DON GNU (DK)

K.I.S.S.

Competitive spirit
dance
slapstick humour
March 1st & 3rd - 8th, 2025, 19:30 (80 min.)

PREMIERE: K.I.S.S. (women in socks and sandals) is a hard-hitting cocktail of quirky stunts, raw physics and toe-curling embarrassments, where DON GNU, in collaboration with director Kamilla Wargo, takes on the modern woman and challenges society's expectations of how women should be.

It’s time. Time for different perspectives and new steps. To pass on the socks and sandals.

After years of self-congratulatory dancing in suits, silk shirts, and ergonomically correct footwear – and after steadfast beliefs about how the world is structured – the artist duo has become uncertain. Because, um… what about the women? How are they really doing? What do they think about? Where are they headed? And how different are they really from men?

The successful performance “M.I.S. – natten lang” is challenged by a female team led by director Kamilla Wargo. Get ready for another round of hard-hitting cocktails of quirky stunts, raw physicality, and toe-curling embarrassments in a performance about women’s right to be themselves.

About DON GNU

DON GNU – Physical Theater & Film makes action theater and dance combined in a playful and poetic universe.

The company was established in 2010 by the choreographers Jannik Elkær and Kristoffer Louis Andrup Pedersen, who together are responsible for the artistic management. DON GNU are house artist at Bora Bora.

Today, DON GNU is one of the country’s most touring companies, which in addition to extensive touring activities in Denmark, has also toured in large parts of the world, including all the Nordic countries, South Korea, Canada, large parts of Europe and Cuba.

More about Don Gnu here

About DON GNU

Credits

Produced by:
DON GNU
in collaboration with
Kamilla Wargo

​Performers:
Nadja Bounenni
Giulia Quacqueri
Paulína Šmatláková

Staged & directed by:
Jannik Elkær & Kamilla Wargo

Artistic consultant:
Kristoffer Louis Andrup

Producer team:
Sandra Délen
Malene Cathrine Pedersen

Photo:
Christopher Brekne

Supported by:
Knud Højgaards Fond
William Demant Fonden
The Danish Art Foundation
The City of Aarhus