Beyond Darkness
Blackbox Performance

IMAGINARIUM

premiere in October 2026

at Aaben Dans, Roskilde

Come and enter the unknown.

IMAGINARIUM is a cross-aesthetic performance exploring dreams, subconscious landscapes, and the imaginative worlds that emerge when familiar points of reference disappear. Through choreography, sound, text, scent, and scenography, we explore a sensorial universe where different shapes emerge, take form, and dissolve; where scent can summon a memory you are not sure you have lived, sound can transport you somewhere that may or may not exist, and images can be felt rather than only seen.

The performance unfolds as a journey into darkness, where time loses its familiar shape and the boundaries between reality, memory, dream, and possibility begin to shift. Something may be falling, or rising. Something may be trapped, or protected. A voice may speak without revealing who — or what — is speaking. Nothing is quite what it seems, yet nothing is entirely unreal or impossible.

With IMAGINARIUM, Beyond Darkness explores imagination as another way of sensing: a space where uncertainty can become possibility and the unknown can open towards other ways of perceiving, feeling, and imagining the world.

“The performance is as much a sensory experience as it is a dance performance—and you certainly won’t leave it unchanged.“

Casper Koeller, Sceneblog

Read more about the performance by

Dorte Grannov Balslev

Casper Koeller in Sceneblog

Credits

Concept
Beyond Darkness
Choreography
Nadja Mattioli in collaboration with Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen & Cecilie Kjær
Dancers
Cecilie Kjær, Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir
Sound
Eliza Bozek
Scenography
Lærke Bang Barfod
Scenographic assistents
Alberte Hummelshøj Andersen, Alma Boix Vives, Mette Damsgaard Larsen
Lights
Raphael Frisenvænge Solholm
Costumes
Lærke Bang Barfod
Text
Nadja Mattioli
Voice
Eliza Bozek
Photography
Alexis Rodríguez Cancino
Trailer
Alexis Rodríguez Cancino
Producer
Nanna Hanfgarn Jensen in collaboration with Aaben Dans