THE SOUL CATCHER is touring to Det Frie Felts Festival January 20, 2021.
THE SOUL CATCHER is a seductive and deeply disturbing performance about psychological abuse, manipulation and power.
In a powerful mix of performance, dance, spoken word and newly composed electronic music, we break the silence and raise a debate about power, empathy, boundaries and personal responsibility.
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“The performance is sharp and unsentimental. It is a mix of performance, dance, spoken words and seasoned with hard electronic music. The three actors do not compromise their expression but deliver a solid performance. The performance fully lives up to my high expectations , which over time I got to the creator of the work, Anika B. Lewis and also got a great gift at the top of the hat, as the theme was both presented as autofiction and fantastic portrayed. Bravo for courage and artistic pondus.â
– Kulturnyt.net
YOUR BODY ISN’T JUST YOU is a performance about microbes and breakdown – on the human as well as the social level. About the interaction between man and nature. Your body is not just yours.
What happens when we humans accept that we are nature and parts of an intricate tissue of viruses, bacteria and fungi? Can the microbes in our stomachs and body speak to us and if so, can we listen to them?
Welcome to a world of collapse, new horizons and new opportunities.
A collaboration and cocreation with ADAS theater in Gothenburg. Premiere October 26 – November 3, 2020 at theater Cinnober in Gothenburg.
THE SOUL CATCHER is touring to theatre MOMENTUM September 22 & 23, 2020.
THE SOUL CATCHER is a seductive and deeply disturbing performance about psychological abuse, manipulation and power.
In a powerful mix of performance, dance, spoken word and newly composed electronic music, we break the silence and raise a debate about power, empathy, boundaries and personal responsibility.
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“The performance is sharp and unsentimental. It is a mix of performance, dance, spoken words and seasoned with hard electronic music. The three actors do not compromise their expression but deliver a solid performance. The performance fully lives up to my high expectations , which over time I got to the creator of the work, Anika B. Lewis and also got a great gift at the top of the hat, as the theme was both presented as autofiction and fantastic portrayed. Bravo for courage and artistic pondus.â
– Kulturnyt.net
Unmasking the modern predator
THE SOUL CATCHER is a seductive and deeply disturbing performance about psychological abuse, manipulation and power.
In a powerful mix of performance, dance, spoken word and newly composed electronic music, we break the silence and raise a debate about power, empathy, boundaries and personal responsibility.
World premiere January 21-25, 2020 at theatre Bora Bora.
A pop-up agency for escapist travels in the center of Aarhus.
Experience ultimate happiness, sensual performance, feel-good music and endorphin-boosts that sends your happiness barometer straight to the top!
Drop in and walk out with a smile on your brain đ
Opens December 4-9, 2018, in a collaboration with Bora Bora
Kassandra Production is an artist driven platform for contemporary performing arts, in the intersection of dance, theatre, media and performance art.
Kassandra Production challenges the theatre concepts and creates work is characterised by a strong conceptual and visual outcome – mixing the trivial with the philosophical.
The work is signified by skewed and humorous angles, often with multiple fictional layers and the use of multimedia expressions – in a border defying and complex scenic expression.
Kassandra Production explores new performative spaces, places and concepts. In addition to traditional theatre venues, performances has been set up in private apartments, caravans, vans, fairs, old factories and stores, in the media and on the Internet.
Kassandra Production has toured, presented performances and worked with collaboration projects in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Latvia, Russia, Belgium, Greece and U.S.
Performances 1998 – 2020;
* Your Body Isn’t Just You (2020) * THE SOUL CATCHER (2020) * Happiness Unldt (2018) * OmniPresence (2017) * BLISS POINT (2015) * GLITCH ON THE ROCKS (2014) * SOFA DIALOGS (2014) * COVER UP (2012) * BUBBLE (2012)
* YEAR ACCOUNTANCES (2010) * LETâS GET PERSONAL (2010) * BODY BOX#1 (2009) * TWIST cabaret (2009) * EXTASY (2009) * FULL BODY TREATMENT (2008) * LIFE HACKING (2008) * XpositionREVERSE (2006)
* DANCINâ MADLY BACKWARDS (2006) * LIFE IS FABULOUS (2005)
* DISPLACEMENT (2005) * XpositionLAB (2004) * MY HEART IS YOURS (2004) * AURORA BOREALIS (2003) * DELUSION (2003) * The Experiment of choice/LIMBO.03 (2003) * Symposium X (2002) * REAL TIME OPEN DOOR (2000) * Real Time LAB (1999) * A THORN IN THE EYE (1998)
THE PRESS:
âLetâs Get Personal is a darkly funny riff on George Orwellâs 1984â – Washington Times
**** âLike Tears From a Star… Itâs howling funny and you have surrender long ago to the to dancers… This is one of those novels you hope to find in a collection, so itâs possible to get more of this kind from the same hand.â – Byenkalder.dk about Displacement
***** â⌠a tour de force of sensuality; seduced you lean forward in your chair just for short after get thrown back by laughter. You are both wondered and entertained the whole way through.â â Kultunaut about Full body Treatment
âIt’s wonderful, humoristic, provoking, where the body is both beautiful and ugly, and functions as a faceted expression in this boarder defying dance performance.â
â Terpsichore about Life Hacking
**** “Even if she after two minutes, wet through and shaking by cold, tells us that now the money doesn’t last longer…we get value for the money.” – Aarhus Stiftstidendeâ¨â¨ about Life Hacking
Life Hacking is an expressionistic and bizarre dance performance â a paso doble commenting on the values of todayâs society and on how modern man tries to organize his life.
