International network
for contemporary
performing arts

Réseau international
pour les arts du spectacle
contemporains

Rete internazionale
per le arti performative
contemporanee

コンテンポラリー
パフォーミングアーツ
国際ネットワーク

Internationales Netzwerk
für zeitgenössische
darstellende Künste

Международная сеть современного 
исполнительского 
искусства

Red internacional
para las artes escénicas
contemporáneas

Internationaal netwerk
voor hedendaagse
podiumkunsten

თანამედროვე საშემსრულებლო
ხელოვნების
საერთაშორისო ქსელი

Rede internacional
para as artes performativas
contemporâneas

الشبكة الدولية
لفنون الأداء
المعاصرة

Alþjóðlegt
tengslanet
í sviðslistum

Xarxa internacional
d'arts escèniques
contemporànies

Rhwydwaith rhyngwladol
ar gyfer celfyddydau
perfformio cyfoes

Rrjeti ndërkombëtar
për artet skenike
kontemporane

Διεθνές δίκτυο
για σύγχρονες
παραστατικές τέχνες

Međunarodna mreža 
za savremene 
scenske umjetnosti

Mezinárodní síť 
pro současné 
divadelní umění

International netværk
for kontemporær
scenekunst

Internasionale netwerk
vir kontemporêre
uitvoerende kunste

თანამედროვე საშემსრულებლო
ხელოვნების
საერთაშორისო ქსელი

Nemzetközi hálózat
a kortárs
előadóművészetért

國際當代表演藝術網絡

líonra idirnáisiúnta
na taibhealaíona
comhaimseartha

Starptautiskais tīkls
laikmetīgai
skatuves mākslai

Netwerk internazzjonali
għall-arti performattivi
kontemporanji

Międzynarodowa sieć
na rzecz współczesnych sztuk
performatywnych

Internationellt nätverk
för samtida
scenkonst

Međunarodna mreža
savremenih izvođačkih
umetnosti

Международна мрежа
за съвременни
сценични изкуства

Rrjet ndërkombëtar
për arte skenike
bashkëkohore

Міжнародная сетка
сучасных
перфарматыўных мастацтваў

Međunarodna mreža
za suvremene
izvedbene umjetnosti

国际当代表演艺术网络

Rahvusvaheline
kaasaegsete etenduskunstide
võrgustik

현대 공연 예술을 위한 국제 네트워크

Tarptautinis tinklas
šiuolaikinis
scenos menai

Интернационална мрежа
за современа
изведувачка уметност

شبکۀ بین المللی
برای هنرهای نمایشی معاصر

Rețeaua internațională
pentru artele spectacolului
contemporan

Medzinárodná sieť
pre súčasné
scénické umenie

Çağdaş
gösteri sanatları için
uluslararası iletişim ağı

Mon 12.06
10:00-12:00
20

Advisory Committee meeting

Location: Stub4, Brobjergskolen    Interested participants

Location: Stub4, Brobjergskolen    Interested participants
10:00-13:00
20

Global Connectors Morning

Location: Vogn 2, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Vogn 2, Godsbanen    Interested participants
11:00-15:30
18

Accreditation and information desk

Location: Foyer, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Foyer, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus  | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 

You are welcome to collect your badge as soon as possible. The first session will begin on Monday at 13:00

The accreditation and information desk will reopen at 16:00 in the hall of Musikhuset, where the welcome word and keynote speech will be taking place.

11:00-15:30
18

Daytime meeting space

Location: Foyer, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Foyer, Godsbanen    Interested participants

AddressGodsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

The foyer at Godsbanen will act as a creative space for you to take a break between or during sessions. You may want to grab a coffee or explore possible collaborations with international peers. It’s your space!

13:00-14:00
20

Associate Members meeting

Location: Vogn 2, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Vogn 2, Godsbanen    Interested participants
13:00-13:45
18

Who’s there?

Location: Rå Hal 2, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Rå Hal 2, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

A speed-meeting session for those who want dedicated time to make new connections. This is the most joyful and fun way to start your meeting experience.

