SANSEPORTEN
by SPINE FICTION
An imaginative dance performance for children ages 6 months to 6 years.
Imagine if you could smell with your hands or see with the inside of your body? What if you could 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—and everything is open to exploration!
The performance is inspired by how animals perceive the world in ways that are completely different from ours as humans, and draws inspiration from the book *An Immense World* by Ed Yong.
Together with the children, the dancers explore new ways of hearing, seeing, touching, and understanding—in an interactive environment 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?
Behind the production is choreographer Julie Rasmussen, founder of the Ravnedans dance festival and artistic director of SPINE FICTION. With *Sanseporten*, she opens the door to a universe that sparks wonder and invites us to experience the world in new ways.
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.
Choreography: Julie Rasmussen
Set and Costume Design: Lærke Bang Barfod
Composer: Sea Change – Ellen A. W. Sunde
Lighting Design: Kine Kvendseth
Dramaturg: Endre Sannes Hadland
Choreographic Partner: My Marie Nilsson
Artistic Consultant: Thomas Eisenhardt
Target Audience Consultant: 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 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
