Get charged for the work of the day when the Ballet School invites you for morning dance. Choose to dance free as you like or to get instructions in Latin & Standard dance by Earle Williamson who is double American champion.
The dance takes places in the basement studio (kælderstudio).
All above 18 years are welcome
Organised by the Royal Ballet School in Holstebro, www.balletskolenholstebro.dk
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone have a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro
Exhibition with artist Dorthe Kærgaard in Holstebro Library.
The exhibition is open during the opening hours of the library: Monday – Friday: 10.00 – 18.00 and Saturday: 10.00 – 14.00.
The paintings making up ColourRide are part of a larger series, where the artist Dorthe Kærgaard experiments with people and horse figures. In Dorthe Kærgaard’s paintings, humanity plays the main role. She attempts to portray our search through life with all its dilemmas and choices. The ideas derive from experiences, poetry, literature, the course of the world and by antique myths reflecting life today. Everyone will be able to see what the paintings represent. The motives contain many possibilities for interpretation. Dorthe Kærgaard paints recognisable figures and objects, but the viewer will in many cases probably wonder what is going on in the motif. Facing a work of art that wakes one’s wonder and curiosity is important to Dorthe Kærgard. The questions are often more fruitful and meaningful than the answers.
“Dorthe Kærgaard’s paintings are a reference to the inhumane. In style and choice of colour, a manifestation of geometry and harmony, but with motifs as almost chaotic balances, surreal combinations making the paintings stand still, offering a timeless experience and reflection.
The paintings are so saturated with impressions and plans that you feel the moment intensely, as if the moment is both now and always. They become myths. “(Torben Tangsig, 2010)
Meet Billy Bang – a true Wild West cowboy. Find out how he catches calves and help him get the cow-press-milking-machine to work. Billy Bang has found a treasure map. Find the treasure and maybe you will be the winner of a prize.
A different church experience: Experience the tango dancers from Tango MidtVest while the famous Italian tango orchestra Tango Spleen plays. All inside Holstebro Church.
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone have a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone have a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro
Shady Sunday Street Market is a lively street market with performances, music, craft, design and local food. After the market Grill-Your-Own-Food-BBQ. The day ends with the Late Night Festuge Cabaret.
11.00-20.00 Opening of the Concert Hall and Shady Exhibition Room
In a massive cathedral of sound a robotic orchestra plays with kaleidoscopes and light. Concert Hall is an unforgettable and unique adventure. As you walk through the building, your own shadow follows you, twirling to the beat. The exhibition room is loaded with art installations, moving shadows and video art.
11.00 – 17.00 Shady Sunday Market and performances
We inaugurate Shady Town with a lively and festive street market in front of the Slaughterhouse. The market will be filled with stalls selling craft, design and local food. Throughout the day there will be all kinds of surprising theatrical pop-up performances, folk music, street theatre and a Cosplay Creature fashion show by the Cos Squad.
12.00 – 17.30 Workshops
Shady Sunday Market offers activities for the kids and for the whole family: the Sunday workshops invite you to a world of circus and the Chinese traditional Water Sleeve dance. For the kids there will be mini-movies, and the Shady photo studio is ready to take freaky friends and family portraits. See the full workshop descriptions below.
14.00 – 19.00 Open Stage
Shady Town calls all performers to step up and share – songs, music, dance, stand-up comedy, all your are welcome. Shady Town is hoping to see your talent unfold! The stage is supplied with a small PA-set with microphones and the possibility to plug in your computer or mp3 player. If you have particular needs or wishes, please contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com.
16.30 – 17.00 Tractor Circus
Machines meet humans and all rules are broken. With lines rigged between agricultural machinery, a floating stage is created and the way people and huge machinery collaborate is turned upside-down. Literally! Together, they capture the sharp beauty of honesty and craziness and a twisted universe unfolds.
17.00 – 20.30 Family Barbecue
End the market day with an outdoor family dinner in Shady Town. Bring or buy your own food to grill on the open barbecues. In the lounge area you can enjoy music, food from the food trucks, bar and great coffee.
21.00 – 23.00 Late Night Festuge Cabaret
At the Late Night Cabaret all Festuge people, audience and artists get together in a comfortable and lively atmosphere to talk, meet each other and have drinks. Anything might happen here; a spontaneous choir, jazz singers, acrobats flying through the air, dance to live music or simply good vibes with old and new friends. The Late Night Cabaret is open every evening, featuring different invited artists every night. Local and international Festuge artists will make more or less spontaneous appearances on the stage.
Sundays Shady workshops:
12.00 – 13.00 Juggling workshop
In the juggling workshop kids can make juggling balls and learn how to use them.
