KARINA

You probably know the feeling. The feeling of not being good enough, pretty enough, not being a good enough friend, daughter, boyfriend, employee. Low self-esteem is like a destructive taboo that controls our lives far too much. Like a damaging monster it distorts our self-image and blurs our sense of reality. Cheer Extreme and Sort/Hvid want to break away from this with the show PERFORMANCE IN LOW SELF-ESTEEM (org. Opvisning i lavt selvværd).

The audience is invited to a public therapy session where four actors will compete to see who can be the most exposed. Cheer Extreme share their personal stories in a brutally honest way.

Cast: Peter Flyvholm, Anders Mossling, Kitt Maiken Mortensen and Xenia Noetzelmann
Text: Cheer Extreme and Therese Fabricius
Scenography: Ida Marie Ellekilde and Raphael Frisenvænge Solholm
Dramaturge: Tanja Diers
Dramaturge Assistant: Anna Ellen Bruun Sønderup

Producer: Karina Dichov Lund

Co-production between CHEER EXTREME and SORT/HVID

Support from: Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommune Stage art council,
Danish Actos´association and CPH STAGE.

A big thanks to Elisa Kragerup, Christian Lollike, Tue Biering, Marie Dalsgaard, Christian Hetland Jepsen, Signe Fabricius, Charlotte Munksøe, Niclas Bendixen, Karina Nuus Pedersen
and Jeanett Albeck for creative ideas.

The Reviews
The actors create an atmosphere of trust and confidence, that usually doesn’t occur in theatre.
Anne Middelbo, Information

In a frivolous manner the four actors are able to invite us all the way into their private residence, to exhibit the features of themselves they have most difficulty accepting.

Four individuals, hundreds of problems and infirmities. That’s clearly the recipe for 70 minutes of screamingly funny and sociocritical satire.
Stine Pedersen, Magasinet KBH

Everything is displayed in the slightest physical detail. A monomaniac egocentrism, I not only recognize myself in, but which, given the accumulating self-disclosure, seems so grotesque that the laughter rolls.

What exactly is the relevance of four well-functioning actors, who are privileged with nice bodies and resumes, that must share their inferiority? But the very fact that they live on selling themselves with skin and hair and mold in beard, does that they, if anyone, can mirror our body fixated performance culture and consequent shaming of the fat and the weird bodied and idolization of perfection and high performance 24/7.

The consequence of low self-esteem is that life with that kind of nearsightedness shrinks to having to be played out on a stamp, just like the actor’s tiny little stage here, with the audience on all four sides, within an arm's reach. An intimate space that amplifies the feeling that this is something we share, unbearably recognizable.
Monna Dithmer, Politikken

A Theatre, Song & Science hybrid.

Radium tells the story of pioneering scientist Marie Curie in an atomic burst of history, poetry, light years and dark matter. It has played in Copenhagen and on stages and schools on tour across Denmark from October 2015 to March 2016.

Radium is a Theatre Lecture, an innovate mix of theatre, science, and live music.
It represents the next generation of the acclaimed Danish stage invention called the Theatre Concert.
It is a performance for the curious ... and for those who like their entertainment
to be as enlightening as it is enjoyable.

Radium blends documentary monologues, dreamy waltzes, and spinning videography with the Periodic Table, World War 1, Niels Bohr and a clicking Geiger Counter to portray a young woman who struggles to overcome daunting obstacles and male dominance within European academies in the late 19th Century to become the first female scientist to win a Nobel Prize. Along the way, Curie's efforts, along with her husband's, Pierre Curie, lead to the discovery of the mysterious and dangerous element Radium, a vivid symbol of her life`s triumphs and tragedies.

Radium songs feature new music by Lotte Andersen and Søren Møller with
lyrics by Neill Cardinal Furio. Together they make a varied playlist of classical string quartets, radioactive rave-ups, Nordic piano balladry, and dazzling word-play. The scenography is one part jazz bandstand, one part science lab, and one part videographic Belle Epoquean fantasy.

