The programme for season 2025/26 is now ready – see the upcoming performances in KSelekt
The Danish Arts Foundation and The Royal Danish Theatre continue their collaboration on KSelekt at Skuespilhuset's Lille Scene and present a wide range of independent performing arts in 2025/26. The season features, 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 at Skuespilhuset's small stage. The upcoming season offers five selected works 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 independent performing arts reflect the big issues of our time, such as war, love, waste, technology and humanity.
independent performing arts selected by the Danish Arts Foundation
KSelekt is the audience's window to the independent performing arts in Skuespilhuset 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.
16.-20. September 2025
Sangen om Oda og Anton – by Teater Rum
Photo: Sophia Juliane Lydolph Haarbod
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
Photo: Franco Adams
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
Photo: Anders Nydam
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
Photo: Julia Severinsen
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...