The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Elise Bjerkelund Reine
CV Elise Bjerkelund Reine
OWN PRODUCTIONS/PERFORMANCES 2026-2027 Horse with Fernanda Aleman Premiere (DK) beginning 2027 DFFF/Dynamo/AFUK Scene
2024-2026- The Shedding solo performance by and with Elise Reine Östgötateatern, AFUK Scene, DFFF ‘25 Teateret Svalegangen, Maskinhallen. glimt amager, Dynamo workspace, Bristol Circus City (UK), Sirkuslandsbyen+Merge (NO), Object Festival (FI), Punkshangaren (SE), Jacksons Lane (UK), Berlin Circus Festival+ At.tention Festival (GER)
2024-2025 Manifest-how far are you willing to bend? Östgötateatern, Dynamo Workspace, CircusMania, AFUK Scene, Roskilde Festival ‘25
2023-2024 How far are you willing to bend? Physically, mentally, sexually. A year residency at ostgotateatern (SE), to create a 6 chapter performance manifest, as artistic director and artist, produced in collaboration with Östgötateatern (SE)
2023-2025 Phobetor by elise reine and Adalberto F. Torres, co/produced by Dynamo Workspace
2020-2022 Silhuetter på stranden with Sunniva Byvard, site specific
2016-2019 Norwegian Ninjas duo created together with Lisa Ødegaard
2015-2021 VIXEN by Tanter artistic collective with Karoline Aamåa and Moa Asklof Prescott In collaboration with Mika Forsling and Anika Barkan.
2020/2026- Feral Festival Artistic director and initiator ( www.feralfestival.dk ) Vol1 February 2020, vol2 October 2021, vol3 February 2023, vol 3 ½, June 2024, vol 4 October 2024, Feral festival FIVE February 2026, Feral festival 6 planned Oct 2027
PERFORMER AND COLLABORATOR IN OTHER COMPANIES PERFORMANCES 2026- The Right Way for Fish to Die, Nordic beasts(DK), premiere aug2026 at Parkteatern(SE) 2022-2026- No magic by Julie bergez, philine dahlman and elise reine, Mylaika (IT/FR) 2021-2022 Bohr, GLIMT(DK), performer, circus, text 2021-2022 Ate, FROSTCompany(DK), performer, circus, dance, text 2021-2022 Allegori, GLIMT(DK), performer, circus, text 2020-2021 Even the darkness, Ateneu nou barris performer, Barcelona (ES) 2019/2021 Louee soit-elles, contortion, dance, actor. Directed by Daavid Bobee/Opera de Rouen (FR) 2017-2019 Ainsi la nuit, Compagnie le Guetteur (FR), choreograph: Luc Petton (France) aerialist, dancer 2013-2017 The Stockholm syndrome by the Burnt out Punks(SE), circus artists, swinging trapeze
GRANTS 2026-2027 DUKE, ‘Den unge kunstneriske elite’, Danish Arts Foundation 2025 Artist grant, Danish Arts Foundation
EDUCATION 2010-2013 bac+2, swinging trapeze and contortion, Centre National des Arts du Cirque, France 2008- 2010 contortion trapeze, Akademiet for Utæmmet Kreativitet, København, Denmark