ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

‘Open Mic with Hedera Helix’ has free admission.

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. In this Open Mic with Hedera Helix aka Molly Haslund, it will be an excerpt from the performance Hedera Helix: Is it Genuine? from 2019.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Molly Haslund graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 2005. Her works span autobiographical and musical performances, scenographic installations, social sculptures, and choreographed group performances in public spaces. Using varied strategies, she investigates how identity, social hierarchies, and norms are closely intertwined with— and negotiated through —bodily gestures, cultural rituals, and the arrangement of our surroundings.

Molly Haslund has exhibited and performed extensively in Denmark and abroad. Her works are represented in public collections at SMK/The National Gallery of Denmark, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, and the Wanås Konst sculpture park in Sweden.

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.