Lotte Andersen, a Danish actress internationally known for her roles in the TV series The Killing and The Bridge, and Anja Cetti Andersen, an astrophysicist from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, muse on the groundbreaking discoveries of Marie Curie, her spectacular life of achievement, the tabloid scandals and resistance to her career, the nature of invisible forces, scientific serendipity, and the shock of the new that the explosive developments in the arts and sciences brought to the turn of the 20th Century.

Cast: Lotte Andersen, Anja Cetti Andersen and Kristoffer Fabricius
Concept, Writer and Music: Lotte Andersen
Song Lyrics: Neill Cardinal Furio
Bandleader, Compositions, Arrangements & Keyboards: Søren Møller
Soundscapes, Beats & Electronic Arrangements: Spejderrobot
Director: Anne Sofie Espersen
Assistant Director: Sarah Thordsen
Dramaturgical Consultant: Karina Dichov Lund
Scenography: Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer
String Quartet: Jacob Buur(violin), Jenny Elfving (violin), Pauline Hogstrand (viola), Adam McKenzie (cello)
Kostumedesigner: Siff Pristed
Videodesign: Magnus Pind & Adam Ryde Ankarfeldt
Sound design: Mikael Brøndum
Lighting design: Malthe Haugaard

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Photo: Katrine Langkilde Gjerding
Although many soldiers have been in war zones in recent years, we often get the same clichéd media images of the conflict´s. The individual memories and experiences that they bring home stays with them or in closed circles of therapists - and perhaps family and friends. This project disseminates some of these stories in to our local community, like a virus that spread in the society that surrounds us.The audience was invited to a specific place at a specific time and had to bring their own radios. While the group start walking together they listen to the story on their radio, and narrative pictures begins to shape around them, like a photograph evoked in the dark room.

Concept & dicrection: Jörg Lukas Matthaei / Matthaei & Konsorten

Actors: Around 100 people from the 3 different places where the performance played.

Set design: Katrine Gjerding
Sound production: Anne Jeppesen
Dramaturg: Miriam Frandsen
Producer: Karina Dichov Lund
Producer assistant: Gry Raaby
Assistant director: Sanna Albjørk

WAR - YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE was a co-production between Matthaei & Konsorten, Odsherred Theatre, Carte Blanche and Cantabile 2 And the show played in 3 different versions: in Høve at the festival, Mere kant end udkant 2013 on WAVS festival 2013, and in Viborg was part of Viborg Kultur Festival 2013.

Find more information about Matthaei & Konsorten
 here

"The moment of change is the only poem "
Adrianne RichChang is a constant, and we must constantly adapt to changing circumstances: roles , status, relationships, acquaintances,  work, habits, views on the outer and inner world, in short - our whole identity. Part of being human is the desire for knowledge and control in life, and this desire is a contrast to the changeable.At the center of the performance's theme is the question: Who am I, when I myself and what surrounds me is constantly changing ?Venue: Kaleidoscope 2006Choreography: Emma NordanforsDancers: Karen Margrethe Aunsholt, Carolina Bäckman, Andrea Deres and Marianne Kjær Sound

Choreographer assistant: Karina Dichov Lund
Composer: Stefan Thorsson
Light design: Lars Sorensen Egegaard
Set design: Zanna Wieveg
Costumes: Jenny Nordberg and Zanna Wieveg

NOT YET KNOWN was supported by the Arts Council , Talent Pool during Arts Council , Nordscen , City of Copenhagen , Tuborg Foundation and Workshop scene / Danseværket of Business.

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Photo: Palle Steen Christensen

Five actors and a singer interprets and tells the story of the creation of artificial life. In a remake of one of world literature's great classics.

Venue:: Det Kgl. Teater /2013

Director: Heinrich Christensen

Atctors: Anders W. Berthelsen, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Johan Olsen, Dancia Cucic, Lars Brygmann, Rasmus Hammerich

Band
: Bent Clausen, Las Nissen, Tobias Stærbo og Kenneth Thordal

Set design, costumes and videografic: Palle Steen Christensen
Lighting design: Ulrik Gad
Sound Design: Jonas West
Playwright: Kasper Hoff
Song and Music: Kenneth Thordal
Dramaturg: Jepser Bergmann
Choreographer consultant: Karina Dichov Lund
Assistant director: Mette Ovesen

In January 2004, the then leader of the school for Modern Dance, Anna Grip and the leader of the choreographic department, Christine Meldal and I took the initiative to start an informal Choreographic Platform. The Platform had no connection to the school. But the school very generously opens up their stage and access to technical equipment.

