Performance & Soup 2023
Soup as a Canva

RAISE YOUR SPOONS! PERFORMANCE & SOUP IS BACK

Another year has almost passed, winter is upon us. In Tårnby Park Studio we celebrate the balance of our summer festival with a tempting and hyggelig plan for everyone. We share the joy of experiencing the work of talented performers from all over the world. But also, sharing a moment with our beloved community while we have a nice dinner. This is the spirit of Performance & Soup.

This year we want to turn this event into a canva. On the one hand, each Monday of December the artists will share with us their colours, perspectives, lights and shades, techniques and their points of view in their work. On the other hand, in terms of soup our kitchen will bring different recipes from cultures around the world.

Since we start the evening with cinema for children and popcorn (aaand soup of course!), you are more than welcome to bring the whole family! The movies are animated shorts curated by our friends of Vester Vov Vov.

About the performances:

04.12 Ran Suh presents a performance that interweaves texts and practices about traditional rice cultivation with stories about community and the social position of women. In her work, Denise Lim refers to David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” and plays with situations of being lost and at the mercy of others. An attempt to create meaning in a grotesque world.

11.12 In “Courage“, Signe Vad addresses the role of the body in the context of the climate crisis and strategies of hope. “Many Wild Times” by Andreas Haglund plays with the animalistic in humans and the non-useful contrast between nature and culture. Queerness meets an ecological wildness that overrides categories.

18.12 “En suppe, der varmer sjælen op” invites the audience to make soup together. It reflects on migration, flight, politics and memory. “Do around the world” turns sport into music. The skipping rope becomes a drum kit and the starting point for a meditative live experience.

See program 04.12.23 | See program 11.12.23 | See program 18.12.23

PROGRAM 04.12.23

17.00 Family Soup
17.30 Kid’s Cinema
18.30 “Rice, Ritual and Spirit (solo version)” by Ran Suh
19.30 “Lost highway” by Denise Lim
20.00 Open lounge

PROGRAM 11.12.23

17.00 Family Soup
17.30 Kid’s Cinema
18.30 “Courage” by Signe Vad
19.30 “Many wild times” by Andreas Haglund
20.00 Open lounge

PROGRAM 18.12.23

17.00 Family Soup
17.30 Kid’s Cinema
18.30 “A soup for warming up the soul” by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo
19.30 “Do around the world” by Parini Secondo
20.00 Open lounge

About the Artists

Denise Lim (SG/DE) is a Singaporean dancer and choreographer, currently based in Berlin. Her practice involves methods of scoring and improvising, working towards intensities that enchant and invite experimental modes of witnessing. Denise makes performances in public spaces in Berlin as part of the Club for Performance Art Gallery and graw böckler garageN. She holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen, and is a recipient of the ImPulsTanz danceWEB scholarship in 2019. Denise is a member of queer feminist collective Altes Finanzamt since 2022.

Ran Suh is a choreographer and artist-researcher in Copenhagen and Seoul. She has created multidisciplinary performances about shamanism, traditional dance, and mythology based on autoethnography. After relocating to Denmark, she engaged in a climate activism performance group, Becoming Species. She participates in intertwined movements of decentralized activism, multispecies thinking, and remembering ancestral tradition. Her current research project focuses on traditional ecological knowledge and co-mythmaking. She studied MFA in Choreography at KNUA and MA in Religious Studies at KU.

2022 PERFORMANCE AND SOUP

A December program at Tårnby Park Studio.

EACH MONDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS

17.00 – 17.45 Children’s Cinema / Performance 1
17.45 Soup for everyone
18.30 Performance 2

For only 20DKK per adult. Kids get in for free!

Supported by the Danish Arts Council, Vester Vov Vov and the Danish Film Institute

Production Team: Fran De Pian, Delia Keller, Andreas Liebmann

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Supported by
Tårnby Kommune, Statens Kunstfond, Tårnbyhuse, BL Danmarks Almene Boliger, Børnekulturhus Ama’r, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen, Nordisk Kulturfond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Bikubenfonden, Konstnärsnämnden (SE), National Arts Council Singapore, Goethe Institute Singapore, Goethe Institut Kopenhagen og BUPL’s solidaritets- og kulturfond.