Beyond Darkness
Site-specific Performance

ENTANGLED #1

premiered in October 2022

at Platform Bunker, Frederiksberg

ENTANGLED #1 is a cross-aesthetic and cross-disciplinary performance exploring the hidden subterranean world of fungi and its deep interconnectedness with human life. Through choreography, olfaction and sound, the performance explores how sensory experiences can awaken memories and create connections to forms of life that largely remain beyond human perception.

Unfolding within the intimate architecture of a bunker, ENTANGLED #1 creates a highly sensorial and immersive encounter between bodies, sound, scent, and material. Inspired by fungal communication systems, life cycles, and networks of exchange, the performance shifts attention towards the invisible relationships that support and sustain life, revealing fungi as deeply entangled with our own existence.

“Most striking was the final moment: seated, the performer released her jaw and began to drool, the saliva drawing a line between her interior and the earth beneath her.”

Karin Hald, Bastard

Read further about the performance by Karin Hald

Read about the residency and research by Stina Strange Thue

Credits

Concept
Beyond Darkness
Choreography
Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen in collaboration with the performers
Performance
Cecilie Kjær, Anna Stamp (alternating)
Sound
Eliza Bozek
Scenography
Mai Katsume
Ceramic sculptures
Josefine Thornberg-Thorsøe
Dramaturgy
Nadja Mattioli
Mycologist & dialogue partner
Jens Henrik Petersen
Photography
Morten Arnfred
Producer
Beyond Darkness & Platform Bunker
Residency
HAUT, Aaben Dans