English below.
"Dancing Breath; Dancing Cry" er en dansende stemmeforestilling, hvor dansen og kroppen møder og fortolker lyden af åndedræt og lyden af gråd.
Katrine Faber undersøger kroppens evne til at forbinde sig med verden og andre kroppe gennem spejlneuroner, energi, følelser, kontakt, stemme og lyd.
Faber skaber lydfladen på stedet og i øjeblikket med sin stemme, sit åndedræt og de tilstedeværendes åndedræt ved hjælp af en loop station.
Hun udforsker vores kroppes stemmer og lyde som en del af det fælles levende landskab vi bebor og deler.
Faber har udforsket åndedræt, gråd og klagesang i mange år som en del af sin interesse for den instinktive musik i vores kroppe
og som en del af en undersøgelse af muligheden for at skabe fælles resonansrum for sorg, trøst og heling.
Værket er en del af hendes fortsatte kunstneriske research og undersøgelse i projektet Singing Our Place,
som Teater Viva initierede i 2015 og som undersøger resonans, sang og stemmer i og mellem mennesker
og vores levende omgivelser og vores fælles fremtid.
Performance, dans, komposition og iscenesættelse: Katrine Faber
Booking: Kontakt Katrine Faber på 50547024 eller
"Dancing Breath; Dancing Cry" is a dancing voice performance where dance and the body meet and interpret the sound of breathing and the sound of crying.
Katrine Faber investigates the body's ability to connect with the world and other bodies through mirror neurons, energy, emotions, contact, voice and sound.
Faber creates the soundscape on the spot and in the moment with her voice, her breath and the breath of those present using a loop station.
She explores the voices and sounds of our bodies as part of the common living landscape we inhabit and share.
Faber has explored breathing, crying and lamentation for many years as part of her interest in the instinctive music in our bodies
and as part of an investigation into the possibility of creating common resonant spaces for grief, comfort and healing.
This work is part of her ongoing artistic research and investigation in the project Singing Our Place,
which Teater Viva initiated in 2015 and which investigates resonance, singing and voices in and between people
and our living surroundings and our common future.
Booking: Contact Katrine Faber at 50547024 or
House for Homeless Grief - an International Multidisciplinary Installation of
Voices, Music, Performative Rituals, Plants and Collective Memory.
House for Homeless Grief is an international multidisciplinary installation
developed by Teater Viva and Willow House/Rooted Festival with collaborating artists.
The project addresses the “homeless grief” of our time, giving voice to the unheard
and creating a shared space for recognition and healing.
Through performance, text, music, sound, video, ritual
and dialogue with plants and the more-than-human,
the work explores intergenerational grief
and its impact on individuals and communities.
The project develops from April to June 2026 with an artistic residency
at the music performance venue RADAR
and will premiere at ROOTED Festival in Aarhus
on 13 & 14 June 2026 hosted by RADAR.
Idea and Context
The installation creates a house - both symbolic and physical –
that gives shelter to the “homeless grief” of our time.
It acknowledges experiences that often remain unspoken in contemporary society:
intergenerational trauma, personal and collective losses and the impact and influences
these issues can have on our actions and imaginations.
By combining song compositions, physical theater, poetic texts,
soundscapes, crying choir, performative rituals,
and encounters with plants and the more-than-human, the project creates an immersive environment
that recognizes grief and potentially transforms it into collective strength and healing.
The installation is nomadic by nature and will be adapted to different contexts,
but its premiere in Aarhus will mark its first version.
Vision
In times of overlapping crises – climate emergency, wars, social fragmentation –
the project responds to the urgent need for cultural spaces
where difficult emotions can be expressed and transformed.
While grief is often silenced in public life, this work makes it visible and shared,
offering a form of cultural resilience.
The potential of the project lies in weaving together grief work, music
and ecological performance art in a multidisciplinary installation.
Research in eco-psychology and plant studies shows that contact
with plants and the more-than-human world
supports emotional regulation, resilience and healing.
By grounding grief in embodied artistic practices and encounters with plants,
the project expands, what art can offer in times of crisis -
not only representation, but potential for transformation.
In this sense, House and Healing for the Homeless Grief contributes a timely artistic form –
one that allows audiences in many ages to face difficult emotions
arising from intergenerational trauma and ecological collapse,
while also experiencing collective care and renewal.
Artistic team
The project gathers a diverse group of internationally recognized artists.
Confirmed collaborators include musician, composer, poet Anette Hagnell, N
(working with grief and lament), UK storyteller Xanthe Gresham
(exploring myths, lament and plant narratives),
musician Ida Lod, SE (working with voice and grief), musician Agnieszka Bulacik, PL
(working with voice, lamenting, and storytelling), scenographer Malene Pedersen, DK
(working with installations of organic materials),
light and video artist Carina Backman SE (light designer specialized in inter active installations)
and four female performers from Sydhavnens Gadeteater,
which consists of socially vulnerable people, who bring powerful experience
in working with trauma, healing, and community-based text and song.
We will also have Jonatan Spejlborg Juelsbo, PhD student, Aarhus University, DK
following the work and helping us
together with his supervisor; grief researcher Dorthe Refslund Christensen.
Juelsbo is an artist, researcher and educator working with practice-based means and methods
for collaborative knowledge formation and articulation.
