“Arrangements - All the Ways You Accompanied Me” is the first full evening work by choreographer Emma Portner, who, while in residency at Orsolina28, has devoted herself to the initial development phase of the project.

The work begins with a simple premise: to rigorously investigate the boundary between dancer and musician and to imagine a stage where each performer is as virtuosic with an instrument as they are with their body. It considers the figure who holds a pedal down for someone else; the one who turns away from the instrument yet remains responsible for its sound; the one who releases their composition into another’s hands; the one who sustains what they did not initiate and the one who plays what they did not write.

An arrangement refers not only to musical composition, but to the structures that organize collective life: contracts, marriages, hierarchies, economies, inheritances, rehearsals, birth orders. On stage, six performers thread their bodies through shared instruments, inhabiting a system in which authorship, responsibility, and expression continuously shift.

Music is not presented as beauty alone, but as a social question: how do we coexist within a shared structure? Who sustains it? Who yields? What must be compressed, negotiated, or sacrificed for harmony to occur… if it occurs at all?

Produced by Kammerballetten, the work will premiere in May 2027 at Theater Republique in Copenhagen.

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Artists

• Choreographer: Emma Portner
• Composer: Alexander McKenzie
• Artists: Rush Carson, Courtney Conovan, Chris Gerty, Riley O’Flynn, Soren Sakadales