DanseTapas is an initiative from Aarhus Dance Collective (AaDC) that gives local artists working with dance and movement an opportunity to share pieces of their ongoing artistic process.

Dansetapas

Bora Bora

Aarhus Dance Collective invites you to a free showing of their work in process "Blæk" [Ink], which they are currently working on here at Bora Bora.

Blæk [Ink] – Work in process showing

CANCEL BERTHA is a bold and razor-sharp choreography by Jan Martens, one of Europe's best choreographers right now. In his hands the 14 exceptionally talented dancers from the Norwegian national company Carte Blanche guarantees an intense dance experience.

Cancel Bertha

WORLD PREMIERE: In Vor Frue Kirke, six citizens share stories of losing a parent, partner, homeland, or physical ability—inviting us to reflect, listen, and remember together in sacred, shared space. Death Is Not the End is a powerful, community-driven performance about grief, memory, and healing.

Death Is Not The End (Chapter 5)

Church of Our Lady Copenhagen

Step into the quiet of the crypt at Von Frue Kirke and immerse yourself in The Whispering Room - a free sound installation where 12 local voices share intimate stories of loss, love, and grief.

Death Is Not The End: The Whispering Room

The successful performance CARCASS has been shown twice at Bora Bora. In connection with the overall presentation of The Grief Work Series, it will be shown in a video version.

Carcass

Aarhus University

You enter an installation submerged between this world and the next; you are showered with delicate and original surround sound music, immersed inside 360 video panoramas and engage in tactile interactive live art experience. In this breathtaking work, simple acts of human kindness and shared rituals become door openers to encounter topics of human fragility, life, death and community.

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My Undying Love (Chapter 2)

Lille Sal Musikhuset

Start the day with Beats & Breakfast! Bora Bora, Performing Arts Platform and HeadQuarters invite you to morning dance and breakfast with cultural content.

Beats & Breakfast

Join us for the opening of BAG OM KULTUREN [Behind The Culture]. Get a glimpse behind the scenes of culture and meet the people who work with dance, music, literature, theatre and visual arts every day.

Opening: Bag om kulturen

The Sticky Dance invites children and families to tape, stick, and dance along! Three dancers weave a playful web of tape, opening up a space where the audience can explore, join in, and engage freely in this colourful, interactive experience.

The Sticky Dance

Sparkling colours, vibrant sculptures and soft electronic music invite babies and their grown-ups on a sensory journey through the coral reef. A touching performance about play, symbiosis and hope for nature - created especially for the very young.

Hyper Coral

A soft, ever-changing fortress where babies and adults can crawl inside to dwell on shifting moods and be immersed in the co-creative soundscape.

The Baby Castle

Dance Baby Dance is Bora Bora's interactive dance festival for babies, toddlers and their adults. Experience five performances that awaken children's curiosity, support their imagination and create close encounters between dance and children. Bring your baby or borrow one if you don't have one yourself!

Dance Baby Dance Festival 2025

Dokk1

UNICORNS is a sensuous and playful street theater experience with two large pastel-colored unicorns. They dance and gallop through the city, creating magical moments of hope, freedom and community amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Unicorns

Two women share a moment - maybe in a park, maybe in a courtyard. They eat sunflower seeds, talk, share a silence. Out of everyday life song and dance suddenly bursts. Raw flamenco, humor and unpredictable beauty emerge in a playful encounter where tradition and innovation merge.

Taranto Aleatorio

“Collective Behaviour” takes us on a hypnotic journey where the boundary between individual and community is dissolved in an enchanting mirror universe. With reflections and light, Danish Wired Studio and South Korean Kimchi and Chips expand our perception of the possible and create a powerful visual work.

Collective Behaviour

Experience Danish Dance Theater under the open sky in the brand new performance SURVIVE by choreographer Roza Moshtaghi - a surreal, raw and poetic tribute to resistance and survival, danced by the entire company to music by the band Taco Bitch.

