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Five Works

Meet the first works by the current students of the MFA in Choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts.

The Danish National School of Performing Arts
Per Knutzons Vej 5, Salen
1437 København K
6. - 9. March 2025
Photo by Siora Photography / Unsplash

The five works are the first productions of Carla Anacker, Inaja Katharina Skands, Lara Vejrup Ostan, Ottavia Catenacci and Thjerza Balaj, students in the second semester of the MFA in Choreography.

They have been working in close collaboration with lighting design students Anna Westh, Jakob Juul, Sol Patrick Ravn and Magnus Hjortlund.

Learn more about each showing below

'The Place Where I Go to Listen' by Carla Anacker
'But, I Am Shaped like a Star' by Inaja Katharina Strands
'All These Roads Just for You' by Lara Vejrup Ostan
'The Script' by Ottavia Catenacci. Photo by Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir
'ANTAGONIST' by Thjerza Balaj
The Place Where I Go to Listen

Carla Anacker

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This piece is not about the dancers. It is also not about their movements. It is about what both dancers and movements move. 

What they move is time.

Between them rhythm unfolds.

Rhythm not as in regular counting, but rather like rhythm in language.
Some syllables longer than others. Here and there a pause that allows a thought to ripe. One word stretched to fully taste it on the tongue. Another one quickly swallowed.

This piece is not about the dancers. It is also not about the movement itself. And yet, the piece depends on both.

choreography

Carla Anacker

created in collaboration with and danced by

Emma Marie Bruun
Tilda Lärke
Vilda Palmkvist
Josephine Zethsen

light

Sol Patrick Ravn

Sound

Philip Munksgaard Meedom

But, I Am Shaped like a Star

Inaja Katharina Skands

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A frontal fiction of perpetual transformation, a flatscape that deepens itself before your eyes.

'But, I Am Shaped like a Star' explores the body as a vessel for fantasy — a fictitious play of mundane magic.

Three dancers appear, reappear, disappear, and reveal themselves to you, as you reveal to us.

The project explores the icon(s) of the Fool and the Wishing Table, which in this context serve as symbols for representing the mundane body and the dancing body, as mediums through which ever-evolving fiction and fantasy can unfold and develop from. 

The piece is based on a series of scores, continuing on Inaja’s interest in developing choreography through text(s) and written material.

choreography

Inaja Katharina Sands

created in collaboration with dancers

Ella Östlund
Magalí Camps
Inaja Katharina Skands

light design

Jakob Juul

sound editing

Inaja Katharina Skands
Todd Sarfaraz

outside eye and sparing partner

Amalie Bergstein Nielsen

All These Roads Just for You

Lara Vejrup Ostan

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All the roads are in love with Linda. Linda has decided to stay home. 

'All These Roads Just for You' is a musing on orientation and travel – on particular spatial and temporal paradigms that exist in road mythology. It is an unrequited romance between an ancient architecture, sprung from the need to move, and a woman who has other ideas. 

choreography

Lara Vejrup Ostan in close collaboration with performer Ella Östlund

light designer

Jakob Juul

outside eye

Yeong-Ran Suh

composer

Moritz Nahold

thanks to

Philip Munksgaard Meedom

The Script

Ottavia Catenacci

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'The Script' is intended as an object, a choreographic score, a metaphoric path to follow.

While pretending, exploring allusive relationships, riding dances and engaging in choreographic compositions, two dancers read through pages where narratives and geographies of a fictional mundane leak out of synchronicity, separation, encounters and rhythms.

choreograPHER

Ottavia Catenacci

dancers

Miranda Josephine Riviere
Vilma Ehnberg

Composer

Julie Østengaard

light designer

Anna Westh

costume designer

Veronica Fabon

photo

Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir

thanks to

Ella Östlund, Eliza Bozek, Amelia Tan, Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir, Lara Vejrup Ostan and Carla Anacker for their conversations, support and for witnessing this project along the way

text excerpt

From the book 'No One Belongs Here More Than You' by Miranda July

Antagonist

Thjerza Balaj

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'ANTAGONIST' features five characters - four humans and a dummy - exploring how power and judgement relates to perspective.

Using the camera lens, the piece asks questions about who the viewer is, who has the authority to pass judgements and how shifting perspectives can transform power dynamics and offer new dimensions of meaning and presence.

direction and choreography

Thjerza Balaj

performers

Alvilda Faber Striim
Amalie Bergstein Nielsen
Anne Sofie Stubbe Lindeberg
Thjerza Balaj

music

Albert Hertz

Light

Magnus Hjortlund

outside eye

Angela Bundalovic

time and place

Thursday, 6 March at 19:00 (Carla, Ottavia, Lara)
Friday, 7 March at 19:00 (Inaja, Thjerza)
Saturday, 8 March at 17:00 (Carla, Ottavia, Lara)
Saturday, 8 March at 20:00 (Inaja, Thjerza)
Sunday, 9 March at 15:00 (Thjerza, Lara)
Sunday, 9 March at 17:00 (Carla, Ottavia, Inaja)

The Danish National School of Performing Arts
Per Knutzons Vej 5, Salen
1437 København K

ticket booking

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Others

Project management
Micaela Kühn Jara, Matti Bekkevold
Sound
Todd Sarfaraz
Light
Turpin Napoleon Djurhuus
Costumes
Pia Petersen, Tytti Hongisto
Video
Jari Matsi
Mentoring
Micaela Kühn Jara, Quim Bigas, Rasmus Ölme
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