{"id":8731,"date":"2026-04-30T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danskdanseteater.dk\/?post_type=forestilling&#038;p=8731"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:13:18","slug":"creatures-of-butter-2","status":"publish","type":"forestilling","link":"https:\/\/www.danskdanseteater.dk\/en\/performance\/creatures-of-butter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATURES OF BUTTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen\u2019s sculptures brought to life through dance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CREATURES OF BUTTER brings together dance, live percussion, and visual design in an artistic encounter between Marina Mascarell, percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen, visual artist Rasmus Myrup, and lighting designer Leticia Skrycky.<\/p>\n<p>Creatures of Butter takes its point of departure from a small but revealing gesture in the life of the iconic Danish sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. As a young girl growing up on a farm, before she had access to clay or plaster, she would take pieces of butter and sculpt the animals she saw around her. Butter was her first sculptural material: soft, immediate, responsive to the hand. This instinctive act of shaping matter becomes a poetic starting point for the piece. The title evokes both the fragility of the material and the vitality of the creatures that inspired her early practice \u2014 animals observed closely, translated through touch, and held briefly in form before melting back into transformation.<\/p>\n<p>The work draws inspiration from the vitalist atmosphere surrounding Carl-Nielsen\u2019s time, when artists and thinkers explored life as a field of invisible forces shaping matter and form. Choreographer Marina Mascarell reimagines Carl-Nielsen\u2019s sculptural language through the living body, transforming the stage into a studio-like landscape where process and transformation remain visible. The piece is not a portrait of Anne Marie, but a celebration of her work and boldness \u2014 of the courage it takes to claim space, to insist on scale, and to work against the weight of expectation. As in sculpture, the choreography unfolds within a field of forces \u2014 weight, tension, fragility, luminosity \u2014 images for human struggle and determination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM:<\/strong> Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Direction:<\/strong> Marina Mascarell<br \/>\n<strong>Choreography:<\/strong> Marina Mascarell &amp; the dancers of Danish Dance Theatre<br \/>\n<strong>Music &amp; Live Performance:<\/strong> Ying-Hsueh Chen (percussion)<br \/>\n<strong>Visual Concept &amp; Costumes:<\/strong> Rasmus Myrup<br \/>\n<strong>Performers:<\/strong> The ten dancers of Dansk Danseteater<br \/>\n<strong>Co Produced by:<\/strong> Dansk Danseteater &amp; Bora Bora<br \/>\n<strong>Light Designer:<\/strong> Leticia Skrycky<br \/>\n<strong>Subject specialist and heritage consultant:<\/strong> Emilie Boe Bierlich<br \/>\n<strong>Photo:<\/strong> Petra Kleis<br \/>\n<strong>Thank you to:<\/strong> Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Centret in Odense<\/p>\n<p>The performance is part of Danish Dance Theatre\u2019s scenography residency, supported by the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-8731","forestilling","type-forestilling","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danskdanseteater.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forestilling\/8731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danskdanseteater.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forestilling"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danskdanseteater.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/forestilling"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danskdanseteater.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}