PASSAGE Festival 2022 - Documentation

25-30 JULY 2022

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PASSAGE ­ FESTIVAL 25-30 JULY 2022 PASSAGE Festival attracts both locals and tourists to actively take part in cultural events in the city squares, streets, and alleys. The festival programme deliberately has a wide span, and presents everything from classical street theatre acts, multidisciplinary site-specific collaborations, large-scale circus shows and intimate solos for a limited audience, side by side.

The common denominators are public space, high artistic quality, and local relevance.

Collaborations, both international, regional, and local, are a cornerstone of PASSAGE: these collaborations are an important part of bringing international performances to the festival of a high artistic quality.

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The festival collaborates with a large international network of festivals, and, as one of only a few festivals in Denmark, PASSAGE works with well documented curatorial principles, curating not by artistic preferences in taste, but towards an overall strategy for the festival, where local relevance and anchorage plays an important role.

International networks and programmes, that PASSAGE Festival is a part of, include: The Creative Europe Programme, Erasmus+, Perform Europe, Circostrada, and several Nordic networks and programmes, supported by The Nordic Culture Fond. Within the Copenhagen greater region, PASSAGE Festival has been a successful part of the Helsingør-Helsingborg collabora­ tion since 2004.

Since 2018, PASSAGE Festival has overseen the artistic ­programme and been part of the development of SO Festival in Skegness, UK, supported by Arts Council England, which has strengthened an artistic exchange between UK and Denmark.

A high degree of local collaborations and anchorage is also part of ensuring the relevance and development of PASSAGE festival. The festival presents a programme in social housing areas in a collaborative strategic effort with social housing organizations, the municipalities, and The National Building Fund.

Spreading out geographically, making performances accessible to as many as possible, PASSAGE collaborates with local commercial centres, libraries and more on presenting performances in the small towns and areas surrounding the main cities of Helsingør and Helsingborg.

This year, the festival programme presented more than 45 different performances and 185 showings, intensifying during the last days of the festival, when moving into the city centre and always in a dialogue with the context and surrounding public space.

The Cultural Harbour of Helsingør, a noticed success when talking about investing in culture, was an excellent framework for circus performances by e.g. Tripotes la Compagnie (BE) and 15feet6 (BE) as well as playful interactions with audiences by Collectif Primavez (FR) and This Maag (CH), who attracted large audience crowds.

With a site-specific adaption of the choreographic and itinerant BEL HORIZON, Le G. Bistaki (FR) temporarily overtook “Sommariva”, dating back to the 1920’s as a public recreational area, that will soon be partly transformed into private housing.

Several performances were developed in collaboration with PASSAGE Festival this year.

Two performances were developed on-site in and around Helsingør, both premiering at the festival: THROUGH THE WALL by Thomas Bentin Works (DK) and DANCE OF THE FISHERMAN by theatre director Caroline McSweeney and choreographer Taneli Törmä.

Together with the Helsingør based CATCH – Center for Arts, Design and Technology, the Danish artist Simone Wierød (DK) developed the interactive performance BOXED, while the three-year collaboration with Convoi Exceptionnel (DK) on presenting the site-specific TRILOGY FOR EDUCATIONAL SPACES continued in CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL, created for a public swimming pool.

Bringing in new, international impulses is also important for the organization behind the festival. Supported by the European Solidarity Corps since 2021, the PASSAGE VOLUNTEER CAMP is a folk high school inspired two-week camp for young Europeans, both participating in a creative programme and committing themselves to engage in the organization and execution of the festival.

The basic premise for art in public space is to work in and with constantly changing environments, and to embrace the feedback from them.

PASSAGE Festival is the sum of the constant and mutual influence from city life and local community, ­international impulses and performances, artistic viewpoints and audience experiences, that together constitute a temporal, shared cultural experience in public space.

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CHOREOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS Choreographic stagings was a red thread throughout PASSAGE Festival 2022.

Performances ­interacted with and transformed both well-known and overlooked everyday public spaces of all kinds in Helsingør and surrounding areas. Some performances were developed on site to the ­specific area, others were adapted to the site. In all cases, the space and performances contributed to each other in unexpected ways.

BEL HORIZON BY LE G. BISTAKI (FR) Well-known for their site-specific work in the crossroads between circus, dance and juggling, Le G. Bistaki adapted Bel Horizon to the green area Sommariva. Tongue in cheek, swirling and graceful, skirt-wearing cowboys guided the audience through the grounds and transformed the recreational area into a series of Zorro inspired Western scenes, full of absurd humour, scurrying rapiers and vase juggling.

