PARTICIPANTS KOSMOS+ Copenhagen, 2015 Performers Tom7 Frederic Linde-Fleron / Lau Emil Koeller Moongirl Frida Striim Therkelsen / Zoé Andrea Braum Polychronopoulos Astronomer Ellen Hillingsø Mathematician Niels Anders Thorn Philosopher Bende Harris Philosopher Preben Harris Physicist Sofie Lebech Physicist Lisbeth Sonne Operator Casper Sloth Operator Stine Gyldenkerne Direction Kirsten Dehlholm Concept Kirsten Dehlholm, Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer, Jesper Grimstrup, Magnus Pind Bjerre Music Ernestas Kausylas/Brokenchord, Misa Skalskis/96wrld Script Kirsten Dehlholm, Laura Mortensen, Morten Søndergaard, Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer, Mindaugas Nastaravicius, Tomas Lagermand Lundme Science research Jesper Grimstrup, Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer, Laura Mortensen, Kirsten Dehlholm Video design Magnus Pind Bjerre, Birk Marcus Hansen Set design Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer, Jesper Kongshaug, Kirsten Dehlholm Light design Jesper Kongshaug Sound design Kristian Hverring Costume design Henrik Vibskov Additional video design Juliana Stadelmann, Susanne Leon, Frigge Volander Himmelstrup Director's assistant Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer Props: Maxime Robillard, Mar Vincens Fuster Hand drawings Tristan Sømod Ferslev, Carl Theodor Rørbech Andreasen Technical consultant Ville Hyvönen Models and visual research: Atelier Hotel Pro Forma Assistants Tobias Lukassen (sound), Rhoda Ting (set), Katrine Balle Hvidberg (production), Flora Brandt (light) Make up MAC Cosmetics Photo Roberto Fortuna Graphic design for PR Nete Banke/Imperiet Production manager Gediminas Ušackas Video engineer Eglė Eigirdaitė Light operator Andrius Stasiulis / Vilius Vilutis Technics Michael "Østerz" Christiansen, Teater & Lysteknik Project coordinator Johanna Maj Thorning PR/Communications Peter Lyth Tickets Ingjerd Heggem Nergaard, Ida Fredericia Production Hotel Pro Forma and Lithuanian National Drama Theatre KOSMOS+ is supported by Oticon Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Toyota Fonden, Københavns Kommune, Knud Højgaards Fond, Louis-Hansen Fonden, The Danish Embassy in Vilnius, Danish Cultural Institute. Partner MAC Cosmetics, Teater & Lysteknik Thanks to Henning Langkjer, Lis Fisker, Jon Micheelsen, Pernille Pind, Mette Bjerre, Simon Lausten Østergaard, Bradley Allen, Jennifer Miller, CPH Volunteers, Den Grå Hal, Tobias Kirstein, Mikkel Bohm og Danish Science Factory, Andreas Mogensen, ESA, Videnskab.dk, Naturvidenskabernes Hus, Børnenes Universitet, Big Bang konferencen KOSMOSAS+ Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, 2014 Performers Astronomer Vytautas Rumšas Mathematician Remigijus Bučius Philosopher Ramutis Rimeikis Philosopher Vaiva Mainelytė Physicist Jolanta Dapkūnaitė Physicist Rasa Rapalytė Operator Paulius Tamolė Operator Elzė Gudavičiūtė Moon Girl Liepa Petronytė, Leta Stopaitė Tom7 Jurgis Benys, Alanas Janavičius Musicians Ernestas Lausylas, Misa Skalskis Lithuanian National Drama Theatre Project manager Aušra Simanavičiūtė Technical director Gediminas Ušackas Head of production Darius Bastys Stage manager Regina Garuolytė-Zikarienė Video engineer Eglė Eigirdaitė Translator Ieva Toleikytė Sound operators Karolis Bratkauskas, Kastytis Narmontas Light operator Andrius Stasiulis Make-up Dalia Jovaišienė Costume workshop Aurelijus Ivanauskas, Laima Junelienė, Birutė Menčinskienė, Janina Mickevičienė, Milda Selickienė, Danguolė Urbanavičienė Costume design Sandra Straukaiti Director's assistants Maria Carneiro, Svetlana Karadimova Costume print design Anne Mette Fisker Langkjer Technical consultant Ville Hyvönen Thanks to Gediminas Gelgotas, Lina Simutyte, Tekle Kavtaradzė, Birute Kapustinskaite, Danish Embassy in Vilnius, Danish Cultural Institute

