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Read new interviews from the Performing Arts Strategy Lab

Read the first interviews from the Performing Arts Strategy Lab

The first edition of Scenekunstens Strategi-Lab (Performing Arts Strategy Lab) has proven to be a success. That much is clear after two interviews with participants have been published. KOMMA Performance Productions and WunschMaschine talk about getting the time and guidance they need to work on their long-term visions and current challenges, and about getting direction for the organisational part of their practice.

It is not necessarily about the qualities or abilities you have as a dancer or choreographer. Here, we are trying to find an infrastructure that can provide a more stable working life for everyone.
– Joana Öhlschläger, KOMMA Performance Productions

– That's how Joana Öhlschläger from KOMMA Productions describes working with her strategic business model in Scenekunstens Strategi-Lab (Performing Arts Strategy Lab).

You can read the entire interview with KOMMA Productions at IScene here.

You can read a longer background interview with WunschMaschine in Peripeti here.

It's about the fundamental essence of WunschMachine, which is a sustainable practice that balances career, art, culture, and family life. And we really want to develop a strategy that takes this into account.
– Helga Rosenfeldt-Olsen, WunschMaschine

The two interviews provide insight into what it is like to spend a week in UP's paid strategy development program at Thoravej 29.
At the same time, the interview in Peripeti with WunschMaschine in particular provides further perspective on UP's reasons and background for creating the Performing Arts Strategy Lab.

...once we had completed our mapping of the challenges and potential in the independent performing arts field, we agreed to accommodate the general desire to take time to pause and make more long-term plans than just the next application deadline at the Danish Arts Foundation.
– UP's communications manager, Mathias Schønberg, in Peripeti

Strategy Lab for Independent Performing Arts
The Performing Arts Strategy Lab at Thoravej 29 gives focused time and workspace to formulate strategic directions, values and wild ideas.

New mapping of the independent performing arts – read the full report
In January 2025, UP conducted a questionnaire survey among producing performing artists who work without a permanent stage – small companies and independent entrepreneurs in the independent field. The full report has now been published.