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In the artistic development program Time in Space, you or your group can try out techniques or develop artistic ideas. You get a week of free access to one of UP's rehearsal rooms, The Pit or White Lab, with a focus on artistic development and no pressure to produce results.
Time in Space is offered via open call 1-2 times a year. Stay up to date on UP's Time in Space open calls on this page and via our newsletter.
Apply now for Time in Space until March 2, 2026.
With Time in Space 2026, you can get a free week in one of UP's rehearsal rooms:
June week 25
The Pit or White Lab
June week 26
The Pit or White Lab
August week 33
The Pit or White Lab
August week 34
The Pit or White Lab
What opportunities does Time in Space offer?
Program for a week in Time in Space
Monday
9:00 a.m.: Arrival and introduction to the house (mandatory)
9:30-9:45 a.m.: Meet ‘n’ greet in the foyer (mandatory): UP and Tid i Tum groups greet each other and briefly present the project they are working on.
9:45 a.m. – as long as you wish: You work freely
Tuesday
All day: You work freely
Wednesday
All day: You work freely
12:00-12:30: Lunch in the Green Room (optional): Those who have time and wish to do so meet in the Green Room, where we eat our lunch together, which we bring ourselves.
Thursday
All day: You work freely
Friday
13:00-13:30: Open worksharing in The Pit (optional)
13:30-14:00: Open worksharing in White Lab (optional)
14:00-15:00: Closing with coffee and tea in the foyer (optional)
Participation and contributions are optional, and you also have the opportunity to work freely throughout the day.
What are the criteria for applying?
Application, selection, and curation
To be considered for Time in Space, applicants/applicant groups must:
- Work with or organise professional performing arts activities
- Demonstrate relevant professional experience and briefly describe an artistic idea with development potential
What you need to have ready for your application:
- A brief description of the artistic research project (max. 1 page, doc. or PDF)
- A brief CV for participants in the artistic research project (max. 5 documents in total)
- An image for use by UP for communication on UP's digital platforms
There are no requirements regarding content, theme, or methods. The important thing is that the application includes an idea for artistic development or research that can be realized within the framework of Tid i Rum.
Selection will be made by an external curator together with UP. The selection will take into account diversity in performing arts genres as well as other diversity parameters.
UP encourages everyone, regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, functional abilities, religion, sexuality, and socioeconomic background, to apply.
I got surprisingly much out of being in a rehearsal room at a point in the process where I otherwise would not have prioritized being able to afford rehearsal rooms.
Signe Løve Anderskov
Signe Løve Anderskov was at Tid i Rum in the spring of 2024. Read about her experience here at ISCENE.
TIME IN SPACE DECEMBER 2025
Escarleth Pozo: LA MALA
LA MALA is a choreographic collage—a pre-Columbian and post-colonial adventure about two women; a mother's story that unfolds through her daughter's body. In Time in Space, Escarleth Pozo collaborates with dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and dance researcher Phyllis Akinyi, who becomes a ‘third eye’ in the week's artistic development work.
Worksharing at UP: December 5, 2025
Henriette Aarup: VILKÅR
TERMS (working title) is a solo project; a performance lecture by circus artist and performing artist Henriette Aarup. In two tracks, she recounts her upbringing in a dysfunctional family, her winding and random path into the performing arts, and her precarious existence. During Time in Space, visual research for the performance will begin, including projections, lighting, and set design. Other artistic forces such as Anika Barkan and Signe Løve Anderskov will be involved in the process.
Worksharing at UP: December 5, 2025
Danske Dansehistorier: PARTNERS REVISITED – A CHOREOGRAPHIC REFLECTION
Choreographer and dancer Carolina Bäckman and dancer Andrea Deres explore how archival material from the two historical duets ‘FASE’ (1982) by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and ‘Partners’ (1984) by Graziella Hsu can be exhibited and activated through live performance, dance, music, light, and curated conversations, forming the basis for a choreographic reflection with partnership as its focal point.
Worksharing at UP: December 12, 2025
Krydskunst: QUICKFIX
Quickfix is a contemporary circus performance that uses partner acrobatics, theater, and music to focus on the small, funny, and annoying moments that arise when trying to solve problems collaboratively. During Time in Space, artists Anna Lawaetz and Albert Ivarsson from KrydsKunst will experiment with how to incorporate music, sound, and theater into existing circus material in order to create multiple layers of dynamics through interaction across different art forms.
Worksharing at UP: December 12, 2025
TIME IN SPACE / MAY 2025
ALICE MARTUCCI
During TID I RUM, Alice works with the performance piece ‘Amulets’, a choreographed collection of dance, sounds, texts and paper mache objects exploring family lineage, gender stereotypes, generational trauma and the relationship between personal and collective memory.
Credit: Alen Aligrudic
CARLSEN/HOOGE
Frederikke Hooge and Theresa Carlsen and director Tabita Friis Kristensen are further developing their future music performance about dementia: ‘Genklang’.
MAYA DALINSKY
‘AN ARRAY’ is dance artist Maya Dalinsky's current solo project exploring the use of sensations and emotions as material for live composition, currently under development at The Experimental Centre.
SARAH BUCHNER
‘girls choir II’ is an experimental exploration of sound, movement and puppetry. Buchner works with 4-5 singers and various puppets to create a piece that pushes the boundaries of what role the voice can play in contemporary puppetry.
Credit: David S. Lopez
Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir med IDA-ELISABETH LARSEN
‘Gazed’ is a performance piece that explores an evocative blend of movement, voice and visual storytelling - shaping the viewer's emotional journey.
XAMANEK ART
During TID I RUM, they will further develop their performance ‘Folding Faces’, a work that mixes design, dance and newly composed music. The project is a collaboration between Liva Xamanek (dancer and choreographer), Frida Barfod (costume designer, fashion designer and set designer), Xenia Xamanek (composer and musician).