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SOMMARIVA has a history s­ ince 1920’s for public recreation.

Situated close to the beach, the green area is undergoing development, including private residential areas. Sommariva has for many years also been situated next to the city stadium, which has been vacated due to new stadium buildings else­ where. This gives the whole area a sense of temporary terrain vague – a perfect setting for Le G. Bistaki’s play with meanings of a given space.

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CHOREOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS The role of PASSAGE Festival as a platform for both international and Danish performing artists to ­experiment with and develop new formats is increasing. In 2022, the festival collaborated with s ­ everal ­artists on new work, that all in various ways made a mark on local communities and challenged the ­audience on the perception of a given public space.

CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL BY CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL (DK) For three years, PASSAGE Festival is a presenting partner of Convoi Exceptionnel’s Trilogy for Educational Spaces: a site­ specific trilogy, creating atmospheric experiences away from the usual terrains of art, that challenge the cultural codes of our common educational and formational spaces.

CRAWL CRAWL CRAWL, the second part of the trilogy, used the epitome of welfare society, the public swimming pool, to frame the statistical absurdity and paradoxes of inequality in the welfare state: thus, in Helsingør Public Swimming Pool, the audience experienced the floating choir of Ensemble Edge, in design by Kit Wan, giving voices to a libretto composed by Lil Lacy, in an atmospheric, mediative and socially critical choir experience with 14 singers, working with and against the acoustics of the space.

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DANCE OF THE FISHERMAN

BY LOCATION X+ LOCUS (IR + DK +FIN) A site-specific performance created specifically for the harbour of the small town Espergærde.

Director Caroline McSweeney and choreographer ­Taneli Törmä developed the ­performance on site: During the entire month of July, the team lived in town and worked in and with the local community around the harbour.

The result was a choreographed journey for audience and locals around the harbour and through the stories of fishermen, while the harbour life, the dancers’ movements, the performance soundscape and that of the harbour, all complemented each other.

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CHOREOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS THOMAS BENTIN WORKS (DK) developed the ­performance ­THROUGH THE WALL on site for and in three cities at once: in ­Helsingør, Køge and ­Copenhagen.

Using the streets and ­alleys, buildings and squares, ­cobblestones and railings of Helsingør as a co-player for the dancers, the audience was taken on a choreographed walk through the city centre, turning the focus to the overlooked details, that make up a city.

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BOXED BY SIMONE WIERØD (DK) was developed during Spring 2022 in collaboration with CATCH – Center for Arts, Design and Technology, located in Helsingør.

As an interactive, social sculpture placed on the huge area of Helsingør’s Cultural Harbour, it ­reflected upon The many different systems we are part of in society – physical, digital or ­mental. ­Through instructions in headphones, the a ­ udience each became a part of a larger choreographic ­system by moving boxes together – making a ­moving, choregraphed and temporal community for bypassers to watch.

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LOCAL COMMUNITIES For PASSAGE Festival, the local anchorage is at the core. Collaborating with local institutions, ­organizations, and individuals is a central part of making art accessible not only in the city centre, but ­where people live, in the small towns and social housing areas around Helsingør.

Since 2004, PASSAGE Festival has collaborated with the municipalities and social housing efforts of Helsingør and ­Helsingborg, on presenting performances, in Helsingør in the social housing areas of Vapnagaard, Nøjsomhed and ­Helsingør Nordvest. Thus, PASSAGE Festival reaches audiences, who normally does not a ­ ttend theatre or other ­institutional cultural activities. This year, the programme focused on strengthening the community across the different social housing neighbourhoods together with from Helsingør Boligsociale Helhedsplan.

PLAYGROUND by COLLECTIF PRIMAVEZ (FR), Nordvest – ENCORE UNE FOIS by TRIPOTES LA COMPAGNIE (BE), ­Vapnagaard – AVION PAPIER

by COLLECTIF LA MÉANDRE (FR), Nøjsomhed.

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Sending theatre to the audience instead of waiting for the audience to seek out theatre: In collaboration with local ­libraries or commercial centres, PASSAGE Festival presents performances in the small towns of Espergærde, Hornbæk and Ålsgårde. The two lost British explorers in VERY LOST by LES ETABLISSEMENTS LAFAILLE (FR) and the family circus LA FAMILIGLIA MIRABELLA by IL TEATRO VIAGGIANTE (IT) had a wide audience from both kindergardens and families at Espergærde Centret.

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PLAYFUL CITY

The city of Helsingør is a vibrant cultural city on many levels. When the festival artists move in, the city only becomes even more alive as a playful scene for living street theatre, visited by locals and tourists alike, whether they seek it out or just happen to stumble upon it.

