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Photo Sam Moore

About the performance

In TERRA UMBRAE (Earth Shadows), a living landscape of bodies, live sound, and memory unfolds as nine performers and one musician navigate the imprints that places leave within us.

Using the body as a medium, our beautiful space Hallen is filled with shadows of the past that, through memory, closeness, and intimacy, explore the depths of our inner landscapes.

TERRA UMBRAE is a sensory journey into our shared memory.

TERRA UMBRAE is a choreographic landscape of shadows created by Institute of Interconnected Realities (I-IR). The work draws on four years of work with Danish landscapes – from protected forests to urban wilderness – which here reemerge as shadows, echoes, and living memories in the bodies of ten dancers, in sound, and in scenography.

The title means “earth shadows” and in Latin also carries nuances such as pigment, echo, and memory. The performance explores how the landscapes we form connections with continue to live within us as elastic imprints that shape how we sense, remember, and move through the world.

TERRA UMBRAE conveys the bond between body and land – both layered and filled with traces and memories – and opens up a sensory experience where shadows guide us through a terrain between presence and absence.

Photo Anders Malmberg

Choreography

Credits

Ida-Elisabeth Larsen & Marie-Louise Stentebjerg

Performers Jonathan Bonnici, Sara Gebran, Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir, Kitt Johnson, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Sarah Ann Lee, Olivia Rivière, Marie-Louise Stentebjerg and Max Wallmeier

Sound Santi Rzr

Light design David Nicolás Abad

Scenography Bendixen & Baruel*

Costumes Maria Ipsen

Dramaturge Jonas Schnor

Producer Carlos Calvo

Graphic Design Samuel Moore

Photography & Video Anders Malmberg

Production Institute of Interconnected Realities

Co-production Dansehallerne

Thanks to: Karen Ingrid Schultz, Pia Stentebjerg, Lisbet Bangsbo Andersen, Amalie Bergstein Nielsen, Sofie Vestergaard Zinglersen. Without their care this wouldn’t have been possible.

And a special thanks to these Forest Stages artists: co-creator Jonathan Bonnici, visual artist Balz Isler and performer Louise Paolo de Venecia Gile and the Spacing Out artists performer Marie Topp and visual artist Niina Tervo.

Photo Anders Malmberg

About Institute of Interconnected Realities (I-IR)

Institute of Interconnected Realities (I-IR) is an artistic project led by choreographers and artistic directors Ida-Elisabeth Larsen and Marie-Louise Stentebjerg with producer Carlos Calvo. Together with a larger group of associated artists, they have created choreographic works for theaters, galleries, and site-specific contexts in Denmark and internationally.

Their practice is inspired by the ecologically grounded concept of decentralized choreography, which describes a choreographic event unfolding simultaneously across multiple.sites, none of which are more important than the others.

Since 2022, I-IR has worked site-responsively through grounded somatic and regenerative approaches. Through choreographic explorations of rhythms, cycles, and the more-than-human life, they develop works that regard the hosting sites as co-creators, while investigating the human position within a wider relational reality.

For I-IR, decentralized choreography is not only a spatial or performative principle, but a fundamental organizational and dramaturgical approach that informs how the company works with dramaturgy, production, audience positioning, and collaboration.

They understand I-IR itself as a choreographic event— a dynamic network of relationships, actions, and materials in constant motion.

Ida-Elisabeth Larsen Choreographer, dancer & dramaturg

Ida-Elisabeth Larsen is a choreographer, dancer, and dance dramaturg, educated at SEAD in 2007. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Performance Design from Roskilde University, as well as an MA in Ecology and Contemporary Performance from Teak – University of the Arts Helsinki. She is an artistic director and active member of the art project Institute of Interconnected Realities (2015–), the choreographic duo two-women-machine-show, and the artist collective RISK. Her practice revolves around the significance of place, regenerative processes, and how these can be used to rethink choreography and its dominant structures.

Marie-Louise Stentebjerg Dancer &

choreographer

Marie-Louise Stentebjerg is a dancer, choreographer, and mother of three, and since 2021 has been based on the island of Møn, living in a collective with both artistic and regenerative visions for a connected life. She is one of two artistic directors of the art project Institute of Interconnected Realities (2015–) and is also active in the choreographic duo two-womenmachine-show (2011–). Central to her work is a focus on the multifaceted, the plural, and the not-yet-known, and on developing practices that regenerate the performer, transcend the spectator and participant, and engage the surrounding world—pushing beyond the boundaries of what she already knows.

Photo Anders Malmberg

Practical info

Dates and times

6.5.2026, 20:00

8.5.2026, 20:00

9.5.2026, 17:00

10.5.2026, 17:00

Duration and stage approx 1 hour in Hallen

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.