Politiken (DK) - 5 hearts When it comes to setting out into the cosmos, Dehlholm is on home territory. Precisely because only two per cent of the universe can be described and, basically speaking, we know precious little about it. So this is all the more reason to send us off on an insanely fine, sense-tingling tour de force out into space, packed with info about everything from the five billion years the sun has left to ‘live the life’ to the number of years a twin can catch up with on a long-distance journey in space. Kosmos+ is a performance that is mind-boggling Read the full review here Teater1 (DK) - 5 stars With COSMOS+ Hotel Pro Forma has truly produced a new format for children’s theatre. A format of fantastic international artistic quality, that in no way talks down to the children. The little ones, just like the adults, have to be on their toes to follow and understand or just enjoy the unique images and music in constant motion. Star images in constant eternal change. They have to look up! Read the full review here Information (DK) ...It is important to note that new drama also has wild cross-over art on offer. Most recently with Kirsten Dehlholm and Hotel Pro Forma, whose Big Bang performance Cosmos+ at Den Grå Hal was a sizzlingly beautiful family performance on understanding the origin of everything. At the same time, it was also an existential problematizing of modern man’s explosive knowledge of our own infinitesimal smallness. Lithuanian Morning News, online edition: ...The images seen on the stage are truly impressive, and sometimes simply enchanting. The goal of creating a unique alternative image of the cosmos is what makes this production truly extraordinary...“It’s the best thing that I have ever seen”, my seven-year-old son told me when the lights went up. Read the full review here Seven Days of Art (LT) ...a parallel view of the cosmos created with the help of new image reproduction techniques, which extends across the entire space, sometimes exceeding the stage, surrounding the audience, immersing it into the approaching and receding virtual universe of images. The video designers Magnus Pind Bjerre and Birk Marcus Hansen together with the lighting designer Jesper Kongshaug have found fantastic analogies to convey the most important bodies and phenomena of the universe. Fascinatingly ingenious motifs. Read the full review here Ore.lt (LT) The performance is a synthesis of image, sound and text...“Cosmos+” is an undoubtedly educational and work of popular science, but I would dare to call it philosophical as well. Read the full review here Download all reviews here (in English)

Why did Hotel Pro Forma create the performance COSMOS+? Because we are fascinated by the phenomena in the universe. Because we want to create an experience for children and adults where science mingles with art in a large, international format. Because our ambition is that at least two boys and girls from tonight’s audience are inspired by the performance to decide to become scientists. Our curiosity about the universe causes us to ask questions. The mysteries of the universe are thought-provoking. They have always been the subject of investigations, fantasies, theories, scientific experiments and journeys into outer space. If something happens in the universe, it leads to something else. Everything is interconnected. Our own organic building-blocks and molecules originally come from a star that exploded long before life on Earth arose. We all are made of stardust, the astrophysicists tell us. COSMOS+ explores the discoveries of natural science and the latest images. The visual material in the performance is homemade in our ‘cosmic kitchen’. Shapes and textures are created via analog experiments and subsequently processed. With sensory series of images we interpret factual documentation of the phenomena of the universe. Children’s drawings, animated sequences and magic light are other effects used. An airy floor gives Earth a live surface.

Premiere on 21 March 2014 at Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania Repremiere on 4 February 2015 at Den Grå Hal, Copenhagen, Denmark

En Big Bang forestilling om universets gåder. Vi følger drengen Tom7, som er i gang med sine rumlige eksperimenter. Han ved alt om universet! Han møder astronomen, matematikeren, to fysikere, to filosoffer og to operatører. De er eksperter, der kan give os facts om universets fænomener - mens månepigen kommer og går. Desto længere ud i rummet vi ser, jo længere tilbage kommer vi i tid. Vi møder kosmiske fænomener, der starter i solsystemet og ender med Big Bang efterfulgt af kvantefluktuationer – som tusinder af sæbebobler. Korte, humoristiske historier fra hverdagen om menneskers daglige liv på planeten Jorden blander sig med de næsten ubegribelige facts om universet. Det er her, vi bor, og det er herfra, vi ser op på himlen og forundres. Vi er en del af det drama, der foregår langt, langt borte, men har indflydelse på os hver dag. Universet bevæger sig konstant, universet bevæger os. Storslåede billeder fylder scenen. Projektioner af umiddelbar skønhed og voldsom kraft ledsages af rytmisk electro musik. Musikken er skabt til former og fænomener som en mangefacetteret bølge af fysiske lyde, fragmenterede klange og rytmiske melodier. Elekronisk musik der skubber til øret og til de talte ord. Musik og billeder, tegninger og fortællinger er alle udsagn, der viser universets imponerende historie, hvor alting er forbundet.