KSelekt

KSelekt

Independent performing arts selected by the Danish Arts Foundation

KSelekt is the audience's window to the independent performing arts in the Royal Danish Playhouse in Copenhagen. All performances are selected by the Danish Arts Foundation's Project Support Committee for Performing Arts.

UP acts as an advisor and coordinator between the independent companies, the Royal Danish Theatre and the Danish Arts Foundation.

Every season, you can apply to have your performance included in the programme and bring it to the Playhouse on the small stage. You do this via kunst.dk here.

The deadline for applications for the 2026/27 KSelekt season was June 2, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

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KSelekt – a new experimental theatre season 2025/26

The Danish Arts Foundation and The Royal Danish Theatre continue their collaboration on KSelekt in The Playhouse and in 2025/26 present a wide range of free, independent performing arts. The season offers, among other things, love, robots and mothers at war.

The Danish Arts Foundation and The Royal Danish Theatre once again present a series of experimental independent performances in The Playhouse. The upcoming season offers five selected performances with a wide range of artistic expressions from theatre and dance to puppetry and poetic performance art.

KSelekt provides an insight into the free and experimental performing arts as seen on the country's smaller stages and alternative venues. It is clear that the performing arts reflect the big issues of our time, such as war, love, waste, technology and humanity.

16-20 September 2025
Sangen om Oda og Anton – by teater Rum

The Song of Oda and Anton is a touching tale of a young and impulsive love that spans 60 years through joy and pain. The Reumert Award-winning theatre production is about finding the courage to put your life and heart in someone else's hands, about dancing your way through bubbling joy and finding your way through the deepest sorrow. Exactly the warm love story the world needs to face the horrors, fear and trepidation of our time.

Playwright: Lars Dammark
Actors: Lars Dammark and Ene Øster Bendtsen
Direction: Rasmus Ask
Dramaturg: Gitte Villadsen
Set design: Claus Helbo
Composer and sound design: Johannes Smed
Lighting design: Anders Kjems
Costume designer: Elsebeth Hede
Production, tech, build: Søren La Cour

Get tickets here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

29. oktober – 1. November 2025
Tabt Titel – by Moribund

Tabt Titel - a cycle of testimonies about waste is a performance work in which artist Sara Hamming leafs through the book Tabt Titel, while a video performance recorded in the ruins of Børsen runs in the background. The book has been lost and picked up again and again. It hides notes written in pencil on top of research in waste management as well as traces of hair and cake. We must associate with the waste to repair the constant trauma of destruction. It needs to be repaired, picked up and named again and again.

Performance: Sara Hamming
Video: Nanna Elvin Hansen

Find tickets here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

24.-29. November 2025
SIMILI – by AVA

SIMILI is a hypersensory universe where a dancer and a puppeteer explore the balance of power between humans and technology. The robotic puppet M.I.A. is led on stage by a human - or is the human controlled by the robot? The performance invites the audience into an abstract emotional landscape with both glittering and dark sides of dance, animated objects and sensory theatre.

Performers: Marcus Alexander Roydes and Astrid Kjær Jensen
Idea/Concept: AVA
Choreographer: Ida Katinka Fridan Pedersen
Authors: Gry Stokkendahl Dalgas, Anders Søgaard and Caspar Eric
Consultant: Astrid Lindhardt
Music: Oliver Kincaid
Production management, lighting and sound design: Victor Nuno Lyse
Art direction and graphics: Elena Biner
Textile design: Jens Ole Árnason
Puppet maker: Ulrike Langenbein

Find tickets here:https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

16.-21. February 2026
Mother Soldier – by Datterselskabet

Mother Soldier is a musical performance about motherhood and war. Mother Soldier stems from historical and personal experiences of becoming a mother in a world of war – but what kind of warrior is a mother? What does her battle look like and what weapons will she use? The three uniformed percussionists Irene Bianco, Marta Soggetti, and Sara Nigard Rosendal deliver military precision on drums, cymbals, and singing bowls, leading the audience through combat and waiting, doubt, grief and care.

Artistic director and composer: Sandra Boss
Musicians/performers: Sara Nigard Rosendal, Irene Bianco and Marta Soggetti
Stage director & dramaturge: Astrid Hansen Holm
Choreographer: Simone Wierød
Costume design: Stina Resting
Stage and lighting design: Rosa Birkedal
Producer: Kristine Bech Sørensen

Find tickets here: https://teaterbilletter.dk/for...

21.-25. April 2026
trembl – by Ar Utke Ács / Dance Cooperative

trembl is a dance performance that portrays the experience of time from the perspective of a chronic illness. The performance asks the question: What does time look like if we stretch it in time with a body outside the norm? The performance works with the concept of ‘crip time’, which originates from disability queer theory and describes the way disabled people are ‘out of time’ with the pace dictated by societal norms. A time that navigates through grief, pleasure, reflections and science fiction.

Dance, concept and choreography: Ar Utke Ács
Producer and accessibility work: Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
Co-production: MDT (SE)

Find tickets here: https://billetto.dk/e/trembl-b...

OVERVIEW OF PAST KSELEKT SEASONS

Are you considering applying for KSelekt? See here practical terms and conditions:

For applications to KSelekt 

You apply for KSelekt through the Danish Arts Foundation at kunst.dk

The application deadline for season 26/27 was 09 June 2024 at 2pm

Please note that the application procedure for KSelekt does not include the possibility to apply for funding.