Photo Tim Panduro
About the performance
Dualities is a technologically innovative dance performance where choreography meets 3D video projections in a visual universe that dissolves the boundary between physical and digital reality. Through hypnotic reflections and optical illusions, the performance explores the relationship between our real selves and our digital identities – and what happens when these spheres intersect and distort one another.
Created through a close collaboration between choreographer Simone Wierød and visual artist
Carl Emil Carlsen, Dualities offers a stage experience that invites audiences to reflect on identity, self-image, and the mirrored realities we inhabit – both online and offline.
Dualities is presented by Wired Studio and Dansehallerne
A performance by Simone Wierød and Carl Emil Carlsen
Photo Tim Panduro
Credits
Choreographer Simone Wierød
Visual Artist Carl Emil Carlsen
Composer M€RCY
Dancers Magalí Camps and Roosa Törmä
Costume Design Marie Nørgaard Nielsen
Dramaturgical consultant Astrid Hansen Holm
Assistant Søren Linding Urup
Production Design Vertigo
Producer Art & About
Administration JSH Projektrealisering
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Louis-Hansen Foundation, Knud Højgaard Foundation, Beckett Foundation
Photo Tim Panduro
About the artists
Simone Wierød Choreographer
Simone Wierød is a choreographer and the artistic director of Wired Studio.
Specializing in the creation of dance performances, choreographic installations, and dance films, Wired Studio is renowned for their visually compelling works. The signature style of Wired Studio contains a meticulous blend of sharp, poetic nuances, an architectural appreciation for lines and geometry, and a strikingly minimalist yet voluminous aesthetic.
Central to Wired Studio’s artistic mission is the exploration of how choreography serves as a vehicle to engage with contemporary societal issues. While bodily movement serves as the primary medium, Wired Studio’s works creatively incorporate objects, spatial design, and soundscapes.
Carl Emil Carlsen Visual Artist
Carl Emil Carlsen is an artist and designer exploring the expressive potential of computation in live audiovisual interactive experiences.
Situated in mixed reality, his recent works investigate the odd sensations and bewilderment that arise when simulated generative systems manifest in physical space and integrate as embodied experiences. His visual aesthetics and underlying processes continue to seek inspiration in the displays of Nature, biological systems, and natural phenomena, as they are interpreted into a form of artificial nature. Visual music is a reoccurring topic of interest, and he often works closely with composers and musicians to explore new forms of interplay between sound and computational animation.
Photo Tim Panduro
Artist talk
Thursday, April 23rd
Conversation and Insights into the
Process
In connection with the performance Dualities, the audience is invited to a special session where choreographer Simone Wierød and visual artist Carl Emil Carlsen open up about the artistic processes behind the work.
Dualities unfolds in the tension between body and technology, where physical performers engage in a dynamic interplay with a 3D-projected universe. Through the use of sensors, a performative space emerges in which the virtual and the real continuously influence and transform one another.
As part of the event, the audience will be introduced to the technically complex world of 3D projection and how this technology is translated into a living scenographic tool in dialogue with the choreographed body.
In the conversation, Wierød and Carlsen will share insights into how choreography and digital image-making have been developed in close collaboration: How is movement translated into data? When does the body control the image—and when does the image shape the body? And what artistic possibilities and limitations arise in the encounter between these two practices?
The event will alternate between conversation, reflection, and examples from the process, offering the audience a unique opportunity to gain deeper insight into the choices, experiments, and collaborations behind the performance.
Practical info
Dates and times
21.4.2026, 20:00
23.4.2026, 20:00
24.4.2026, 20:00
25.4.2026, 17:00
Duration and stage approx 1 hour in Blackboxen
Accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator providing access to the stages. All restrooms are genderneutral, and an accessible toilet for wheelchair users is available.
Dansehallerne’s address
Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799 Copenhagen V.
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
Performance Program