12.00 – 15.00 Monster Block T-shirt
Design and print your own monster t-shirt using block printing techniques. Bring your own (clean!) t-shirt or get a fresh one here.
13.15 – 14.15 Circus workshop
A workshop with aerial acrobatics, floor- and partner acrobatics.
17.00 – 17.30 Water Sleeve Greetings
Performance and open workshop with silk sleeves and dance from the Far East. The Dream of a Drunk Poet is a story about ‘Li Bai’, a Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
11.00 – 16.00 Exchange Market
Spring and summer cleaning! Clean out your wardrobe, make-up purse and kitchen cabinets. Sort out the kids’ toys, tidy up your garage and garden shed – find the things you do not use anymore (which are too good to throw out) and bring them to the Shady Town exchange market. This market of exchange is a cashless recycling market, where you can exchange useful things with others. Place your packed stuff on long tables and feel free to take the things that you need.
13.00 – 14.00 Workshop Lullabies of the World
Spend a smooth siesta learning and listening to traditional goodnight songs (lullabies) from four different cultures. People of all ages are welcome to join the choir of singing dreamers – with or without children. In co-operation with Thiaheswery Tiaharaja.
16.00 – 19.00 Shady Town Chill Out
After the market the Shady Town Chill Out Lounge is open. Relax with drinks and music and grab your last chance to shine on the Shady Town Open Stage before the sun sets.
18.30 – 19.00 Tractor Circus
Machines meet humans and all rules are broken. With lines rigged between agricultural machinery, a floating stage is created and the way people and huge machinery collaborate is turned upside-down. Literally! Together, they capture the sharp beauty of honesty and craziness and a twisted universe unfolds.
19.00 – 23.00 Late Night Festuge Lounge
The last Festuge night there is a chill out lounge open all evening at the Slaughterhouse, where audience and artists can sit, have a drink, chat, and exchange emails. There will be no performances tonight, but there will be relaxing music on the background! When the lounge ends, the Regatta after-party inside starts, so gather your energy to dance all night.
20.00 – 21.15 Ghost Dance, Theatre performance of Theater Brama
Ghost Dance is an action combining music and theatre. The show is an original piece by the Brama ensemble, inspired by the work of Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, folk art of dying civilizations and anti-capitalist manifestos.
Directed by: Daniel Jacewicz. With: Jenny Crissey, Kimberling Longueira, Anastasiia Miedviedieva, Lesja Szulc, Aleksandra Ślusarczyk, Patryk Bednarski, Oleh Nesterov, Wojciech Rosiński, Jakub Szambelan, Piotr Śnieguła
23.00 – 03.00 Regatta after-party
After-party by the Regatta crew
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
HFKD has taken a different twist on the theme of the week – ”The Wild West”- and composed a group exhibition with some of the most current contemporary Danish artists, all of whom use “The wild” as part of their works. The artists all have a common interest for nature and spirituality. The exhibition is composed of works of art with a general common theme about venturing into the unknown, the wild and the foreign, expressing the incomprehensible nature and the spirituality connected to it. The unknown is what is not yet discovered – what is foreign – and often associated with a particular notion or expectation. An exciting and thought-provoking exhibition by contemporary artists at a high professional level.
Opening hours: Friday 12-16, Saturday – Sunday 11-17
The exhibition is open from 10th June – 30th July
The exhibition is curated by Anna Bak, made in collaboration with Danish Talent Academy and supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Færchfonden and Holstebro Municipality.
House of Art and Design is an education and exhibition house, primarily for contemporary art. It is the meeting point between a professional, creative arts environment and young students from Danish Talent Academy. The House prioritises communication and dialogue with citizens and the environment.
HFKD has taken a different twist on the theme of the week – ”The Wild West”- and composed a group exhibition with some of the most current contemporary Danish artists, all of whom use “The wild” as part of their works. The artists all have a common interest for nature and spirituality. The exhibition is composed of works of art with a general common theme about venturing into the unknown, the wild and the foreign, expressing the incomprehensible nature and the spirituality connected to it. The unknown is what is not yet discovered – what is foreign – and often associated with a particular notion or expectation. An exciting and thought-provoking exhibition by contemporary artists at a high professional level.
Opening hours: Friday 12-16, Saturday – Sunday 11-17
The exhibition is open from 10th June – 30th July
The exhibition is curated by Anna Bak, made in collaboration with Danish Talent Academy and supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Færchfonden and Holstebro Municipality.
House of Art and Design is an education and exhibition house, primarily for contemporary art. It is the meeting point between a professional, creative arts environment and young students from Danish Talent Academy. The House prioritises communication and dialogue with citizens and the environment.