Life Hacking is a burning contemplation on mankindâs different survival strategies in our modern western world. An insisting performance with a boundary pushing dance expression, new composed electronic music, live video and recycled set-materials.
Idea, staging and choreography: Annika B. Lewis
Dancers/performers: Lisbeth Sonne Andersen and Annika B. Lewis
Music and video: Anders Krøyer and Jens Mønsted
Set design, video design and costume: Annika B. Lewis
Light design: Morten Ladefoged
THE PRESS WROTE:
**** “Even if she after two minutes, wet through and shaking by cold, tells us that now the money doesn’t last longer…we get value for the money.” – Aarhus Stiftstidende
âTwo naked women is dancing over the stage in total high plateau shoes, only wearing design-shopping bags and a bright red hooked rug as genital hair in a triangle long up the stomach. Humour. That’s it!â – Arbejderen
âIt’s wonderful, humoristic, provoking, where the body is both beautiful and ugly, and functions as a faceted expression in this boarder defying dance performance.â – Terpsichore
âCrazy undressed shopaholics⌠One of those pushing and striking expressions in Kassandra Productionâs little-tiny but successful dance performance⌠We can hope that Kassandra Production next time have more money to a longer, experimenting and visual saturated dance performance with attitudes.â â Teater 1
Life Hacking opened in February 2008, at the international dance festival Connections at Archauz in Aarhus/Denmark.
Touring:
2011: Atalante in Gothenburg and Dock 11 in Berlin
2010: BaggĂĽrdteatret i Svendborg.
2009: Dansescenen i København og Teatret Masken i Nykøbing Sj.
2008: The festival ZENE+ at Baltoppen.
Produced by Kassandra Production in collaboration with Connections festival.
Supported by Aarhus Municipality’s Kulturudviklingspulje and Dansepuljen v/ DansevĂŚrket.
The tour March 2011 is supported by the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Performing Arts and Aarhus Municipality.
An absurd and humoristic âdeca-danceâ
Displacement is a decadent choreographic duet about identity, gender and slacker mentality – inspired by the old Nordic wrestling technique Glima, 80âs kitsch and clubbing.
About realising that you are in the wrong place at the wrong time and wanting to be another person in another place.
About different strategies for surviving, in a reality full of conflicts where escapism is maybe the only possibility?
Idea, staging and choreographer: Annika B. Lewis
Dancers: Brian Degn & Kasper Daugaard Poulsen
Choreographic material: Annika B. Lewis, Brian Degn & Kasper Daugaard Poulsen
Set design and costume: Annika B. Lewis
Light design: Morten Ladefoged
THE PRESS WROTE:
***** “âŚsuperb sofa amusement. âDisplacement’ can, dare and is a splendid composed and wildly entertaining performance.” – Aarhus Stiftstidende
**** âLike Tears From a Star… Itâs howling funny and you have surrender long ago to the to dancers… This is one of those novels you hope to find in a collection, so itâs possible to get more of this kind from the same hand.â – Byenkalder.dk
Displacement had its premiere in June 2005 in connection to the âChoreographic Platformâ at EntrĂŠScenen in Aarhus/Denmark and has thereafter been presented at:
2011: – Atalante in Gothenburg and Dock 11 in Berlin
2010:- Baggaardteatret, Svendborg
2007:â¨- Brigittines International Festival, Bruxelles/Belgien
– Open Look International Dance Festival, Sct. Petersborg/Rusland
– Odinteatret, Holstebro
2006:â¨- Dansescenen, København
– P@rt.dk, pĂĽ K2, København
– Centrifug pĂĽ Dansstationen, MalmĂś, Sverige
2005: – Kulturama, Ridehuset, Aarhus
– Skagerrak Teaterfestival i Arendal, Norge
– Muzikhuset, Bornholm
Produced by Kassandra Production in collaboration with VĂŚrkstedsscenen, DansevĂŚrket and EntrĂŠScenen.
