Tour calendar

November 2024

  • 12 : Bonn (DE) - KØTER
  • 13 : Bonn (DE) - KØTER
  • 15 : Copenhague (DK) - KØTER
  • 16 : Copenhague (DK) - KØTER

March 2025

  • 18 : Tønder (DK) - KØTER
  • 19 : Fredericia (DK) - KØTER
  • 27 : Madrid (ES) - KØTER

April 2025

  • 08 : Randers (DK) - KØTER
  • 10 : Holbæk (DK) - KØTER
  • 23 : Ballerup (DK) - KØTER
  • 24 : Næstvæd (DK) - KØTER
  • 25 : Nykøbing Falster (DK) - KØTER
  • 29 : Haderslev (DK) - KØTER

KØTER

Danish Dance Theatre

Direction and concept Marina Mascarell Choreography Marina Mascarell in collaboration with Danish Dance Theatre dancers Music Yamila Ríos Set design Kristin Torp Costumes design Nina Botkay Dramaturgy Bodil Persson Texte Josephine Olhoff-Jakobsen et Marina Mascarell Light design Raphael Frisenvænge Solholm Sound design Rafael Cañete Fernández Photo Bradley Waller

Created in 2015 for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani – Reworked in 2024 for Danish Dance Theatre
Duration 60min

With support from Grete og Sigurd Pedersens Fond, William Demant Fond, Grete og Sigurd Pedersens Fond, William Demant Fonden, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Dronning Margrethes og Prins Henriks Fond

KØTER features a closed community formed by individuals that in their solitude dream of being freed from the invisible border and the suffocating homogeneity. An explosive release of repressed emotions, struggling against a repressive culture and mediocrity. Inspired by the Law of Jante, the fictional code of conduct that governs a society’s behaviour, Marina Mascarell explore the weight of our culture, the invisible law that standardizes and oppress, and fear of the unknown as part of human idiosyncrasies.

KØTER premiered in October 2015 for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. It was enthusiastically received by audiences and critics alike. Marina Mascarell has reworked the choreography with dancers from Danish Dance Theatre for its premiere in 2023.

« Mongrels, to me, represent the alter ego of humans. They are street dogs without any specific breed. I employ this metaphor to shed light on the outsider, the stranger, the peculiar, the different, and the unconventional amidst the norm. »

Marina Mascarell

Press talks about it

« Gripping soft and effortless, they spread out into the room in a fluid flow of movement, where each of them can swirl around, melt to the floor or make a small solo burst – and yet be part of the common flow. A flexible adaptability that says everything about togetherness, the search for security and the fear of falling out of the community. »

Monna Dithmer, Politiken

In the repertoire