HFKD has taken a different twist on the theme of the week – ”The Wild West”- and composed a group exhibition with some of the most current contemporary Danish artists, all of whom use “The wild” as part of their works. The artists all have a common interest for nature and spirituality. The exhibition is composed of works of art with a general common theme about venturing into the unknown, the wild and the foreign, expressing the incomprehensible nature and the spirituality connected to it. The unknown is what is not yet discovered – what is foreign – and often associated with a particular notion or expectation. An exciting and thought-provoking exhibition by contemporary artists at a high professional level.
Opening hours: Friday 12-16, Saturday – Sunday 11-17
The exhibition is open from 10th June – 30th July
The exhibition is curated by Anna Bak, made in collaboration with Danish Talent Academy and supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Færchfonden and Holstebro Municipality.
House of Art and Design is an education and exhibition house, primarily for contemporary art. It is the meeting point between a professional, creative arts environment and young students from Danish Talent Academy. The House prioritises communication and dialogue with citizens and the environment.
Theatrum Machinae and village picnic in Råsted: Theatrum Machinae is theatre with machines, a front loader, sheep, flamenco dancers, a fearless men choir, high flying artistic gymnasts and the world famous Italian Teatro Tascabile with stilts and the fantastic French horse theatre group Théâtre du Centaure. Along with a line of local talents and dedicated inhabitants they show a gigantic Greek tragedy performed in an amphitheatre built of 35000 kilos of hay in one of Råsted’s most beautiful places. In the case of rain, the performance will be at Råsted Kirkevej 5, 7570 Vemb
Direction by Kai Bredholt (Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium)
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone has a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret- Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by: STS Biler, Holstebro
HFKD has taken a different twist on the theme of the week – ”The Wild West”- and composed a group exhibition with some of the most current contemporary Danish artists, all of whom use “The wild” as part of their works. The artists all have a common interest for nature and spirituality. The exhibition is composed of works of art with a general common theme about venturing into the unknown, the wild and the foreign, expressing the incomprehensible nature and the spirituality connected to it. The unknown is what is not yet discovered – what is foreign – and often associated with a particular notion or expectation. An exciting and thought-provoking exhibition by contemporary artists at a high professional level.
Opening hours: Friday 12-16, Saturday – Sunday 11-17
The exhibition is open from 10th June – 30th July
The exhibition is curated by Anna Bak, made in collaboration with Danish Talent Academy and supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Færchfonden and Holstebro Municipality.
House of Art and Design is an education and exhibition house, primarily for contemporary art. It is the meeting point between a professional, creative arts environment and young students from Danish Talent Academy. The House prioritises communication and dialogue with citizens and the environment.
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone have a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro
Closing performance with all participating local institutions and associations together with invited artists: The last glimpse of the changed landscape before life returns to its usual rhythm.
Directed by Eugenio Barba in collaboration with Teatro Potlach (Italy) and Rina Skeel (Odin Teatret).
In an old and very grand landscaped garden by the Storåen, old legends and traditions are brought back to life. Once upon a time the Elves danced in the bog, now students and teachers from the Holstebro Music School play music and the Ballet School students dance. It’s classical, it’s art, it’s man sensing the divine in nature.
See more at www.musik-i-mosen.dk
Parades of people and centaurs, animals and bicycles, children and pensioners, musicians and actors, drones and stilt characters will come galloping, dancing, rolling and tripping from different parts of the town and all meet at the Church Square to present themselves to Holstebro. All these sounds and images fill the streets with an unfamiliar and poetic wildness in preparation for the nine Festuge days.
The parades begin from Holstebro Badeland (Théâtre du Centaure with Odin Teatret), from Holstebro Station (De sorte perler with Horseplay Everyday), from the river beside Kvickly (Wild Cats & Wild Dogs), from Musikteatret (Teatro Tascabile with Wild Island).
Opening performance with hundreds of participants from Holstebro Festuge: local and international artists, institutions, associations and ensembles. Directed by Eugenio Barba in collaboration with Teatro Potlach and Rina Skeel.
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone has a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret- Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by: STS Biler, Holstebro
Come for a walk around Husby Klitplantage before the horse-show on the beach, which is part of the Holstebro Festuge. We will walk about 5 km within the plantation itself, one of the many plantations established as a resistance to movement of sand on the coast.
Remember to bring good walking shoes and clothes suitable for the weather.
