About UP

UP is an independent organisation that, since 2016, has received operating grants from the Danish Arts Foundation and the Bikuben Foundation under ongoing four-year framework agreements. UP works to promote and develop independent performing arts in Denmark for the benefit of artists, audiences, and the entire Danish performing arts sector.

UP offers a range of activities that you can participate in through registration, open calls, and open invitations. UP has three rehearsal spaces on Baldersgade, meeting rooms, a shared workspace, and other facilities that you can rent for your performing arts projects. In addition, UP functions as a knowledge organisation, generating insights and data about the independent performing arts sector.

Independent performing arts play a crucial role in fostering innovation and keeping Danish performing arts relevant. This is where new formats, new ways of working, and new encounters between art, audiences, and society emerge.

By “independent performing arts,” we mean project-funded or otherwise self-produced performing arts groups, companies, collectives, or solo artists who work professionally in the performing arts without being permanently affiliated with a specific theater or venue, or who co-produce with established theaters and venues—often in experimental, genre-blending, and cross-aesthetic formats.

What can I use UP for?

UP’s strategy for 2026–29 focuses on the intersections between art, the audience, and society. It is through these connections that art derives its power.

UP works strategically and purposefully to strengthen connections:

• between production, performance venues, and audiences
• between artistic practice and strategic work
• between artists and producers
• and between the independent performing arts and the rest of the industry

UP’s four strategic focus areas for the 2026–29 period:

View and download UP's full strategy

Team

Erik Pold – Director

Erik Pold has in-depth knowledge of the independent performing arts scene, with a background as a director, performer and producer, as well as an artistic director and curator. He has served as a tutor and lecturer at the Theatre Academy in Malmö, and has held a number of positions of trust, including on the Performing Arts Committee of the Danish Arts Council, as a board member at Odense Theatre, and the management of the Det Frie Felts Festival.

+4526830726

erik@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Ann-Jette Caron – Development producer

Ann-Jette is a performing arts producer with many years of experience from project-supported companies, festivals and institutional theatres. She has in-depth knowledge of the needs and challenges of the project-supported independent field. 

+45 22 83 28 12

ann-jette@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Mathias Schønberg – Communications Manager

Mathias holds a master's degree in rhetoric and has experience with communication in the cultural sector as a former cultural advisor for the Danish Embassy in Berlin and project manager at Art Music Denmark. He is also a teacher at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and a music journalist.

Nadezhda Klimenko - Kommunikationsansvarlig (barselsvikar)

Nadezhda has a degree in theater and performance studies and specializes in the digital promotion of the performing arts. She has experience in audience development from organizations such as the Royal Danish Theater, Copenhagen Music Theater, and C:NTACT, and has managed communications for Dramatikkens Hus, the Danish Composers’ Society, and the Bikuben Foundation.

+45 53 50 91 25

nadezhda@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Ida Selvejer Faaborg – Administrative employee & Booking and studio manager

Ida holds a Master's degree. in Danish and communication and has experience with administration, project coordination and programme planning. She has previously worked in the secretariat of the Danish Arts Foundation, and alongside UP she curates content for Roskilde Festival.

+45 31 25 37 10

ida@udviklingsplatformen.dk.

Torben Eik Jacobsen – Project Manager for Moving Identities and Strategy Lab

Torben Eik Jacobsen brings extensive experience in management and development to UP—most recently as director of Tempi and venue manager at Gimle—and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Governance with a focus on, among other things, diversity and inclusion in leadership. Torben is temporarily leading UP’s two projects, Moving Identities and Strategy Lab.

31 25 52 36

torben@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Sini Salminen – Office manager and designer

Sini is an international award-winning designer with more than 20 years of experience in brand design and is also an experienced event and interior designer with a focus on function, experience and human needs. At UP, Sini ensures that UP's users get a fluid experience of the building's interior design.

(tirs, tors, fre kl.11-15)

Emille Sofie Hyttel Christiensen – Student Assistent

Emille is pursuing a master’s degree in Cultural Encounters Studies at RUC and assists at UP with a wide range of tasks, particularly social media content and communication. Emille also welcomes you to UP’s open counseling sessions.

emille@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Susanna Cardemil

Accountant

susanna@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Board

The Performing Arts Development Platform

Baldersgade 6, rear building

2200 Copenhagen N

CVR: 37519944

Download UP’s logo here (PNG or SVG)

Venue and booking
booking@udviklingsplatformen.dk
+45 31 25 37 10
Inquiries are answered Mon–Fri from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

General inquiries
info@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Accounting and bookkeeping
regnskab@udviklingsplatformen.dk

Documents

Annual reports 2016 - 2022

Agreements, statutes and evaluation