KSelekt

KSelekt

Are you considering applying to play at KSelekt when the Danish Arts Foundation opens for applications with a deadline in June? Join UP and the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces for an online info meeting on 28 June.

In collaboration with the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces, UP invites you to an info meeting where you can get answers to your questions about applying to KSelekt. At the meeting, UP will inform about the timeline in the selection process as well as the practical/financial aspects of the production period and screenings at the Royal Theatre.

The Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces' consultant will be available for questions about the application procedure in the application portal.

At the meeting, there will be no opportunity to elaborate on the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Funding Committee's curation, but you can orientate yourself in the description of the purpose of the scheme and the selection criteria on kunst.dk when the pool is published. Until then, last year's description of the programme can be found here.

The info meeting will be held online in Danish, but it will be possible to ask questions in English.

When?

Monday 28 April, 14.00-15.30

How to attend?

The meeting is online and requires registration. A link to the meeting will be sent to all registered participants a few days before the event.

Sign up here

About KSelekt:

KSelekt is a collaboration between the Danish Arts Foundation and the Royal Danish Theatre, which provides space for a number of free, independent theatre companies and artists at Lille Scene in Skuespilhuset in Copenhagen. All performances are curated by the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Support Committee for Performing Arts. UP acts as advisor and coordinator between the independent theatre companies, the Royal Danish Theatre and the Danish Arts Foundation.

Season 204/25: A theatre season with unique sensory experiences

KSelekt offered sensory and healing experiences, sand and soundscapes, social media, encounters across time and space, violence and lots of love in season 2024/25.

At UP, we are very proud of the programme for a season of free, independent performing arts in Skuespilhuset's Lille Scene. We act as advisor and coordinator between the independent companies, the Royal Danish Theatre and the Danish Arts Foundation in the collaboration on KSelekt, where a wide range of free, independent performing arts are presented on Lille Scene in Skuespilhuset.

All performances are curated by the Danish Arts Foundation. The Development Platform for Performing Arts acts as an advisor and coordinator between the independent companies, the Royal Danish Theatre and the Danish Arts Foundation.

New theatre experiences

KSelekt invites the audience to brand new theatre experiences in season 2024/2025. The Danish Arts Foundation has selected five performances that show what is happening outside the established theatre scenes. These are new, exciting theatre experiences that challenge the traditional theatre space with sensuous and captivating universes.

KSelekt is a collaboration launched by the Danish Arts Foundation and the Royal Danish Theatre in 2020. The aim of the collaboration is to create more stage space for independent artists and companies.

KSELEKT SEASON PROGRAMME 24/25

ALL THAT REMAINS by Mirko Guido - Shifting Thoughts

Playing period: 10 - 14 September 2024

A choreographic work that opens a space to an uncertain world on the brink of transformation. Between sculptures of industrial waste symbolising a damaged environment, the performance asks the questions: How can we come together and heal in a time of disruption? How do we create new rituals, embrace our ghosts and monsters? And how do we build sanctuaries in the wake of destruction? 'All That Remains' is not just a performance - it's an urgent call for increased awareness that blurs the boundaries between dance, installation art and sound.

Please be advised: Flashing lights, smoke and loud sound occurs during the show.

SANDKIND by Daily Fiction  

Playing period: 5 October - 12 October 2024 

A duet with 55 litres of body and 55 litres of sand. A choreographic exploration of the relationship between body, nature and the other-than-human and a quiet tribute to the coexistence of human and material. Body and sand flow as one, accompanied by evocative soundscapes. With a relaxed and poetic atmosphere, the audience is invited to a safe space for a close and intimate experience. The performance creates a connection between nature and humans by giving both care and voice. Sandkind is an exercise in meeting the earth as a life form.

Please be advised: Dust from sand may spread during the show.

CORRELATIONS - MEETINGS IN THE MULTIVERSE by Phyllis Akinyi and Diasporic Dimensions

Playing period: 5 - 10 November 2024

A cross-aesthetic performance and investigation of cultural synchronicities in the African diaspora across oceans. In an Afrofuturistic universe where everything can change shape in a magical return of generations and spirits, symbolisms, cosmologies and cohesion are explored through sound, movement, clothing, visual art, poetry, scenography and quantum entanglement correlations. Meetings in the Multiverse is a declaration of love for the diaspora and a spiritual encounter with ourselves and each other.

LIEBEby toaspern|moeller

Playing period 2 - 8 December 2024

When does falling in love turn into delusion? Physical desire into obsession? And when does the unattainability of the other become a source of one's own self-destruction? The music and dance performance LIEBE explores the many states of being in love - from illusory harmony to desperate dissonance. Diary entries by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux merge with choreography and song in a virtuoso performance that explores a desire born of distance. Contemporary dance and experimental music illuminate the tension between mutual feelings and desires born from the fact that the other is different from oneself. From heterosexual clichés to the touching, scary and comical.

GENLYD by MØR collective

Playing period: 17 - 22 February 2025

A raw and musically playful laboratory where two people juggle around with society's normative concepts. Nothing is quite what it seems. In a world where the fabricated content of social media dominates and fascinates, the artistic team behind GENLYD questions our filtered perceptions of reality. They explore the beauty and power of being who you are - imperfect. With GENLYD MØR collective wants to create a debate about the pressure that young people in particular are under in a world where consumer culture constantly feeds us with images of ourselves and others.

For applications to KSelekt 

You apply for KSelekt through the Danish Arts Foundation at kunst.dk

The application deadline for season 25/26 was 04 June 2024 at 2pm

Please note that the application procedure for KSelekt does not include the possibility to apply for funding.

Contact us:

kselekt@udviklingsplatformen.dk 
+45 31 50 67 72

Phone hours:
Tuesday 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 2pm - 5pm

Practical information about KSelekt

The Royal Danish Theatre makes 20 weeks available for KSelekt per season. Performances selected for KSelekt are given free access to the Small Stage in the Royal Danish Playhouse for a period of four weeks as a starting point (three weeks for rehearsals and one week playing period).

If your performance is selected, you must:

Enter into a contract with The Royal Danish Theatre regarding playing period and terms, provide ticket statistics to UP after the playing period, evaluate with UP after the playing period, coordinate and collaborate with UP, which coordinates and implements the scheme.

If your performance is selected, you will be responsible for covering costs for:

The Royal Theatre's front-of-house staff, one person per performance night during the agreed period, insurance, ticket sales, your own marketing and production and staff.

The following will be made available to the selected companies:

Stage space, wardrobes, basic package with light and sound and technology to a certain extent, technical caretaker who assists the selected company.

- Read the tech sheet for the Small Stage here

- See the stage plan for the Small Stage here

- The playing area on Lille Scene is approx. 13 metres wide, 7 metres deep, and the height to the bottom of the rig is max. 6 metres (the rig can be lowered).

- The number of spectators in traditional audience seating is 113.

Marketing and promotion

Your performance will be promoted through The Royal Theatre's calendar. In addition, your own marketing will be supplemented with communication of your performance as part of the KSelekt brand and on related platforms.

The company provides text and photo/illustration for creation on the theatre's website.

The company must also use the following boiler text in programmes, on websites etc:

'The performance plays as part of KSelekt. KSelekt is a collaboration between The Royal Danish Theatre and the Danish Arts Foundation to strengthen development across structures, genres and for mutual inspiration in the Danish performing arts environment'

The Danish Arts Foundation's logo must be used in all marketing of the visiting companies' performances. The Royal Danish Theatre's logo is only used in the overall marketing of this agreement. The use of logos is exempt on pre-printed material.

OVERVIEW OF PAST KSELEKT SEASONS