KONGEKAJEN The area along Kongekajen, right in the centre of ­Helsingør on the waterside, changed into a small ­temporary village of poetic with interactive play­ grounds and small performances for the whole family.

Here you could go in search of your special SECRETS in TOMBS CREATIUS (CAT) interactive tent, squeeze into the tiny, magical caravan for AVION PAPIER by COLLECTIF LA MÉANDRE (FR) or experience two ­performances by the circus family in the TEATRI MOBILI camp with handpuppets in MANOVIVA by GIROVAGO E RONDELLA (IT) or the musical, quirky ANTIPODI by DROMOSOFISTA (IT).

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THE CULTURAL HARBOUR Over the last 15 years, Helsingør has transformed from a maritime and ship yard identity to a cultural hub. This is especially manifested in the Cultural Harbour area, where the old shipyard now houses The Culture Yard, while the dry dock has been transformed into the prize-winning M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark. The public squares in front are huge – and thus perfect for ambitious circus acts for a broad audience. Both LEAGUE & LEGEND by 15FEET6 (BE) and ENCORE UNE FOIS by TRIPOTES LA COMPAGNIE (BE) gathered large crowds with their acrobatic fight club and seesaw challenges.

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PLAYFUL CITY TOLDKAMMERGÅRDEN The yard of the old culture house is the heart and stomach of PASSAGE Festival. With a programme designed for the ­youngest and families in the mornings and afternoons, such as TROLLE AND TORMOD (DK)’s full blown reggaeshow for the kids, and a bit more edgy in the evenings, e.g., the satirical, feminist punk-acrobatic celebration of BREAST IN PEACE

by M.P.A.C (SE). Toldkammergården is always busy with people and performances. The café caters to both audiences, artists and festivalcrew, which makes Toldkammergården a special meeting place for all.

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THE STREETS OF HELSINGØR The shopping streets shifted into a playful scene, when artists did their magic and playfully improvised and activated both passers-by and intentional audiences: THIS MAAG (CH) ­created a special bond to both young and old audience in DAS IST DER GIPFEL. TEI TEI by CIA. ES CIRC (ES) involved audiences in creating scenes with tape as the only prop, while the queer danceperformance GENDERJOY by GAZART (DK) contrasted the typical scenery of the pedestrian streets.

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INFINATE LAYERS OF SURPRISE MDR – DEATH FROM LAUGHTER by LOS GALINDOS (ES) took off from a very unremarkable parking lot in the late evenings. From here, the three clowns Gabriel Agosti, Marcel Escolano (founder of Los Galindos) and Anicet Leone ­elegantly took the audience through an unimaginable experience of continuous confusion, growing disbelief, culminating in the ultimate surrender by both audience and theatre critics: “MDR – Death from Laughter surpasses anything we normally see in Denmark. (…)

The excellent acrobatics, the elegant artistry, and the bloody, moving and transgressive orgy of near-death experiences, topped off with a linguistically genius dialogue, is mastered only by very few.

Los Galindos master it to perfection.”

CASPER KOELLER, SCENEBLOG

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UNEXPECTED CONTRASTS One of the privileges as a festival is being able to create contrasts: Both in the programme to highlight the enormous span in form and content within outdoor performing arts. But also contrasts to the public spaces, and the anticipations we have to our common behaviour in these spaces. DEPARTEMENTET (DK) stirred the shopping streets with a solo of rage, frustration and ­powerlessness towards the capitalistic powerful structures and his own role as a HOMO ­ØKONOMIKUS. A street party was set up in STRANDVEJSFESTEN by the beach in one of the most exclusive and wealthy areas of Denmark: Performers ­HELENE KVINT AND CHARLOTTE BØVING (DK) took on the role as the scorned, enviable upper-class onions, culturally politically serving up conversations on privileges and community around the coffee table.

ANTOINETTE HELBING (DK) experimented together with the audience in a wordless, physical exploration of laughter in the LAUGHING GAME.

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PA S S AG E VO LU N T E E R CA M P

PASSAGE VOLUNTEER CAMP For the third time, with funding from the European Solidarity Corps, PASSAGE Festival facilitated an exchange program for young people from across Europe, while involving them in the making of the festival.

