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NEW NORDIC POLING - A RECRUITMENT MEETING
LENA BONDESON & CO-CREATORS
“Fremragende konsulentsatire”
“Excellent consultant satire“
“...guddommeligt komiske, pseudo-videnskabelige oplæg”
“…divinely comic, pseudo-scientific presentations”
“Kærligt, men også klarøjet”
“Affectionate, but also clear-eyed”
“Gruppen formår at omsætte deres analytiske skarphed med en tæt på klovnet fremførelse, der er ganske akavet, men også to the point i sin satire”
“The group manages to translate their analytical sharpness into an almost clown-like performance that is quite awkward, but also to the point in its satire”
“En satire der udstiller og inkluderer på samme tid”
”A satire that exposes and includes at the same time”
“...herligt akavet klovnekomisk undersøgelse af aktivist begrepet”
“…a wonderfully awkward, clown-comic investigation of the concept of activism”
︎︎︎REVIEW ISCENE: Begavet aktivisme-satire
COMING UP
NORDWIND FESTIVAL, HAMBURG - 3rd of dec at 20:00
NEW NORDIC POLING - A RECRUITMENT MEETING
With more municipal vibes than strip show and more PowerPoint than healing, here comes “New Nordic Poling – a recruitment meeting” – a performance about the ever-relevant social trend of trying to do something: the activist group. A theatre performance, documentary film screening & immersive meeting in one.
NNP is a movement of eight activist pole dancers who “poles 4 change”.
The performance unfolds at NNP’s annual recruitment meeting, where their documentary Radical Embrace is shown. The audience follows the movement as they create banners, challenge Extinction Rebellion on May 1st in Copenhagen’s Sydhavn, and travel to Svalbard to “Pole 4 the melting pole” with their new portable pole.
In an intimate, mildly interactive setup - blending live action with film screening - the audience follows NNP’s highs and lows. NNP investigates power structures and plans happenings, but faces unexpected challenges of activist group work. What does it mean to practice what you preach? And how does a group become a movement?
NNP is about hopefulness and despair - and the (im)possible pursuit of a collective meaning.
NEW NORDIC POLING - ETT REKRYTERINGSMÖTE PÅ TURTEATERN I STOCKHOLM
Med mer kommunal stämning än stripshow och mera PowerPoint än healing, kommer här en immersiv dokumentärfilms-och teaterföreställning om den alltid samhällsaktuella trenden att försöka göra något åt samhället; aktivistgruppen.
Efterdyningarna av klimatkrisens uppvaknande har blivit vardag, fjärde vågens feminism har klingat av och även Gen Z är hopplösa. Greta Thunberg 2.0 har mindre talrum än förut och aktivistiska avhoppare går i sorgterapi. Vad fan gör vi nu? Vad gör NNP när de försöker att både omfamna klimatkrisen, antikapitalismen och dekolonialismen? För vad innebär det att praktisera det man predikar? Och hur balanserar en intersektionell grupp, med dålig ekonomi och höga ambitioner, att både omfamna polestången och varandras motstridande behov?
Efter utsålda föreställningar på Sydhavn Teater & CPH Stage i både 2024 och 2026 besöker den fiktiva aktivistiska grupp NNP till Stockholm, för att “öppna en svensk filial” och ta temperaturen på den svenska aktivismens anda, anno 2026.
2026
NORDWIND FESTIVAL, HAMBURG
3rd of dec at 20:00
2026
TURTEATERN, STOCKHOLM
9th of sep at 19:00
10th of sep at 19:00
11th of sep at 19:00
12th of sep at 16:00
2026
CPH STAGE - SYDHAVN TEATER
28th of may at 18:00
29th of may at 18:00
31th of may at 16:00
1st of june at 18:00
2024
SYDHAVN TEATER
18th of december at 20:00
19th of december at 20:00
20th of december at 20:00
Duration: 2 hours
Language: (Broken) English
CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY:
Lena Bruun Bondeson (director & performer)
Lara Vejrup Ostan (co-creator & performer)
Eng Kai Er (co-creator, PowerPoint-maker & performer)
Louisa Yaa Aisin (co-creator, consultant, mountain-maker & performer)
Adrian Kautsky (co-creator, technician & performer)
Anna Kuusamo (co-creator & performer)
Malik Grosos (co-creator, technician & performer)
Angelica Stathopoulos (co-creator, dictionary writer & performer)
DIRECTING: Lena Bruun Bondeson
VIDEO EDITING & GRAPHIC DESIGN: Malik Grosos
CONCEPT & FUNDRAISING: Lena Bruun Bondeson, Lara Ostan Vejrup
FILM DRAMATURGY: Lena Bruun Bondeson, Malik Grosos, Louisa Yaa Aisin
PRODUCED BY: Lena Bruun Bondeson with assistance from Lara Ostan Vejrup
PRODUCTION COOPERATIVE KOMMA Performance Productions
RESIDENCIES AT: Sydhavn Teater (DK), Spitsbergen Artist Center Svalbard (NO)
SUPPORTED BY: Danish Arts Foundation, Foreningen Danske Sceneinstruktører Legat, Københavns Kommune, The Finnish Cultural Foundation.
︎ MALIK GROSOS, ANNA KUUSAMO, LENA BONDESON