Supported by VĂŚrkstedsscenen, Aarhus Municipality’s Dansepulje v/ DansevĂŚrket and Augustinus fonden.
The tour March 2011 was supported by the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Performing Arts and Aarhus Municipality.
LETâS GET PERSONAL is a humorous performance lecture about personal optimizing, radical positioning and collective bedazzlement.
The performance comments the mediated âperformanceâ society of today, the politiciansâ use of newspeak and the artâs role in the wake of the experience economy.
LETâS GET PERSONAL is an absurd report from the happiest country in the world, with a personal commentary ranging somewhere between blind angles and clear views â in a fusion of physical gospel and oral pas de deux.
In LETâS GET PERSONAL, Annika B. Lewis continues her long-term project of breaking the boundaries of what dance and theatre can be, at the same time examining modern man in a challenging and entertaining way.
Idea, staging & performance: Annika B. Lewis
Devised material & text: Annika B. Lewis
Music: Anders Krøyer & Jens Mønsted
Light design: Morten Ladefoged
Set design, video design & costume: Annika B. Lewis
Dramaturgical consultants: Steinunn KnĂştsdĂłttir & Thomas Heilesen
Photo: Ole Japp / TheArtCom
THE PRESS WROTE:
âLetâs Get Personal is a darkly funny riff on George Orwellâs 1984â – Washington Times
âBeyond that the audience were involved in the act, Annika B. Lewis managed to catch the audienceâ attention with a vivid personality topped with a stain of humour. The whole hall were filled with laughter and a dazzling excitement for, what her next move could be.â â Terpsichore
Statements:
“She continues biting us in the hamstrings!” – Jesper deNeergaard, EntrĂŠScenen
LETâS GET PERSONAL opened in June 2010, at the international performance festival DNA at EntrĂŠScenen in Aarhus/Denmark, and toured to Nights of Enlightenments at Copenhagen Museum/Denmark.
In 2011 toured to DCAC in Washington DC/USA and Hamner Theatre in Nelson County/USA.
Produced by Kassandra Production in collaboration with EntrĂŠScenen.
Supported by Danish Arts Council Committee for the Performing Arts and The Municipality of Aarhusâ Culture development fond and Tuborgfondet. Co-produced by Kulturhus Aarhus
TWIST kabaret is a burlesque and humorous performance tapas
A cabaret performance in the intersection of dance, performance, theatre and concert â that with a humorous and poetic twist, turns the audience through the topics body, identity and gender.
Together with a groovy and swinging orchestra, we invite the audience to a true scenic firework, by some of the most striking stage-artists of Denmark.
Idea, choreography and staging: Annika B. Lewis
Performers: Bo Madvig, Annika B. Lewis, Ditte leFevre, Lisbeth Sonne Andersen and selected guests
Set design and costume: Annika B. Lewis
Orchestra: Anders Krøyer, Jens Mønsted and Claus Raahauge, w.o.
Produced by Kassandra Production
Commissioned by World Outgames Copenhagen 2009 and Culturalhouse Aarhus
Welcome to the engine room of delusions, theatre and other deceptions!
Cover up is a cunning and witty theatre performance about smokescreens, cover stories, diversion tactics and theatrical productions.
CREDITS
Idea and direction: Annika B. Lewis
Playwright: Gritt Uldall-Jessen
Set designer and costume: Filippa Berglund
Performers: Jacob Melchior, Steffen Nielsen and Annika B. Lewis
Sound and Video: Anders Krøyer and Jens Mønsted
Light design: Morten Ladefoged
Dramaturge: Anne HĂźbertz Brekne
Assistant: Ditte Bille Winther
Conceptual consultant: Thomas Hejlesen
Strategic communication: Jacob D.A. Nicolaisen
Administration: Anne HĂźbertz Brekne
Produced by: Kassandra Production, in co-production with Bora Bora.
Supported by: The Danish Arts Council, the Municipality of Aarhus, the Danish Arts Agency, Bikubenfonden, Tuborgfondet, Danish Playwriters, Den Ingwersenske Fond, Oda og Hans Svenningsens Fond, Københavns Scenekunstudvalg.
A poetic montage in the intersection of dance, theatre and performance art
– about vanity, ambition and impermanence
Delusion is a humorous and absurd paso doble about selling ones soul. How far are we willing to go for our ambition?