Common departure from Holstebro railway station at 13.15
Length: 5 km
Tour guide: Anna Lauridsen, phone: +45 22720971
Meeting place: Husby Kirke, Græmvej 1, 6990 Ulfborg at 14.00
Ending at: Husby Kirke, Græmvej 1, 6990 Ulfborg at 16.00
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone have a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone has a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret- Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by: STS Biler, Holstebro
Iben Nagel Rasmussen, actress at Odin Teatret, talks about her father, Halfdan Rasmussen; a wild story about the skinny working class boy, who became all Danes’ Halfdan. With poetry reading, songs, photos and film fragments, Iben Nagel Rasmussen will create a collage depicting the more unknown side of Halfdan: his childhood, being one of many children, living with his family in a two-bedroom apartment in Christianshavn, the early youth with unemployment, political engagement of the 30s, a stay in a “højskole”, a travel on bicycle to Spain, at a time when the Civil War was raging, his encounter with other young aspiring poets at the Young Artists’ Club during the German occupation, and onward to the road of recognition and fame.
HALFDANSK RAPSODI is not a children’s performance, but rather a journey into the sometimes bleak background from which Halfdan’s grown-up poems grew out of, richly peppered with peculiar, fun, off centre and characteristic rhymes, which came to be his signature as a poet.
Director and performer: Iben Nagel Rasmussen, actress, Odin Teatret
HFKD has taken a different twist on the theme of the week – ”The Wild West”- and composed a group exhibition with some of the most current contemporary Danish artists, all of whom use “The wild” as part of their works. The artists all have a common interest for nature and spirituality. The exhibition is composed of works of art with a general common theme about venturing into the unknown, the wild and the foreign, expressing the incomprehensible nature and the spirituality connected to it. The unknown is what is not yet discovered – what is foreign – and often associated with a particular notion or expectation. An exciting and thought-provoking exhibition by contemporary artists at a high professional level.
The opening ceremony, which takes place on Saturday 10th June from 15:00 to 19:00, includes performances and events especially created for this occasion, refreshments and a unique opportunity to meet several of the artists.
Opening hours: Friday 12-16, Saturday – Sunday 11-17
The exhibition is open from 10th June – 30th July
The exhibition is curated by Anna Bak, made in collaboration with Danish Talent Academy and supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Færchfonden and Holstebro Municipality.
House of Art and Design is an education and exhibition house, primarily for contemporary art. It is the meeting point between a professional, creative arts environment and young students from Danish Talent Academy. The House prioritises communication and dialogue with citizens and the environment.
The Thirsty Night Big Band was started in August 2008 and consists of younger and older professional and amateur musicians from Holstebro, Struer and Herning. The Big Band repertoire of the ranges from Bob Mintzer, Ellington, Lars Jansson, Sammy Nestico, Gershwin and Oliver Nelson. The Thirsty Night Bigband is conducted by is Jens Klüver, for many years the former leader of Klüvers Big Band in Århus.
18.00-20.30 Slaughterhouse communal dinner and Wildcards performance
Enjoy an exceptional dinner at the Slaughterhouse with family, fellow citizens, neighbours and friends. Take a seat at the long tables and enjoy an evening of great food served with lively conversation and spicy performances in a warm and inviting atmosphere. The Shady Houseband and Teatr Brama from Caravan Next will join forces and create a musical ambiance during dinner. Local restaurant favorites Utopia and Kamoon will jointly prepare the vegetarian buffet, while Vestergades Slagter will cook and cut the roasted pig.
You can choose between two kinds of dinner tickets – A and B:
Ticket A: 18.00-20.30 Dinner and Wildcards Performance
Enjoy the dinner party and be sure to have a seat for the performance Wildcards, directed by Odin Teatret’s Tage Larsen with Donald Kitt in collaboration with many international artists. After the show you are welcomed back inside the Slaughterhouse to enjoy music and songs by Teatr Brama from Caravan Next.
Ticket B: 19.00-22.00 Dinner and Shady Town Performances
Relax and enjoy the whole Slaughterhouse communal dinner experience with fantastic food, drinks, music and performances. The communal dinner will slide slowly into the Late Night Festuge Cabaret.
Ticket Price is DKK 150 (both A & B).
Drinks are not included, a selection of beverages is sold at the bar (it is not allowed to bring your own beverages). Book your tickets through Billeto or the SLASH FB page. More information through shadytown2017@gmail.com
Also at Shady Town today:
16.00-20.00 Concert Hall and Shady Exhibition Room Opens
A robotic orchestra creates a massive cathedral of sound with kaleidoscopes and shadows of light. The exhibition room is loaded with art installations, balloons, moving shadows and video art.
17.40-18.00 Wild Cats & Wild Dogs
Surrounded by wild cats and dogs, the Baron will visit the Slaughterhouse. One moment the animals are in leashes – the next they are free. Experience actors from various countries in this dynamic and unpredictable street performance.