PASSAGE Volunteer Camp was a two-week folk high school inspired camp for 12 young people from Denmark, Poland, Austria, and Germany. In the first week, the focus was on creative work: Choreographer Mette Overgaard from Running Sculptures (DK) ran a participatory creative workshop using choreography, improvisation, movement and looping sounds. The result, Looping Choreography, had a showing at the festival. During the second week, the volunteers were in charge of audience handling in ­specific areas and assisted in setting up the festival. They were a priceless help at the festival, and joined the festival team with enthusiasm, responsibility and ownership!

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SWEDEN

SWEDEN In Helsingborg, the week of PASSAGE Festival started in the social housing areas of Planteringen, H ­ ögaborg and Fredriksdal with among other things theatre, workshops, the Sing along-train and a ­ crobatics.

The activities engaged the local inhabitants, and the performances activated the areas in new ways for the people who live there.

The last days of the festival, PASSAGE was once again back in the streets and squares of the inner city of Helsingborg after having been moved outside the city centre the last couple of years. This year, people could experience street theatre in the pedestrian streets and central squares, from Kullagatan, to Konsul O ­ lssons plats to Sundstorget, around and inside Dunkers kulturhus and along Kajpromenaden at the ­harbour area. There were many magical meetings between the crowds and the p ­ erformers.

PASSAGE really gave an exotic vibe to the city and put a smile to many faces along the way.

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SOCIAL MEDIA + PRESS

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Outreach and reviews

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THE PRINTED PRESS ­coverage of PASSAGE Festival 2022 ­included local, regional, and ­national news outlets. ­Coverage has been both broad enough to reach a wide ­reader demographic, as well as in-depth to contribute with new and fresh perspectives to the ­festival and the performances.

PASSAGE Festival has been c­ ollaborating with local newspaper HELSINGØR ­DAGBLAD for many years: an independent professional writer thus featured daily ­articles during the festival, both back­ground stories on artists and reviews of performances. While the regional news­paper ­FREDERIKSBORG AMTS AVIS ­covered the festival with local recommendations and reports from the festival. Reviews of ­PASSAGE festival at large gave special credence to the broad appeal of the festival, the high artistic merit and the diversity of the performances, as noted by POLITIKEN, one of the largest newspapers in Denmark.

SOCIAL MEDIA is becoming a still more powerful platform for the festival. Both for ­creating ­audience awareness before and for ­expanding the outreach ­during the festival.

Leading up to the festival, artists were invited to takeover PASSAGE social media profiles: This ­provided a ­broader reach for the artists and festival as well as a peek behind the scenes of their performances. During the festival both influencers and regular audience alike shared their ­recommendations, which was noticeable at performances afterwards.

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TIRSDAG 26. JULI 2022

Passage gadeteaterfestivalen passerer for 19. gang GADETEATER: Nordens største gadeteaterfestival blev i går skudt i gang - med masser af publikummer og skønne forestillinger. Festivalen fortsætter hele ugen.

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Af Dorte Møller Rasmussen

HELSINGØR DAGBLAD FREDAG 29. JULI 2022

HORNBÆK: Allerede en halv time inden forestillingen begyndte havde de første voksne taget plads på bænkene, der var opstillet i en halvkreds udenfor Hornbæk Bibliotek. Spændte på, hvad Passage festivalen i år har i

ærmet af spektakulære eller tankevækkende forestillinger.

Indtagende italiensk familie Og La Famiglia Mirabella hører til i den spektakulære ende. En indtagende italiensk familie bestående af far, mor, to børn og en dvask hund - og en forestilling, som den vildt charmerende mor med en fantastisk udstråling styrede med sikker hånd. Lidt langtrukkent i starten - men så kom der fart over feltet i takt med, at publikum blev varmet op.

Op mod 400 lokale og turister lagde vejen forbi og lod sig underholde i den trykkende varme. Børn og voksne morede sig lige godt, mens der blev jongleret, lavet akrobatik og kørte på et-hjulede cykler til smækre italienske toner.

Charmerende. hyggeligt

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Hele familien medvirker i forestillingen. Her er det lillebror, der får en vridetur.

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og en anspore til at se nogle af de mange andre teaterforestillinger, som i resten af ugen fylder gadebilledet i Espergærde, Ålsgårde, Helsingørs yderområder og indre by.

Rundt i kommunen kan man opleve spektakulært og excentrisk cirkus, klassisk gadeteater, stedsspecifikke forestillinger udviklet til festivalen, dans, koreografi og eksperimenterende scenekunst side om side. Mere end 30 europæiske kompagnier og teatre præsenterer deres værker i Helsingør.

Hele verden i Helsingør Den årlige Passage Festival bringer hvert år verden til Helsingør, og forvandler både bykerne og boligområder til en legende og levende scene.