Survive (Aarhus Summerdance)

Musikhusparken

Where do you belong - and do you dare to take a new place? BENCHED is a raw, physical and poetic dance performance about finding your place in life. Five dancers balance on the bench of life in an explosive fusion of street dance, capoeira and contemporary dance.

Benched (Aarhus Summerdance)

What can your body tell you that words can’t? What does courage look like in motion? And what happens when we create dance together – across cities, experiences and ideas?

DanseBALLADEN

FREE OUTDOOR EVENT IN THE CITY HALL PARK AS PART OF THE EUROPEAN STREETPARTY.

RIPE BODY: RIP IT / at European Streetparty

City Hall Park

(U)MULIGT [(IM)POSSIBLE] is a dance performance that explores the norms we live with – both those we create and those that are imposed on us. How much of our lives are governed by expectations? How much is shaped by where we come from, how we were raised and what norms we grew up with? Who actually decides what is possible and what is impossible?

(u)muligt

NÅR DET KOMMER INDEFRA (When It Comes From Within) is a dance performance that takes place below the surface. A story that shows what happens when we seep into the layers that make us who we are.

Når Det Kommer Indefra

Bora Bora – Dance and Visual Theater presents dance and performing arts from Denmark and the rest of the world, organizes local, national and international festivals and is a production center for the local dance environment in Aarhus.

Axial Figures – Rotary Charity Event

The audience favourite is back! Kaleidoscopic and acrobatic performance in three dimensions. As meditative, floating figures, five rope artists show both their strength and vulnerability. Together they create a weightless choreography inspired by the playful lines of architecture and a reflection on the systems we are part of. What happens if someone suddenly lets go?

Axial Figures

Bora Bora in collaboration with Aarhus Dance Collective invites you to a presentation of the latest choreographic research with the working title “Dreaming of Fever”.

Dreaming of Fever

BATTY BWOY both attacks and embraces the fixed image of the homosexual body as perverse and deviant. In a riveting performance, Harald Beharie creates an ambivalent being that is both sensitive and charmingly cruel. Let yourself be swept away by the unleashed power, joy and wild batty energy!

Batty Bwoy

PREMIERE: SHROUD is both a raw and personal reflection on love and grief and a dreamlike landscape of dark fantasy and haunting beauty. Shifting fabrics take shape inside rings of huge curtains to a deeply poetic and immersive experience. Reimagining the symbolic rituals of farewells to create a space where memory and love intertwine.

Shroud

PREMIERE: K.I.S.S. (women in socks and sandals). In “M.I.S. - All Night Long” we saw DON GNU go full throttle in worn-out socks and battered sandals, in the pursuit of the modern man's identity. Now it's the women's turn! But how does the modern woman fit into a world of hard wood and big balls?

K.i.s.s.

The performance GLIMT [twinkle] invites the audience into the vibrant universe of the party, where moments and moods from everyday and life's celebrations unfold.

Glimt

A dancer moves through vibrating metal plates, shifting floors, and refracted light. A sensual landscape unfolds where body and space collide – like an echo of the powerful rhythmic shifts in the Earth's crust.

Tectonic

PREMIERE: "A Wobbly Walz - new adventures of Laurel and Hardy" is a humorous and touching physical performance about friendship, anger and love. DON and GNU try to find the rhythm - but when emotions take over, even the most beautiful dance becomes a battle, the greatest conflict becomes a waltz, and the steps tumble in the revelation of anger.

Slinger i valsen [A Wobbly Walz]

In the performance VÁSTÁDUS EANA / THE ANSWER IS LAND, Elle Sofe Sara opens a shared space where past and present merge. Political demonstrations, Sami rituals and formation dance have inspired this powerful work that takes us on a journey both into the Sami culture and into ourselves.

Bora Bora

4 - 6 Feb, 2026

Tectonic

7 - 13 Mar, 2026

Slinger i valsen [A Wobbly Walz]

28 - 30 Apr, 2026

VÁSTÁDUS EANA / The Answer Is Land

2 - 3 Dec, 2025

Dansetapas

Nov 18, 2025

Blæk [Ink] – Work in process showing

Bora Bora