Company

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Out of Balanz is an award-winning, international ensemble based in Copenhagen, recognized for their highly collaborative creative process and for producing original work and adaptations that are rich in spectacle and adventurous in form. The company’s approach is rooted in collective creation and ensemble practice. With an emphasis on rigorous experimentation, playful exploration and exchange, we seek to reinvent how stories are told and to inspire new ways of thinking, being and doing.

Over the course of a more than a decade long lifespan, Out of Balanz has created over a dozen new works and has toured to festivals and theatres in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Greece, Romania, France, Portugal, Spain, Kosovo, Canada and The United States. The body of Out of Balanz’s work is eclectic and adventurous; ranging from the intimate and semibiographical Posthumous Works (2010 Best Male Performer Award, BE Festival, UK) to the funny and kinetic I’m So Close... (2008 Summerworks Festival Spotlight Award for Best Ensemble, Toronto).

Currently, Out of Balanz is composed of two artistic directors and numerous associated artists. The company made Copenhagen their home in 2010, however, individual pieces are often developed in collaboration with international artists and companies, and through residencies at theatres, cultural institutions or universities abroad. 

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Out of Balanz works purposefully for a higher and more qualitative level of activity and a better balance between work and private life. Relevance, high artistic quality, inclusion and visibility are key words, with particular emphasis on equality and sustainability. 

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Mission

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Out of Balanz is committed to creating original performances that respond to contemporary existence and bring new forms, faces, ideas and voices to our audiences around the world.

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Our mission is to inspire hope, provoke change and to make things better through the performing arts.

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Values

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- To collaborate with artists of diverse histories, backgrounds, cultures and disciplines; 

- To reinvent how stories are told and to inspire new ways of thinking, being and doing;

- To engage audiences as collaborators in the art-making process and to challenge their relationship to performance;

- To advocate for collective and experimental practice;

- To participate in a global networks of artists, creators, presenters and producers;

- To serve as cultural ambassadors for our home city and country as we tour internationally;

- To embed environmental sustainability at the heart of our practice, guided by best practice and the 5 "R"s: #Rethink, Recycle, Restore, Reuse and Repremiere/-tour";

- To share our experience and learn from others within the wider sector;

- To evaluate and reflect on our work, practice and community engagement on an ongoing basis.