An outdoor, sensory and interactive performance about the wondrous world of birds for children aged 5-10. We meet two energetic bird experts, Vibe and Trane, who, together with the audience, follow the traces of the mythical creature Gammel Fjer and transform into birds in magical outdoor nest installations.

BEVINGET

Horsens Byskole afd. Kildegade

A playful, exploratory performance in which visual imagery, physical movement and music blend into a humorous story about a budding friendship despite differences. Audience: ages 3-8. Duration: 45 min.

Who Decides? On Difference and Friendship

Kulturstationen

A clown performance about two backyard hens experiencing freedom for the first time.

Chicks

Horsens Ny Teater

Interactive and educational puppet theatre for children aged 3-6. Wordless performance, 30 min. Performer, puppet maker and concept: Rebekah Caputo. Music: Paul Mosley.

Little Bear and the Toy Box

Eyes on the ball, girls! Call out who you've got! The handball hall rings with anticipation and squeaking sneakers. Everything is on the line in the tournament final for the handball team, the Dandelions. It's sisterhood in a world of raw hostility, brutal tricks and ponytails.

One for the Team

Magasinet

A performance about the importance of community and about reaching out. Two young men start high school, and one of them withdraws into darkness and loneliness.

Sort Hul

Horsens Byskole afd. Fussingsvej

A performance for young people aged 12 and up, in which three best-friend experts guide the audience through the do's and don'ts of female friendships. Running time approx. 50 min.

VBV – Verdens Bedste Veninder

FÆNGSLET, Parken

Opgang2 Touring Theatre. Ages 13 and up. 50 min. A young man's first love: a perfect match on a dating app, and a first date he hasn't yet met the person for. Without his phone, he must face his inner demons, hopes and fears.

HJERTEBANK

Fængslet

Teatret AIWA AIWA has created a raw, honest and musical theatrical story that asks the difficult questions: Who are you when society says you don't belong? In GOD SAVE DENMARK we follow Mansur, a boy born in Denmark with Palestinian roots. The story spans several generations: a father's anger, a mother's sorrow, a child's doubt, and an adult man's attempt to make meaning amid chaos. GOD SAVE DENMARK is not about choosing sides in a conflict, but about insisting on humanity, empathy, and the right to exist, to feel, to be angry and hopeful at the same time!

God Save Denmark

A creative workshop where you can make your very own board game. We will work with idea development, game mechanics, rules and themes. Along the way, we help each other test whether your game works. The workshop is open for two hours, so come whenever you like and stay as long as you want. No experience is needed to take part, just open hearts and fun minds.

Come and Make Your Own Board Game!

The performance THROUGH MY HAND takes audiences back to the 800s, when the arrival of the monk Ansgar marked Denmark's transition from one faith to another. A poetic physical exploration of the dynamics and forces of faith, created by Tværkunstnerisk grundkursus.

Through My Hand

Kinéo 37, ages 6-9, 45 min. An athletics-inspired performance about tripping, falling, failing and trying again. Co-creating dancers: Jon Hoff and Tobias Sköld. Concept and choreography: Georgia Kapodistria. Composer and sound design: Daniel Fogh. Dramaturgical consultant: Leiv Arne Kjøllmoen. Production technician: Philip Durafour. Graphic design: Tilda Barrows. Photo/Video: Lars Wahl Fotografi.

4th Square

Amygdala is a sensory and physical performance for children aged 3-24 months and their grown-ups, where light, sound and movement create a journey back to the first experiences. Duration: 45 min.

Amygdala

VIA University College

A playful, physical and musical performance. A cleaning assistant moves a floor mop across the floor with precise, practiced movements. Suddenly a soft dog named Pølse leaps out of the cleaning cart. The performance is made up of songs, puppet magic and physical gags. Audience: ages 3-7. Running time: 30 min.

Pølse!

Quasi Teater. Solo performance for children ages 0-4, approx. 20 min. An almost wordless story about the life of a tomato plant, with music and animation.

Et tomatliv

Family performance for children aged 6 and up, 50 min. Based on the North American creation myth of Raven stealing the light from the Haida people. Visual theatre, magic and music in a purpose-built dome.

Why Does It Get Dark

Sct. Ibs Skole

Skattejagt for børn 5-7 år (ca. 35 min.) om Danmarks kolonitid og trekantshandlen. Black to Normal.

På sporet af historien (skattejagt)

Teatret Gruppe 38 — ages 6 and up, 35 min. Story by Bodil Alling with music and sound design by Søren Søndberg, illustrations by Claus Helbo.

The Secret Library 2

A furry ice dragon has found a dragon egg and placed it in the treasure tower. But what is hiding inside the egg? Join us for a walkabout where the children get to come right up close to the dragons. They are invited to follow along out of the treasure tower and go on a whimsical journey down the open street.

The Dragons of the Treasure Tower

Søndergade

Follow two dancing spirits who have risen from the depths of the sea. Together with them, we discover an ocean out of balance. The sea spirits carry the memory of the ocean and try to make us remember and feel the spirit of the sea. Through dance and costume, an enchanted and poetic world comes to life, creating presence, community and faith in the future.

HAVÅND

Torvet/Søndergade

Passepartout Theatre Production and Dansk Rakkerpak. Ages 6 and up. 45 min. A free adaptation of Hamlet with few words but plenty of sausages.

Hamlet – in a Hot Dog Cart

A light-hearted staged audio drama about the Danish polar explorer Peter Freuchen (1886-1957). Listen to the story of an imaginative boy who sets off on a polar expedition to northern Greenland.

Petersuaq

Frelsens Hær

An interactive, sensory theatre experience for the youngest children (ages 0-5), 40 min. The performance Havbarnet by Teatret Fyren og Flammen takes the children down to the bottom of the sea.

