AN IMAGINATIVE DANCE PERFORMANCE FOR CHILDREN AGED 6 MONTHS TO 6 YEARS.
What if you could smell with your hands, taste with your back, sense things from a distance, or hear sounds from the other side of the globe?
*Sanseporten* is a poetic and playful dance performance that invites the audience into a mysterious universe. Here, we encounter two dancers in a sensory, tactile, and vibrant space in constant motion. Nothing is quite as we know it.
The performance is inspired by how animals perceive the world in ways that are completely different from our own.
Together with the children, the dancers explore new ways of hearing, seeing, touching, and understanding—in a setting where dance, sound, light, set design, and costumes blend together.
At a time when nature and biodiversity are under threat, we ask: Can curiosity about the sensory world of animals foster greater empathy for them?
The performance was created by choreographer Julie Rasmussen, founder of the Ravnedans dance festival and artistic director of SPINE FICTION.
With *Sanseporten*, the artistic team invites the audience to wonder alongside them and awaken their curiosity about their own senses.
This Sanseporten performance is part of Kilden’s Relæxt program, which offers an accessible setting designed to make it easier for more people to participate.
Here, you're allowed to talk loudly, laugh, cry, sniffle, and shout, and go in and out of the auditorium as often as you like.
Relæxt is a no-shushing zone.
Choreographic sounding board and guest dancer: My Marie Nilsson
Artistic Consultant: Thomas Eisenhardt
Target Audience Partner: Lisa Annika Brandt
Producer: Michelle Flagstad
Production: Spine Fiction
Administration: Kamma Siegumfeldt
Co-producers: Kilden Teater, Dansehallerne, Aaben Dans, BORA BORA
Cast: Tone Kittelsen and Maren Sølvi Fidje Bjørneseth
Supported by: The Nordic Cultural Fund, Nordic Cultural Contact, the Municipality of Kristiansand, the Danish Arts Foundation (DK), the Danish State Workshops (DK), the Fund for Performing Artists, the William Demant Foundation, Agder County Council
