Directing

When?
December 11th, 2024

Where?
Under St. Marks Theatre,
New York City (USA)

What?
Staged reading

“Alien” is an anthology exploring the emotional struggles and humorous liberties of feeling alienated.
The work is inspired partly by temporarily living abroad in New York; a massively densely populated city wherein everybody seems to exist in parallel universes. It also draws on recent experience of being separated from friends and family – both through space and time.

The three pieces from “Alien” are titled “Like in the movies”, “A father’s funeral” and “Loving from afar”. All staged with a different relationship between performer and audience according to the heart of the pieces.

Who?
Performer:
Hadley Weiss

Playwright and director:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Lighting design and operator:
Paul Purvine

Producer:
Paper Kraine productions and Brittany Crowell

When?
17.- 23. February 2024

Where?
Riises Landsted,
Copenhagen (DK)

What?
Site specific immersive performance installation
(by MAGMA)

“All, we have, is our memories” – but what makes a memory?
An experience; something that happened. But what about the stuff that happened before the experience? And what about what happened afterwards – the empty space, the anecdotes and the hindsight?
The audience is invited to explore the five phases of memory; the Lead Up, the Experience, the Empty Space, the Narrative and the Revisit.
Embark on a physical and nostalgic journey through five different rooms of an old villa – give rooms that each represent one of the five phases. You’ll encounter the same person in different phases of a memory – will they be able to recognise you across time and space? And will you be able to recognise yourself?

Drawing on inspiration from the world of quantum mechanics, sci-fi and old diaries, we’re inviting you into Riises Landsted, a villa from 1860, to take part of a journey through the anatomy of memory.

Who?
Performers:
Freja Rosenlund Nielsen, Iben Damkjær, Sofia Boroch Næss, Mads Floor Andersen

Playwright, director and operator:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Set designer:
Kristina Freese

Light design:
Sofus Sean Basset

Sound design:
Amalie Cecilia Frederiksen

Costumes:
Jonathan Carl Jensen

Video design:
Alexander Tofteskov Hjalmarsson

Assistant sound technician:
Carl Nordbæk Rasmussen

Dramaturgical consultant:
Barbara Rousset

Production manager:
Amalie Bjarnø Rasmussen

Stage managers:
Frederikke S. von Eyben, Signe Wriedt Jakobsen

PR and poster:
Bryce Karnikar

Photos:
Bryce Karnikar and Jonathan Carl Jensen

Supported by Frederiksberg Kommune

When?
23.-24. June 2023

Where?
Basement, Copenhagen (DK)

What?
Immersive performance installation
(by MAGMA)

“REJECTED.” is a compilation of artistic pieces, that all center the power of rejection. As an audience, you descend the grimy staircase to the raw underground venue of Basement, where you’re free to explore all of the different pieces – both the stationary ones and the ones walking around amongst you.

The theater collective MAGMA have assembled 20 artists from the world of music, video art, visual art and performance and have created a performance installation about the one thing you’d rather avoid; rejection.
In the live exhibition you’ll encounter pieces about the anxiety, rage, chok and jealousy. As you keep going through the installation, you’ll meet the bitterness, depression and binge drinking – and around the corner, in the dusty leftovers of a suddenly imploded future, you’ll see glimpses of the hope, agency and relief.

As a guest in the underground exhibition, you won’t only meet the ones who receive the rejection, but also the ones who hand them out. In sensuous, musical and power hungry encounters with the many facets of rejection you’ll ask yourself the question: Where in the power hierarchy of rejection do you find yourself? Are you the one who are denied social, economical and political opportunities, when the wrong e-mail arrives – or are you the one to send the e-mail and determine the destinies of the others?