Credits: Kasper Hjorth
TIME IN SPACE / MAY & JUNE 2024
NICOLE KOVACS
During TIME IN SPACE, Nicole Kovacs has further developed her solo performance. A sensuous interpretation of a well-known dramatic text where she invites the audience to participate with their imagination.
MARIE KAAE SCHMIDT
During TIME IN SPACE, Marie Kaae has further developed her interdisciplinary performance, WIRED, as well as her solo endeavour, REFLECT.
SIGNE LØVE ANDERSKOV
During TIME IN SPACE, Signe Løve Anderskov has focused on the very first physical experiments for her new performance: Relative Standstill, a performance lecture premiering in May 2025 at FÅR302.
JULIE RASMUSSEN with MY MARIE NILSSON & ANJA TIETZE LAHRMANN
Together they have further developed the dance performance Amygdala in their TIME IN SPACE. Amygdala will be a poetic, sensuous dance performance for the very youngest, about our first experiences.
SØREN LINDING URUP with IVAR MYRSET ASHEIM
During TIME IN SPACE, they have updated and reconfigured their interdisciplinary practice SESH, which in its essence is an investigation and a meeting place - a space for artistic co-creation that constantly negotiates its position between music and dance.
FILIP VEST with PAOLO DE VENECIA GILE
‘Self Tape’ focuses on precarious living conditions, identity, exhaustion and humiliation in a late capitalist age. Filip Vest has developed the choreography for the performance in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Paolo de Venecia Gile.
CAROLINE BLOMQVIST with NADJA BOUNENNI, LEILA BELANGEON BOUAZIZ & IZABELA OLGA KOCH
During TIME IN SPACE, they experimented with the intersection of culinary art, choreography and sound art with the vision of working towards equality and sustainability through radical and innovative art practices and ideas.
TIM MATIAKIS
KINISI is a dance and choreographic project with bodily sensation at its centre. With the world of memory in focus, during TIME IN SPACE they have explored it through a process of filtering scientific knowledge into artistic knowledge and processing for the project Never the same selves.'
Photo: Mark Philip
ANDREAS HAGLUND
Andreas has spent his TIME IN SPACE doing basic research for his upcoming production Feral Fantasies. The production explores the tension between queer desire and nature and is a co-production with Dansehallerne.
TIME IN SPACE / JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2024
In January and February 2024, we welcomed seven groups to The Pit as part of our Time in Space programme.
GODSPEED NORMA by MALOU KEIDING & JONATHAN CARL
During Time in Space, the team focuses on exploring the relationship between man and nature in the Anthropocene period.
DE RØDE HESTE by CLAUS MANDØE
De Røde Heste has travelled all over the world since the early 1990's. During Time in Space, Claus Mandøe reactivates an old show that has been invited to China with 72 performances
KOMPAGNI+
KOMPAGNI+ is a group of professional female dancers/performers over the age of 55. With sensuality and humour, during Time in Space they filter their life experiences through contemporary artistic expression.
TEATER I AKT
In their Time in Space programme, TEATER I AKT focuses on the position of young men in late modern society and gives voice to the loneliness embedded in the malehood.
ASSEMBLE THEATRE COLLECTIVE by CAROL HAYES
During Time in Space, Accemble Theatre Collective explores artistic collaboration between hearing and deaf people (both theatre makers and untrained local citizens) through creative non-verbal workshops.
LIVA XAMANEK, FRIDA BARFOD & XENIA XAMANEK
In Time in Space, Liva Xamanek explores the interplay between design, dance and newly composed music. Inspiration is drawn from the traditional mask and dance performances of different cultures, such as the language of movement in traditional Honduran dances and the use of the mask in Balinese dance.
Photo: Kasper Hjorth
STILL / DANCING / BODY by TANELI TÖRMÄ & BIRGITTE SKANDS
We cannot separate the dance, the choreography, the performer and her background from what is happening in the world at the moment. This is the starting point for the project's investigation under Time in Space, as a statement about why performers have no choice but to create and express themselves through art.
TIME IN SPACE / FALL 2023
In the fall of 2023, we invited five groups to the White Lab as part of our Time in Space programme.
Kirstine Lindemann/Ly Tran
RITUAL - the lost voice plot
Foto af: MommaCabbit
Annemette Pødenphandt/Dorte Bjerre Jensen/Hsiao Tung Yuan.
SkinVibrations
Foto af Jens Juul, Gether Niels og Gert Sørensen
Teater Metamorfose
Second Skin
Foto af Beate Nelken
Langmis
Farmor Flora grønne fingre
Foto af Marie Boye
Mikkel Alexander
Morphed Reality
Foto af Nicolas Clausen
Previous TIME IN SPACE-programme
TIME IN SPACE – Hvidkildevej 64 / Spring 2022
A total of seven artistic development programmes were selected through two Open Calls.
In addition to a professional proscenium hall at Folketeatret's Lille Turnéscene at Hvidkildevej 64, the companies were also provided with a free consultant.
TIME IN SPACE – Folketeatret / Spring 2021
A total of 10 artistic development programmes, 5 of which were honoured.
In addition to rooms at Folketeatret in Nørregade, Kvisten or Gamle Prøvesal, the companies also received a disposable amount to cover a consultant, materials or transport.
TIME IN SPACE - Indre By Kulturhus / Spring 2021
In spring 2021, UP offered residencies for artistic development in the centre of Copenhagen.
As part of the initiative, the Copenhagen theatre for artistic development work, HAUT, was invited to realise their investigative Pop Up Residency format. Three of the artistic development programmes were curated by HAUT, while 4 were curated by UP.