Havbarnet

VIA University College, Dramatorium

A sensory and almost wordless performance about courage, curiosity, and discovering that you can do more than you think. Inspired by Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Audience: ages 3–7. Duration: 45 min.

I Can Fly

HOAT

A performance about four sisters who are home alone in an apartment at Rosenvænget 4 and struggle to keep their sense of togetherness working. The performance explores sibling relationships and dynamics. The performance is part of the festival's Ung på vej program. Target audience: ages 10 and up. Duration: 55 min.

Rosenvænget 4

A performance about all the many things we surround ourselves with. Things we attach ourselves to, and things that make us dependent. A scenic collage by UngKunstThy exploring human relationships to things.

Just One Last Thing

A humorous dance experience that invites audiences into the machine room of the brain. Drawing on Donald Hebb's theory, we follow two neurons on a journey through thought and identity. Wearing headphones, the audience is guided through the inner dialogue.

What Fires Together Wires Together

A dance performance about power, control and survival in a world under pressure. Four bodies struggle, adapt and negotiate in a physical universe inspired by corporate structures and the shifting nature of the octopus. Ages 12 and up, 50 min.

BLÆK

A woman living a quiet and predictable life is night after night tested by a mysterious figure who slips into her dreams and turns her mundane everyday existence upside down. In a humorous game on the border between dream and reality, the two set out on a journey to confront the feeling of not being good enough, and to unlock her hidden potential.

WAKE UP!

Ages 12 and up. 65 min. Alex can no longer recognize themselves in the mirror and is in the middle of a major wardrobe crisis. One day, Alex meets the flamboyant drag queen Sylvia Starlight, who takes them on a journey into self-expression. The production focuses on gender identity, gender expression, and a young generation that challenges norms.

Spejlvendt

A puppet show for the youngest audiences (ages 3-6) about greed, ownership and sharing. Puppeteer: Astrid Kjær.

DET ER MIN!

Ruinerne blends role-playing and musical theater in a story that imagines new worlds in the ruins of this one. We meet a group of beings who, for various reasons, have been forced to leave home and now try to build their own small, utopian community in some abandoned ruins.

Ruinerne

A performance about communities. The large, binding communities and the small, close ones. What if you haven't found your meaningful community, or can't find your rightful place in the community you've ended up in? In a dreamlike chain of associations, the performance reflects on different aspects of community through humor, seriousness, dialogue and movement. The performance does not offer answers but asks questions. A devised performance created with inspiration from Kristian Hjortkjær's article "We Need the Small Communities", developed and performed by students from Filuren's two-year talent program SGK in collaboration with theatre instructor Iben Rønn Christensen. Part of the festival's Ung på vej program.

When Are We Ourselves?

A peculiar shop opens on the pedestrian street. A shop you have never seen before. Here you can buy, for example, an invisible pet, time that has passed, or a key whose lock you don't know. At BUTiK you cannot pay with money, but perhaps you have something in your pockets you can use. You don't need to book a ticket. You just drop by.

BUTiK

KUBEN

Once upon a time there was a boy who was so thirsty that he could drink an ocean! He asked his parents for a glass of milk, but his mother had no time, and his father had no time either – and so he packed his favorite things in his backpack and set out into the world to find his grandmother, because she always gave him a big glass of cold milk and a freshly baked cake. And afterward, he was allowed to play with the fine things she kept on her shelf. But it's not so easy to find the way to Grandma's house. For the world is big, and it is full of strange creatures … and peculiar shadows!

The Boy Who Could Drink an Ocean

About being a little person in a rather wondrous world. Come inside! In the sky tent it is bright and full of stars with lids that can be opened, and which hide small, recognizable stories. The stories are accompanied by gentle musical interludes, children's laughter, babbling, bells and soft chimes, all of which support the action and the sky universe. A musical and image-rich experience for little ones.

Heaven's Song

A sensory journey of discovery into the world of darkness. Ages 7-10, 40 min.

Se Mørket

High-energy, hyperpop performance about three Instagram fitness girls caught in the regime of self-optimization. Ages 13+. 60 min. Contains themes of body dysmorphia, eating disorders and body-horror elements.

MAXX

A new children's performance about climate worries and the magical microcosm of the Danish forest floor. Recommended age 8-12 years. Duration 55 min.

Molly's Mikrokosmos

Opera for children ages 3-7. The performance has been cancelled.

Tante Bruns Fødselsdag

Teater Patrasket. A dramatization of Fupz's everyday story for ages 4–8, with small and large puppets, light projections, and narration. Approx. 40 min.

Søndag

Kompagni47 street performance opening the festival: red acrobats and a winged musical vehicle travel through Søndergade to Torvet. Suitable from age 5, approx. 60 min. No ticket required.

The Red Runners

A sketch performance and inquiry into the many versions of the self that young people carry. The performance takes its starting point in works created by students from the Visual Arts High School at the Billedskolen Horsens. Strobe lighting is used.

Ungdommens Mani-Fest

Dance performance for ages 12 and up, 60 minutes. A choreography for nine young performers with live music by multi-instrumentalist Dijf Sanders, exploring community, difference and rhythm.

Repeatclub

Performance for young people (ages 11–16), 50 min. Using puppets, electronic music and a mix of texts drawn from diaries, conversations, poems and fictional stories, we create a dreamy and spacious performance for young audiences. Produced by TeaterBLIK.

Meanwhile

The classic love story, freely after Shakespeare, told without words through pure physicality and mime, with humor and lightness.

Horsens Teaterfestival

Sep 20, 2026

BEVINGET

Sep 20, 2026

Who Decides? On Difference and Friendship

Horsens Teaterfestival