NEWS! The Commedia School will run an acro-theater workshop every Tuesday and Thursday from 9 – 11.30 am for 7 weeks. Acro-theater at The Commedia School is about bringing the poetic body alive and getting images across on the stage by the use of the performer’s acrobatic and flexible skills and unique body language. …
NEWS! Acro-theater training January and February 2023 Read More »
Welcome to the world of masks. Crazy creatures, bizarre beings and everything in between – get ready to be intrigued, charmed and surprised when the 1st year students of The Commedia School are performing their spectacular mask show! Bring your friends, family, neighbors and cats. 1. December at 8 pm. We also play for …
Discover new possibilities to surprise the audience and surprise yourself! Commedia Workshop – ‘Movement Theatre’ (Everything moves. That’s the starting point.) “Commedia Dell’arte is dead. Long Live Commedia!” shouts Carlo Mazzone-Clementi from his grave. The great theatre teacher of the twentieth century, and co-founder of The Commedia School preferred to use “Commedia” to indicate …
Commedia “Movement-theatre” workshop 7-8. January 2023 Read More »
The focus of this workshop is to design a full or half mask that will have an instant visual impact on stage, and clearly communicating its intentions. We work with the traditional Venetian mask making technique
This workshop is postponed to Autumn 2023 This five-day workshop with Clair Le Couteur from Luna Traktors will reintroduce you to your voice, the voices of other beings, and the vocal qualities of place. We will explore the voice as a huge space of potential, working from somatic experience to sense and imagine how and …
This is an exciting and intense three-month study that will profoundly develop those wanting to work in theatre and expand the skills of those already involved in theatre.
Have-Spektakel is a backyard theatre festival in Vanløse, performed in private gardens in the local community. It’s a one-day festival with music, theatre and performance, taking place in backyards near Kastanjelunden in Vanløse. Several neighborhoods offer their gardens, windows and garages, for performances suited to both adults and children. Enjoy these performances and others: Concert …
Have-Spektakel: A Backyard Theatre Festival (Sat 4th Sept) Read More »
The play, spontaneity and masks This 3 months intense module runs from 6. September till 5. December, and are one out off 4 to complete the The Commedia School programme. The first module begins the 6. September, 2021, this year, and includes the basic developmental classes upon which all the succeeding studies are based: …
International Storytelling The Commedia School students are ready to present their storytelling performance! This style of telling stories draws on the performers creativity and physicallity, building images using movement, mime, acrobatics and voice. Are you confused? Good. Come and join an enjoyable, crazy evening of physical theatre. We are performing outside, at Den Grønne friskole, …
“Something is looose” – performance is about the corona outbreak. A cosmic, comical and physical performance about experiments going wrong, vainglory, an escaped of a virus and young love. The performance puts Corona under a magnifier and chases the virus all the way into the human corners. “Something is looose” is an epic pandemic Commedia …
“Something is loose” an epic pandemic commedia show 6. and 13. June 2020 Read More »
3 day workshop with Ole Brekke in Copenhagen 26-28. June 2020 Do you want to develop your spontaneity, creativity, and improve your physical awareness on stage? This physical theater workshop with master Ole Brekke and Ruth Lerche is a workshop introducing the physical approach to theater. The workshop aims at developing spontaneity and creativity, giving …
A video of the story telling adaptation of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol’s 1836 hilarious satire on the corruption in the Russian Empire – perfectly actual for today in every country.
Elif Temucin and Erkan Uyaniksoy, two recent graduates of The Commedia School from Istanbul preformed their well reviewed version of this story to The Commedia School Studio.
The show is supported by NORDPLUS and The Gogol Project which is a ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) network of activities in many countries.
Just released!! on corruption! “The Gogol Project”
A short film documenting the performance and event at The Commedia School studio in March, 2013.
Have a look here:
Gogol Project Denmark (Long version) from Projektland on Vimeo.
A story telling adaptation of Gogol’s 1836 hilarious satire on the corruption in the Russian Empire – perfectly actual for today in every country.
Elif Temucin and Erkan Uyaniksoy, two recent graduates of The Commedia School from Istanbul bring their well reviewed version of this story to The Commedia School Studio. Entry is free. The show is supported by Nord Plus and The Gogol Project which is a ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) network of activities in many countries. There will be a discussion after the show lead by the Danish coordinators of The Gogol Project, Benjamin Laier and Ole Brekke.
From Istanbul Dear Ole, A criticism about our play (Gogol Stories) has been published in a popular, very well-known theatre magazine (named ‘Tiyatro… Tiyatro…’) this month. It is written by Robert Schild – a very well-known critic. As a summary, he has written that ‘our play is the master-piece of the theatre season, it is …
To begin the New Year 2011, on the first of January I boarded a plane from Copenhagen to Nairobi and from there to Mombassa, Kenya to give a brief one week intensive training in theatre to a select group of AMURT Youth. I had been told that these youth had been doing some theatre, but their basic knowledge of the craft was not very extensive. My expectations and objectives were quite high – in one week to produce two to four quality presentations ready for public presentation dealing with issues facing the youth of Likoni, a slum suburb of Mombasa. These issues, I had been informed, included HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, early marriage, and inter-religious conflict.