Louise Beck (1965) is a Danish visual artist and Artistic Director of the platform OPE-N. Louise has worked on both classical and new pieces of music theatre around the world. She has also been a project manager at The Nordic Council of Ministers and Head of the Scenography department at both The Danish National Theatre School in Copenhagen and Oslo National Academy of the Arts. OPE-N is an OPE-N platform for OPE-N processes with OPE-N formats. It is a cross-disciplinary and collaborative performing arts platform that focuses on how to OPE–N frames of minds. OPE-N initiates all sorts of artistic exchanges; such as symposiums, workshops, artistic research and lengthy artist collaborations, which eventually leads to a range of new interdisciplinary pieces of performing arts.

www.ope-n.dk

Anna Berit Asp Christensen (1971) is a Danish artist and curator with strong roots in both classical and new music. Since 2007, she has been Manager and Artistic Director of the SPOR festival in Aarhus, and in 2008 she initiated SCENATET where she functions as Artistic Director. The ensemble is her primary artistic and curatorial platform, where, among other things, she has created and developed The Documentary Concert, Living Room, Concert Walk and Backyard Pictures (in artistic collaboration with Bent Sørensen). Anna Berit’s work – artistical, conceptual and curational is characterized by a continuous study of the experimental range in music and its place on the contemporary art scene. A focus on space is typical of Anna Berit’s own work, that be space in a psychological sense and space as a public sphere.

www.scenatet.dk

(On maternity leave)

Christine Walther Sørensen (1987) is a Danish dramaturg and project coordinator. Christine has worked on a variety of productions from classics to interactive pieces and has over the last couple of years been involved in a great number of performances that questions the border between fiction and reality, performer and audience. Christine combines an artistic understanding and experience in creative processes with an organizational eye and sees curiosity as a driving force in evolving and expanding the performative arts.

Miriam Frandsen (1973) is a Danish dramaturg and creative producer.

Miriam has worked as a freelance dramaturge since 1995 and the last four years at The Royal Danish Theatre. At the moment she is working in the span from dramaturgical consulting at musicals to very experimental cross-interdisciplinary interactive performances.

She was engaged as project manager at The Danish National School of Theatre – Continuing Education from 2004-2015 and as Special Consultant at The Danish Arts Agency in 2011 and 2014 and enjoys being part of production teams behind big events and has a huge international network.
Since 2014 she has been the international curator and coordinator af the opening performance at CPH STAGE

Lukas Quist Lund (1997) is a student of Applied Philosophy at Aalborg University and History of Art at the University of Copenhagen. Lukas works with philosophical and artistic wonder and are interested in, how wonder can be central within a philosophical and artistic interdisciplinary practice. His approach to his studies and way of philosophizing is let practice and theory entangle with each other rather than separate them. Latest he has been teaching philosophy and facilitate a Wonder Lab at The Danish National School of Performing Arts. During his studies Lukas have used philosophical conversations as a way to document various danish artists understanding of and approach to wonder.

Rikke Lund Heinsen (1967) is a Danish teacher and researcher within the field of artistic entrepreneurship, inter/transdisciplinarity and cross-artistic work. Rikke’s background is academic and her experiences are grounded in the producing and educating area of performing arts. She is deeply interested in how to expand our crafts as artistic and creative human beings by offering anti hierarchic workspaces where we all can breathe, exchange and evolve.

Martel Ollerenshaw (1967) is an Australian arts broker, creative producer and consultant based in London and working internationally. With a wide portfolio of skills and interests, Martel works actively with artists, organizations and festivals to create and produce work that is pioneering and often genre blurring. She also acts as strategist, consultant and advisor for funding bodies, philanthropists, organizations and artists on policy, business planning, fundraising and identity building.

Anne Riber (1980) is the owner of Format Artspace – a gallery and PR bureau in Copenhagen. Next to her work at Format Anne also works as an agent for selected Danish contemporary artists and as a PR consultant for several art projects. Anne is also the PR and Communication Manager at Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art. For a number of years she was the PR Manager at Nikolaj Kunsthal as well as a being a project manager at Have Kommunikation. Anne has a long career in PR and Communication working among many others with U-TURN kvadriennale for samtidskunst and New Museum, New York.

Format Artspace

Sofie Hentrich (1994) is a Graduate Student in Theater- and Performance studies and Danish at the University of Copenhagen. During her studies Sofie has combined her knowledge of theatre and her interest in the dynamics of the Danish language with the purpose of introducing future high school students to the many possibilities that lies in the world of theatre. She is interested in how education can be a springboard for people – children as well as adults – to get acquainted with art. Sofie is drawn towards large collaborations and has during the last seven years been involved with Muskelsvindsfonden’s Cirkus Summarum, where she has been a part of the team leading the volunteers.

Amelia (1998) is a student studying Liberal Arts at Royal Holloway University of London. She is currently on a study year abroad in Copenhagen and is undertaking courses in Danish Culture and Society, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Visual Culture. Amelia has a keen interest in interdisplinary studies and takes a holistic approach to knowledge. She is interested in working in Arts Administration whereby artforms are not recognised solely as individual practises, but instead work together to provide new diverse perspectives and insights in the ever-changing world around us. She has volunteered for numerous arts organisations, hosted talks on the role of artists at her home university and has also undertaken a producing course at the National Theatre in London.

Amalie Christian (1994) is a Danish Graduate Student in Theater- and Performance studies at the University of Copenhagen. Amalie attended the drama school for children and youngsters called Eventyrteatret for many years as a child. During her studies she has worked as an intern at the Royal Danish Theatre’s department KGL +, where she curated workshops for students to activate their curiosity for art and theatre. In the beginning of 2018 Amalie was the dramaturg at a student theatre (Immaturus) in Bergen, Norway and next year she will do an internship as a dramaturg assistant at Teater Grob. Amalie has a great interest in making art available for everyone and holds a passion for creating art, that shows and represents all kinds of human beings.

Trine Rosa Bonde (1984) is a Danish playwright and theatre director. She graduated from Dramatic Writing at Malmö Theatre Academy in 2020 and as an actor from Ophelia Acting School in Copenhagen in 2013. She has worked on a variety of theatre productions in Copenhagen and Sweden, and has also created the independent platform UNSEEN, for newly written plays, at Husets Teater in Copenhagen.

She is preoccupied with dysfunktionel relationships and abuse. She is fascinated by contrasts, and examines the border between fantasy and reality, violence and clichés, love and destruction, dark and light and questions how to let the dramaturgy become an expression of an inner world, more than an outer action based one.

Later this year she will premiere on When We Hit The Asphalt, at Mungo Park Theatre in Allerød, Copenhagen.