August DanceFestival 2009:

KASPER DAUGAARD POULSEN / CLUB FISK /DENMARK/ "Forestillinger"

"Forestillinger" is a short performance consisting of two dancers, two costume changes, two masks, an easel and an elaborate explanation of the performance and its underlying structure.
The Danish title "Forestillinger" is apt, as it can mean performance, or impression, as well as imagination.

Club Fisk's work is characterised by a liberating sense of humour together with a good dose of classic Scandinavian minimalism.

Kasper Daugaard Poulsen (1977) graduated from the Modern Theatre Dance department at Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2002. Since then he has worked as a dancer and performer with Mind The Gap Tanztheater (D), Granhøj Dans (DK), Kassandra Production (DK/S) and W(E)GO (DK/NL) among others. He also works as a choreographer both freelance and for his own company Club Fisk, which he founded in 2003. Since then the company has presented Kaspers work in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, England, Scotland, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, The United States and Brazil. He received "Helle og Arenth Jacobsens scholarship for young artists" in 2003.

Mari Matre Larsen (1979) graduated from the Modern Theatre Dance department at Amsterdam School of the Arts in 2002. Since then she has been working as a freelance performer in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Belgium with i.e. Hooman Sharifi, Kasper Daugaard Poulsen, Sarah Manya and Arthur Rosenfeld.

Anette Asp Christensen (1974) works as a performer, choreographer and video- and installation artist. She is trained in new dance and physical theatre and has studied partly in Denmark, Amsterdam and New York. Since 1999 she has worked with i.e. Joao Fiadeiro/Companhia RE.AL, Stuart Lynch, Thomas Hejlesen and Kasper Daugaard Poulsen. Anette is artistic leader of the dance and theatre company Out of Joint produktion.

Initiation, concept, direction: Kasper Daugaard Poulsen
Concept: Mari Matre Larsen, Anette Asp Christensen

Performance: Mari Matre Larsen

Concept, dramaturgy: Christine Fentz
Lighting design: Thomas Bendiksen, Kasper Daugaard Poulsen

Photos: Thomas Petri

Funded by: The Danish Arts Council, The Municipality of Århus and Dansepuljen v/ Danseværket
Produced by: Club Fisk
Commissioned and co-produced by: Dansescenen in Copenhagen in 2006
Performances in Tallinn are supported by: Danish Arts Council, Municipality of Århus

www.clubfisk.dk / www.danishperformingarts.info/index.php?id=1441

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