A staged poetry about the modern man’s tragicomic ambition for eternal youth, external beauty – the terror of the decay of the body and the perishability of life.
About sacrifice ones innocence for reaching another place. But is it the right trace? How far are we prepared to go for our “sake”?
Delusion takes the audience on a tour de force through the dark corners and light moments of humanity.
In a montage of new, classic and modern texts from The Portray of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Macbeth and Tempest by Shakespeare, Annika B. Lewis and improvisations – spiced with popular songs, video sequences and awkward dance.
With inspiration from Plato, the Faustus story, Dracula, ladies magazines and reality TV.
Idea, director/choreographer and performer: Annika B. Lewis (SE/DK)
VJ and musician: Jens Mønsted (DK)
Music and composition: Anders Krøyer (DK) and Jens Mønsted
Set-design and costume: Annika B. Lewis
Video: Eyefix, Filmvaerkstedet and Annika B. Lewis
Light design: Bjarke B.P. Sørensen/Lumen
The press wrote after the opening in Kanonhallen in Copenhagen in April 2003:
“…it’s funny, as this hard-working woman stands there and sings the price of beauty.” â Politiken
Produced by Kassandra Production in collaboration with Junge Hunde, Kulturhus Aarhus and The Cartel.
Supported by The Municipality of Aarhus, Dansevaerket, Kulturhus Aarhus, Tuborgfondet, NordScen and Dansk-Islandsk samarbejdsfond.
BLISS POINT
â a performance about the battle for our basic instincts
BLISS POINT is a border defying and provocative performance about instant gratification, dependency and brain hijacking.
BLISS POINT is a theatrical dopamine kick commenting on today’s consumer culture â in the tension between ecstatic happiness and physical hell!
With the body as a battlefield, we invite you to a tragicomic and absurd universe that poses the question: how far are we prepared to go in the name of economic growth?
With BLISS POINT, Annika B. Lewis continues her long-standing project of breaking the boundaries of what dance and theatre can be, and in the same time putting the modern man under the microscope, in a challenging and entertaining way.
IDEA, CONCEPT & MIS-AN-SCENE: Annika B. Lewis
PERFORMANCE: Andreas Constantinou, Lisbeth Sonne Andersen & Annika B. Lewis
MUSIC & VIDEO: Jens Mønsted
LIGHT DESIGN: Morten Ladefoged
SET DESIGN: Signe Krogh & Annika B. Lewis
COSTUMES: Jeppe Worning & Annika B. Lewis
DRAMATURGIC CONSULTANT: Anne HĂźbertz Brekne
Produced by Kassandra Production in co-production with Bora Bora. Supported by Danish Arts Foundation, the Municipality of Aarhus/Kulturudviklingspuljen and Bikubenfonden
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OmniPresence is a sharp, dark and humoristic mobile performance, taking place in a surveillance van â an âomnibusâ â appearing in different public spaces.
OmniPresence is a hybrid performance, diving into the current debate about control and personal freedom in our modern surveillance culture.
Idea & mis-en-scĂŠne: Annika B. Lewis (S/DK/US)
Performance and choreography: Annika B. Lewis, Kristofer Krarup (DK)
Set design: Filippa Berglund (S/DK)
Music & video: Anders Krøyer and Jens Mønsted (DK)
Internet architect: Jonas Smedegaard (DK)
Light designer: Morten Ladefoged (DK). Dramaturge: Anne HĂźbertz Brekne (DK).
Administration and PR: Kassandra Production.
Produced by: Kassandra Production in a coproduction with Bora Bora â Dance & visual theatre (DK),
Collaborators: Performing Arts Platform (DK), CAVI (DK) IT University (DK), Theatre Republique (DK), CPH STAGE (DK), Goethe Institute in Washington DC.
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Bikubenfonden, Oda & Hans Svenningsens Fond, the City of Aarhus and the City of Copenhagen.
Happiness Unldt is a pop-up agency for escapistic travels.
In the city centre of Aarhus in collaboration with theatre Bora Bora
At the travel agency in Aarhus city center you can explore the concept of happiness. We offer sensous performance art, feel-good music and endorphin-stimulating taste bombs that make your happiness barometer go through the roof. Drop in â and come out with a smile on your brain!
Inside the agency you can immerse yourself in experiences with all your senses. Or you can go all in; book a ticket and go on one of our all exclusive guided tours â a safari into the State of Happiness. HAPPINESS UNLTD has some of Denmarkâs absolute leading happiness engineers to guide you through the journey.
