KSelekt

KSelekt

Independent performing arts selected by the Danish Arts Foundation

KSelekt serves as the public’s window into independent performing arts at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. All performances are selected by the Danish Arts Foundation’s Project Support Committee for Performing Arts. 

UP acts as an advisor and coordinator between independent companies, the Royal Danish Theatre, and the Danish Arts Foundation.

Each season, you can apply to have your performance included in the program and present it at the Skuespilhuset’s Lille Scene. You can do so via kunst.dk here.

The deadline for applications for the KSelekt 2027/28 season is June 2, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.

KSelekt – New Experimental Theatre Season 2025/26

The Danish Arts Foundation and the Royal Danish Theatre are continuing their collaboration on KSelekt at the Skuespilhuset’s Lille Scene and will present a wide range of independent performing arts in 2025/26. The season features, among other things, love, robots, and mothers at war.

The Danish Arts Foundation and the Royal Danish Theatre once again present a series of experimental independent performances at the Skuespilhuset’s Lille Scene. The upcoming season features five selected performances with a wide range of artistic expressions, from theatre and dance to puppet theatre and poetic performance art.

KSelekt offers a glimpse into the independent and experimental performing arts as they appear on the country’s smaller stages and alternative venues. Here, it is clear that the performing arts reflect the major issues of our time, including war, love, waste, technology, and humanity.

September 16–20, 2025
The Song of Oda and Anton – by Teater Rum
 

The Song of Oda and Anton is a touching tale of a young and impulsive love that spans 60 years through joy and pain. The Reumert Award-winning theatre production is about finding the courage to put your life and heart in someone else's hands, about dancing your way through bubbling joy and finding your way through the deepest sorrow. Exactly the warm love story the world needs to face the horrors, fear and trepidation of our time.

Playwright: Lars Dammark
Actors: Lars Dammark and Ene Øster Bendtsen
Direction: Rasmus Ask
Dramaturg: Gitte Villadsen
Set design: Claus Helbo
Composer and sound design: Johannes Smed
Lighting design: Anders Kjems
Costume designer: Elsebeth Hede
Production, tech, build: Søren La Cour

Get tickets here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

29. oktober – 1. November 2025
Tabt Titel – by Moribund

Tabt Titel - a cycle of testimonies about waste is a performance work in which artist Sara Hamming leafs through the book Tabt Titel, while a video performance recorded in the ruins of Børsen runs in the background. The book has been lost and picked up again and again. It hides notes written in pencil on top of research in waste management as well as traces of hair and cake. We must associate with the waste to repair the constant trauma of destruction. It needs to be repaired, picked up and named again and again.

Performance: Sara Hamming
Video: Nanna Elvin Hansen

Find tickets here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

24.-29. November 2025
SIMILI – by AVA

SIMILI is a hypersensory universe where a dancer and a puppeteer explore the balance of power between humans and technology. A robotic puppet is led on stage by a human - or is the human controlled by the robot? The performance invites the audience into an abstract emotional landscape with both glittering and dark sides of dance, animated objects and sensory theatre.

Performers: Marcus Alexander Roydes and Astrid Kjær Jensen
Idea/Concept: AVA
Choreographer: Ida Katinka Fridan Pedersen
Consultant: Astrid Lindhardt
Music: Oliver Kincaid
Production management, lighting and sound design: Victor Nuno Lyse
Art direction and graphics: Elena Biner
Textile design: Jens Ole Árnason
Puppet maker: Ulrike Langenbein

Find tickets here:https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

16.-21. February 2026
Mother Soldier – by Datterselskabet

Mother Soldier is a musical performance about motherhood and war. Mother Soldier stems from historical and personal experiences of becoming a mother in a world of war – but what kind of warrior is a mother? What does her battle look like and what weapons will she use? The three uniformed percussionists Irene Bianco, Marta Soggetti, and Sara Nigard Rosendal deliver military precision on drums, cymbals, and singing bowls, leading the audience through combat and waiting, doubt, grief and care.

Artistic director and composer: Sandra Boss
Musicians/performers: Sara Nigard Rosendal, Irene Bianco and Marta Soggetti
Stage director & dramaturge: Astrid Hansen Holm
Choreographer: Simone Wierød
Costume design: Stina Resting
Stage and lighting design: Rosa Birkedal
Producer: Kristine Bech Sørensen

Find tickets here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

21.-25. April 2026
trembl – by Ar Utke Ács / Dance Cooperative

What does time look like if we stretch it in sync with a body outside the norm? 
The dance performance *trembl* suspends time as we know it. The time of the able-bodied is over. The performance depicts a dancing, chronically ill avatar and its surrounding world. The audience is invited to witness a self-soothing ritual and stretch their imagination to a world that meets the needs of those living with chronic illness. Through simultaneous choreography, a sculptural light installation, and circulating soundscapes, the performance creates a polyphony of pulsations and potentials.

trembl has its world premiere as part of KSelekt. It is the second performance in the series the unapparent trilogy created by choreographer Ar Utke Ács.

Choreography and artistic direction: Ar Utke Ács
Close collaborator, artistic research, and performer: jœëllâ kálâlã
Composer: Mayara Baptista
Lighting design: Sofia Stål and Will Zawistowski
Sound design: Per Buhl Acs
Costume design: Serena Coelho
External eye and care facilitation: Mmabatho Thobejane
Production assistant: Frida Andrea Keita
Production: Dance Cooperative
Co-production: Moderna Dans Teatern (SE)
With thanks to: Adam Seid Tahir and André Taylor

Artwork: concept and art direction by jœëllâ kálâlã, art direction and CGI by Ville Vidø based on images by Adam Sato

Find tickets here: https://billetto.dk/e/trembl-billetter-1257990?bref=eyJzIjoiYmlsbGV0dG8iLCJtIjoiYmlsbGV0dG8iLCJjIjoiZmluZCIsImNvIjoiM0RLIiwidCI6MTc1MDIzODYxOX0%3D
 

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