- Vi vil gerne bryde skellet mellem gadeteater og traditionelt sceneteater: Det skal ikke kun være stort og larmende, der må gerne være nogle helt andre rum, der får os til at reflektere også.

Gadeteater er ikke kun letfordøjelig underholdning.

Vi vil gerne give publikum mulighed for at opleve så meget forskelligt som muligt, og gerne noget de ikke havde forventet, siger Jens Frimann Hansen, leder af Passage Festival.

Han fortæller, at billetsalget til de forestillinger, der forudsætter billet, er gået strygende i år. Nogle fore-

Italienske La Famiglia Mirabella- åbnede festen på torvet i Hornbæk.

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stillinger er lige ved at være udsolgt.

Hele programmet for Passage Festival kan ses på www.passagefestival.nu.

Og her kan man også købe billetter til de forestillinger, hvor det er nødvendigt.

Det er 19. gang Helsingør lægger gade og rum til PASSAGE Festivalen, og årets program er spækket med danske nyproduktioner, moderne klassikere og internationale gæstespil. En masse store oplevelser venter.

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Det bedste sted er Helsingør, og jeg kunne godt tænke Op mod 400 publikummer så gadeteater i Hornbæk i går. mig at trække mig Foto: Allan Nørregaard tilbage her, når jeg en gang er færdig med mit professionelle liv.

ALBERTO COVES

Det er noget af en opgave koreograf og kunstnerisk leder af Covoi Exceptionnel, Jon R. Skulberg, blev sat overfor under produktionen af Crawl, Crawl, Crawl. Det krævede både at hoppe i bassinet for at mærke vandets tyngde på egen krop, men også at stå på bassinkanten og tage publikums sigtelinje i betragtning. Foto: Nikoline Jørgensen

Helsingør svømmehal lægger scene til forestilling med 12 korsangere Det bliver en iscenesat, visuel og lydmættet oplevelse for publikum når CRAWL, CRAWL, CRAWL vises i Helsingør Svømmehal den 28.-29. juli.

Maja Bonde Holtze

PASSAGE: Publikum kommer til at sidde på bænke langs bassinkanten. Eksisterende svømmehalstribuner erstatter teatrets bløde stolesæder, og rummet står råt i sit udtryk – det er en svømmehal, forestillingen vises i, ikke en klassisk black-box. Men derudover gør forestillingen brug af sceniske elementer – fra kostumer af hongkongske Kit Wan til koreografi af norske Jon R. Skulberg.

Forestillingen Crawl,

Crawl, Crawl er anden del af Trilogien for Læringsrum, hvor kompagniet Convoi Exceptionnel dykker ned i de narrativer og oplevelser der eksisterer i rum, vi alle har gjort os erfaringer i. Første forestillingen granskede gymnastiksalen, og blev vist på skolen ved Rønnebær Allé under PASSAGE Festival 2021, og næste og sidste forestillingen indtager klasseværelset.

Men denne gang er vi i svømmehallen.

- Svømmehallen er interessant, da det er et rum de fleste kan relatere til, fortæller

Jon R. Skulberg, kunstnerisk leder af Convoi Exceptionnel.

- Formmæssigt er svømmehallen meget tydeligt – og her har vi placeret et kor og en dirigent i vandet. Men en offentlig svømmehal rummer også meget historie. Det er en arkitektonisk materialisering af velfærdsstaten. De offentlige bade har fuldt arbejderbevægelsens udvikling og tanken om folkesundhed. Så i dette rum kan vi (i modsætningen til gymnastiksalen og klasseværelset, red.) åbne op mere op for en større diskussion, og undersøge klassefor-

skelle og velfærdsstatens paradokser.

I modsætning til Skulbergs øvrige værker, tager CRAWL, CRAWL, CRAWL nogle mere tydelige standpunkter ved at være konkret i sin tematik. Librettoen synges på dansk, så selvom det visuelle udtryk vil være abstrakt og poetisk, kan forestillingen ses, læses og lyttes til på en anden måde end fx den mere non-verbale og sanselige MOVING A MEMORY, der udgjorde første del af trilogien.

- Vi arbejder med tre lag i forestillingen. Der er librettoen – altså teksten. Så er der musikken. Og så er der billedet – det man oplever i rummet. Men jeg mener godt man kan arbejde formmæssigt visuelt og æstetisk samti-

Gadeteater for fuld udblæsning.

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13 hulahopringe på en gang : voila.