18.00 Shady Town Opens
Shady Town opens it’s gates, bars and spaces from 18.00. You are welcome as fellow citizens, friends, visitors, audiences, strangers, creatures, robots, freaks… Together we experiment with co-creation and village-building, offering a thoughtful and wild vision of the art of recycling, rebuilding delapitated things but as new creations based on crazy ideas and visions for the future. Drop in for a chat, play, dance, sing and enjoy spending time together.
19.30-20.30 Wildcards for the Voters in the Wild West
The old election booths from Holstebro is set op on the usual line to keep an extraordinary election one last time. When the election is free then there should also be freedom to unfold in other ways? A performance with surprises!
Notice: the performance is free but tickets must be reserved in advance here.
22.00-01.00 Late Night Festuge Cabaret
The Late Night Festuge Cabaret at the Slaughterhouse is where Festuge artists and audience can meet in the evening. Drink, talk and enjoy late night performances by Holstebro and Festuge artists.
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
Come by for the perfect ending to your working day when the Ballet School invites for Evening Dance. Choose to dance free as you like or to get instructions in Latin & Standard dance by Earle Williamson who is double American champion.
The dance takes places in the basement studio (kælderstudio).
All above 18 years are welcome
Organised by the Royal Ballet School in Holstebro, www.balletskolenholstebro.dk
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson. Starring: Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Charlotte Bøving and Helgi Björnsson. Lenght: 81 min. Country: Iceland : 2013 Language: Islandic with Danish subtitles.
Of Horses and Men (Icelandic: Hross í oss) is a 2013 Icelandic film drama written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson and produced by fellow director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. The film won the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize. In 2014, it won the audience award at the Tromsø International Film Festival in Norway.
In the remote Icelandic valley, there is not much to do other than observe the horses, the neighbours, and the neighbours’ horses with binoculars. Undisturbed, the stallions and mares do what nobody else in the valley dares to even talk about: love. However, there is still a feeling of love among some of the valley dwellers. Kolbeinn and Solveig’s attempts at love are the subject of much interest for the valley dwellers.
Meanwhile, Vernhardur, who has a weakness for liquor, makes a name for himself on a Russian fishing vessel with the sailor Gengis. There is often disagreement about the riding routes between Grimur and Egill; Grimur generally prefers the classic routes on horseback, whereas Egill prefers riding through rough terrain on his tractor. Jóhanna, on the other hand, has nothing to say concerning her mare Raudka. One day, she encounters an injured old man. The religious Juan Camillo (himself) is seeking God on a high spiritual level. Above all, all the people in the valley share a love of their horses, and eventually come to understand one another.
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone have a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro
17.00-21.00 Pimp Your Pizza
Pimp Your Pizza is becoming a tradition at the Slaughterhouse. Bake your own delicious pizza in the oil barrels and decorate them as much (or little) as you like! Just bring your own favourite toppings.
21.00-00.00 Local Band Night!
Jump! Tonight the local bands are blasting into the Slaughterhouse, loaded with young talent and energy. Shady Town presents rising stars of Holstebro as local bands invade the stage, playing home grown music of different genres; electronic, pop, indie, rock and pretty heavy rock.
Do you want to bring your band and perform? Contact us for further information: shadytown2017@gmail.com
Also at Shady Town tonight:
16:00-20:00 Concert Hall and Shady Exhibition Room
A robotic orchestra creates a massive cathedral of sound with kaleidoscopes and shadows of light. The exhibition room is loaded with art installations, balloons, moving shadows and video art.
17.00 Shady Town Opens
Shady Town opens it’s gates, bars and spaces from 18.00. You are welcome as fellow citizens, friends, visitors, audiences, strangers, creatures, robots, freaks… Together we experiment with co-creation and village-building, offering a thoughtful and wild vision of the art of recycling, rebuilding delapitated things but as new creations based on crazy ideas and visions for the future. Drop in for a chat, play, dance, sing and enjoy spending time together.
18.30-19.00 Tractor Circus
Machine meets man and all rules are broken. A floating stage is created as ropes are rigged between agricultural machinery, turning the collaboration between man and huge machinery literally upside-down! Together they capture the poetry – the sharp beauty of honesty and madness unfolds in a twisted universe.
19.00-19.30 Open Stage
Open Stage calls for all performers to step up and share – songs, music, dance, stand-up comedy… Shady Town is hoping to see your talent unfold! The stage is supplied with a small PA-set with microphones and the possibility to plug in your computer or mp3 player. If you have particular needs or wishes, please contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com.
19.30-20.30 Wildcards for the Voters in the Wild West
The old election booths from Holstebro is set op on the usual line to keep an extraordinary election one last time. When the election is free then there should also be freedom to unfold in other ways? A performance with surprises!
