The Rainbow
Join us on an odyssey through the wonders of The Rainbow / Regnbuen, a universe of unexpected contrasts and sensory impressions exploring the endless shades of our inner rainbow. A contemplating dance installation inviting families and everyone from 0 to 100 to experience dance, design, and sound. Together, we explore the hope for diversity.
Five amazing dancing costumes created by Henrik Vibskov and choreographed by Ray Roa Alonso will magically transform both body and space, into moving installations and living sculptures, together with a soundscape created by Cristian Vogel that fills the space with its electronic mood.
In The Rainbow / Regnbuen we invite the audience on a journey with the option to discover both outer and inner rainbows. We pursue the hope for a diverse future – empowering people by respecting and appreciating what makes them different. May it be age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, and national origin. But does this future exist in our imagination only? How is diversity represented in our society? How do we create a society where it can flourish?
With an empowering and queer expression, The Rainbow / Regnbuen opens up to new paths. Perhaps not the path that will take us to the treasure at the end of the rainbow – but more of an always striving attempt with glimpses of joy, where we challenge the forces of fear and hatred that continuously set limits for diversity and our inner rainbow. And just as that attempt never ends, nor do our rainbows.
The audience are welcome to go in and out of The Rainbow / Regnbuen, in order to experience the installation at one’s own pace. You can sit, lie down and stand up along the way.
My Grönholdt (she/her) is a Swedish choreographer, dancer and performer based in Denmark, graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2011. Grönholdt is the artistic leader and choreographer for MYKA, which produces visually powerful and aesthetic performances that unfold timely societal topics with a magical and poetic grip of hope for the future ahead.
Ray Roa Alonso (he/his). Originating from the Philippines and grown up in England, Copenhagen based; independent dance artist Alonso began his training with the HND dance at Newcastle College and completed his degree at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. He went on to gain a postgraduate degree at London Contemporary Dance School and Danish National School of Performing Arts Masters.
Credits
Concept: MYKA, My Grönholdt & Ray Roa Alonso
Choreographer: Ray Roa Alonso in collaboration with the artistic team
Choreographic consultants: My Grönholdt & Malik Nashad Sharpe
Dancers: My Marie Nilsson, Sophia Mage, Daniel Jeremiah Persson, Escarleth Pozo & Paolo de Venecia Gile
Dancers (stand-in): Madeleine Cole, Jernej Bizjak, Stina Strange Thue & Teresa Fogh Schou
Composer: Cristian Vogel
Costume designer: Henrik Vibskov
Technician: Nanna-Karina Schliemann
Press photos: Alexis Rodríguez Cancino
Administrator and advisor: Jens Christian Jensen
Producer MYKA: My Marie Nilsson & Sofia Wickman
Presented in collaboration with SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Other partners: Betty Nansen Teatret; Holstebro Dansekompagni, Co-produced 2023 by Dansehallerne.
The Rainbow is supported by Danish Arts Foundation, A. P. Møller Foundation, William Demant Foundation and Augustinus Foundation.
The performance installation premiered at the National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst) in Copenhagen on February 11th, 2023.
