Beyond Darkness
Blackbox Performance

ENTANGLED #2

premiered in January 2023

at Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen

ENTANGLED #2 is a cross-aesthetic performance exploring the hidden world of fungi and the intricate networks that connect all living beings. Inspired by fungal communication, life cycles, and mycelial networks, the performance brings together choreography, sound, scent, and organic materials to create a multisensory encounter with a world that largely remains beyond human perception. It explores how we might relearn to pay attention to the unseen, unfamiliar, and often overlooked forms of life that surround and sustain us.

The performance unfolds within a landscape of one tonne of soil, inhabited by mycelial and ceramic sculptures, with the audience seated around it as the choreography emerges from within and across the piles. The view is continuously fragmented, revealing only parts of the landscape and performance at a time. This shifting perspective encourages a different kind of attention; one that searches, senses, and notices what might otherwise remain hidden. ENTANGLED #2 becomes a journey into the unexpected, where darkness, slowness, scent, movement, and sound open a space for curiosity and a deeper recognition of our multispecies interconnectedness.

“A dancer vibrates in the centre of the stage in a compelling, distinct staccato, like a single-celled form of movement operating beyond the force of mind and thought.”

Dorte Grannov Balslev, iScene

Credits

Concept
Beyond Darkness
Choreography
Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen & Nadja Mattioli in collaboration with the performers
Performance
Cecilie Schyth Kjær, Anna Stamp, Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen & Nadja Mattioli
Sound
Eliza Bozek
Scenography
Mai Katsume
Ceramic sculptures
Josefine Thornberg-Thorsøe
Mycelium sculptures
Anders Toft Pedersen
Lights
Felipe Osorio-Guzmán
Dramaturgy
Nadja Mattioli
Mycologist & dialogue partner
Jens Henrik Petersen
Photography
Andreas Holmby
Trailer
Morten Arnfred
Digital art
Eliza Bozek
Producer
Beyond Darkness & Emma Arnoldi