Performing Landscapes Egedal

DATE 18, 19, 20 August
PLACE Skenkelsø Mølle, Egedal Municipality
FREE – open for schools in Egedal Municipality

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Performance and concepts of nature for schools

The municipality of Egedal invites 5th and 6th grade students to take part in a full-day programme featuring two performances, a talk on “concepts of nature through time” by local historian and storyteller Ragnhild Clod Pedersen and nature guide Jacob Nøhr Schubart, as well as the opportunity to visit the exhibition Nature Tells Its Stories at Skenkelsø Mølle, created by local historian Ragnhild Clod Pedersen and nature guide Jacob Nøhr Schubart.

 

PERFORMANCES

ASTRID RANDRUP – Rust

A sensory performance about transformation – about oxygen, iron and us.

In Rust, artist Astrid Randrup invites you to get up close to a material you normally just walk past: rusted iron. Here, rust is not a sign of decay, but evidence of life. The iron is breathing, and rust is the trace it leaves behind. We don’t simply leave the rusted iron untouched. We pick it up, touch it, examine it. We feel its weight, hear its sound, see its shifting colours. Together, we explore rust as something that connects industry, nature and the body – as part of the landscape we live in, and the structures we create.

CHARLOTTE ØSTERGAARD – Can you wear nature?

This performative workshop unfolds as a journey into the forms, rhythms and materials of nature. In Stævningsskoven, we explore how nature can be carried and felt – not as something outside us, but as something we are already connected to.

By listening, moving, and gathering branches, flowers and grass, nature becomes not just our surroundings, but an active participant in the collective creations we shape together. Can nature be worn? Perhaps the question is not only what we can put on, but also what nature can set in motion within us.

GEORG JAGUNOV – Timefulness in Flint

An interactive workshop about the hidden histories of flint and our place in the world.

Stones are not just stones – especially not when you meet artist Georg Jagunov and his contagious fascination with flint. On a staged excavation site, he leads us into the extraordinary universe of flint, filled with traces of our shared past. Here, cold flint comes alive. It tells stories of vast Ice Age glaciers, warm chalk seas, ancient forests, coastlines and magical landscapes that have transformed over millions of years. It speaks of humans who have wandered, struggled, survived and dreamed – always with flint as their companion.

JULIE SCHMIDT ANDREASEN & ULRIK ØRSNÆS JANSEN  – Echoes in the Light / workshop performance

We meet by the stream, where we find messages in bottles. The notes are read aloud, and we follow the instructions that lead us to the nearby burial mound.

Here, the children are invited to reflect and write a line about what they are grateful for and what they wish for in life. These reflections become part of an installation, where two performers interpret what the children have written in a dance set to music. Together, we experience the landscape through movement and reflection, opening up new views, perspectives and insights. Concept: Julie Schmidt Andreasen

LINH LE – Terra Multorum / activist performance

What does the future entail? What do we wish to bring into being for the future? In a shared ritual, Linh Le invokes the power of the earth while chanting Terra Multorum and naming the many species that live in the area, those that have lived there, and those that could live there.

Terra Multorum is Linh Le’s response to Terra Nullius, meaning “no man’s land” – the idea that land is empty or uninhabited, used historically to legitimise the colonisation of territories and the extraction of resources. Terra Multorum means “the land of many” and acknowledges the multitude of species and organisms that inhabit a place.

SEIDLERS SENSORIUM / MARIKA SEIDLER – Droj jord / performance walk

A meditative performance journey into the Earth’s interior.

Seidlers SENSORIUM guides us to slow down as we embark on a sensory and restorative journey through the geological layers of the Earth. We pass through roots and the symbiotic life of fungi, all the way to the planet’s deepest core.

Make yourself comfortable – this is the story of the Earth and of you. The experience begins at the forest edge, where we meet the Earth Mother. She lets us feel the Earth’s song and tells a mythological story of the planet’s formation: a journey into the Earth’s interior, where the Earth is like a nectarine in your hand. First comes the crust, then the flesh, and finally the hard stone at the core. DROJ JORD is a quiet and caring experience where nature, body and narrative merge. All you need to do is be present, sense, and let yourself be carried along.

 

Performing Landscapes Egedal is organised by Metropolis – Københavns Internationale Teater in collaboration with and with support from Egedal Kommune and Statens Kunstfond

Photos: Marine Gastineau, Cosmin Cirstea, Charlotte Østergaard, Thomas G. Bagge, Mahtab Motlagh, Hans Ravn, Marika Seidler