Orcs & Others – Open Mic with the Weapon Grinder

About the performance

Four times, Orcs & Others will feature guest appearances by other living beings. Each will perform music and performance for 20–30 minutes. Orcs & Others is a total installation by Kristoffer Akselbo that transforms the basement bar of Husets Teater into a living LARP world inhabited by six orc-like bartenders. Throughout the biennial period, the performers follow simple behavioural loops—serving, sweeping, playing games—allowing everyday actions to slip into fantasy. Visitors enter a space where fiction bleeds into reality, and on special evenings new figures emerge through short guest appearances. A strange, playful ecosystem unfolds beneath the theatre, open to anyone willing to step inside.

About the artist

Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen (b. 1993) graduated from the Funen Art Academy and works with performative narratives that explore our collective imagination and capacity for fantasy. Through historical research and speculative storytelling, Kjeldgaard weaves alternative realities that extend beyond the frameworks defining time, body, and identity, creating encounters between ideas and ways of thinking not previously brought together.

Toaster Performance Biennale

In April 2026, Toaster presents Denmark’s first international performance biennale, taking place across Den Frie and Husets Teater.

The biennale offers a current portrait of the performance field within both visual art and performing arts – and the many intersections between them – which are rapidly evolving nationally as well as internationally. The focus is state of the art: taking the temperature of the field right now.

Experience more than 20 performances, including 10 entirely new works created specifically for the biennial. The artists range from established performance practitioners to emerging talents – sometimes within the same work.

The programme encompasses works rooted in dance, text, costume, sound, light, music, and space. Performance is here and now – it is the time we live in, and the time we choose to spend together.