Who?
Performers:
Amanda Rosendal
Astrid Birkebæk
Emil Nygård
Freja Rosenlund Nielsen
Iben Damkjær
Stine Stub Nielsen
Tanja Møller Jensen
(Stephanie Desirée Skovbo Borre)

Choir:
Amanda Engbo
Astrid Bondo
Julie Schreiber Andresen
Laura Olivia Dollerup

Concept and direction:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Text:
The performers

Set design:
Kristina Freese

Videodesign and operator:
Alexander Tofteskov Hjalmarsson

Lighting design:
Carl Asmussen

Props:
Stine Stub Nielsen

Costumes:
Johanne Rentse

Dramaturgical consultant:
Barbara Rousset

Music arrangement and direction:
Laura Olivia Dollerup

Stage manager:
Anna Gohr

Producer and production manager:
Lasse Mol

PR, poster and photos:
Bryce Karnikar

Supported by Konsul George Jorcks og hustru Emma Jorcks Fond

When?
4. March 2023

Where?
XENON + foyer, TeaterHuset
Copenhagen (DK)

What?
Site specific performance

“house and home” is one part of 10 international artists’ parallel works, all happening simultaneously in the site specific, durational performance “my site / in space”. The 10 individual performances were created during a week-long residency, all prompted by the question:
“What is the state of our house?”

“houses and homes” combines a video piece with a live performance taking place in firstly; the foyer, and secondly; the dressing room. The audience is encouraged to partake in the written collage of what home means to them.

Having a home is a privilege
Having a house is a gift
Having a house that’s a home is incredible
Having a home outside of a house is like magic
Magic is feeling at home at a place
A place is a location unless it’s something more
HUSET is more to me
To me, HUSET is the oldest culture house in Copenhagen or so I’ve been told
I don’t really care
to me, HUSET is Bastard Café and giant deluxe fries and latte mixed with oat milk and regular milk and Braian and a key and forgetting to bring the red key to the locker
to me, HUSET is TeaterHuset and rehearsals and the beginning of something exciting
to me, HUSET is the office and Carol and the bright red neon sign
to me, HUSET is the secret room on the top floor with the mattress in the windowsill when I can’t be bothered to go home in between two city-things of the day
to me, HUSET is making sure emergency exits are cleared
the temperature rising insanely quickly as as I take another step in the badly isolated building
it’s the basement with the witchy costume hat and where I spilled 12 bottles of glögg
it’s my first premiere
it’s the night of the lockdown
it’s many kisses in the elevator
it’s another home for many of my years
it’s a house and a home

Who?
Performer, director, video creator, set- and lighting designer:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Sound design:
Morteza Kasravi

Producers and curators:
Newman Allen and Carol Hayes
(Copenhagen Platform and Assemble Theatre Collective)

Additional artists in residency:
Alice Presencer, Delia Trice, Ellen Paulig, Evdokia Kelesidi, Marianna Minasova, Miriam Röstlinger, Morteza Kasravi, Onerva Helne, Virginia Guastella

When?
17. October 2022

Where?
INSP!, Roskilde (DK)

What?
Site specific performance

No Doors is a poetic study of humans, investigating the privilege of having a home and doors to close.
What’s the first thing, you do, when you step inside your door? Do you relax on the couch or do you finally let your tears run free after a full day of anxiety? Do you clip your toenails while listening to the daily news podcast? Do you hand your clothes up to dry with the TV documentary about climate refugees on in the background? Or do you listen to the sound coming from outside – the sound of someone knocking on your door?

Who?
Performers:
Andreas Dittmer
Freja Rosenlund Nielsen
Tanja Møller Jensen
(Kim)

Concept and direction:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Set designer and costumes:
Kristina Freese

Lighting design and operator:
Alexander Tofteskov Hjalmarsson

Sound design:
Marcus Larsen

Stage manager:
Rose Lerstrup

Production manager:
Stephanie Desirée Skovbo Borre

Photos:
Baldrian Sector

Poster:
Stine Stub Nielsen

Developed with the help from the organisation Hus Forbi

When?
20. January 2022

Where?
Karens Minde Kulturhus,
Copenhagen (DK)

What?
10-minute performance

The performance was part of multiple theatre groups performing each one of the 7 deadly sins.
In “LUST”, the performer set up her table and presented her products to the audience – the format of a dildoparty.

Riding the fourth wave of feminism, we live in a world where women – and everyone else – should be encouraged to take control of their desires. All of their desires. No such thing as a bad desire. No such thing as a dangerous desire. Right?

Who?

Performer:
Sofia Boroch Næss

Text and direction:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Produced by:
Tanja Møller Jensen and Emma Winding Nordestgaard/Karens Minde Kulturhus

Photos:
Luna Stage Kramer

When?
16.-19. February 2022
9.-12. February 2022
27.-30. May 2021

Where?
2022:
KBH+, Copenhagen (DK)
Galaksen, Værløse (DK)
2021:
XENON, TeaterHuset
Copenhagen (DK)

What?
Text based performance installation

“Just as young as us” is a performative tale of generations, in which the audience explores what it means to be young in the span of a century.

