The Script

The Script unfolds from the urgency to dance and daydream, navigating the tension between recognition and abstraction. With the audience all around the white stage, two dancers follow, resist, rewrite and engage with "the script"—both as a physical object and a metaphor for destiny, fate, and an invisible structure framing our lives. They flip many pages, get distracted by their dreams, engage in precise steps and movement phases, kiss, meet in a couple dance, leave the stage, invite a printer into their dance. The spectators’ eyes shift from large patterns of steps across space to small, intimate details, like what is hidden inside a pocket. Dancing and pretending become generative acts—sometimes serious, sometimes humorous—allowing moments of absurdity, sentimentality, and intimacy to emerge. The performance carries a subtle allusion of witnessing another's secret, as if peering into the intimate situations that compose the romance of living.

CHOREOGRAPHER Ottavia Catenacci
DANCERS Miranda Josephine Riviere, Vilma Ehnberg
COMPOSER Julie Østengaard
LIGHT DESIGNER Anna Westh
COSTUME DESIGNER Veronica Fabon

TEXT EXCERPT from the book No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

VIDEO Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir
PHOTO Benedicte Ramfjord
MENTORING Micaela Kühn, Quim Bigas Bassart, Rasmus Ölme


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Trailer The Script


The Script premiered at Danish National School of Performing Arts on March 6th 2025.