Moderator

Bek Berger, New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Latvia

13:00-13:45
21

Artistic programme unveiled

Location: Kedlen, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Kedlen, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

Join this presentation and Q&A to learn more about the performances featured in the artistic programme at the IETM Aarhus Plenary Meeting. You will also be able to hear more about the artistic vision and the challenges behind the curation of the showcase.

Moderator

Lotte Kofod Ludvigsen, Bora Bora, Denmark

Artists

Tina Tarpgaard, Recoil Performance Group, Denmark

Hanne Trap Friis, Teater freezeProductions, Denmark

Makka Kleist, Teater FreezeProductions, Denmark

Búi Dam, Det Ferösche Compagnie, Faroe Islands

Simone Wierød, Wired Studio, Denmark

My Grønholt, MYKA, Denmark

14:00-16:00
20

Participatory and Immersive Processes in Rural Areas

Location: Remisen, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Remisen, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

This interactive session will be co-facilitated by IETM's PIC group and the AREA-network. The session will delve into the overall themes of the IETM Aarhus Plenary Meeting by focussing on two participative practises of artists working in rural areas. The group will then explore the presented material through a collaborative process, developing creative actions in response to themes that at times feel beyond our capacity. 

AREA-network supports arts in rural areas by creating exchanges of experiences, researching working methods and stimulating the advocacy on a local, regional, national and European level. AREA includes all disciplines. Members of AREA are artists, creators, organisers, policymakers and scientists. 

The Participatory and Immersive Creation group (PIC) aims to provide a space for IETM members to tackle central issues we have in creating, presenting and producing this genre of work, through open discussions, experience sharing, and creative exchanges.

Moderators

Henk Keizer, AREA-Network, Denmark

Isadora Bigazzi, Effetto Larsen, Italy

Matteo Lanfranchi, Effetto Larsen, Italy

Simón Adinia Hanukai, Kaimera Productions, France & USA

Speaker

Catherine Paskell, Dirty Protest, United Kingdom

Inge Agnete Tarpgaard, Rebecca Cano, Denmark

 

14:00-16:00
20

Artists working group — Can Artists Sustain Sustainable Art?

Location: Rå Hal 1, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Rå Hal 1, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

The Artists working group invites you to a session - Can Artists Sustain Sustainable Art?

Initiated at the Belgrade Plenary in 2022, the Artists working group is a network of IETM members who identify primarily as artists. The group addresses topics connected to the performing arts sector from an artists’ point of view. It aims to create positive dialogue with other professionals in the field, and - in this meeting - questions what kind of “sustainability” they want to pursue.

Environmental sustainability only exists in tandem with social and economic sustainability. Living on the Edge describes the precarity artists face. There is a gap between what the system asks and what the system affords artists.

Therefore - is the performing arts’ ecosystem in good health? Can we find ways of “re-greening” our working biosphere in order for it to flourish? We invite you to investigate these questions from a local, intercultural and transcontinental perspective through a creative game based on the World Cafe method.

Moderators

Dalia Kiaupaite, Freelance artist, Lithuania

Meagan O’Shea, Freelance artist, Canada/Germany

Silvia Ribero, BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective, Italy

14:30-16:00
20

Sound and Music Theatre Group

Location: Kedlen, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Kedlen, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

A regular fixture since 2010, this session gives delegates an insight into what’s happening in the world of music theatre and sonic arts around Europe.

A space for all participants who are presenting and producing sound and music theatre, to share information regarding resources, new works, venues and festivals, opportunities and more.

An open discussion forum prompted by a series of short presentations, the session will also give you an opportunity to learn more about local artists’ practices and approaches to the creation of their work.

Moderator

Josh Armstrong, Cryptic, United Kingdom

Speakers

Louise Gorm, Lydenskab, Denmark

Siri Paulsen, Sialuk Productions, Denmark

Sofia Lind Pedersen, Lydenskab, Denmark

Laila Skovmand, Between Music, Denmark

14:30-15:45
22

Artistic Walk #1: Does it resonate? by TEATER FLUKS [FULL]

Meeting point: In front of the Aarhus central station    Interested participants

Meeting point: In front of the Aarhus central station    Interested participants

Address: Banegårdspladsen 1, 8000 Aarhus  | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 

Join us on an artistic walk focussed on sound, from the centre of Aarhus to the centre of Teater Fluks’ artistic endeavour.