Four young people with each their life story; your memory of first love, of growing up in the suburbs, the joy of looking back on a very special trip.
It could also be a story about heartbreak and poor career choices – but then again, it’s not.
Something is different, because the four people contain something more – something larger than their own stories.

The performance is an encounter between youth and old age.
Through four thorough interviews about youth – from the perspective of the final part of life – MAGMA has created a performative installation about generations and the importance of recognising yourself in each other’s life stories, before it’s too late.

Who?

Performers:
Frederik Wallind
Katinka Launbjerg (2022)
Peter Torm
Stephanie Desirée Skovbo Borre
Stine Stub Nielsen (2021)

Concept and direction:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Text:
Katinka Hurvig Møller in collaboration with:
Thit Hansen, Svend Kay, Steffen Elkiær Andersen, Margit Mäkinen

Set design:
Ane Katrine Kjær

Lighting- and videodesign and operator:
Alexander Tofteskov Hjalmarsson

Sound design:
Oscar Metcalf-Rinaldo

Dramaturgical consultant:
Ditte Amalie Greve Bichel

Producer:
Anders Ramløse (2021)
Anna Gohr (2022)

Production manager:
Rose Lerstrup (2022)

PR and poster:
Thomas Juul Pedersen

Photos:
Lasse Møller Jensen
Frederik Rode

When?
April-May 2021

Where?
Videos digitally released on youtube and instagram:
Part 1 here
Part 2 here
Part 3 here
Part 4 here

What?
A series of four short films.
In poetic, monologue-based pieces,, each performer depicts a circumstance of and relationship to the act of crying.

What’s your relationship to tears? Something to be scared of? Ashamed of? A cause of celebration?
The films explore different relationships to the act of crying.
Tears have power – and sometimes that power can take over not only you, but also the people in close proximity to your tears. The series attempts to incapsulate both the beauty and the ugliness of the salty tears.

Who?
Actors:
Mathilde Bækmark (part 1)
Andreas Dittmer (part 2)
Oscar Borg Olsen (part 3)
Stine Stub Nielsen (part 4)

Written and directed by:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Photography:
Lasse Møller Jensen

Edit:
Alexander Tofteskov Hjalmarsson

Score:
Bastian Grindsted

Visual and conceptual advising:
Ane Katrine Kjær

When?
7.-8. October 2020
19.-29. June 2020

Where?
VOX, TeaterHuset (June)
Teaterøen, Vildskud Festival (October)

Both: Copenhagen (DK)

What?
Text based performance installation

Step into a hospita waiting room and find a seat next to the three young women. They’re Rikke, Sif and Victoria, and they’re waiting for news about Alice.

Have you ever heard about the sense called proprioception? No?

Neither had they.
Three young, able people with all their senses fully working, whose world brutally change when they hear about Alice. Alice lost something. A sense. People are talking about a wheelchair. About possible rehabilitation. They don’t understand. Is she paralysed? Can she speak? Will she ever be herself again?

Losing your proprioception means losing sense of where your body is in space. The performance translates the anatomical phenomenon of losing a physical sense into a naturalistic circumstance about losing another, and more metaphysical sense; the sense of self.

“Proprioception” is a tale about a sister, a girlfriend and a best friend. Together they’re thrown into a strange chaos of missing senses, odd perceptions of reality and conflicting ideas about the Alice, they all claim to know best.

Who?
Performers:
Maria Horsted Skovhuus
Stephanie Desirée Skovbo Borre
Stine Stub Nielsen

Concept and idea:
Katinka Hurvig Møller and Stine Stub Nielsen

Text and direction:
Katinka Hurvig Møller

Set design, costumes and props:
Ane Katrine Kjær

Sound design/composer:
Oscar Metcalf-Rinaldo

Lighting design and operator:
Alexander Tofteskov Hjalmarsson

Production manager:
Cirkeline Kenya Tuxen Marlow

Poster photo:
Andrea Krull

Photos:
Lasse Møller Jensen and Vildskud Festival