Lets dig into the national consciousness. Lets release the skeletons from the cupboard and let them dance on what we hold sacred in search for where it actually hurts.

Performed by six dancers on selected dates in late January, National Exhibition merges performance, installation and dance. The work is performed against a backdrop of the nations art and cultural history in the form of SMK’s collection and with it KASPERSOPHIE takes an investigative view on mono-culture, national pride and national branding.

It will shed new light on gems from the Golden Age of Danish art and draws inspiration from the architectural contrasts in the historicist and modernist elements of the present-day museum building.

Concept and design / Kasper Hansen and Sophie Bellin-Hansen

Choreographer / Martin Forsberg
Dancers / Lydia Östberg Diakité, Joel Fritzon, Josefine Ibsen, Camille Marchadour, My Nilsson, Daniel Jeremiah Persson
Consultant, costume/choreography / Lea Anderson
Historic consultant / Mikkel Venborg Pedersen
Costumer/tailor / Sophie Bellin-Hansen
Tailor / Mari Halebro
Knitter / Galina Gorneva
Textile prints / Contrado
Embroidery / AL Broderi
Shoemaking / Kasper Hansen
Flag production / Lipuvabrik
Project administrator / Jens Christian Jensen, Projektcentret
The work is a co-production by HAUT, SMK / National Gallery of Denmark and Dansehallerne. It is funded by The Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgårds Fond and the Bikuben Foundation.