Uppercut Dance Theater is a diverse and international dance company based in The Dance Chapel, Copenhagen.Founded in 1982 it is one of the longest running companies in Denmark. It was amongst the first to bring breaking to the stage alongside contemporary dance, and to work intently on fusing movement languages across genres.
The work of recent years has been highly critically acclaimed. Our touring performance BENCHED has performed more than 150 times in 9 countries spanning three continents.
Dance Theater
23
135 minutes
Stephanie Thomasen in collaboration with the dancers
Lawand Shakur Othman
Alexander Skjold Henriksen
Betina RexChroe
Maja Bonde Holtze
Danish Arts Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Wilhelm Hansen Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Louis-Hansens Foundation, Knud Højgaards Foundation, Hoffmann & Husmans Foundation, Copenhagen Municipality & Holstebro Municipality
Holstebro Dance Company
A play. A game. One single move and the opponent is beheaded with the words: "Checkmate"; SHĀH MĀT - The king has fallen.
SHÃH MÃT is a large scale dance theater performance made in collaboration between two of Denmark’s most influential dance companies.
16 dancers and a wild joker occupy an over-dimensioned chess board where epic battles play out in new choreography by award winning Stephanie Thomasen.
The performers’ talents span wide within in contemporary dance, breaking, street dance, acrobatics and physical theater. The pulsating live music is by DJ Turkman Souljah and percussionist Alexander Skjold.
Music, set design and choreography melted into a performance that critics deemed a “landmark” for contemporary dance and “the most supreme the Danish dance scene can deliver”.
Trailer: SHÃH MÃT