Teater Fluks is a Danish theatre company established in 2011 by Sara Fink Søndergaard and Rasmus Malling Lykke Skov. The company is based in the old industrial harbour area of Aarhus, where they run the laboratory space Performance Atelier Fluks (PAF).  

Teater Fluks aim to facilitate a poetic space driven by resonance and research. In order to do so, they invite the audience to actively experience their work, which is led by cross-sectoral research and collaborations with the aim to make positive change within artistic experiences and a view to create a better society.

Part of the artist walk will be with headphones. 

The walk will be 4 km long and includes stairs. Unfortunately, there are no alternative routes. 

Attendance by pre-registration only. 

This walk is full and registrations are now closed.

Maximum number of participants: 30

Guide

Rasmus Malling Lykke Skov, Teater Fluks, Denmark

16:00-17:30
18

Accreditation and information desk

Location: Foyer, Musikhuset    Interested participants

Location: Foyer, Musikhuset    Interested participants

Address: Musikhuset, Thomas Jensens Allé 2  | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 

Please note that there are two entrances to Musikhuset. If you come straight from Godsbanen, the nearest entrance is from Skovgårdsgade 2C.

You are welcome to collect your badge as soon as possible.

16:30-17:30
19

‘Living on the Edge: A Nature Divide?’ [Monday keynote]

Location: Rytmisk sal, Musikhuset     Interested participants

Location: Rytmisk sal, Musikhuset     Interested participants

01:30 - 02:30 (+1) AEDT | 23:30 - 00:30 JST/KST | 22:30 - 23:30 SGT | 16:30 - 17:30 EET | 16:30 - 17:30 CEST | 15:30 - 16:30 BST | 10:30 - 11:30 EST | 07:30 - 08:30 PST

Address: Musikhuset Thomas Jensens Allé 2 | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 

Please note that there are two entrances to Musikhuset. If you come straight from Godsbanen, the nearest entrance is from Skovgårdsgade 2C.

How have we reached this point of an environmental crisis with so little change? What is it going to take for society to step up, take action and drive an ecological revolution? 

We often hear about the polarisation of modern societies, but when it comes to climate change and vanishing landscapes, shouldn't those who want to protect the ecosystem and share liveable land unite against those who don't?

Before revolutions can take place, a cultural shift needs to happen. As societal values and class aesthetics evolve, a new social organisation can emerge which is aware of its own interests and ready to take power from those who resist.

'Nature doesn't unify — it divides'.*

Join us as we take a provocative dive into the sociology of the ecological transition in the first keynote address of the IETM Aarhus Plenary Meeting.

*Schultz, Nikolaj, and Bruno Latour. On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo. Translated by Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2022.

Speaker

Nikolaj Schultz, Writer and Researcher, Denmark

Welcome word by

Ása Richardsdóttir, IETM, Belgium

Charlotte Mors, Performing Arts Platform, Denmark

This session will be captioned and broadcasted online on HowlRound. Access the livestream on the day here

 

17:40-19:00
18

Welcome reception

Location: Aarhus Rådhus (Aarhus City Hall)    Interested participants

Location: Aarhus Rådhus (Aarhus City Hall)    Interested participants

Address: Sønder Allé 2 | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

Come and say hello to old friends and meet new ones as we gather to celebrate the start of IETM Aarhus with a drink. We will be accompanied by a few welcome words by Rabih Azad-Ahmad, Cultural Mayor of Aarhus, and by Human Plants!

We look forward to seeing you there.

19:30-20:20
21

Recoil Performance Group — Høst, a performance about the working body in agriculture and dance

Location: Store Sal, Bora Bora    Interested participants

Location: Store Sal, Bora Bora    Interested participants

Address: Valdemarsgade 1, 8000 Aarhus C | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

HØST (HARVEST) is a dance performance articulated around the meeting of two trades: farming and dancing. It is an exploration of the working body as a living archive of a specific tradition. How is a body shaped by a profession? What does it mean to cultivate a body? How does it relate to cultivating a land and its soil?

In HØST, all senses are activated. The smell of grass will hang in the air, and the stage will send music into the feet of the dancers and out to the audience as one giant speaker.

