Etudes is the eleventh reconstruction of works from the Danish Culture Canon for the Performing Arts by Zarathustra's Uncle.
Etudes is created by Harald Lander in 1948 with music by Knudaage Riisager based on Carl Czerny's Etudes.

A show about reaity - is reality a show?

Hoping for a new human being
The wish has always existed – the hope for a new human being. We have always been captivated by the dream of removing all of the mediocrity, idiocy, meaninglessness, the foibles and flaws from the otherwise pristine spiral of DNA. From Plato to transhumanism. But how will the new human being look? Will it be taller, stronger, and more beautiful than us? Will it be free from all our hopes and dreams of self realization, our self-satisfaction and hate?

MASTERCOPY examines what happens when you set up a copy production on all levels in a piece. The show is a stage installation where the audience enters a sort of performance Copy Shop.

Hang the DJ is a new rave post queer folk acid house meta club performance by Erik Pold.
A piece in a club about clubbing. 'Hang the DJ' is a performance created as a DJ-set in a nightclub. The plot takes place on the dance floor, behind the DJ desk and in the bar, where the audience is gathered to listen and participate in a 'Live Art' Experiment, that looks just like a Saturday night in a club.

New Value is the follow up to the succesful 'Børsen Roadshow' and is a staged opening ceremony for the new franchise of NV® shops around Denmark. NV® is a new set of values, a new religious movement.
The piece is an ironic comment on the Danish Governments declared “war on values”, and at the same time comments on the rebirth of religion in contemporary society.

It starts in the foyer when the audience is staged in a disaster situation: the theatre is blown up, and Swedish TV is on its way up the stairs. The performance continuous to explore the nature of 'endings' in Theatre and in life, using different medias, in an effective manner and includes the ending scene of Hamlet, and inspiration from disaster movies.

Thomas Eisenhardt, Ann Crosset, Erik Pold, Thomas Sandberg and Helle Lyshøj are experts in new perspectives. With their surprising stand-up dance they give a immediately contribution to the Danish creative industries economy, and turn upside down on any 'the who-do-you-think-you-are' mentality in what is possible or not.
'Børsen Roadshow' is innovative knowledge sharing with an audience in a satirical stageshow. About a present where everything is a part of the market economy, about the challenges and costs related to it.

concept: Nicole Beutler and Helle Lyshøj
video: Helle Lyshøj
choreography: Nicole Beutler
performers: music: Kill - Hiasmina
remix by: DJ Alex Smart

Mannheim becomes the scene of a large-scale field test of the 'Mozart Effect'. During the 2nd Mannheimer Mozart Week in Nationaltheater Mannheim a group of artists exposes Mannheim to the music of Mozart. The artists want to find out whether the music of Mozart increases 'the productivity and quality of life in the city'.
Earlier studies had shown results that to the music of Mozart children learn faster, cows give more milk and plants flourish. In Mannheim the tunes of Mozart ring out in the supermarket, in the swimming facility, enterprises and business.
The attempt can be observed during the Mozart Week in the entrance hall of Nationaltheater Mannheim as avideo installation.

VodkaKafé is an real-time slow-motion experiment. On one wall is a life-size projection of people in a café acting in extreme slowmotion. While slowing down their acts they expose their undirected attempts between thought and movement. It becomes a visualisation of a thought before it is formulated.
The installation space is a continuation of the projected space, so the viewer stands in an eviroment where the time almost stopped.

At a bar is an experiment with the perception of time. A group of people where invited to participate in this experiment. They ask to move as slowing as possible throughout the whole hour the experiment lasted. By slowing down all your movements your awareness of time and space changes.

As the warm weather sets in moisty Amsterdam, so does the mosquitoes for another irritating season. And every summer as they begin their blood-thirsty assault and nerve-racking buzzing in the bedroom the hunt continues by any means necessary.

Installation with 16 mm animation, 8 mm film, photographs, lightboxes and audiotape.