The Choreographic Platform gave professional choreographers and dancers an opportunity to show not previously shown work, part of a piece or a work in progress. 

BETWEEN SPACES / MELLEM RUM 
Venue:
Exit,The School for Modern Dance 2001
Choreography:

Karina Dichov Lund 

Dancers: Karen Margrethe Aunsholt, Emma Nordanfors and Michael PreislerCostumes: Lisbeth Burian
Set design: Camilla Bachiry
Stills: Stig Worm
Music: Zita Swoon
Sound mix: Sebastian Lund

"Mellem rum" was a choreographed city collage - an investigation of the physical and mental spaces in a city - an appreciation of the constant changing moods, traces and stories that surrounds us in every day life.

We set out to investigate the existence of punk and the shape it would take the year 2002.

Venue: The Danish Theater School, 2002

Choreography: Karina Dichov Lund
Set design and video: Lisbeth Burian
Light: Sonja Lea Jørgensen
Sound: Jes Brander Theede
Costumes: Camilla Lind
Dancers: Amia Miang and Christian Jonsson

Two poems by the Danish poet Michael Strunge, from the "real" punk era, became the base we worked around. WHY DO WE PUNK was a peep into a dark but romantic night room.

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Photo: Lisbeth Burian

Boy Bio was a physical/visual chamber solo - an investigation of a person in an intimate room. A skin coloured dram - that is everything but pink. Body Bio was movement, video and music.

Venue: Junge Hunde /Kanonhallen 2004

Idea, video, set design: Lisbeth Burian

Performer: Amia Miang
Choreographer: Karina Dichov Lund
Music: Mark Solborg

The performance "STATUS N" was a cross section of a neighbourhood. We collected stories and added our own experiences with the era a d the people that lives there. "STATUS N" was a theatre installation and stroll though a neighbourhood with out a concrete narration but with a number of moments and situations and moods.

Boxers, choirs, entrepreneurs, folk dancers, musicians etc. was invited into the theatre to tell a story or show what they are good at. The only thing everybody had in common is that they all live on Nørrebro. Together with 4 professional actors anD 2 professional dancers the were the chore of a tribute to their Neighbourhood.

Venue: The theater Kaleidoskop 2006

Idea and set design: Lisbeth Burian

Actors: Jannie Faurschou, Laura Müller, Ole Westh-Madsen, Amia Miang, Niklas Levin & Thomas Corneliussen and 40 people from Nørrebro

Text: Mads Mazanti
Director: Rolf Heim
Choreographer: Karina Dichov Lund
Light designer: Turpin Napoleon Djurhuus
Sound designer: Jes Brander Theede
Coordinator of extras: Pernille Nedergaard
Producers: Kaleidoskop - Martin Tulinis and Mette Hvid Davidsen, Maja Ries.

QUETS FROM THE PROGRAM
"Nørrebro belongs to Jesus and is not for sale!"

- Moses Hansen

"Nørrebro is a spooky place"
- Ali 16 years

"Nørrebro is the new Soho"
- Fridrik from the cafe Laundromat

"Nørrebro is a place were everything flourish.
Both violence and love."
- Fie Lønborg, social worker

"Nørrebro is just the place I live."
- Anonymous           

"My Nørrebro is a tolerant and multiplicity neighbourhood."
- Ninna Thomsen, Member of the city Counsel                         

"Nørrebro is its own culturally exciting island in Denmark!"
- Anonymous

"Nørrebro is the top story in the media and a hot potato politically."                                                                    
- Lars Olsen

"Nørrebro is ruined I never come there anymore.”
- Arne the black shadow, Homeless

"A tour de Nørrebrois a tour de world."                                                                    - Salaam       

"Give us back Nørrebro"
- Pia Kjærsgaard, 58 years