March 12th + 15th 2021 at 9 + 10:30
March 13th 2021 at 10:00 + 15:00 – Cancelled because of Covid-19
AGAIN
A dance performance for the smallest children and their adults about the joy of life
Please find more information here..
March 8th + 9th + 10th 2021 at 9:00 + 10:30 – cancelled because of Covid-19
Ai-Ai-Ai!
A humorous performance about body, technology and contact
Technology is all around us, within us and between us. We love to play computer games, send snapchats and text messages, watch Youtube and be on the internet – each on our individual screens. We are in contact with all of the world like this – but maybe we are not in contact with the people who are right next to us – nor with ourselves. Please find mere information here…
January 28th 2021 – prosponed because of Covid-19
AABEN LABORATORIUM
Aabent Laboratorium is a platform for sharing choreographic works in a professional black box context. Aabent Laboratorium offers the possibility to try out artistic work and to enter a feedback dialogue with colleagues and an audience as a part of the artistic development. Aabent Laboratorium is a platform that embraces new ideas and new ways of working within the field of choreography.
Come and experience different smaller performances in one evening. The tickets are free and after the show there is the opportunity to talk with the artists. More information will follow.
Please find more information here…
December 10th-12th 2020
Aabent Rum – Micro Festival: Cancelled because of COVID-19
Open Space for Choreographic Development
Aabent Rum (Open Space) is a space for choreographic development curated by Aaben Dans.
Through a thorough selection process, Aaben Dans invites three choreographic artists to work in the theatre on their artistic work. There are no limits for what the artists can work with – they decide what makes sense for them, according to where they are in their respective career. Over the course of Aabent Rum, Aaben Dans’ role is that of an observer and guide for the choreographers.
During the three days of 10. – 12th of December Aabent will share practice, performances, showings, ideas and talks at the Micro Festival.
Please find more information here…
22nd of October 2020
AABEN LABORATORIUM
Aabent Laboratorium is a platform for sharing choreographic works in a professional black box context. Aabent Laboratorium offers the possibility to try out artistic work and to enter a feedback dialogue with colleagues and an audience as a part of the artistic development. Aabent Laboratorium is a platform that embraces new ideas and new ways of working within the field of choreography.
Come and experience different smaller performances in one evening. The tickets are free and after the show there is the opportunity to talk with the artists. More information will follow.
Please find more information here…
12th – 26th of September 2020
WHAT IS THAT?
A performance about the driving force of curiosity
Curiosity is the strongest drive as a small child discovers the world. A drive that can last for a lifetime.Through movement and dance, the dancers explore both the body and the space without taking anything for granted.
After the performance the audience will be invited to participate.
Created by the renowned choreographers and directors Thomas Eisenhardt and Kamilla Wargo Brekling, in collaboration with dancers Antoinette Helbing and Ole Birger Hansen, to music composed by Fredrik Lundin, in a scenography created by design duo KASPERSOPHIE.
Please find more information
30th of April – 5th of May 2020
– cancelled because of COVID-19
SWOP International dance festival for children and young people
It is with great sadness that we must announce the cancellation of our beloved SWOP Festival 2020, which was supposed to have taken place April 30-May 5.
Due to the current conditions caused by the Covid19, we do not find it responsible for the audience, artists, volunteers or staff to go through with an international dance festival for young people and children.
We hope everyone stays well and gets through this crisis in the best possible way. We continue our work with future projects and we are looking forward to being around each other again and being able to move together – hopefully soon.
Stay well and keep up the good spirit!
Warm, digital, dance wishes and lots of love
Aaben Dans and SWOP Festival
Thursdays March 26th 2020
– cancelled because of COVID-19
AABENT LABORATORIUM
Cancelled because of COVID-19
We revitalize our well-known format, Aabent Laborium, which has lived a quiet life for the past year. We do this together with HAUT, a stage, workshop and production agency for new generations of performing artists. Aaben Dans and HAUT will curate and present young choreographers and dancers at 3 Aabent Laboratories – in autumn 2019, spring and autumn 2020.
Come and experience different smaller performances on that same evening. The tickets are free and after the show there is the opportunity to talk with the artists. More information follows.
Plays at Aaben Dans, Scenen i Laboratoriet November 16th – December 6th 2019
THREE WISE MEN
A modern dance performance about searching, finding and giving
The myth of the three wise men is deeply rooted in the Christian culture. We know their names and the gifts they brought – but there is not much else we know. Aaben Dance brings the old myth into the 21st century with the dance performance THREE WISE MEN.
Please find more information here…
Thursdays September 19th 2019
AABENT LABORATORIUM
We revitalize our well-known format, Aabent Laborium, which has lived a quiet life for the past year. We do this together with HAUT, a stage, workshop and production agency for new generations of performing artists. Aaben Dans and HAUT will curate and present young choreographers and dancers at 3 Aabent Laboratories – in autumn 2019, spring and autumn 2020.
Come and experience different smaller performances on that same evening. The tickets are free and after the show there is the opportunity to talk with the artists. More information follows.
August 31st – September 2nd 2019
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.
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March 2nd – 15th 2019
Restaging
THE HAND ON THE HEART
A dance performance in darkness
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26. – 27. November 2018 in Roskilde
WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES (CO-Production with Gazart)
It’s an extraordinary hot summer. The boy Carl has just been to his grandfather’s funeral. Both Carl and his father are in grief and they are unable to handle it. The words do not reach. This summer, Carl also meets a girl who fills him with curiosity and courage, and together they search for Carls grandfather deep down in the depths of the sea.
2. – 12. oktober 2018 in Roskilde
Ai-Ai-Ai!
