Walking with Art as Your Compass: Tora Balslev

How does the landscape change when we experience it through art?

Join artists on walks through Køge’s hidden landscapes, forgotten histories, and remarkable stories. With your body, senses, and curiosity as your compass, these walks invite you into new encounters with the places we move through – and are connected to.

Four artists and artist groups invite you to experience poetic rituals, staged excavations, dancing landscapes, and hidden plant life. Together, they explore the inseparable connections between people, nature, history, and place.

Tora Balslev: Jordforbindelser (Ground Connections)

Between sea and land, we explore the connection between the human body and the earth. Through rituals and storytelling, we move past dancing bodies and living landscapes on a journey through time and space. Along the way, we gather traces from the walk and bring them to Bramhøjgaard as a shared gesture towards the future.

Dancer and performance artist Tora Balslev creates immersive, participatory works in which the body becomes a tool for exploring the connections between people, landscapes, and the more-than-human.

Practical information

22 August, 1.00–4.00 pm

Meeting point: Ølsemagle Revle, on the beach

Ends at: Bramhøjgaard, Ølsemagle Kirkevej 62, Køge

Please note: Limited to 20 participants. Ages 16+. Participants should be able to walk approximately 5 km, remain on their feet for 2.5 hours, and comfortably get up and down from the ground.

The walk includes excerpts from the performance City Matters, created through an artistic collaboration between Tora Balslev and sound artist Maiken Vibe Bauer.

Participation is free, but registration is required.

Performing Landscapes Køge is organised by Metropolis – Copenhagen International Theatre in collaboration with MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Space and Køge Municipality as part of the municipality’s SceneKANT programme. Performing Landscapes is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Photo: Lars Bay