Program
The Danish National School of Performing Arts Graduation performances 1.–3. & 8.–10.5.2026
Photo Ottavia Catenacci / Performance Caduta
Welcome to DDSKS Graduation performances
We’re proud to host the newest generation of choreographers when five soon to come Masters of Fine Arts in Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts present their graduation performances over two weekends in Dansehallerne.
The graduation performances are presented in collaboration with The Danish National School of Performing Arts.
Program
May 1st 18:00 Carla Anacker After All
19:00 Lara Vejrup Ostan AIRCON
20:00 Ottavia Catenacci Caduta
May 2nd 18:00 Ottavia Catenacci Caduta
19:00 Carla Anacker After All
20:00 Lara Vejrup Ostan AIRCON
May 3rd 18:00 Lara Vejrup Ostan AIRCON
19:00 Ottavia Catenacci Caduta
20:00 Carla Anacker After All
May 8th 18:00 Thjerza Balaj LOOMING
19:00 Inaja K. Skands ORION, I’ve died so little
May 9th 19:00 Thjerza Balaj LOOMING
20:00 Inaja K. Skands ORION, I’ve died so little
May 11th 15:00 Thjerza Balaj LOOMING
16:00 Inaja K. Skands ORION, I’ve died so little
Carla Anacker After All
Dates
1.5.2026, 18:00
2.5.2026, 19:00
3.5.2026, 20:00
Duration 40 minutes
Venue Blackboxen
Credits
Choreography: Carla Anacker
Dance: Alice Martucci, Maya Dalinsky, Lúa Mayenco / Snorre Elvin
Scenography: Alva Elida Josefsson
Costumes: Emilia Sting
Sound: Alexander Holm
Light: Mads Strømme.
the feeling that something is dimming down a never ending dimming dimming that lets other intensities, rhythms on other scales unfold a release a shift in tonality, texture and presence inhabiting the shift cohabiting space a ground for thought still dancing volumes of bodies after all dancing volumes of rhythm, subtleties, details ending and dancing
A choreography of volumes, energies, forms of presence.
Lara Vejrup Ostan AIRCON
Datoer
1.5.2026, 19:00
2.5.2026, 20:00
3.5.2026, 18:00
Duration
40 minutes
Venue Blackboxen
Credits
Choreographer og dancer: Lara Vejrup Ostan
Dancer: Ella Östlund
Thoughts have ascended to the outer top of your head and this hat doesn’t serve as a proper container anymore. You roll out of bed every morning; migraine and tight tongue. You skim the fridge for 2 seconds. Another minute passes. You are ready for a glass of water.
AIRCON is a collection of dances. It adresses a bodily nature of language, experienced through the element of air.
Ottavia Catenacci Caduta
Dates
1.5.2026, 20:00
2.5.2026, 18:00
3.5.2026, 19:00
Duration 40 minutes
Venue Blackboxen
Credits
Choreographer: Ottavia Catenacci
Performers: Aikaterini Dimitrelli, Madee Cole, Martina Consoli, Ottavia Catenacci
Composer: Julie Østengaard
Light Designer: Mads Strømme
Costume Designer: Agnes Rahbek
Welcome to Caduta. You have fallen into the valley. We are falling together in time.
Thjerza Balaj LOOMING
Datoer
8.5.2026, 18:00
9.5.2026, 20:00
10.5.2026, 15:00
Duration
40 minutes
Venue Blackboxen
Credits
Choreographer og performer: Thjerza Balaj
Composer: Albert Hertz
Additional music: Astrid Sonne
Dramaturge: Lea Fedida Claussen
Scenographer: Christian Friedländer
Light:
Magnus Holger Knoblauch Hjortlund
Costume: Caroline Clante
Special Thanks to:
Amalie Bergstein Nielsen, Camilla Lind and Dance
Cooperative for time and space. Extra thanks to my ghost double.
What appears singular is not fixed.
LOOMING develops from an ongoing practice working with states and through shifts like cuts in a film where scenes collide and slip out of sync. A cinematic structure closer to editing than continuity.
The work is organized through conditions that emerge and remain in proximity – never fully arriving, never fully resolving. Situations build and interfere with perception and orientation.
Composure
holds.
The practice operates between intuitive world-building and precise compositional structures. Images are treated as active conditions rather than representations.
A figure begins to split.
Inaja K. Skands ORION, I’ve died so little
Datoer
8.5.2026, 19:00
9.5.2026, 19:00
10.5.2026, 16:00
Duration 40 minutes
Venue Blackboxen
Credits
Choreographer:
Inaja Katharina Skands
Dance:
Léana Licius, Ella Gunnel Östlund, Inaja Katharina Skands, TBA
Light Design:
Elvira Katrine Garsdal
Brøsted
Scenography and Costumes: Oda Vad Nielsen
Production leader and dramaturgy: Jules Søgaard Mogensen
Sound:
Frederiksberg Brass Band
Composers: Jan de Haan; Edward Elgar; Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov; Carl Nielsen arr. Mikkel Amsinck.
ORION, I’ve died so little, is set in a winterscape, and unfolds through Orion’s visibility season. The piece reminisces and acts as a retrospective fantasy, of what could have been, what was and reflects what might possibly be.
It explores composition, as a structure for fantasy to unfold and develop from.
There, Seen, Seeing. It performs its own gesture of becoming.
The piece is based on a series of scores, both musical and text, with the latter ones being authored by Inaja K. Skands, continuing on her interest in developing choreography through scriptwriting, text(s), scores and other ambiguous written material.
Practical info
Accessibility
Dansehallerne offers good accessibility with step-free access via an elevator to all floors, accessible and gender-neutral restrooms on the ground floor.
Dansehallerne’s address
Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799
Copenhagen V.
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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