So, what do you do, when you would like to play with somebody, who prefers to play games on a screen instead of playing with you? When are you really together with somebody? And what if the person you spend time with is actually a machine? Read more here…
May 3rd – 7th 2018 in Roskilde
SWOP
International dance festival for children and young people
Welcome to the fourth edition of SWOP festival!
Dance has so may different expressions. It is a great joy to be able to present an amazing programme of quality performances that invite the audience to be part of different universes, whether that is a pink world of gender bending or a physical trust based world of adults and children dancing together. The team of Aaben Dans hopes that you will all anjoy the performances and the artistic activities.
Read more about SWOP here…
September 16.th – 29th 2017
THE HAND ON THE HEART
A dance performance in darkness
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Tuesday and wednesday April 4th and 5th 2017
Mars Man (produced by liminal.dk)
Mars man lands by mistake on earth, i teatersalen. He tries to communicate to us through movements, sounds, music and strange things that he brings in his flying source. He understands nothing.
28th of March 11th 2017
Open Lab #9
Platform for New Choreographers
Aaben Dans is happy to invite you to THE OPEN LAB which is an evening where we zoom into upcoming work within the dance field. The bar is open and we have an artist talk after the performances for those who like to participate.
Order FREE tickets at billet@aabendans.dk
Saturday February 25th – March 11th 2017
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
What do you think Anne Sofie Clara Luna, Elin, Laura, Linnea, Life, Maja and Sofie are thinking? Meet them in the dance performance “WHAT DO YOU THINK?” With choreography by Belgian Hendrik Lebon.
Read more here…
November 24th 2016
Open Lab #8
Platform for New Choreographers
Aaben Dans is happy to invite you to THE OPEN LAB which is an evening where we zoom into upcoming work within the dance field. The bar is open and we have an artist talk after the performances for those who like to participate.
Order FREE tickets at billet@aabendans.dk
September 3rd – 14th 2016
Three Legs
A performance about support for the youngest children from 1,5 years old and elderly people
We need all the support we can get when we enter into life
exactly as we need support when our body´s abilities fade out by the end of life
And through life, we need each other to keep the balance.
THREE LEGS is a humoristic and touching travel through all the phases of life where we all need support.
Read more here…
International dance festival for children and young people April 28th – May 2nd 2016
SWOP
Read more on swopfestival.dk
Tuesday 24 November 2015 at 8:00 pm
The Open Lab #7
Platform for New Choreographers
Aaben Dans is happy to invite you to THE OPEN LAB which is an evening where we zoom into upcoming work within the dance field. The bar is open and we have an artist talk after the performances for those who like to participate.
Order FREE tickets at billet@aabendans.dk
Below you can view the program of the evening
September 11th – October 10th 2016
The Horizon
A tribute to life in all its beauty and horror
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May 5, 2015, 8 pm.
Open LAB #6
Platform for New Choreographers
February 28 to March 14, 2015
I MY MINI ME
A performance about having a messy closet – and a messy identity.
October 28th, 8 pm.
Open Lab 5
Platform for New Choreographers
Four performances from new choreographers
September 5 to 14, 2014
WITH LOVE ROSKILDE
Dancing – Parkour – Singing – Live pictures – Taste – Story telling – Music. A site specific performance with both professionals and locals
April 26 to May 3, 2014
SWOP festival
International dance festival for children and young people
February 1 to 15, 2014
15 SECONDS OF FAME
A satirical but also thought-provoking performance about fame.
September 14 – 29, 2013
HEn and SHEep
A performance full of great music, crazy movements and big questions
October 8, 2013, 8 p.m.
Open Lab 4
Open Lab with new talented choreographers
May 16, 2013, 8 p.m.
Open Lab 3
Open Lab with new talented choreographers
April 28, 2013
TIME MACHINE – Dance Day
February 26 to March 21, 2013
SWAN LAKE
Again
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Oktober 31, 2012
Leaf duett
October 22 – 28, 2012
MADE IN ROSKILDE
Powerful show about life in Roskilde right now!
Oktober 5, 2012, 8 p.m.
Open Lab 1
Open Lab with new talented choreographers
May 19 – 27, 2012
SWOP festival
International Dance Festival for Children and Young People
February 2 – 18, 2012
BUTTERFLIES
24. september – 4. oktober 2011
AGAIN
The team behind the Reumert nominated dance performance ME YOU US does it again! A performance for small children and their adults about the joy of life
March 3 – 16, 2011
LOVING
Love between a man and a woman, between a mother and son and to life, however ordinary.
2009 – 2010
The project of hapiness in the streets of Roskilde
ÅBEN DANS has through 5 happenings spread joy around the streets of Roskilde.
September 11 – 21, 2010
I know where your House is living!
A physical, visual and dance performance
February 9 – 20, 2010
SHOW REAL
A show about reality – or is reality a show?
October 22 – 31, 2009
Under the skin
May 6 – 16, 2009
Psychomachia
Seven men manifest the seven deadly sins.
September 13 – 28, 2008
Me You Us
Prize-nominated dance performance on me, you and what we are together
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February 19 – March 5, 2008
CLOSER
March 6 – 17, 2007
Arms and legs – and something in between
A humorous dance performance about and by the body – for children and their grown-ups.
October 26 – November 8, 2007
New Value®
Borderline theatre and rocking satire. An overwhelming cocktail of dance and speech, music and video plus moments of true happiness.
January 12 – 27, 2006
Blueprint – a dance concert
Make a warm, real and life confirming trip through the ”Blueprint” performance
April 25 – May 10, 2003
Landscapes
April 12 – 27, 2002
Denmark
on tour performance
Church concert
The dancer Thomas Eisenhardt and the flutist Yael Acher work combine movement and music with a selected scripture from the Bible.
June 7 – 19, 1999
Shabistari’s Have
All-evening performance for six dancers in 50 tonnes of sand.