Notice: the performance is free but tickets must be reserved in advance here.
23.00-01.00 Late Night Festuge Cabaret
At the Late Night Cabaret all Festuge people, audience and artists get together in a comfortable and lively atmosphere to talk, meet each other and have drinks. Anything might happen here; a spontaneous choir, jazz singers, acrobats flying through the air, dance to live music or simply good vibes with old and new friends. The Late Night Cabaret is open every evening, featuring different invited artists every night. Local and international Festuge artists will make more or less spontaneous appearances on the stage.
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone has a unique experience and no performances are alike.
Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret- Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen
Supported by: STS Biler, Holstebro
The performance Festjyllandia is performed in the gigantic Circus Maximus built by 65.000 kilos of hay in Nr. Felding. In the performance you will find the world famous Italian theatre group Teatro Tascabile 23 musicians, a telescopic loader, folk dancers, a senior citizen theatre group, a tractor, Icelandic horses and a long line of local talents. Together they tell the story about how Vestjylland (the West of Jutland) turned into Festjylland (the “festive Jutland”) accompanied by Vestjysk Koncert Band which premieres composer Frans Winther’s new orchestral work Festjyllandia.
Director: Kai Bredholt, Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Composition: Frans Winther, composer, Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.
Theatrum Machinae is theatre with machines, garden tractors, horses, highflying gymnasts, a powerful school choir, a brilliant big orchestra and the world famous theatre group Teatro Tascabile with stilts and a telescopic loader. With many local talents and passionate inhabitants they will show what is moving in Festjylland in a gigantic performance performed in Staby’s own Theatrum Machinae in the old DLG hall behind the grocery shop.
Directed by Kai Bredholt (Odin Teatret – Nordisk teaterlaboratorium)
The performance Festjyllandia is performed in the gigantic Circus Maximus built by 65.000 kilos of hay in Nr. Felding. In the performance you will find the world famous Italian theatre group Teatro Tascabile 23 musicians, a telescopic loader, folk dancers, a senior citizen theatre group, a tractor, Icelandic horses and a long line of local talents. Together they tell the story about how Vestjylland (the West of Jutland) turned into Festjylland (the “festive Jutland”) accompanied by Vestjysk Koncert Band which premieres composer Frans Winther’s new orchestral work Festjyllandia.
Director: Kai Bredholt, Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Composition: Frans Winther, composer, Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.
20.45-22.30 Black Poetry Night
Encounter shady poetry from the later part of the 19th century at the Black Poetry Night as well as new creations merged with music, rhythm, dance, aerial acrobacy and machinery. Old decadent poems and their thematics are recreated in a dreamlike ambience and the dead poets are invited to reincarnate. A woman is hanging from the ceiling by her hair, the sounds of writing create a unique symphony of rhythm and the Shady house band presents blue soundscapes during nightfall.
And also there is:
16.00-20.00 Concert Hall and Shady Exhibition Room
A robotic orchestra creates a massive cathedral of sound with kaleidoscopes and shadows of light. The exhibition room is loaded with art installations, balloons, moving shadows and video art.
18.00 Shady Town Open
Shady Town opens it’s gates, bars and spaces from 18.00. You are welcome as fellow citizens, friends, visitors, audiences, strangers, creatures, robots, freaks… Together we experiment with co-creation and village-building, offering a thoughtful and wild vision of the art of recycling, rebuilding delapitated things but as new creations based on crazy ideas and visions for the future. Drop in for a chat, play, dance, sing and enjoy spending time together.
19.30-20.30 Wildcards for the Voters in the Wild West
The old election booths from Holstebro is set op on the usual line to keep an extraordinary election one last time. When the election is free then there should also be freedom to unfold in other ways? A performance with surprises!
Notice: the performance is free but tickets must be reserved in advance here.
23.00-01.00 Late Night Festuge Cabaret
The Late Night Festuge Cabaret at the Slaughterhouse is where Festuge artists and audience can meet in the evening. Drink, talk and enjoy late night performances by Holstebro and Festuge artists.
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
Size doesn’t matter! A short movie night with young film makers and old ones from the beginning period of film. The Animation Workshop in Viborg offers an exciting selection of their best films. Wheelchair skaters Street on Wheels hit the skate park with a performance and a workshop.
16.00-20.00 Concert Hall and Shady Exhibition Room Opens
A robotic orchestra creates a massive cathedral of sound with kaleidoscopes and shadows of light. The exhibition room is loaded with art installations, balloons, moving shadows and video art.