Duration: 50 min
Genre: Dance
Price: 110 DKK (15€)

Credits

Choreographer: Tina Tarpgaard
Co-creating dance artists: Hilde I. Sandvold and Jossette Reilly
Composer, sound design and production: Lars Greve
Sound production: Jakob Høyer
Light designer: Andreas Buhl
Sound design: Mikkel Larsen
Costume designer: Inbal Lieblich
Operating technician: Thorbjørn Bach Larsen
Art photographer: Fryd Frydendahl
Production Manager: Karl Sørensen
Producer (international): Carlos Calvo
Producer (national): Gry Raaby
Icon Photographer: Søren Meisner
Produced by: recoil performance group
Sound design: Resonerende Rum
Supported by: the Danish Arts Foundation, Bikubenfonden, William Demant Foundation, Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, Augustinus Foundation and the Municipality of Copenhagen


Get in touch

Production contacts: 

Carlos Calvo (International touring)
Gry Raaby (National touring)

Status: Ready for touring


How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bora Bora with an IETM discount. The discount is automatically applied through the affiliate link below.

Book your ticket

19:30-21:00
21

FIX&FOXY - We the 1%

Location: Store Sal, Musikhuset    Interested participants

Location: Store Sal, Musikhuset    Interested participants

Address: Store Sal. Thomas Jensens Allé 2 | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

Language: Danish with English subtitles

FIX&FOXY is diving into social classes and communities. The company writes:

“They live in ghettos. Predominantly spending time with those who already share their cultural values. Their children are enrolled into special schools and they don’t wish to contribute to the greater community. 

FIX&FOXY invite the rich on stage and away from our often fictionalised image of who they are and how they live. We get to know them intimately and experience what it is like to be able to pick from the top shelf and enjoy first-class life. And it feels great. 

Then, there is a knock at the door - it’s the lower class.”

Duration: 1 hour 30 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 170 DKK (23€)

Credits

Participants: Homeless, indebted people, the upper class, people on social benefits and those who attend theatre performances to gaze at the others
Performer: Maria Rich
Director: Tue Biering
Set and costume designer: Karin Gille and Marie Rosendahl Chemnitz
Light designer: Karl Sørensen
Sound designer: Janus Jensen
Dramaturge: Aljoscha Begrich


Get in touch

Production contact: Annette Max Hansen
Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring


How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Musikhuset Aarhus with an IETM discount. The discount is automatically applied through the affiliate link below.

Book your ticket

21:00-21:55
21

Between Music - AquaSonic

Location: Åbne Scene, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Location: Åbne Scene, Godsbanen    Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 

Five performers submerge themselves in glass water tanks to play custom-made instruments and sing entirely underwater. Transformed inside these darkly glittering, aquatic chambers, they produce compositions that are both eerily melodic and powerfully resonant.

AquaSonic is the culmination of years of research into the exciting possibilities of submerged musical performance, breaking barriers and challenging existing paradigms.

The result is a concert experience completely out of the ordinary; a deep dive into a magical new universe of images and sounds.

After the performance, Between Music will host a 30 mins artist talk.

Duration: 55 min + 30 min artist talk (optional)
Genre: Underwater concert performance
Price: 150 DKK (20€)

Credits

Company: Between Music
Artistic director, composer, vocals, hydraulophone: Laila Skovmand
Innovative director, violin, crystallophone: Robert Karlsson
Vocals, rotacorda: Nanna Bech
Percussion: Moran Le Bars
Drums: Ludvig Bøjle Kastberg
Sound designer and sound engineer: Roman Komar
Light engineer: Andrew Tristram
Technical director and stage manager: John Nyby
First sound design: Anders Boll
Light design: Adalsteinn Stefansson & Rune Halken Tønnes

Originally co-produced by: FuturePerfect Productions and Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture

Supported by: Danish Arts Foundation / Statens Kunstfond, Aarhus Kommune, Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture and DJBFA


Get in touch

Production contact: Robert Karlsson

Status: Ready for touring


How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bora Bora with an IETM discount. The discount is automatically applied through the affiliate link below.

