Ticket release in August.
Th 6.11.2025, 20:00-21:00, MDT Studio 1
Fr 7.11.2025, 20:00-21:00, MDT Studio 1
Sa 8.11.2025, 18:00-19:00, MDT Studio 1
Su 9.11.2025, 15:00-16:00, MDT Studio 1
Tu 11.11.2025, 20:00-21:00, MDT Studio 1
Th 13.11.2025, 18:30-19:30, MDT Studio 1
Sa 15.11.2025, 19:30-20:30, MDT Studio 1
Su 16.11.2025, 15:00-16:00, MDT Studio 1
Both ill and well, neither alive nor diseased, both protagonist and antagonist, neither perpetrator nor victim, both monster and scream queen, neither desire nor disgust, both dissociation and euphoria.
shivr is a body horror dance solo by choreographer Ar Utke Ács. The piece portrays the fictional character shivr, built as a mosaic of lived experiences. Through shivr the performance investigates the chronically ill body as a non-binary position and world making departing from a queer, sick body, rather than pre-disabled body-mind. shivr sheds light on unapparent aspects of a sick dancing body and the process of coming to a voice through embodiment rather than didactics. shivr disrupts the idea of the body as a singular entity and the self as consistent.
The performance uses body horror as an expression of the chronically ill experience, where the fear and horror can be a response to the transformations within ones own body as well as the stigmas met from ones surroundings. shivr claims the complexity of embodying both and, neither nor in one single body.
shivr is a being of the twilight. Living between the realms of the ill and the well: undying ongoingly. A crack in your porcelain politics.
Ar Utke Ács is working as an artist within contemporary dance and an expanded understanding of choreography. They work with the poetics and politics of the body in the seams of performance, dramaturgy, text, installation, social choreographies and the imaginary. In particular, they are busy with counter-hegemonic strategies and organising from queer and crip writing and lived experience. They are based in Stockholm and Copenhagen, hold a BA in Dance Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts and are a part of the studio cooperatives Dance Cooperative and höjden studios (SE). Ar has co-produced works in collaboration with Dansehallerne, MDT (SE) and BIT Teatergarasjen (NO) and presented their work at contexts such as Baltic Circle (FI), Open Out/Tromsø Kunstforening (NO), Index Art Foundation (SE) and Charlottenborg (DK). More info here.
Fryd Frydendahl is a Danish visual artist and photographer who divides her practice between Hvide Sande and Copenhagen. Frydendahl graduated from Fatamorgana in 2006 and The International Center of Photography in 2009. Frydendahl has published several books and has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at V1 Gallery, Politikens Galleri and Baxter Street Gallery at The Camera Club New York. Frydendahl is represented by V1 Gallery in Copenhagen and LINKDETAILS in Stockholm. Selected works are included in the collections of the Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Photo Collection, the Royal Library, Kunstmuseum Brandts and the Ny Carlsberg Foundation. Until summer 2025 Frydendahl has been the headmaster at Fatamorgana, Denmark’s School of Photography.
Sofie Winther is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, performance and video. Drawing on personal experiences as a mother and her fascination with themes of kinship, labour and power she blends traditional craftsmanship with innovative technologies. Winther’s practice challenges conventional boundaries between art and function, creating works that provoke dialogue about our societal structures and global consumption. Puer Parasitus, founded in 2021 by Sofie Winther is a project at the crossroads of fashion and sculpture, emerging from an intuitive, three-dimensional approach to textile materials and recycled objects. It challenges conventional boundaries by deconstructing and reconstructing everyday items into immersive works that question consumption, empowerment and the roles of gender and power in society. Winther is based in Copenhagen and holds degrees in visual art from Gerrit Rietveld and The Royal Danish Art Academy.