18.00 Shady Town Opens
Shady Town opens it’s gates, bars and spaces from 18.00. You are welcome as fellow citizens, friends, visitors, audiences, strangers, creatures, robots, freaks… Together we experiment with co-creation and village-building, offering a thoughtful and wild vision of the art of recycling, rebuilding delapitated things but as new creations based on crazy ideas and visions for the future. Drop in for a chat, play, dance, sing and enjoy spending time together.
19.00 Street on Wheels
Welcome to the show Street on Wheels, an energetic wheelchair skating performance. See some of Denmark’s few wheel chair skaters, when they show their skills on the Slaughterhouse Hall 19 ramps. It will be possible to try out the ramps yourself after the performance! Street on Wheels will bring a couple of extra wheelchairs for anyone who dare to take on the challenge.
20.00 – 22.00 Shady Short film Night
How is it possible to watch 20 films in one night? Tonight Shady Town presents a wild collection of films which are based on the theme of deconstruction and rebuilding, combining new animation films and old experimental films. Enjoy the art of film in an inspiring atmosphere and spice up the experience with popcorn à la Slaughterhouse. The program is co-created with the Viborg Animation Workshop.
22.30 – 01.00 Late Night Festuge Cabaret
The Late Night Festuge Cabaret at the Slaughterhouse is where Festuge artists and audience can meet in the evening. Drink, talk and enjoy late night performances by Holstebro and Festuge artists.
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
“The Big Bang! This is Shady Town’s grand finale, a crazy carnival that will burn until deep into the night. Colourful cabaret performances, drag queens, the Tractor Circus, the Cardboard War, the brand new Symphony Re-Think, and a party celebrating the temporary village and dancing long into the night.
18.00 Shady Town Opens
Shady Town opens it’s gates, bars and spaces from 18.00. You are welcome as fellow citizens, friends, visitors, audiences, strangers, creatures, robots, freaks… Together we experiment with co-creation and village-building, offering a thoughtful and wild vision of the art of recycling, rebuilding delapitated things but as new creations based on crazy ideas and visions for the future. Drop in for a chat, play, dance, sing and enjoy spending time together.
19.30 – 20.00 CARDBOARD WAR
Pickup your cardboard swords and join this fantastic battle! The Cardboard War is a playful, environmentally friendly and non-harming way of fighting. Join us and build your own cardboard armour and be ready to sacrifice it during battle. Prior to the Cardboard War there will be two workshops, where you can build your cardboard armour: the SUB FESTIVAL 17 on Saturday the 20th May and on Thursday the 15th of June.
20.00 – 20.30 TRACTOR CIRCUS
Machine meets man and all rules are broken. A floating stage is created as ropes are rigged between agricultural machinery, turning the collaboration between man and huge machinery literally upside-down! Together they capture the poetry – the sharp beauty of honesty and madness unfolds in a twisted universe.
20.30 – 21.30 SYMPHONY RETHINK
With a stringent and minimalist sound, though still grand and chaotic, Symphony Re-think will build the Holstebro symbol of culture, tear it down and construct a new version of ”Maren”, symbolically representing the development of a new and growing culture at the Slaughterhouse.
The two hymns of Maren will be performed by classical and rhythmical musicians – from MGK and locals, directed by Jonas K.P., visually accompanied by Victor Tambo and the de/construction team.
21.30 – 02.00 SHADY CABARET AND DANCE HALL
The Slaughterhouse proudly presents the Friday Night Slaughter Cabaret Show, Shady Town’s grand finale, a crazy carnival that will burn deep into the night. The Slaughterhouse is transformed into a colourful kaleidoscope of theatrical performances, mechanical installations, drag queens, surprising acrobatics, tap dancing, mysterious music, brand new songs and more. Come and experience the paradoxical images and poetic juxtapositions. As the evening slides from acoustic sounds into electronics, the Slaughterhouse explodes into an dance floor where you can shake and shimmy all night.
Also at Shady Town:
15.00 – 19.00 Cardboard Warriors Workshop:
Join us and build your own cardboard armour and be ready to sacrifice it during the Cardboard war afterwards. The workshop is open and everyone can join in. During the workshop, you can sign up for the big war the next day. Just show up – it is all for free! There will also be small workshops before this one – so keep your eyes open and look on the SLASH Facebook page of SLASH, Kulturdivisionen and Subhuset. Prior to this workshop you can also join the workshop at SUB FESTIVAL 17 the 20th May. Here you can also hear more about the Festuge.
16.00-20.00 Concert Hall and Shady Exhibition Room
A robotic orchestra creates a massive cathedral of sound with kaleidoscopes and shadows of light. The exhibition room is loaded with art installations, balloons, moving shadows and video art.