Alberto Coves er spanier og er frivillig hos Passage Festival for sjette år i træk. Han elsker Helsingør og Skandinavien og vil gerne flytte hertil som pensionist – han er dog kun 28 år nu og er marketingschef i et rejsebureau i Spanien. Foto: Charlotte de la Fuente

- Det var i Helsingør, at jeg første gang følte mig velkommen i Danmark

Kostumerne de 12 korsangere fra det århusianske kor Ensemble Edge er hoppet i, er designet af Kit Wan, som er mode- og kostumedesigner fra Hongkong. Med tekstiler skaber han distinkte silhuetter, som skaber et fiktionelt og holistisk udtryk i kontrast til svømmehallens funktion og arkitektur. Foto: Louise Herrche Serup

Spanske Alberto Coves er for sjette gang at finde i Helsingør, hvor han bruger en uge af sin sommerferie på at skabe liv og glade dage i byens gader.

Katrine Carøe Wandrup kafwa@jfmedier.dk

HELSINGØR: - Helsingør fangede lynhurtigt mit hjerte på grund af de mennesker, der er her. Jeg har følt mig meget velkommen og integreret her fra begyndelsen, siger Alberto Coves på 28 år.

I år er sjette år, Alberto Coves fra Valencia bruger en uge af sin sommerferie fra sit daglige arbejde i Spanien på at arbejde som frivillig hos Passage Festival. I begyndelsen var han frivillig hjælp med en masse praktiske opgaver. I år har han ansvaret

for Kongekajen.

- Det er virkelig sjovt at være med i Passage Festival, og jeg er blevet ved med at komme tilbage, fordi de har ringet til mig hvert år og spurgt, om jeg har haft lyst til at hjælpe endnu et år – og det har jeg altid, fordi det er enormt søde mennesker, fortæller den hurtigt-snakkende spanier på engelsk over en telefonforbindelse.

Kendte intet til Helsingør

Den 28-årige spanier har rigtig travlt i disse dage, hvor han som frivillig hjælper med at få Passage Festival til at køre på skinner for sjette år i træk.

- Det er meget de samme mennesker, der er frivillige år efter år, og det er med til at give en sammenhørighed, selvom vi ikke nødvendigvis kender hinanden specielt godt, siger Alberto Coves om arbejdet som frivillig hos Passage Festival. Foto: Charlotte de la Fuente

Men faktisk var det slet ikke oplagt, at det netop er her i Helsingør, spanieren endte med at vende tilbage til.

- Jeg kom til Danmark for første gang i 2016, da jeg var frivillig i en NGO i Snekkersten. Jeg har altid elsket Skan-

dinavien og kom helt tilfældigt til Danmark. Jeg kendte intet til Kronborg, eller byen, jeg vidste bare, at den lå lige ved siden af Sverige, som jeg godt kan lide, griner Alberto Coves og fortsætter: - Jeg elsker teater og kultur

og det er noget, Helsingør har meget af. Jeg blev faktisk meget positivt overrasket, da jeg først kom hertil. Jeg skrev til kommunen, om den kunne hjælpe mig med at komme i kontakt med forskellige personer fra kulturlivet, fordi jeg ingen kendte i begyndelsen – og kommunen sendte mig en hel liste med navne og telefonnumre på folk, jeg kunne tage fat i. Det var en enorm stor hjælp, og jeg har været involveret med alt fra Helsingør Teater til Sundtoldsmarkedet.

Promoverer Helsingør

I Spanien arbejder Alberto Coves som marketingschef for et rejsebureau. Her gør han rigtig meget ud af at promovere netop Helsingør, som ikke er så kendt i hjemlandet.

- Alle kender København, men de ved ikke, at der ligger en perle lidt nord for hoved-

staden, som er en rejse værd.

Så jeg bruger rigtig meget tid på at promovere Helsingør og opfordre alle til at tage her til byen, siger han.

Alberto Coves har i forbindelse med sit arbejde i NGO’en rejst en del i Danmark og været på både Bornholm, i Nyborg, Aarhus og Aalborg. Og selvom det er dejlige byer, er det Helsingør, der har vundet spanierens hjerte.

- Det bedste sted er Helsingør, og jeg kunne godt tænke mig at trække mig tilbage her, når jeg en gang er færdig med mit professionelle liv, som trods alt er i Spanien – det er jo mit land. Men jeg har meget varme følelser for Helsingør, for det var her, jeg første gang følte mig velkommen i Danmark. Og så hjælper det også, at det er en by, hvor der er meget kultur, afslutter Alberto Coves.

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THEATRE WEBSITES AND BLOGS. Theatre c­ ritics are by far no longer only to be found within the ­printed press.

