AXIS MUNDI is Hotel Pro Forma ’s 40th Anniversary Performance, a new site-specific performance in large format with 20 performers and newly composed live music by Den Sorte Skole . AXIS MUNDI is staged in Store Vega’s beautiful concert hall, experienced from above on balconies from different angles.

AXIS MUNDI unfolds on a huge image filling the entire floor with clippings from the famous, labyrinthine copper print The drawbridge by the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78). Axis Mundi means world axis and is the earth’s center within religion and mythology – a fixed element of traditional cultures’ world view, a connecting point between heaven and earth around which the universe unfolds.

AXIS MUNDI is about man’s persistent attempt to establish a personal axis mundi, structure, and order in life and in the chaos of reality. The music for AXIS MUNDI is both created and performed by the critically acclaimed Copenhagen sample and composer duo Den Sorte Skole consisting of Martin Højland and Simon Dokkedal, who have received, among other things, the Crown Prince Couple’s Culture Award (2017), one of the most prestigious awards in Denmark.

AXIS MUNDI includes characters from the famous Danish author Karen Blixen’s collection of short stories ‘Seven Gothic Tales’ (1934). The characters are included out of context and without words, as nonverbal tableaus.

LIVE PERFORMANCE
Den Sorte Skole (Martin Højland, Simon Dokkedal) and 20 performers.

ARTISTIC TEAM
Direction and dramaturgy: Kirsten Dehlholm, Marie Dahl
Original music: Den Sorte Skole: Martin Højland, Simon Dokkedal
Costumes: Mads Nørgaard
Light design: Jesper Kongshaug
Concept and production: Hotel Pro Forma

Please note:
The cloakroom must be used.
AXIS MUNDI is experienced standing from the balconies.
There is limited seating for people with walking difficulties.

Ticket prices are as follows:
Single tickets: 250 DKK.
Children/Youth: 180 DKK.
Group Adult (when buying min. 10 tickets): 110 DKK.
Group Children/Youth (when buying min. 6 tickets): 70 DKK.
All amounts are exclusive of fee (DKK 10) and inclusive of VAT.