(Play)writing
Vores Eget Sprog
(A Language Of Our Own)
When?
Pre-production: 2025
Premiere: 2026/2027
Where?
Langelinjeskolen (formerly known as “Døveskolen”/”The Deaf School”)
What?
Site specific performance
(by Assemble Theatre Collective)
“A Language Of Our Own” is a performance about what it means to be deaf in Denmark. All material is based off of interviews with members of the deaf community. The performance shines a light on the history of Danish deaf people, and focuses on the imminent challenge of the Cochlear Implant in relation to the right to sign language.
Who?
Direction:
Carol Hayes (hearing)
Script:
Katinka Hurvig Møller (hearing)
Co-writer of script:
Cathrine Mejdal (deaf)
Collaborators:
Alida Fabricius Faustrup (deaf), Gertrud Magnusson (deaf), Alice Presencer (hearing), Fie Lupnaav Larsen (deaf), Joan Bentsen (hearing sign language interpretor), Louise Myrup (deaf), Mette Washuus (deaf), Mirjam Caroline Washuus (hearing CODA), Nina Sandgaard Rasmussen (hearing impaired), Raziye Acili (deafblind), Sarah Faber (hearing)
Alien
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
Written material from
New York City, 2024
Living in New York City in the fall of 2024, I spent a lot of time writing. Some of this turned into performed monologues, some of it didn’t, some of it might still.
All pieces found on the blog page in the category WRITINGS.
Tilbage
– en performanceinstallation om mindets anatomi
(Anatomy of Memory)
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
Out of the blue
When?
11. August – 9. September 2023
Where?
Outdoors in Nordhavn, Copenhagen (DK)
What?
Site specific walking performance
(by Assemble Theatre Collective)
Sandra wants to take you on a journey – a guided tour of Nordhavn, its waterfront architecture, stunning views, and luxurious amenities. But her story of the harbour is not the only one – there are many others waiting to be told. Will the tour go smoothly, or will an invisible force intervene? Out of The Blue celebrates the changing landscape of Nordhavn.
The text is inspired by real experiences of over fifty local residents – stories shared through workshops, interviews etc.
Who?
Performers:
Kristen Flanagan, Ellen Paulig, Daniel Neil Ash, Joan Bentsen, Jens Blegaa, Peter Sloth, Gertrud Magnusson, Amin Ghadirian, Ayaz Shah, Erika Bálint Mustea, Roger LeBlanc, Toni Petrina, Joséphine Robert, Marilia Fotopoulou, Emma Borrow, Bodil Sørensen, Annegrethe Pedersen, Anne Voldum-Clausen, Anne Skov Hårdell, Anne Dorthe Nedergaard, Alida Faustrup and Ditte Gaarde.
Direction:
Carol Hayes
Script:
Katinka Hurvig Møller
Collaborators:
Ellen Paulig, Miriam Röstlinger Goldkuhl and Irina Nica
Choreography:
Alice Presencer
Sign language interpreter:
Bo Hårdell and Ida Lund
Sound:
Sound By The Sound
Backstage: Sarah Faber, Caroline Oldham and Birgitte Brogaard
GAIA
When?
November 2022
Where?
The Danish National School of Performing Arts, DDSKS
Copenhagen (DK)
What?
Text based performance
As part of student Rose Lerstrup’s bachelor project “MED/MOD/I/MELLEM”, three playwrights were invited to write a 15-minute text that encouraged audience participation of any kind.
“GAIA” is inspired by the non-fiction book “Novacene – the coming age of hyperintelligence” by scientist and environmentalist James Lovelock.
The text dives into the relationships between the three main forces; the natural world, the human race and technology. Are we equally intertwined, or is the hierarchy inescapable?
Who?
Performers:
Andreas Buchtrup Andersen
Sofie Vind Lerstrup
Text:
Katinka Hurvig Møller
Direction:
Cathrine Engelberth Olsen
Producer and production manager (project by):
Rose Lerstrup (DDSKS)
UTUGT
(LUST)
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
Lige så ung som os
(Just as young as us)
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
Jeg er lige i gang med at græde
(I’m in the middle of crying)
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
Proprioception
– da kroppen blev væk
(Proprioception
– when the body was lost)
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
