Art has extraordinary capability to unfold and hold space for taboos. What happens with the art and with the taboos in society when this happens? Do we even have taboos today?

We invited two Danish companies that are working with taboos in the work that is presented at CPH STAGE's International Days. And an intercultural collaboration between a Danish company and a Greenlandic company - facing the taboos in the colonial history.

Choreographer Andreas Constantinou ( Himherandit ) - unfolds how death, grief and loss are taboos in our societies - something we often actively avoid - in the performance SHROUD. Director Louise Beck ( OPE-N ) - highlights the sensitive story about young people's state of loneliness while hidding behind happy online personas in the interdisciplinary opera work LOL - Laughing Out Lonely. Director Hanne Trap Friis ( Freeze Productions ) and light designer Naleraq Eugenius ( Naleraq Lights - GL ) bring in aspects of the colonial oppression of the Greenlandic people in the theatre work OUR STORIES / OQALUTTUAATIGUT

We are also excited about our international guests - curator Anna Teuwen from Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. Last year she was a part of our international jury and got an insight into the performing arts scene in Denmark, Greenland and Faroe Islands. Aniko Racz from Hungary is the artistic director of SIN Arts & Culture Center in Budapest as well as programmer at the festival Sziget Festival.

This episode is made as a part of our digital launch of the programme at CPH STAGE's Internatioanl Days 30. May - 1. June 2024

The podcast CONNECTED is produced by CPH STAGE International

Producer and host : Karen Toftegaard

Editor : Laurits Jongejan