His current studies explore contemporary experiences of loss in relation to climate change,
and the collective practices of grief and memorialization that emerge and arise in relation to such loss.
The project is initiated and led by Katrine Faber and Liene Jurgelāne.
Katrine Faber is a theatre artist, singer, performer, composer, and director with many years of experience
in creating cross-aesthetic works at the intersection of music, voice art, ritual, installation and theatre.
Her work with Teater Viva has often centered on giving voice to the unheard, exploring themes of grief,
nature and transformation through a combination of song, physical theatre, and participatory formats.
She brings a deep artistic commitment to exploring how art can be a space
for healing, connection, and community building.
Since 2015 Katrine has created performances, concerts, installations
and community projects internationally
within the frame of the project Singing Our Place;
a cross art project exploring resonance between humans
and the more than human and our common future.
Liene Jurgelāne is an artist, curator, and the artistic director of ROOTED Festival.
Her practice is rooted in sound, ritual, and participatory performance,
often exploring temporalities of plants and multispecies relationships.
Her previous projects show a consistent interest in creating participatory spaces
where ecological awareness can meet emotional depth.
Alongside her extensive experience as a cultural producer and festival organizer,
she brings an artistic voice that integrates ecological awareness,
ritual practice rooted in Baltic traditions, and embodied listening.
English below.
Hvor begynder Verden?
– en musikalsk fortællermontage om kriser, slutninger og nye begyndelser.
Katrine Faber nyfortolker stærkt og aktuelt det urgamle nordiske digtværk Vølvens Spådom
og lader det gå i møde med skabelsesberetninger fra hele verden og egne livserfaringer om nye begyndelser.
Ind i den musikalske og dramatiske fortælling danser skovens Baba Yagaer, knoglehytter,
rejser ned til Underverdenen, tvivlsomme forældre, vagabonder, magiske heste,
syngende forvandlinger, kosmiske æg, Jordgudinder, naturkræfter og overraskelser i villakvartererne.
Den gamle fortællerske fra Urtiden ser ind i alle tider og spinder et væv af liv, død og nyt liv
i en overraskende åbenbaring af sorg, humor og glæde ved livets evne til at genopstå.
Universelle mytiske billeder blander sig med selvbiografiske erindringer, grædefærdighed,
opråb og fremtidssyner, særegne sange og bønner for morgendagen.
Varighed: 70 min.
Målgruppe: Voksne.
Forestillingen havde premiere som hovednavn på årets store fortællerfestival
på Nr. Vosborg i oktober 2025.
Turnerer nu i hele landet og også internationalt.
Forestillingen kan spilles på dansk, skandinavisk, engelsk, spansk og italiensk.
Historiefortæller, dramatiker, komponist og iscenesætter: Katrine Faber
Pris: 10.000 kr ex moms + transport og eventuel overnatning.
Pressen skrev:” Et af festivalens højdepunkter var urpremieren på Katrine Fabers ” Hvor Begynder Verden?”,
en fortællemontage eller mosaik, en dynamisk scenisk performance
med træk på den store hovedstol af skabelsesberetninger
og med udgangspunkt i vølven og myterne fra Vølvens Spådom.
Fra det absolutte nulpunkt, nemlig konstateringen af at i begyndelsen var der faktisk ingen begyndelse,
blev tilhørerne ført gennem myternes og historiens store centrifuge
i en dramatisk kraftpræstation af Katrine Faber,
der var en mellemting mellem fortælle – og teaterkunst, og på et meget højt niveau.”
Herning Folkeblad.
Where does the World begin?
– a musical storyteller montage about crises, endings and new beginnings.
Katrine Faber strongly speaks directly into our time
reinterpreting the age-old Nordic poem, Völuspá - Vølvens Spådom
and lets it meet creation stories from all over the world and her own life experiences of new beginnings.
Into the musical and dramatic narrative dance the Baba Yagas of the forest, bone cabins,
journeys down to the Underworld, questionable parents, vagabonds, magical horses,
singing transformations, cosmic eggs, Earth Goddesses, forces of nature and surprises in the suburbs.
The old storyteller and prophetess from the Primeval period looks into all times and spins a web of life, death
and new life in a surprising revelation of sorrow, humor and joy at life's ability to be resurrected.
Universal mythic images mingle with autobiographical reminiscences, laments, outcries
and visions of the future, peculiar songs and prayers for tomorrow.
Duration: 70 min.
Target group: Adults.
The performance had its premiere as the headline act at the year's big storytelling festival
at Nr. Vosborg in Denmark October 2025.
Touring throughout the country and also internationally.
The performance can be performed in Danish, Scandinavian, English, Spanish and Italian.
Price: DKK 10,000 ex VAT + transport and possible accommodation.
The press wrote: "One of the highlights of the festival was the world premiere of Katrine Faber's
"Where does the World begin?” a really surprising and original storyteller montage or mosaic,
a dynamic stage performance with features on the great main source of creation stories
and based on the the myths from Völuspá,"The Prophecy of the Seeress".
From the absolute zero point, namely the finding that in the beginning there was actually no beginning,
the audience was led through the great centrifuge of myths and history
in a dramatic performance of power by Katrine Faber,
which was somewhere between storytelling and theatrical art, and at a very high level."
TEATER VIVA
From Dark Waters; a work in progress version 2020.