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Nogle af de internationale forestillinger på årets Passage Festival, som Teateravisens udsendte overværede, var The Little Box; Playground; Room Service; MDR - Death From Laughter; Breast in Peace & Very Lost. Fotos: Del Val, Gilles Dejeufosse, Fabrice Mertens, Karsten Piper og T. Noyer

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Få ting skyder teatersæsonen så oplagt, velkurateret og sansepirrende i gang som en tur på Passage Festival i Helsingør. Det er en af Nordeuropas største internationale gadeteaterfestivaler, og hvad vigtigere er – en virkelig attraktiv en af slagsen. Sådan lyder dommen fra Betina Rex, der af Teateravisen var blevet bedt om at kigge nærmere på herlighederne.

Dansk Rakkerpak 'Grænsen' Læs

Af: Betina Rex Passage Festival blev fra 25.-30. juli afviklet i Helsingør og Helsingborg - for 19. gang i fuldt omfang, efter at de forrige år bl.a. satte en corona-kæp i hjulet for den svenske del. Årets festivalen præsenterede nycirkus, gadegøgl, klassisk gadeteater og eksperimenterende scenekunst side om side.

Med omkring 40 forskellige forestillinger og events på programmet fra mere end 30 forskellige kompagnier var der da også noget for de fleste - og rigtig meget for børn og unge.

Foruden et program med både bredde og dybde gjorde festivalen også en aktiv indsats for at bringe forestillinger ud i lokalområder, hvor det ikke sædvanligvis er (scene)kunst, der er mest af.

Fra mandag 25. til onsdag 27. juli blev flere af festivalens forestillinger således præsenteret på forskellige lokationer - fra socialt belastede boligområder som Nøjsomhed og Vapnagård i Helsingør til mindre nabobyer som Hornbæk, Ålsgårde og Espergærde.

Fra torsdag 28. til lørdag 30. juli rykkede hele festivalen så ind i Helsingør by - med enkelte afstikkere til udkanten af byen og Espergærde Havn.

FAKTA Passage Festival 2022 - 25.-30. juli i Helsingør og Helsingborg

SHAKES 'Hamlet' Læs

Hjemmeside: https://passagefestival.nu Omtalte forestillinger: * Very Lost - Les Etablissements Lafaille (FR) * Playground - Collectif Primavez (FR) * Room Service (7+) - Cie Ô Quel Dommage (BE) * The Little Box (3+) - Holoqué (CAT)

Art Farm 'Akrylarium' Læs

* Boxed (15+) - Simone Wierød (DK) * Antipodi (7+) - Compagnia Dromosofista (IT) * MDR - Death From Laughter (12+) - Los Galindos (ES) * Homo Økonomikus (16+) - Departementet (DK) * Breast in Peace (15+) - M.P.A.C. (SE) * Crawl Crawl Crawl (12+) - Convoi Exceptionnel (DK)

Limfjordsteatret 'Vild' Læs

Det var denne sidste del af festivalen, som undertegnede gæstede og som der her gives smagsprøver på gennem et udvalg af de forestillinger, som jeg nåede at se.

Indledningsvis kan man bemærke, at noget gennemgående i det diverse program var forestillingernes og performernes evner til og legesyge interesse i at interagere med både publikum og byrum. Og med modsat fortegn publikums lyst og mod til at gå med på legen, også når den krævede noget af dem.

Ikke fordi dette er unikt eller særligt for Passage Festival - interaktion i en eller anden form er, Riddersalen om ikke grundpræmissen i gadeteater, så i hvert fald en ganske væsentlig komponent. Men 'Stille stemmer' når en hel by (ja vel faktisk to) summede af teater og man til hver eneste forestilling Læs mærkede den forventningsfulde stemning af ’Nå, hvad mon det nu skal ske?’, så fik vi på tilskuerrækkerne, hvad enten vi stod eller sad i hvert tilfælde smittet både hinanden og performerne med energi og vovemod.

Several theatre specific websites and blogs went more in-­ depth with reviews of both the overall ­festival as a platform and of ­selected ­performances: Danish theatre critic Casper Koeller reviewed a number of ­performances at ­SCENEBLOG. DK, the Danish ­forum for street theatre and childrens ­theatre, TEATERAVISEN.DK, published ­recommendations and ­-reviews, while the festival ­collaborated with ISCENE. DK, ­national web based news media for performing arts, on featured ­interviews with companies and a ­report with ­reviews from the ­festival.

