Secret Hotel (DK)
Banquet for Bees
A buzzing performance about the secret world of bees.
Presented in collaboration with IETM Aarhus 2023
Venue: Outdoors (Meeting Point: Bora Bora)
The audience gathers around a specially prepared banquet table. The performers invite you to enter the secret world of bees: and whilst you are their guest, you learn a bee dance, hear wondrous and compelling facts about bees and much more.
The performers investigate humanity’s fascination with the magical substance of honey and hive life, and the vital role that bees play as pollinators.
Banquet for Bees is about honeybees and the, lesser known, wild bees, and their different approaches to communal life. These two tribes from the bee world are still considered opponents.
Language/subtitles: English
ABOUT SECRET HOTEL
Secret Hotel creates participatory events and performances which are sensorial and at the same time intellectually stimulating. The work seeks to heighten the human awareness of our surroundings and our relations with the more-than-human. Works of Secret Hotel range from site-specific events and performance lectures to a walk in a landscape. Central is the collaboration with the more-than-human and viewing the audience as our ‘guests’ and as co-creators.
Secret Hotel was founded in 1999 by director and dramaturg Christine Fentz and dramaturg Synne Behrndt with the aim of creating a forum for diverse artistic investigations and meetings. Today, Secret Hotel is run by Christine. Her artistic practice, background in dramaturgy and nature therapy and her spiritual way of life are all manifested in Secret Hotel.
The production coordinator is Maja Ravn Christiansen. She has an MA. in Dramaturgy, and is especially interested in participatory performing art, interdisciplinary work and audience talks.
Secret Hotel is based in Aarhus at Brobjergskolen, Godsbanen, but has its own studio space in the countryside of Mols. It is an independent organisation called Earthwise Residency. Here you can immerse yourself in the land through artist residencies, work retreats, by renting the facilities, or participating in events.
www.secrethotel.dk
Credits
Director, concept and performer
Christine Fentz
Co-creator and performer
Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad
Co-creators
Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy
Gergö Lukacs
Viktória Makra
Bodil Buonaventzen
Voice of researcher
Horticulturist Lise Hansted
Composer
Birgit Løkke
Dramaturg and technician
John Tinning
Scenography consultant
Sigrid C. Moses-Jacobsen
Costumes
Bodil Buonaventzen
Marianne Henez
Helene Jensen/Textilkokken
Coordinator
Maja Ravn Christiansen
Supported by
The Danish Arts Foundation
The City of Aarhus
Central Denmark Region
Kruse Vask