Book your ticket

22:00-00:00
18

Late Night meeting point

Location: Restaurant and courtyard, Godsbanen     Interested participants

Location: Restaurant and courtyard, Godsbanen     Interested participants

Address: Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, Indgang 3A, Aarhus | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

An informal moment to come back together, network, relax with colleagues and friends and meet new faces.

22:06-00:00
21

Linh Le - So the city is as citizen, so the city is as species

Location: Rådhuspladsen (Town hall square)    Interested participants

Location: Rådhuspladsen (Town hall square)    Interested participants

Address: Rådhuspladsen, 8000 Aarhus C | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

“So the city is as citizen, so the city is as species” is a one-day durational performative ritual which takes place from sunset to sunset, paying tribute to the diversity of life.

Rebelling against the dominance of the human species, performance artist and climate activist Linh Le creates a nature zone in the middle of the city, transporting a 10-ton pile of soil by bike with the help of the community. In the soil, Linh Le connects with and brings to life the very rare plant species pentanema squarrosum, investigating habitability, interspecies meetings and communities.

Pentanema squarrosum is Aarhus’ responsible species. At least 20% of the species’ total population lives in Denmark and therefore Denmark and Aarhus as the ambassador of the species has a special national responsibility to protect the species as it is globally considered rare.

IETM participants and citizens of Aarhus are invited to help this project succeed by transporting the soil from Godsbanen to the city centre by bikes - and by joining one of the performance rituals conducted over the course of the day. 

See full schedule below. 

Duration: 24 hours, 1 min 
Genre: Site-specific and durational performance
Price:  Free

Credits

Performance Artist and Climate activist: Linh Le


Get in touch

Production contact: Linh Le

Status: Ready for touring


All running times:

Overview of the durational performance from sunset to sunset:

  • Monday 12 June, 22:06 - 00:00: Biking ritual
  • Tuesday 13 June, 00:00 - 12:00: Biking ritual
    IETM participants are encouraged to join between 07:00-09:00.
  • Tuesday 13 June at 12:00 - 16:00: Performance Ritual by Linh Le
  • Tuesday 13 June at 16:00 - 16:15: Speech by Linh Le
  • Tuesday 13 June at 16:00 - 19:00: The soil rests
  • Tuesday 13 June at 19:00 - 22:07: Common Ritual
Tue 13.06
00:01-22:07
21

(Continued) Linh Le - So the city is as citizen, so the city is as species

Location: Rådhuspladsen (Town hall square)    Interested participants

Location: Rådhuspladsen (Town hall square)    Interested participants

Address: Rådhuspladsen, 8000 Aarhus C | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

“So the city is as citizen, so the city is as species” is a one-day durational performative ritual which takes place from sunset to sunset, paying tribute to the diversity of life.

Rebelling against the dominance of the human species, performance artist and climate activist Linh Le creates a nature zone in the middle of the city, transporting a 10-ton pile of soil by bike with the help of the community. In the soil, Linh Le connects with and brings to life the very rare plant species pentanema squarrosum, investigating habitability, interspecies meetings and communities.

Pentanema squarrosum is Aarhus’ responsible species. At least 20% of the species’ total population lives in Denmark and therefore Denmark and Aarhus as the ambassador of the species has a special national responsibility to protect the species as it is globally considered rare.

IETM participants and citizens of Aarhus are invited to help this project succeed by transporting the soil from Godsbanen to the city centre by bikes - and by joining one of the performance rituals conducted over the course of the day. 

See full schedule below. 

Duration: 24 hours, 1 min 
Genre: Site-specific and durational performance
Price:  Free

Credits

Performance Artist and Climate activist: Linh Le


Get in touch

Production contact: Linh Le

Status: Ready for touring


All running times:

Overview of the durational performance from sunset to sunset:

  • Monday 12 June, 22:06 - 00:00: Biking ritual
  • Tuesday 13 June, 00:00 - 12:00: Biking ritual
    IETM participants are encouraged to join between 07:00-09:00.
  • Tuesday 13 June at 12:00 - 16:00: Performance Ritual by Linh Le
  • Tuesday 13 June at 16:00 - 16:15: Speech by Linh Le
  • Tuesday 13 June at 16:00 - 19:00: The soil rests
  • Tuesday 13 June at 19:00 - 22:07: Common Ritual