Teatermagi for de yngste i små og store bokse For Teateravisens yngre målgrupper var et område på den såkaldte Kongekaj, et par minutters gang fra festivalcentrum i Toldkammeret og Helsingør Station, særlig bemærkelsesværdigt.

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DOCUMENTATION PASSAGE Festival 2022

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PA S S AG E F E S T I VA L 2 0 2 2

PASSAGE FESTIVAL 2022 IN NUMBERS 45 PERFORMANCES 19 INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES 185 SHOWINGS 23 TICKET PERFORMANCES 392 FESTIVAL WRISTBANDS 2.776 TICKETS SOLD

TOURING PASSAGE Festival is an internationally ­oriented festival with many collaborators in both Sweden and in Denmark.

Through these collaborations, international artists are offered more performances in a regional tour.

By collaborating as festivals on presenting inter­ national compagnies, we secure a much more sustainable model for both artists and ­presenters, financially as well as regarding our collective ­environmental footprint.

In 2022, PASSAGE Festival collaborated with ­Gribskov Teater, Halmstad International Street Theatre ­Festival and Bornholms International Street Theatre Festival as well as different presenters in various cities in Denmark and Sweden:

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DOCUMENTATION PASSAGE Festival 2022

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GILLELEJE + HELSINGE

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NYKØBING SJÆLLAND

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BORNHOLM

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THANK YOU

COLLABORATIONS

PASSAGE Festival is a collaborative effort and would not have such a varied and ambitious programme if it wasn’t for the creative input and hard work of the PASSAGE Festival’s partners.

PASSAGE Festival would especially like to thank the following:

Helsingør Kommune + Statens Kunstfond + Creative Europe Programme of the European Union + Det Europæiske Solidaritetskorps + Helsingørs Boligsociale Helhedsplan + Kulturhus Syd + SSP Helsingør + Boliggården + Rolighedsparken + Helsingør Dagblad + KUTO + Kulturhuset Bølgen + Hornbæk Bibliotek + Gang i Nordvest + Helsingør Havn + Karmeliterklostret + Sct. Olai Kirke + Hornbæk Handel + Hornbæk Turistforening + ­Danhostel Helsingør + Hotel Skandia + Konventum + International People’s College + Værftets Madmarked + M/S Museet for Søfart + Børnenes Hus + Espergærde Teaterhus + Espergærde Centret + Espergærde Havn + Fiskeboden + Lugen + Espergærde Sejlklub + SO Festival + Magna Vitae + Gribskov Teater + Bornholms Internationale Gadeteaterfestival + Kulturstationen Vanløse + Roskilde Teater + Ängelholm Kommun + Örkeljunga Kommun + Höganäs Kommun + Lund Kommun + Odsherred Teater + Barnens Scen, Malmø + Malmø Sommarscen + Internationella gatuteater­ festivalen i Halmstad + Dansk Rakkerpak + Helsingør Svømmehal + CaTch + Spancirfest + Styrian Summer Art + Nature of Us + Helsingør Jobcenter, Unge + Hamlet studio + AFUK + Aspiranterne + Beboerne i Stengade 31 + all the amazing volunteers, old friends and new blood alike.

LINKS PASSAGE PHOTOS: www.flickr.com/passagefestival/albums PASSAGE VIDEOS: www.vimeo.com/helsingorteater

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jens Frimann Hansen FESTIVAL MANAGER Trine Heller Jensen ADMINISTRATION Kamma Siegumfeldt TOURING MANAGER Marie Viltoft Polli HOSTING Sally Juncker Larsen PROJECT COORDINATORS Heidi Johanne Engsig + Kirsten Del Campo PROJECT ASSISTANT Stine Ebbesen FUNDRAISING Freja Vigdis Stæhr COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Camilla Hasseriis Dietz COMMUNICATION ASSISTANT Louise Holst WEB + TEXT EDITORS Camilla Hasseriis Dietz + Louise Holst + Rasmus Seye PRODUCTION MANAGER René Frisch Rasmussen FESTIVAL OFFICE Anette Nissen VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Anja Paulick GRAPHIC DESIGN L-grafikdesign.com MANPOWER Jørgen Mikkelsen + Gaston Nielsen ASSISTANTS Evgenia Ustinova + Clara Johns Patricio + Trine Fonnesbæk Fritzbøger PHOTOGRAPHER Karsten Piper VIDEO Heidi Maxmiling

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PASSAGE FESTIVAL WEBSITES DENMARK www.passagefestival.nu SWEDEN www.passagefestival.helsingborg.se FACEBOOK + INSTAGRAM @passagefestival #passagefestival #passagefestival2022

See you again in 2023!