Economists, politicians and coaches worldwide are concerned with how to improve their country’s happiness index. They desperately try to figure out which carrot can get the donkey to move forward. But in Denmark it is going the wrong way! Help us cultivate new, potential hunting grounds for happiness experiences. What does it take to get us out of the mud and back on top of the list? What is happiness really? How can it be measured? And what happens to our self-understanding when happiness is put into formula and becomes a commodity?
HAPPINESS UNLTD is produced by Kassandra Production in a co-production with Bora Bora, and in collaboration with Performing Arts Platform and Gastro & Vino.
Supported by: the Danish Arts Council and The City of Aarhus.
Unmasking the modern predator
THE SOUL CATCHER is a seductive and deeply disturbing performance about psychological abuse, manipulation and power.
The performance sheds light on the invisible mechanisms behind abusive relationships, with a specific focus on NPD – Narcissistic Personality Disorder. A toxic cocktail of lack of empathy, harmful self-absorption, intriguing alterations of reality, the hunt for affirmation and a predatory and exploitative behavior towards other people.
In a cynically manipulated game of love bombing, gas-lighting and pity play the victim is reduced to an emotional punching bag. A source of supply whose sole purpose is to feed an insatiable ego.
What does it take to break the patterns and free oneself from the narcissist’s grip?
THE SOUL CATCHER unmasks the predator behind the illusion of the perfect façade and questions the social currents that breed them. THE SOUL CATCHER is a wake-up call, a survival strategy and a first aid kit that provide tools to see through the power game.
In a powerful mix of performance, dance, spoken word and newly composed electronic music, we break the silence and raise a debate about power, empathy, boundaries and personal responsibility.
What are your boundaries?
CAST:
Idea, direction/choreography: Annika B. Lewis, Performers: Lisbeth Sonne Andersen, Erik Pold, Johan Svensson, Music: Sofus Forsberg, Set-design: Signe Krogh, Light-design: Morten Ladefoged, Dramaturgy: Anne Hßbertz Brekne, Costumes: Systuen Svalegangen, Runner: Jens Mønsted, Production manager: Betina Rex, Journalist: Jakob D. A. Nicolaisen, Videotrailer: Christoffer Brekne, Photo: Jens Peter Engedal
Producered by Kassandra Production, in co-production with Bora Bora – Dans & Visuelt Teater
Supported by: Statens Kunstfonds Projektstøtteudvalg for Scenekunst, Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalg for Musik, Aarhus Kommunes Kulturudviklingspulje, Knud Højgaards Fond and DMF
â â â â â “The performance is sharp and unsentimental. It is a mix of performance, dance, spoken words and seasoned with hard electronic music. The three actors do not compromise their expression but deliver a solid performance. The performance fully lives up to my high expectations , which over time I got to the creator of the work, Annika B. Lewis and also got a great gift at the top of the hat, as the theme was both presented as autofiction and fantastic portrayed. Bravo for courage and artistic pondus.â – Kulturnyt.net
â â â â â “As an audience, it’s like a ride in a roller coaster. Huge experience and mood fluctuations. From joy to discomfort. From comedy to seduction. From chaos to laughter. From safety to confusion. All in a total jumble that can change over time, down to a few minutes, or just seconds! Like the psychopath’s actions and appearances, this performance is extremely unpredictable and strikes at the same time a powerful contemporary beat to enlighten and prevent the encounter with a psychopath. Watch out!â – XQ28
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The narcissist swallows your soul
“The Soul Catcher shows with great precision how dangerous those humans are, who on the surface are extremely energetic, sensitive and intelligent, but who behind all their masks and identities harbour an emotional vampire.”
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Performance on violence: ÂťM gets angry because I’ve warmed too much sauceÂŤ
“In The Soul Catcher at Bora Bora in Aarhus, genre-mixing performance artist Annika B. Lewis tries to show us life in an abusive relationship. A story that, after all, stands out clearly in the middle of the gaudy patchwork that constitutes the stagingâ – Information
Kassandra Production offers training and workshops in dance, theatre and performance
– organized after individual needs.
We offer short or long term teaching in:
* stage movement and physical training
* ensemble training
* personal expression and performance
* personal expression in physical expession, dance and composition
* devising methods
* Vertical of the role
* works with composition, choreography and personal material
* real time composition and improvisation
* yoga
* release based dance and movement techniques in combination with elements from martial art, yoga, contact improvisation, body mind centering
Kassandra Production is continously doing artistic basic reseach and laboratory works.
Kassandra Production is currently working with several new development and laboratory projects.
KASSANDRA PRODUCTION
Valdemarsgade 1
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Ph: (+45) 21634659
E-mail
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