FORESTS' TALES OF REPAIR by Sara Gebran

FORESTS’ TALES OF REPAIR by Sara Gebran

TIME 10, 11, 12, September 19h30, 13, 14 September 19h20
Exact starting time is linked to luminic conditions and will be different each day. Please arrive 5-10 min. before the stated performance start.
MEETING PLACE Kasernen, Teatersalen, William Wains Gade 11, Refshaleøen – see location
WHAT Performance
FREE ENTRY – reservation recommended

A poetic call for justice, healing, and environmental rights – PART THREE
by Sara Gebran and collaborating artists

Five women and thirteen sound machines gather in a mourning choir for the death of Nature. Step into a space where grief, politics, and healing vibrate – where the loss of nature becomes tangible, and where the forces of community, international law, and the rights of Nature unfold. Through two howling choirs – one human and one more-than-human – the audience is invited to experience the frequencies of Solfeggio healing in an interplay where song, dance, and storytelling blend with Palo Santo incense from the Amazon and environmental legal practice.

FORESTS’ TALES OF REPAIR is a defence of the world’s forests, rooted in knowledge and practices inspired by Indigenous peoples, using the theatre hall as a courtroom: a Parliament for all beings, in the words of Bruno Latour, giving voice to the more-than-human. We ask plants and trees as our allies: How can we move together with you? What can we learn from you? How can we create conditions for shared regeneration and gratitude?

While we wait for our governments to take responsibility for the destruction of Nature, we take justice into our own hands and show a path to heal the damage for which national and international companies and universities in both Denmark and Venezuela are complicit.

A sensorial, eco-political experience and reflection on our shared responsibility.

VOTE HERE!

If you didn’t vote during last year’s performance THE FORESTS’ TRIAL, there’s still time – you can also watch the performance as a film and vote until August 23, 2025.

FORESTS’ TALES OF REPAIR is the third part of Sara Gebran’s five-part performance series and five years of research. It is a standalone continuation of last year’s THE FORESTS’ TRIAL 2024, where the audience voted on who should be held accountable for two environmental disasters: Cheminova in Lemvig and the illegal gold mines in Venezuela’s Amazon region.

Duration: ca. 80 min + following voluntary debate

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sara Gebran is a choreographer, dancer, and author who combines performance with video, sound, text, architecture, and environmental law through the dancing body. Her current 5-year research and performance series The Forests’ Imaginary Trial (2023–2026) explores how to defend and protect the world’s forests. Through this, she aims to create a new platform for political and social representation, developed with all interested citizens in defense of nature and its rights.
@saragebran | www.saragebran.com

George Koutsouris, based in Copenhagen, works with sound, movement, and sculpture. With a background in engineering and visual arts, he creates interactive works on chaos and transformation, inviting playful audience engagement. @georgekoutsouris | georgekoutsouris.com

Lisen Pousette is a choreographer and dancer based in Stockholm. Driven by a fascination with the material and affective dimensions of the voice, she explores voice-body practices through the subtlest to the most extreme vocal forms in her work. She holds an MA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts (2019), and since 2022, she co-organizes the performance evenings Kafé Mix at höjden, Stockholm. @poussette

Olivia Rivière is a choreographer and dancer based in Copenhagen. Her work springs from a fascination with extended vocal techniques, noise, and listening. She creates visceral performances that seek to evoke affective and resonant spaces and relations. For 10 years, she has co-run the space Danseatelier in Copenhagen. In 2025, she completed the MA ‘Exerce’ in Choreography, Montpellier @oliviariviere

Deva Schubert is a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer working with voice in experimental performance, blending dance, installation, and digital media. She is the recipient of the ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award 2024. @devaschubert

Helle Thun is a soprano, vocal artist, composer, and performer specialized in improvisation, traditional music, and Nordic singing traditions. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Zorn bronze medal for kulning (herding calls) and the preservation of tradition. She works with voices in the acoustics of landscapes, using improvisation as both an artistic practice and a pedagogical tool for community, insight, and healing. She is a voice coach in film and theater and has performed and taught internationally as a soloist since 2000. www.nordicvoice.dk

Siegmar Zacharias is a performance artist and researcher creating immersive works on transformation and queer-feminist poetics. She is a certified death doula and works with more-than-human communities. Founder of Woman On Work. @siegmarzacharias

CREDITS

Concept and choreography: Sara Gebran
Created in collaboration with: Siegmar Zacharias and Deva Schubert
Song composition: Helle Thun in collaboration with Sara Gebran
Human Choir performers: Siegmar Zacharias, Deva Schubert, Helle Thun, Lisen Pousette, Olivia Rivière, and Sara Gebran
More-than-Human Choir: Sound installations by George Koutsouris and Nature
Lighting design: Sean Bassett
Creative producer: Carlos Calvo
Produced by: Public Eye
Communications: Lena Bruun Bondeson
Audience outreach: Hinrik Kanneworff
Administration: Peter Holten
Graphic design: Susanne Cleaworth
Photo: Daniel Maleck & Peter Boel
Supported by: The Danish Arts Foundation, Danish Actors’ Association, City of Copenhagen, and William Demant Foundation
Co-production and residency: Metropolis