Monumental Movement
With one final closing ceremony, the school bids farewell to the dance studios at Philip de Langes Allé. We invite you to join us in celebrating the space and its profound significance for dance education.
Let’s gather and celebrate the many years of dancing at Philip de Langes Allé.
For more than 20 years the dance studios at Philip de Langes Allé 3, at Holmen in Copenhagen, have been a place where generations of dancers received their dance education. In February 2024, The Danish National School of Performing Arts will move out of these beautiful studios. This means that going forward the dance programmes will be housed in the school’s other facilities in Holstebro and Copenhagen. It is the end of one era and the start of another.
Monumental Movement is an event to celebrate and acknowledge all the dancing that has happened at this particular place. A last chance to dance and document stories that have had big significance, personally as well as for the field as a whole. It has been a school, a workplace, a dance floor, a part of a neighborhood, a stage for audiences, and a passage in the lives of numerous people.
The event unfolds during two days:
Farewell – an evening arranged by Casper Albrektsen and Magalí Camps. A gathering, a hang-out, a celebration where we share different proposals and bid farewell to PDLA.
It will be generous and plentiful, so come and go as you please according to your needs, desires, schedules. Everyone is welcome at any time, no matter what your relationship to the building is.
Bar will be open throughout the event. Snacks will be provided!
*A very big thank you to everyone contributing to the initiative and for making this happen.
NB. Part of the activities will be recorded. If you don’t want to be part of this, give us notice upon arrival.
15678 and Danish Dance Stories invite you to a day event: a morning class, a workshop, and an interview/open mic session, where we will gather, remember and document stories from PDLA.
Please register HERE for the Saturday activities (registration is not mandatory - but much appreciated so we can get a sense of how much food and supplies to order
09:30
Doors open
10:00-11:15
Dance class with Malin Astner and Jean-Louis Huhta in Sal 2.
Open to all levels!
Break
11:30-12:30
Workshop – Spiral Timeline pt. 1
a collective memorial, where we together and as individuals remember and document PDLA experiences. Facilitated by Danish Dance stories in Sal 2.
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14.45
Workshop – Spiral Timeline pt. 2
Break
15:00-16:30
Conversation with Sheila de Val Madsen, Poul Laursen, and Rasmus Ölme, moderated by Rebecka Berchtold / 5678
Break
16.45-17.30
Open mic facilitated by Rebecka Berchtold / 5678
18:00-19:30
PIZZA-DINNER
19:30-20:00
TRANSFER CEREMONY
starts at the entrance of PDLA
20:00-22:00
DANCE FLOOR
at Per Knutzons Vej
NB. Part of the Saturday-day activities will be audio-recorded and published through the podcast 5678 and at danskedansehistorier.dk and will thus become a vibrant document from the history of PDLA and DDSKS. If you don’t want to be part of this, give us notice upon arrival.
Everyone is welcome. To join in, to contribute, to share time together. You can drop by or stay the whole weekend. And! If you would like to volunteer for the event and help out with practical preparations, please send us an email and we’ll be in contact.
For questions or comments, please write to pdla.monumental.movement@gmail.com
Save the dates! Write it on your calendars! Show up! Let’s gather, mourn and celebrate!
Monumental Movement is organized by DDSKS in close collaboration with Danish Dance Stories (Andrea Deres and Carolina Bäckman), 5678 (Rebecka Berchtold) and the Alumni (Casper Albrektsen and Magalí Camps).