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
Iben Nagel Rasmussen, actress at Odin Teatret, talks about her father, Halfdan Rasmussen; a wild story about the skinny working class boy, who became all Danes’ Halfdan. With poetry reading, songs, photos and film fragments, Iben Nagel Rasmussen will create a collage depicting the more unknown side of Halfdan: his childhood, being one of many children, living with his family in a two-bedroom apartment in Christianshavn, the early youth with unemployment, political engagement of the 30s, a stay in a “højskole”, a travel on bicycle to Spain, at a time when the Civil War was raging, his encounter with other young aspiring poets at the Young Artists’ Club during the German occupation, and onward to the road of recognition and fame.
HALFDANSK RAPSODI is not a children’s performance, but rather a journey into the sometimes bleak background from which Halfdan’s grown-up poems grew out of, richly peppered with peculiar, fun, off centre and characteristic rhymes, which came to be his signature as a poet.
Director and performer: Iben Nagel Rasmussen, actress, Odin Teatret
An atmospheric evening of tango at the Kunstmuseet, where you can learn not only the tango but also experience a show, a concert and a tango salon. In order to master the Argentine tango the couple is required to learn the basic steps and figures which will then form the basis as they explore and develop their own movements and style.
Programme
kl 19.00: Holstebro Kunstmuseum is open and you can see the exhibitions.
kl 19.30: Mini tango koncert with tango show.
kl 20.00: Tango introduction/workshop in Argentine tango for beginners. You are welcome to come to dance – with or without a partner – or come to watch and listen.
kl 21.00 – 22.00: Tango-salon with tango DJ (all are welcome on the dance floor).
Come alone or bring your own dance partner – or, if you prefer, drop by to just watch and listen – and learn more about the Argentine tango and the Kulturforeningen Tango MidtVest. Food and drinks can be purchased at the café.
Free admission to the Kunstmuseet exhibitions and this particular event.
Theatrum Nauticum and Paella in Thorsminde is theatre with ships, spectacular sand pumps, proud fishing boats, cool kayaks, swimming clubs, a choir of strong sailors, sea horses and the Italian theatre group Teatro Tascabile and the French horse theatre Théâtre du Centaure. Grab your boots and come for the premiere of the world’s first Theatrum Nauticum since the Roman times. The fishing harbour in Thorsminde is the setting of this fantastic evening.
Before the performance from 18.00-18.45 you can buy paella in the decorated auction hall on the harbour.
Directed by Kai Bredholt (Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium)
Holstebro had so many elections that the old election booths have been replaced with new ones. To come in and out of the old booths the voters had to open a tight and noisy door whilst in the new booth you only have to move a curtain. The old booths have been handed over to us, the entertainment ministry. We choose – for the last time – to set them up on the usual line to hold an extraordinary election. But here the similarity ends and freedom and brotherhood take over. If the election is free then there must also be freedom to unfold in other areas?
Responsibility? Responsibility tends to lower the personal initiative and the usual sound striving. As in other sports related activities those who are outside and who has the energy should get wild-cards to get the opportunity to mark themselves according to ability.
We have so many resources. This is the wild west living deep in the soul of Holstebro. This is our roots and shoots!
Yes! There will be music and horses and many other surprises.
Directed by:Donald Kitt (Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium), Idea by Tage Larsen (Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium) with assistance from Lene Grønborg.
The performance is made in collaboration with Teatr Brama from Poland
Notice: the performance is free but tickets must be reserved in advance here.
A real boxing match between Jeppe and a secret opponent. To hear the final verdict, should we wait for the judge’s response? Or let the audience choose? at Kulturdivisionen Slagteriet
20.00 – 20.45 The Freak Parade
The Freak Parade of Shady Town starts at 20:00 at Store Torv, gathering the creatures of Holstebro from the dark alleys and leading them to the Opening Performance at the Slaughterhouse. Join the lively parade of dancing pigs, colourful costumed characters, acrobats, wild drummers and musicians.
20.45 – 22.30 Shady Town Opening Night
The Opening Performance presents all the artists of Shady Town in a spectacular explosion of action and energy on the Slaughterhouse facade. After the performance the party continues inside the Slaughterhouse with art installations by Jens & Morten, performances by Teatr Brama from Caravan Next and more.
22.30 – 01.00 Late Night Festuge Cabaret
At the Late Night Cabaret all Festuge audience and artists get together in a comfortable and lively atmosphere to talk, meet each other and have drinks. Anything might happen here; a spontaneous choir, jazz singers, acrobats flying through the air, dance to live music or simply good vibes with old and new friends. The Late Night Cabaret is open every evening, featuring different invited artists every night. Local and international Festuge artists will make more or less spontaneous appearances on the stage.
More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com
