PREMIERE IN AARHUS FESTUGE: Through live music, physical images, documentary stories and objects brought to life, artists from Scandinavia, ex-Yugoslavia and England take you on a journey through European utopias on a quest for dreams and cracks of hope for the future. Kunstnere fra Skandinavien, ex-Jugoslavien og England tager publikum på en levende og personlig rejse igennem europæiske utopier via performance, livemusik og video i en søgen efter drømme og inspirerende håb for fremtiden.

PREMIERE IN AARHUS FESTIVAL WEEK: Choreographic and musical performance that examines the role of Man in our age and which is a contemplative resistance to an accelerating world. With precise and slow movements, two dancers embody a nature that no longer resembles itself.

(AGE: FROM 8 YEARS) Opera Workshop version of rococo pearl "Proserpin" from 1781 told to children of four singers, a dancer and three musicians. The music is played on marimba, clarinet, violin and woodwind.

(AGE: FROM 9 YEARS) "Vølvens Dom" (The Judgement of The Vølven) is a Nordic saga opera about future anxiety and future hope. A raw tale of Ragnarok and resurrection. About greed and change.

PREMIERE: A wedding song about doubts and disgust. A horny anniversary song to the boss. A little too honest tribute on the 40th birthday. A harsh and honest communual singing performances performed by the audience itself in the Herskind village hall.

PREMIERE: You will never cross the street the same way again! Neak-breaking everyday stunts, Don Gnu poetry and affectionate black and white humour shed new light on the boring everyday routines and our way of being together as humans.

Highly energetic performance with urban dance, electronic music and colorful light which explores pushing the boundaries of the human body using technology inspired by science fiction and superheroes.

Poetic and sensuous adult puppet theater about a family under siege in Leningrad during World War II. Shostakovich's 7th symphony is the starting point for the image bombardment with, among other things, Stalin as pole dancer and Death himself in grotesque shapes.

Experience a mini festival with three highly energetic Korean dance performances in one night: "Tail Language II", "Flight" and "Silentium".

DANISH PREMIERE: Tchaikovsky's beloved Christmas classic is reinvented with humor, an inflatable nut and pastel-colored sweatbands by a bunch of international indie pop musicians. The ballerina and the rat king are gone. Instead we go exploring on the planet Nutcracker.